The City as Place: Emotions, Experiences, and Meanings

ISSN: 2632-0924

The purpose of this series is to examine the city as a lived place. Specifically, we are interested in the ways in which the city is invested with meaning through everyday lived experiences. The series is particularly interested in submissions that focus on the perceptual and felt dimensions of urban places through exploring the experiential, emotional, sensory, and affective dimensions that contribute to how people behave in, feel about, and move around in cities. Books in this series will interrogate the relationship between people and place through a focus on the diverse ways in which subjective and intimate feelings are fundamental constituents of the urban experience. We encourage authors to examine the city as a lived place from a range of different perspectives, and to be inclusive of individual and collective voices in the city to better understand the historical development and contemporary evolution of diverse urban settings. Some of the questions we seek to explore through the series include, but are not restricted to: How is the city experienced, by whom, and how does this change over time? Who shapes the experience of the city and for what reasons? How do individual and shared joy, fear, pride, nostalgia, disgust, or other emotions, shape the meanings attributed to urban spaces? How does the lived experience of, and emotional connections to, urban places inform the way particular spaces within cities are preserved and memorialized, or alternatively demolished and redeveloped? In what ways is our understanding of the lived experience of the city sharpened through the lens of comparative, transnational, and global approaches? The series seeks to examine the real and the imaginary, the representational and the non-representational, the historical and the contemporary, the remembered and the recreated in all historical periods including research on the twenty-first-century city. The series is open to work covering all geographic areas, and we encourage authors, where possible and relevant, to situate their studies in comparative, transnational, or global perspectives. Books may be published in English or in French. Series Editors: Dr Rebecca Madgin, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Dr Nicolas Kenny, History, Simon Fraser University. Advisory Board: Prof. Jan Plamper, Goldsmiths, London; Dr Katie Barclay, Adelaide; Prof. Nicole Eustace, NYU; Dr Joseph Prestel, FU Berlin; Prof. Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal; Prof. Roey Sweet, Leicester; Prof. Astrid Swenson, Bath Spa; Prof. Steve Cooke, Deakin; Prof. Sian Jones, Stirling; Dr James Lesh, Melbourne; Dr Anneleen Arnout, Radboud. The purpose of this series is to examine the city as a lived place. Specifically, we are interested in the ways in which the city is invested with meaning through everyday lived experiences. The series is particularly interested in submissions that focus on the perceptual and felt dimensions of urban places through exploring the experiential, emotional, sensory, and affective dimensions that contribute to how people behave in, feel about, and move around in cities. Books in this series will interrogate the relationship between people and place through a focus on the diverse ways in which subjective and intimate feelings are fundamental constituents of the urban experience. We encourage authors to examine the city as a lived place from a range of different perspectives, and to be inclusive of individual and collective voices in the city to better understand the historical development and contemporary evolution of diverse urban settings. Some of the questions we seek to explore through the series include, but are not restricted to: How is the city experienced, by whom, and how does this change over time? Who shapes the experience of the city and for what reasons? How do individual and shared joy, fear, pride, nostalgia, disgust, or other emotions, shape the meanings attributed to urban spaces? How does the lived experience of, and emotional connections to, urban places inform the way particular spaces within cities are preserved and memorialized, or alternatively demolished and redeveloped? In what ways is our understanding of the lived experience of the city sharpened through the lens of comparative, transnational, and global approaches? The series seeks to examine the real and the imaginary, the representational and the non-representational, the historical and the contemporary, the remembered and the recreated in all historical periods including research on the twenty-first-century city. The series is open to work covering all geographic areas, and we encourage authors, where possible and relevant, to situate their studies in comparative, transnational, or global perspectives. Books may be published in English or in French. Series Editors: Dr Rebecca Madgin, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Dr Nicolas Kenny, History, Simon Fraser University. Advisory Board: Prof. Jan Plamper, Goldsmiths, London; Dr Katie Barclay, Adelaide; Prof. Nicole Eustace, NYU; Dr Joseph Prestel, FU Berlin; Prof. Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal; Prof. Roey Sweet, Leicester; Prof. Astrid Swenson, Bath Spa; Prof. Steve Cooke, Deakin; Prof. Sian Jones, Stirling; Dr James Lesh, Melbourne; Dr Anneleen Arnout, Radboud. The purpose of this series is to examine the city as a lived place. Specifically, we are interested in the ways in which the city is invested with meaning through everyday lived experiences. The series is particularly interested in submissions that focus on the perceptual and felt dimensions of urban places through exploring the experiential, emotional, sensory, and affective dimensions that contribute to how people behave in, feel about, and move around in cities. Books in this series will interrogate the relationship between people and place through a focus on the diverse ways in which subjective and intimate feelings are fundamental constituents of the urban experience. We encourage authors to examine the city as a lived place from a range of different perspectives, and to be inclusive of individual and collective voices in the city to better understand the historical development and contemporary evolution of diverse urban settings. Some of the questions we seek to explore through the series include, but are not restricted to: How is the city experienced, by whom, and how does this change over time? Who shapes the experience of the city and for what reasons? How do individual and shared joy, fear, pride, nostalgia, disgust, or other emotions, shape the meanings attributed to urban spaces? How does the lived experience of, and emotional connections to, urban places inform the way particular spaces within cities are preserved and memorialized, or alternatively demolished and redeveloped? In what ways is our understanding of the lived experience of the city sharpened through the lens of comparative, transnational, and global approaches? The series seeks to examine the real and the imaginary, the representational and the non-representational, the historical and the contemporary, the remembered and the recreated in all historical periods including research on the twenty-first-century city. The series is open to work covering all geographic areas, and we encourage authors, where possible and relevant, to situate their studies in comparative, transnational, or global perspectives. Books may be published in English or in French. Series Editors: Dr Rebecca Madgin, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Dr Nicolas Kenny, History, Simon Fraser University. Advisory Board: Prof. Jan Plamper, Goldsmiths, London; Dr Katie Barclay, Adelaide; Prof. Nicole Eustace, NYU; Dr Joseph Prestel, FU Berlin; Prof. Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal; Prof. Roey Sweet, Leicester; Prof. Astrid Swenson, Bath Spa; Prof. Steve Cooke, Deakin; Prof. Sian Jones, Stirling; Dr James Lesh, Melbourne; Dr Anneleen Arnout, Radboud.

