Areas and Contact Information

Second-Round Deadline for All Areas: March 1, 2010

(Check back often -- Areas updated daily)

 

Active Calls for Papers:

 

Across the Tracks: Love and Class in Film and History

Chair: Robert Niemi
rniemi@smcvt.edu

 

Affairs of Race: Interracial Relationships in Film and History

Chair: Carole Martin
cm25@txstate.edu

 

Agape: Faith God Mission

Chair: Zachary Ingle
ztingle@ku.edu

 

America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters

Chair: Beverly Kelley
kelley@callutheran.edu

 

L'Amour Noir: Fear and Danger in Romance (1920-1960)

Chair: Bill Mooney
william_mooney@fitnyc.edu

 

An American Bromance: Homosocial Love in Film and Television

Chair: Kelli Marshall
kellirmarshall@gmail.com

 

Blaxploitation Films: What's Love Got to Do with It

Chair: Norlisha Crawford
crawforn@uwosh.edu

 

The Bond Girls: Sex and the Secret Agent

Chair: Jim Yates
jyates@carlalbert.edu

 

Cinephilia: The Love of Film

Chair: Adam Capitanio
capitani@msu.edu

 

The Dark Side of Love: Love, Sex, and Violence in Film and Video

Chair: Karen Ritzenhoff
Ritzenhoffk@CCSU.edu

 

Different Bodies: Disability Disfigurement Illness or Impairment Love

Chair: Marja Mogk
mmogk@callutheran.edu

 

For the Love of the Fans: Fandom, Comics, and Film Adaptations

Chair; Lance Eaton
lance_eaton@emerson.edu

 

Hollywood's (m)Other(ly) Love: (post)Freudian Readings and Approaches

Chair: Jaime Bihlmeyer
jaimebilhmeyer@missouristate.edu

 

The Intrusion of Love

Chair: Antonio Savorelli
intrusion@cknweb.it

 

Jane Austen in Film and History

Chair: Laurence Raw
l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com

 

Jazz and Film, a Love Affair

Chair: Peter Lev
plev@towson.edu

 

Jewish-Gentile Romances: From Abie to Zohan

Chair: Lawrence Baron
lbaron@mail.sdsu.edu

 

The Landscape of Love

Chair: Deborah Carmichael
carmic28@msu.edu

 

Listening to the Music of Love in Film and Television

Chair: Mathew Bartkowiak
mathew.bartkowiak@uwc.edu

 

Love (Early) American Style: Love and Lust in Films About Early U.S. History

Chair: Marianne Holdzkom
mholdzkom@comcast.net

 

Love and Commitment in the Fraternity/Sorority Film

Chair: Thomas Britt
tbritt@gmu.edu

 

Love and Death

Chair: Massimo Perinelli
perinelli@gmx.ch

 

Love and the Family Man: Last Frontier for the American Hero?

Chair: Elizabeth Abele
abelee@ncc.edu

 

Love and Food

Chair: Deborah Adelman
adelman@cod.edu

 

Love and Sex in the Graphic Novels of Alan Moore

Chair: Todd Comer
tcomer@defiance.edu

 

Love at the End of Life

Chair: Sara Rosenthal
msrose2@email.uky.edu

 

Love in a Time of War

Chair: Suzanne Broderick
slbrode@ilstu.edu

 

Love in the Golden Age of Television

Chair: Erwin Erhardt
erwin.erhardt@uc.edu

 

Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage: Bonding and Parenthood in Film and Television

Chair: Laura D'Amore
lmdamore@comcast.net

 

Love Thy Leader: Charisma, Attraction, and Love Toward Figures of Identification

Chair: Carsten Hennig
mail@carsten-hennig.com

 

Love and Violence: Action Heroes

Chair: Jennie Morton
jennie.morton@uni.edu

 

Lovers on the Side: Tramps and Rogues in Film and History

Chair: Cynthia Miller
cymiller@tiac.net

 

Loving the Machine: Human-Machine Relationships in Film and Television

Chair: Lisa Nocks
lnocks@gmail.com

 

Lust In Space: Love in Science Fiction Film and Television

Chair: A. Bowdoin Van Riper
bvanriper@bellsouth.net

 

Medieval Love and Sexuality in Film and Television

Chair: Justin Noetzel
noetzelj@slu.edu

 

Oysters and Snails: Love & Sex in the Ancient World on Screen

Chair: Monica S. Cyrino
pandora@unm.edu

 

Performing Love/ Loving Performance: Broadway Musical Motifs in Cinema and Television

Chair: Kathryn Edney
katedney@hotmail.com

 

Pro Patria Mori: Patriotism in Film and Television

Chair: Lisa Stein
stein@ohio.edu

 

Reality-TV Love: Bachelors and Bachelorettes

Chair: Zivah Perel
zperel@qcc.cuny.edu

 

Sex and Love in Asian Contexts

Chair: Sybil Thornton
Sybil.Thornton@asu.edu

 

"Taking Care of Business": Office Romance in Film and Television

Chair: Tony Osborne
Osborne@gonzaga.edu

 

Things of Love and the Love of Things

Chair Rebecca Burditt
rburditt@mail.rochester.edu

 

Vampire Love

Chair: Daniel Schnopp-Wyatt
daniel.schnopp-wyatt@lindseyspc.org

 

Women and Children First: Gender and Ethics

Chair: Caryn E. Neumann
neumance@muohio.edu

 

Writers in Love/ Writers and Love/ Writing and Love in Film and Television

Chair: Bruce Wyse
bwyse@wlu.ca

 

Additional Opportunities for Areas:

Addictions, Compulsions, Obsessions

Animals of the Wild

Cartoons and Pornography

Censorship and the Code

Citizen Love: Flag Wavers, Flag Burners

Classic and Classical: The Romance Genre

Cowboy and Cowgirl Love

Families and Society

Flings and Fantasies

Freudian Readings and Approaches

Hetero, Homo, Sapiens: Theories of Sexuality

Laboratory Love: Documentary-Style Treatments

Love Gone Awry

Love and Community

Mon Amour: French Kisses and French Misses

Pets and Companion Animals

Romantic Dramas on Television

Screwball Comedy and Romance

Separation, Divorce, Reconciliation

Sex and Morality

Soul and Self: Love and Identity

Stereotypes: Old, Young, and Mid-Life Crises

Suicidal Lovers

Teachers and Students

Team Ethos: Buddy Films and Chick Flicks

The First Romantics: Italy on Screen

The Weight of History: Body Image and Love

Uniform Love: Military and Romance