Sara Lewis Dunne is associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses on comedy, food and literature, and popular culture. She is the co-editor of the journal Studies in Popular Culture.
Call for Papers
“Part of Popular Culture”: Exploring the Sitcosmos of Seinfeld
Edited by David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne
Proposals are sought from potential contributors to a collection of essays on the television series Seinfeld (1990-1998), recently named the best television show of all time by TV Guide. Four years after Seinfeld ended its run, there is still only one critical book on the series, Seinfeld and Philosophy (Open Court Press).
Proposals on all sorts of subjects will be considered, but here are a few possibilities:
acting | allusions | ancillary texts | character studies of major and minor characters | Jerry Seinfeld | Larry David | directors | fan fiction | gender | genre | humor | individual episodes | intertextuality | language | location and meaning | music | postmodernism and Seinfeld | self-referentiality | episode structure | subtexts | audience studies | Seinfeld from a cultural studies perspective | Seinfeld from a feminist perspective | Seinfeld from a narratological perspective | Seinfeld from a reader/viewer response perspective | Seinfeld from a semiotic perspective | Seinfeld and the sitcom tradition | Seinfeld and NBC | Seinfeld on the Internet | Seinfeld and contemporary television | the title sequence | Seinfeld’s writers | Seinfeld’s directors | Seinfeld and political correctness | Seinfeld in syndication | the body on Seinfeld | sex and Seinfeld | the language of Seinfeld | Seinfeld and New York | Seinfeld as a subversive text
This collection will be aimed at an educated but not highly-specialized audience. The essays chosen for the volume will be scholarly but not obscure, knowledgeable but not erudite. A publisher will be sought among both mainstream and university presses.
ASAP, but by no later than the end of July, please send either your completed essay or a 500-750 word account of the essay you would like to contribute as an e-mail attachment (in Word or as a Rich Text File) to dlavery@mtsu.edu. Be sure to include with your proposal a brief bio of yourself. If your essay is chosen for final consideration, you will have until the end of September 2002 to complete it.
| David Lavery is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches courses on science fiction, modern poetry, popular culture, and film. He is the author/editor/co-editor of Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (1992), Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (1994), ‘Deny All Knowledge’: Reading The X-Files (1996), Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002), Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow (2002), This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos (2002), and Re-weaving the Rainbow: The Thought of Owen Barfield (forthcoming). He co-edits the online journal Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and is the series editor of Television Studies for Wallflower Press in London. To learn more about him, visit his home page at http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/. |
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Sara Lewis Dunne is associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses on comedy, food and literature, and popular culture. She is the co-editor of the journal Studies in Popular Culture. |
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