2 publications

The European City in Transition

5 publications

Urban Communication

ISSN: 2153-1404

Cities are inherently places of communication, meeting spaces for interaction and/or observation. The nature of any communication venue is altered by social and technological circumstances and the urban environment is altered, in turn, by changes in communication patterns. We need to understand relationships among these significant forces – communication, technology, and the urban, suburban, rural environment – as they shape each other. Communication systems and urban social systems can be examined at multiple levels as scholars and planners examine interaction in public spaces, neighborhood communication patterns, and urban systems of transport. The focus of this series is on social relationships in a swiftly changing communication environment. Media coverage of urban issues, conflict resolution and contested urban space, visual communication, rhetorical dimensions of urban life, film and the city, journalism, the ethnic press, local media and public policy are just some areas of relevance. Volumes in this series provide a forum to explore and discuss the challenges created by the intersection of communication and urban life, focusing on what communication scholarship has to offer for enhanced understanding of cities and for the development of a public policy that takes into account communication needs and practices.

14 publications

Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas

ISSN: 2372-6830

The Latinx presence continues to grow and intersect with every aspect of life in the 21st century. This is evident when one considers the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court. As well as the prominence of distinct Latinx individuals in various spheres of social, cultural, and political life such as Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize winner and recipient of the Medal of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013; and Jorge Maria Bergoglio (Pope Francis) who has revolutionized the Catholic church since he became the highest ecclesiastical authority of the Catholic world in 2013. Latino Studies, as an academic field of inquiry, began to emerge during the early 1990s surfacing from the more recognized field of Chicano Studies. As such, the major contributions to the field first emerged from Mexican/Chicano scholarship—publications such as Aztlán, the most important journal in the field of Chicano Studies since 1970; Gloria Anzaldúa’’s groundbreaking memoir/essay, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987); George J. Sanchez’s historical account, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1995); and the two volumes of The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan, 1970-2010. These are a few examples of the consolidation and the continuing development of Chicano Studies in the United States. In the past two decades, Latino Studies have grown and expanded significantly. There have been a large number of publications about Latinxs in the Midwest and North East; in addition, due to the fast-growing population of Latinxs in the area, new scholarship has emerged about the Latinxs in the New South. Some examples of the emerging field of Latino Studies are the Latinos on the East Coast (2015) edited by Yolanda Medina and Ángeles Donoso Macaya, Global Cities and Immigrants (2015) by Francisco Velasco Caballero and María de los Angeles Torres; the Handbook of Latinos and Education (2010) edited by Enrique Murillo, et al.; Angela Anselmo’s and Alma Rubal-Lopez’s 2004 On Becoming Nuyoricans; David Carey Jr. and Robert Atkinson (2009) Latino Voices in New England; Yolanda Prieto’s case study entitled, The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community (2009); and Lawrence La Fontaine-Stokes’ Queer Ricans Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009). Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas will become the counterpart of the aforementioned research about the Latinx diaspora that deserve equal scholarly attention and will add to the academic field of inquiry that highlights the lived experience, consequential progress and contributions, as well as the issues and concerns that all Latinxs face in present times. This provocative series will offer a critical space for reflection and questioning of what it means to be Latinx living in the Americas, extending the dialogue to include the North and South hemispheric relations that are prevalent in other fields of global studies such as Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Colonial Feminism, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Critical Race Theory, and others. This broader scope can contribute to prolific interdisciplinary research and can also promote changes in policies and practices that will enable today’s leaders to deal with the overall issues that affect us all. Topics that explore contemporary inequalities and social exclusions associated with processes of racialization, economic exploitation, health, education, transnationalism, immigration, identity politics, and abilities that are not commonly highlighted in the current literature as well as the multitude of socio-economic, and cultural commonalities and differences among the Latinxs in the Americas will be at the center of the series. As the Latinx population continues to grow and change, and universities enhance their Latino Studies programs to be inclusive of all types of Latinx identities, a series dedicated to the lived experience of Latinxs in the Americas and a consideration of their progress and concerns in the social, cultural, political, economic, and artistic arenas is of incredible value in the quest for pedagogical practices and understandings that apply a critical perspective to the issues facing scholars in this area of study. Scholars, faculties, and students alike will benefit from this series. Expressions of interest for authored or edited books will be considered on a first come basis. A Book Proposal Guideline is available on request. For individual or group inquiries please contact the Series Editors at ymedina@bmcc.cuny.edu & Margarita.MachadoCasas@UTSA.edu.

