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Embodying the fantastic

An anthology of critical essays edited by Andy K. Tytler and Hayleigh Barclay

*** 11 November Update ***
All submissions responses have been sent out. If you submitted an abstract but have not received a response, please use the contact form below or email us. (Please also check your spam folder.)
Thank you again to everyone who submitted an abstract!



​*** Original CfP ***
Deadline for Submissions: 30 September 2022 at midnight (00:00) GMT


Submission Guidelines
  • up to 150  words
  • ​American or British English accepted
  • use contact form below
  • multiple submissions not accepted
  • attachments not accepted

Call For Papers: Embodying the Fantastic
Contact Email: tytler.barclay [at] gmail [dot] com
Website: https://www.andytytler.com/anthology

We call for abstracts up to 150 words analysing bodies and embodiment in fantasy media. We seek exciting, imaginative, and diverse subjects that form groundbreaking discussions within fantasy academia, and we invite submissions from researchers traditionally under-represented in academia. We encourage submissions exploring fantasy in media beyond the traditional forms and interests outside the Western canon.
Final papers: 3000–5000 words, due 31 May 2023.


Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:
  • Disabled and Neurodivergent bodies
  • Trans and transformed bodies
  • Nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and agender bodies
  • Modified bodies, medicalised bodies, monstrous bodies
  • Sick, ill, unwell, and diseased bodies
  • Scarred bodies, marked bodies
  • Queer bodies, Intersex bodies, and ‘in-between’ bodies
  • Fat bodies
  • Asexual and aromantic bodies
  • ‘Abnormal’, ‘gross’, ‘disgusting’, ‘dirty’, and ‘wrong’ bodies
  • ‘Bad’ bodies, beastial bodies
  • BIPOC bodies, BAME bodies, biracial bodies, multiracial bodies
  • Colonised and postcolonised bodies
  • Pathologised bodies
  • Unnamed, unknown, and invisible bodies
  • Murdered bodies, discarded bodies
  • ‘Rebuilt’ bodies
  • Modern bodies, historical bodies
  • Aged and ageless bodies
  • Pleasure versus pain in bodies
  • ‘Beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ bodies
  • Body dysmorphia
  • Sexualised and asexualised bodies, racialised bodies
  • Objectified bodies, Othered bodies
  • Bodies that were pregnant, are pregnant, can(not) become pregnant
  • Bodies that occupy multiple intersections, bodies that defy categorisation

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