Haunting Revisions: The Female Gothic Across Time and Media
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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Haunting Revisions: The Female Gothic Across Time and Media
Journal
Women's Studies
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Deadline
10 August 2026
About the Special Issue
Women's Studies invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Haunting Revisions: The Female Gothic Across Time and Media."
This Special Issue explores the enduring and evolving significance of the Female Gothic as a powerful framework for examining gender, identity, resistance, and cultural transformation. From its eighteenth-century literary origins to contemporary expressions across literature, film, television, digital media, music, and gaming, the Female Gothic continues to provide creative spaces for interrogating domestic oppression, gendered violence, racial trauma, queer identities, environmental anxieties, and the politics of embodiment.
Building upon renewed scholarly interest in feminist and intersectional Gothic studies, the issue seeks to examine how recent global developments—including the #MeToo movement, reproductive rights debates, racial justice movements, queer and trans visibility, climate change, digital culture, AI-generated media, and post-pandemic experiences—have transformed the ways Gothic narratives represent fear, resistance, identity, and belonging.
The editors welcome interdisciplinary contributions that investigate how women, feminist, queer, trans, and nonbinary creators continue to reshape the Female Gothic across diverse cultural and media contexts.
Scope and Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Historical and global Female Gothic traditions
Race, colonialism, and haunting
Queer, trans, and nonbinary Gothic narratives
Digital Gothic, virtual hauntings, AI-generated Gothic, and new media
Domesticity, reproductive futures, and intimate spaces
Environmental and Ecogothic perspectives
Posthuman, embodied, and abject Gothic
Female Gothic in literature, film, television, music, gaming, and performance
Archival studies, historical recovery, and interdisciplinary approaches
Feminist resistance, trauma, memory, and identity in Gothic narratives
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit a 250-word abstract along with 3–5 keywords and a short biographical note.
Abstracts should be emailed to Haunting_revisions_submissions@mailfence.com by 01 March 2026.
Accepted contributors will be invited to submit full manuscripts through the Women's Studies editorial system.
The journal welcomes full-length scholarly articles (approximately 20–30 pages), shorter essays, interviews, creative-critical works, and interdisciplinary contributions.
All submissions will undergo a double-anonymous peer review process.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 March 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 10 April 2026
Full Manuscript Submission: 10 August 2026
Peer Review Decisions: 10 October 2026
Revision Deadline: 10 January 2027
Guest Editors
Cindy Cupples Murillo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Jennifer Nader, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
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