The IAFA conference program

Many people regularly go to conferences to present papers much like the ones you are writing. Many of these papers get published, as well. For example, if you visit the website of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and click on "Preliminary Online Program for ICFA-31" (in the right-hand column), you'll see the dozens of paper topics that will be presented at the association's conference in Orlando in March. (That's where I'll be during spring break, if the creek don't rise.) Topics of obvious interest to our class include, among many others:

Magical Numen vs. Magical Negro: A Defense of Stephen King

Latina Bodily Intersections: Woman on the Edge of Time and Pan’s Labyrinth

Heroic vs. Ordinary Virtues: The Role of Shadow in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

Imagined Nation: Space, Place and National Identity in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

Folklore and Intertextuality in the Works of Neil Gaiman

A Goddess or a Madwoman?: The Power of the Maternal in Stephen King’s Misery?

Doubled Selves, Shattered Tales: The Feminist Fairy-Tale Techniques of Kelly Link and Catherynne M. Valente

“Who Ever Said There Were Answers?”: Tim Underhill and the Fear of the Open in Peter Straub's lost boy lost girl

Revisioning the Gothic Other: Race in Peter Straub's Mr. X

Doorways to Liminal Spaces, Cartesian Doubt, and the Reproduction of Reality in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline

Race, Miscegenation & the Grammar(s) of the “Weird” in H. P. Lovecraft and China Miéville

Dancing the Macabray: Life and Death in The Graveyard Book

The Horror and Beauty of Miscegenation in H.P. Lovecraft and Octavia E. Butler

Tracing the Alternative City: Miéville, Gaiman, Zelazny, Spenser, et alia.

A Secret Society of Doppelgängers in Conspiracy: Fantastical Revenge and Paranoiac Pursuit in Poe and Maupassant

Should any of you at any point be interested in attending or presenting at this conference or any other such conference, I would be happy to hear from you.