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July 09, 2006
IAFA International Scholarship Award
Dale Knickerbocker, Division Head for International Fantastic Literatures, would like to announce a new award sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Announces its
1st Annual Award for the Best Non-English Language Scholarly Essay on the Fantastic
We define the fantastic to include science fiction, folklore, and related genres in literature, drama, film, art and graphic design, and related disciplines.
Prize: $250 U.S. and one year’s free membership in the IAFA to be awarded at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2007
Winning essay to be published online at the IAFA website
Deadline for consideration: November 30, 2006
Essays may be unpublished scholarship submitted by the author, or already published work nominated either by the author or another scholar (in which case the author’s permission should be obtained before submission). An abstract in English must accompany all submissions. Submissions may be made electronically (preferred) in MS Word, Word Perfect, or RTF format, or by mail.
Please direct all inquiries and submissions to:
Dale Knickerbocker
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
USA
knickerbockerd AT ecu.edu
Fax: 252-328-6233
The following is a list of those who have volunteered to serve as judges:
German
David Dickens, Professor of German, Washington and Lee University (up through 19th c)
Viveke Rutzou Petersen, Associate Professor of Women´s Studies, Drake University (women and fantasy)
Elizabeth Borchardt, Professor of German, University of Minnesota at Morris (19th-20th cc, film)
French
Amy J. Ransom, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Anna Maria College, Paxton MA (Quebecois)
Stephanie Perrais, ABD Penn State University (19th-Early 20th centuries)
Helen Pilinovsky, ABD Columbia University (Fairy Tales, Folklore)
Charlene Gill, Texas State University, (comics/graphic)
Alfred Fralin, Professor of Romance Languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Washington and Lee (20th c.)
Japanese
Antonia Levi, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Portland State (manga, anime)
Miri Nakamura, ABD Stanford (19th c.)
Hiroko Chiba, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, DePauw University (20th c.)
Sarah E. Thompson, PhD, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, (visual arts)
Northern Europe
Edward James, Professor of History, University College, Dublin Ireland (medieval, SF)
Irma Hirsjarvi, ABD, Jyväskylä University (Finnish, general Scandinavian)
K.A. Laity, Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston (Medieval, Folklore, Fairy Tale-Finnish)
Stefan Ekman, ABD, (Swedish, general Scandinavian)
Hispanic
Andrea Bell, Professor of Spanish, Hamline University (Latin American SF, esp. Venezuela)
Yolanda Molina-Gavila´n, Associate Professor of Spanish, Eckerd College (Peninsular and Latin American SF)
Rafael Montes, Assistant Professor of Spanish, St. Thomas University (Latin American SF, esp. Mexico)
Juan Carlos Toledano, Assitant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Lewis and Clark College (Latin American SF, esp. Cuba)
Sharon Sieber, Professor of Spanish, Idaho State University, (Latin American fantasy, esp. Argentina)
Robin McAllister, Professor of Spanish, Sacred Heart University (Latin American fantasy, esp. Argentina, Southern Cone)
Dale Knickerbocker, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, East Carolina University (Peninsular fantasy & SF)
Pablo Brescia, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of South Florida (Latin American fantasy)
Maria Aline Ferreira, Associate Professor, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian fantasy)
Posted by ChrissieMains at July 9, 2006 10:28 PM