50 publications

Diversitas

ISSN: 2031-0331

The aim of this series is to study diversity by privileging an interdisciplinary approach, through political, legal, cultural and social frameworks. The proposed method of inquiry will be to appeal, at once, to the fields of political philosophy, law, political science, history and sociology. In a period characterized by the increasing diversity of contemporary societies, the authors published in this series will explore avenues for the accommodation and management of pluralism and identity. Such studies will not be limited to assessments of federal states, but will include states that are on the path to federalization as well as non-federal states. Serious efforts will be undertaken to enrich our comprehension of so-called ‘nations without states’, most notably Catalonia, Scotland, Flanders and Quebec. A point of emphasis will also be placed on extracting lessons from experiences with civil law relative to those cases marked by the common law tradition. Monist and competing models will be compared in order to assess the relative capacity of each model to provide responses to the question of political instability, while pursuing the quest for justice in minority societies. The series also addresses the place of cities in the management of diversity, as well as the question of migration more generally and the issue of communities characterized by overlapping and hybrid identities. A profound sensitivity to historical narratives is also expected to enrich the proposed scientific approach. Finally, the works published in this series will reveal a common aspiration to advance social and political debates without privileging any particular school of thought. Cette collection cherche à étudier la diversité sous les angles politique, juridique, culturel et social en privilégiant le prisme de l’interdisciplinarité. La démarche scientifique proposée fait appel à la fois à la philosophie politique, au droit, à la science politique, à l’histoire, de même qu’à la sociologie. Au moment où les sociétés sont de plus en plus traversées par la diversité, les auteurs publiés dans cette collection exploreront des avenues en vue de gérer le pluralisme communautaire et identitaire. Sont mis à l’étude tout aussi bien les pays fédéraux et les pays en voie de fédéralisation que les pays non fédéraux. Des efforts importants seront consentis afin d’enrichir notre compréhension des nations dites «　sans État　» – pensons à la Catalogne, à l’Écosse, à la Flandre, au Pays basque et au Québec. Une volonté affirmée de mettre en parallèle les enseignements tirés des expériences civilistes et de celles propres au droit coutumier sera au rendez-vous. Les modèles monistes et concurrents seront mis dos à dos afin de saisir la capacité propre à chacun de fournir des réponses à l’instabilité politique tout en poursuivant la quête de justice pour les sociétés minoritaires. La place des métropoles au chapitre de la gestion de la diversité retiendra notre attention de même que les questions de migration des populations et du métissage communautaire. Une sensibilité à la trame historique viendra enrichir la démarche scientifique proposée. Les ouvrages publiés dans cette collection auront en commun leur volonté de faire avancer les débats de société sans privilégier aucune école de pensée. Directeur de la collection : Alain-G. Gagnon, titulaire, Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes et directeur d'axe au Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ). Comité scientifique : Alain Dieckhoff, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris Hugues Dumont, Facultés Saint-Louis, Bruxelles Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria, Victoria Montserrat Guibernau, University of London, Londres Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Guy Laforest, Université Laval, Québec Ramon Máiz, University of Santiago de Compostela, Saint-Jacques de Compostelle Marco Martiniello, Université de Liège, Liège Ferran Requejo, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone José Maria Sauca Cano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid Michel Seymour, Université de Montréal, Montréal James Tully, University of Victoria, Victoria Stephen Tierney, University of Edinburgh, Édimbourg Melissa Williams, University of Toronto, Toronto

39 publications

German Life and Civilization

ISSN: 0899-9899

German Life and Civilization contributes to a critical understanding of Central European cultural history from medieval times to the present. Culture is here defined in the broadest sense, comprising expressions and representations in literature, music, performative and pictorial arts, and media, as well as political and sociohistorical developments in the texture of everyday life. Building on its strengths in GDR scholarship and political literature, the series also seeks to explore newer thematic trends such as human entanglements with the environment and natural world, and transnational and minority communities. The series aims to foster progressive and inclusive scholarship that aspires to a synthetic view of culture by crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries. Manuscripts in both English and German are subject to a robust external peer review process. Series Editor: Kristopher Imbrigotta (University of Puget Sound) Series founder: Jost Hermand (University of Wisconsin) Advisory Board: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon), Jason Groves (University of Washington), Brigitte Jirku (University of Valencia), Teresa Kovacs (Indiana University), Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois), Caroline Rupprecht (City University of New York), Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin), Didem Uca (Emory University)

