CLUSTERS *NEW* Arts, Film, Literature, Media, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, and Religion Cluster S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College,
[email protected]. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe and his hometown of Baltimore, this Cluster will be assembling a prearranged roundtable on the gothic as a way to explore the complexities of genre and genre analysis. Possible approaches include the mediation of the gothic, the gothic in popular and visual culture, modern reinvention of historical architectural styles (i.e., gothic‐revival churches), horror films, “Goth” scenes, and the appearance of religion and media in gothic literature, film, and subcultures. Other possibilities include gothic parody, both in gothic literature and in goth culture. Anonymity of Review Process: N/A Method of Submission: N/A *NEW* Social Theory and Religion Cluster Ipsita Chatterjea, Vanderbilt University,
[email protected]. Randall Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
[email protected]. This Cluster seeks individual paper, papers session, or roundtable proposals on social theory and the department of religion, considering such issues as institutional structure, interdisciplinary, and directions for the future, and the best recent examples of social and critical theory applied to the data of religion. Anonymity of Review Process: Proposer names are anonymous to Chairs and Steering Committee members during review, but visible to Chairs prior to final acceptance or rejection. Method of Submission: PAPERS SECTIONS Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Diane Apostolos‐Cappadona, Georgetown University,
[email protected]. Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College,
[email protected]. This Section invites proposals for individual papers and preorganized papers sessions or roundtables on any of the following topics: 1) The history and practice of calligraphy in world religions; 2) Islam — arts, film, literature, and media; 3) The religious in the literature of C.