CFP for the 37th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Wonder Tales

Hello all, it appears I will be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2016 after receiving an invitation from Christy A. Williams to join a panel she is developing. There is still time to submit your own oaper or panel ideas or at least plan to attend. I am pasting info about how to do so below. I hope to see you there!

CFP for the 37th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Wonder Tales

March 16-20, 2016

Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel

Please join us for ICFA 37, March 16-20, 2016, when our theme will be “Wonder Tales.” Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as “fairy tales” due to the genre’s emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder transformations and resurrections — but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the “sense of wonder” in science fiction. Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers’ responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across media and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning). We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling (author and editor, winner of nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Solstice Award), Guest of Honor Holly Black (author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in Children’s Literature and a Newberry Honor book for Doll Bones), and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega (author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder). We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.

Guest of Honor, Terri Windling
Terri Windling is a writer, editor, and artist specializing in fantasy literature and mythic arts. She has published over forty books, winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and placing on the short lists for the Tiptree and Shirley Jackson Awards. She received the S.F.W.A. Solstice Award in 2010. Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Korean, and Japanese. She has served on the boards of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and the Mythic Imagination Institute (U.S.), and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy at the University of Chichester (U.K.).

Guest of Honor, Holly Black
Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her series titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, andThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. Her new books are The Darkest Part of the Forest, a return to faerie fiction, and The Iron Trial, the first book in a middle grade fantasy series, Magisterium, co-authored by Cassandra Clare.

Guest Scholar, Cristina Bacchilega
Christina Bacchilega is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. The author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies (1997) and the co-editor of Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, Bacchilega has published essays on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, Robert Coover, Nalo Hopkinson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dacia Maraini, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and fairy tales in Hawai’i. Her most recent book, Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, came out in the Fall of 2013. Bacchilega serves as the co-editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.

To Attend the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Some important steps:

1. Send in a paper proposal by going to http://fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/ (see the Call for Papers, above).
2. Register or renew as a member of IAFA: http://fantastic-arts.org/membership/.
(Note: If you received an email about the new membership system in the last few months, use your receiving email address and click on “forgot password” to set up a password for yourself. )
3. Register to attend the ICFA.
(Note: Conference registration will open soon. However the new membership system is up and running.)
4. Book accommodation with the conference hotel. Read the ICFA-37 Hotel Information and look at some pictures from the hotel and vicinity. Note that the hotel operates a complimentary airport shuttle service from Orlando Airport. Should you prefer taxi, the estimated fee (one way) is USD 10.
If you are new to the conference, you might want to check out affiliated organizations.
Membership or registration questions can be directed to IAFA Membership & Registration Coordinator, Valorie Ebert through the Contact Page.