74 publications

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research

ISSN: 0849-0570

Aims and Scope As the annual peer-reviewed publication of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is an Open Access journal published by Peter Lang. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To that end, it publishes scholarly essays, review essays discussing recent research developments in particular sub-fields of the discipline, as well as reviews of books on comparative topics. Scholarly essays are submitted to a double-blind peer review. Submissions by early-career comparative literature scholars are strongly encouraged. Journal published with the support of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Past issues back to 2014 can be accessed on the ICLA website: https://www.ailc-icla.org/literary-research/ * * * Objectifs et portée En tant que publication annuelle de l’Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research est une revue expertisée par des pair·e·s et publiée par Peter Lang en libre accès voie dorée. Elle vise à faire connaître aux comparatistes du monde entier les développements récents de la discipline. Dans ce but, la revue publie des articles de recherche scientifique, des essais critiques dressant l’état des lieux d’un domaine particulier de la littérature comparée, ainsi que des comptes rendus de livres sur des sujets comparatistes. Les articles de recherche sont soumis à une évaluation par des pair·e·s en double anonyme. Des soumissions par de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs en littérature comparée sont fortement encouragées. Revue publiée avec le concours de l’Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC). Les numéros antérieurs, remontant à 2014, sont accessibles sur le site de l’AILC: https://www.ailc-icla.org/fr/recherche-litteraire/ * * * Editor in Chief / Rédacteur en Chef: Marc Maufort, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgique/Belgium Assistant Editor / Rédactrice adjointe: Jessica Maufort, National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium & Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgique/Belgium Editorial Assistant / Assistant de rédaction: Samuel Pauwels (Brussels, Belgium) Editorial Board / Comité éditorial: Dorothy Figueira, University of Georgia, USA / John Burt Foster, George Mason University, USA / Peter Hajdu, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary / Helga Mitterbauer, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium / David O’Donnell, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand / Haun Saussy, University of Chicago, USA / Anne Tomiche, Université de Paris, France / ZHANG Longxi, City University of Hong Kong, China Advisory Board / Comité consultatif: Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA / César Dominguez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, España / Massimo Fusillo, Università degli studi dell’Aquila, Italia / Scott Miller, Brigham Young University, USA / E.V. Ramakrishnan, Central University of Gujarat, India / Monica Spiridon, Universitatea din Bucureşti, România / Jüri Talvet, University of Tartu, Estonia / Hein Viljoen, North-West University, Potchesfstroom, South Africa * * * Submission Guidelines Reviews and essays are written in French or English, the two official languages of the ICLA. Book reviews should be between 1500 and 2000 words. Edited volumes and journal issues will also be considered for review. Review essays about the state of the art, about several related books, or about a work of major significance for the field will be allowed to exceed 3500 words, excluding works cited and footnotes. Scholarly essays should count between 6000 and 8000 words (excluding works cited and footnotes) and follow the Chicago Style sheet (parenthetical bibliographical references in the body of the text as well as a final list of Works Cited). Scholarly essays should also be preceded by an abstract in English of approximately 250 words and by 6 to 7 keywords for indexation purposes. The stylesheet for all