H-PCAACA CFP: Special Issue on Bathurst's "" (2018)

Discussion published by Alex Kaufman on Friday, November 15, 2019

The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies is seeking essays for an issue devoted to examining the recent film Robin Hood (2018), directed by Otto Bathurst and starring , Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, , and Jamie Dornan. The journal’s editors are interested in brief, focused, critical essays that explore how the film addresses current issues in medieval studies, including, but not limited to

Race in medieval and (neo)medievalist texts and political spaces

Representations of gender and sexuality

The “canon” or “corpus” of the Robin Hood tradition

Landscapes and storyscapes as negotiated and contested zones

Games and gaming culture as sources for and analogues to film

The deadline for submissions is April 2, 2020. We ask that essay be no longer than 3,000 words, including footnotes, and that submissions be formatted in Chicago, 17th edition. Authors interested in submitting essays must first create a free online account on the journal’s website, and the submission and process is done electronically through the journal’s CMS: https://bulletin.iarhs.org/index.php/IARHSBulletin/login

The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies is the double-blind, peer- reviewed, open-access journal of the IARHS and is actively indexed by the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

For submission queries, please feel free to email both editors ofThe Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies.

Valerie B. Johnson ([email protected])

Alex Kaufman ([email protected])

Related date: April 2, 2020

Citation: Alex Kaufman. CFP: Special Issue on Bathurst's "Robin Hood" (2018). H-PCAACA. 11-15-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/5366733/cfp-special-issue-bathursts-robin-hood-2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1