types of submissions can be downloaded here: https://www.peterlang.com/app/uploads/2022/08/3_Literary-Research-Stylesheet-2022.pdf Inquiries and submissions: Marc Maufort, Editor, Email: Marc.Maufort@ulb.be Langues et littératures modernes CP 175 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50 1050 Brussels, Belgium * * * Instructions aux auteur·e·s Les comptes rendus ainsi que les articles de recherche peuvent être écrits en français ou en anglais, les deux langues officielles de l’AILC. Un compte rendu comptera entre 1500 et 2000 mots. Des ouvrages collectifs et des numéros de revues pourront également faire l’objet d’un compte rendu. Un essai critique sur l’état de l’art, sur un ensemble d’ouvrages, ou sur un livre ambitieux pourra dépasser 3500 mots, hormis bibliographie et notes en bas de page. Les articles de recherche compteront entre 6000 et 8000 mots (hormis bibliographie et notes en bas de page) et suivront les règles de présentation bibliographique du «Chicago Style» (références bibliographiques entre parenthèses dans le corps du texte et bibliographie en fin d’article). Ces articles de recherche doivent également être précédés d’un résumé en anglais d’environ 250 mots et de 6 à 7 mots-clés à des fins d’indexation. Une traduction en anglais du titre de l’article est également demandée. Les normes de présentation pour tous les types de soumissions peuvent être téléchargées ici: https://www.peterlang.com/app/uploads/2022/08/3_Literary-Research-Stylesheet-2022.pdf Renseignements et soumissions: Marc Maufort, Rédacteur, Email: Marc.Maufort@ulb.be Langues et littératures modernes CP 175 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50 1050 Brussels, Belgium *** Statement of Publication Ethics AUTHORS: Submissions should be original and free from any plagiarism. Authors should not offer their submissions concurrently elsewhere. The submitted work should not have been previously published in any language. Authors are fully responsible for the contents of their essays. They should secure permission for the reprinting of any copyrighted material. LR/RL does not charge any fees for the submission of manuscripts and their publication. REVIEWERS: All scholarly articles are rigorously assessed through anonymous peer review (authorship will not be divulged and readers will remain unidentified). Submissions are assessed by at least two international experts in the relevant fields. A third reader will be consulted, if necessary. Peer reviews will last approximately 3 months. The journal and its editorial team adhere to Peter Lang’s code of ethics regarding peer review: reviewers are asked to abide by the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers (https://www.peterlang.com/app/uploads/2021/07/COPE-Ethical-Guidelines_2016.pdf), which ensures the integrity of the academic research we publish. More information on Peter Lang’s commitment to academic excellence can be found here: https://www.peterlang.com/for-authors/. In case of conflict, the journal will follow the steps outlined by COPE here: https://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20flowcharts.pdf. EDITORS: LR/RL is committed to the impartiality of the editorial process. The journal will pay particular attention to any conflict of interests. The journal will promote good editorial practice, such as the adherence to clear instructions. LR/RL does not endorse the opinions of authors once their work is published. 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La revue portera une attention particulière à tout conflit d’intérêts. Elle encouragera les bonnes pratiques éditoriales, telles que le respect d’instructions claires. LR/RL ne cautionne pas l’opinion des auteur·e·s une fois leur travail publié. La revue est publiée en Open Access voie dorée, sous la licence de copyright Creative Commons CC-BY-ND-NC 4.0 International. Chaque numéro sera immédiatement disponible dans son intégralité sur le site web de Peter Lang dès sa publication. *** Abstracting and Indexing / Indexation EBSCO, MLA Directory of Periodicals, OAPEN

8 publications

Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead

ISSN: 2977-0718

Vampires are everywhere. Appearing on streaming services, in book series and on multimedia platforms, vampires and the undead are an integral part of popular culture in the twenty-first century. But vampires have a long and varied history across cultures from at least the early eighteenth century onwards. Nina Auerbach once commented on their cultural ubiquity: ‘Every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves’. The inherently transformative properties of vampires have made them uniquely able to reflect the age in which they appear. As a result, they provide original and multiple perspectives, not just on culture, but on established and emerging areas of study. Vampires and the undead serve as a useful lens for exploring Indigeneity, environmental studies and the ecogothic; identity, ethnicity and gender politics; material culture, spectatorship and fan cultures; hybridity, post-humanism and futurities; disability, mental health and ageing studies; and theology, philosophy and politics. These new territories and methodologies of vampire studies also retroactively shift the ways we view and understand earlier iterations of the undead and the different cultures they materialized from. In this first book series dedicated to vampire studies, authors will explore the ongoing evolution of vampires and the undead in the broadest sense – including the supernatural, super-human and non-human, and across cultures, histories and media – and will use new theoretical frameworks to offer original and innovative readings of established and more recent texts. This original series aims to provide a focused hub for the diverse and often dispersed body of study that sees the vampire and the undead not as a subgenre of other categories such as the Gothic or horror, but as a genre in its own right that intersects with others. An important dimension of the series is diversity and the inclusion of multiple cultural and minority perspectives, including LGBTQ+, disability, Indigeneity, and any approaches that encourage new ways of viewing the cultural impact of vampires and the undead and widen our understanding of an ever-expanding genre. Proposals for monographs and edited collections are warmly invited. All projects undergo rigorous peer review. Please contact the series editor, Simon Bacon (baconetti@googlemail.com), or editorial@peterlang.com for more information. Editorial Board: Stacey Abbott (Birkbeck, University of London), Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo (University of Scranton, USA), John Edgar Browning (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA), S. Brooke Cameron (Queen's University, Canada), Sir Christopher Frayling, Tabish Khair (University of Aarhus, Denmark), Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Cristina Santos (Brock University, Canada), Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University, USA), Laura Westengard (City University of New York).

0 publications