BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14780-2024afc83c5b46f204d67dcf4ca1a1c5@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T212606Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T150000 SUMMARY:Spring Symposium 2023 - The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fiction DESCRIPTION:\nSpring Symposium 2023 - The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fiction\n\nThe CALS Spring Symposium returns with a panel discussion on "The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fiction ."\n\nThe last several decades have seen the rise of genre fiction not o nly in its omnipresence but also in its increasing cultural capital. Lit erary fiction by writers like Colson Whitehead\, Kazuo Ishiguro\, and Co rmac McCarthy borrow tropes from sci-fi and fantasy fiction\, receiving prestigious literary prizes in return. The pulpiest of genres\, from har d-boiled detective fiction to harlequin romance\, proliferate in number and kind\, while migrating across media\, reshaping film\, television\, and video games. This symposium asks how literary\, cultural\, and media studies have transformed in response to the genre boom and how they mig ht continue to evolve in the future. What might scholars and critics lea rn from changes in genre fiction and its reception? What concepts or met hods are adequate to these ongoing transformations? Does the scholarly t urn to genre raise the possibility of new academic institutions\, as wel l as new critical practices?\n\nPanelists:\n\nAlexis Lothian\, Associate Professor of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, University of Mar yland. Alexis Lothian is the author of Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (NYU Press 2018). She’s currently working on two b ook projects\, one on the politics of fantasy in slash fan fiction and o ne on the history of social justice discourse in online fan culture.\nRe bekah Sheldon\, Associate Professor of English and Director of Cultural Studies\, Indiana University. Rebekah Sheldon is the author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Pres s 2016). Her current research is on new materialism and the occult.\nJen nifer Wagner-Lawlor\, Professor of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Stud ies and English\, Penn State. Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor has published dozen s of articles\, and two utopia related books: a monograph\, Postmodern U topias and Feminist Fictions (Cambridge University Press 2013) and The P algrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures (2022).\nChristian P. Haines\, Associate Professor of English\, Penn State. Christian Hain es is the author of A Desire Called America: Biopolitics\, Utopia\, and the Literary Commons (Fordham University Press 2019). He’s currently wor king on two books\, one on finance capital and contemporary culture\, an other on capitalism\, ecology\, and genre fiction.\n\nModerator:\n\nSu Y oung Lee\, Graduate Student\, Department of English\, Penn State.\n\nRea d a recap of the Symposium by CALS Graduate RA Jess Rafalko here.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/spring-symposium-2023-the -genre-boom-humanities-and-the-rise-of-genre-fiction-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Spring Symposium 2023 - The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fictio n

The CALS Spring Symposium returns with a panel dis cussion on "The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fiction."

The last several decades have seen the rise of genre fiction not on ly in its omnipresence but also in its increasing cultural capital. Lite rary fiction by writers like Colson Whitehead, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Corma c McCarthy borrow tropes from sci-fi and fantasy fiction, receiving pres tigious literary prizes in return. The pulpiest of genres, from hard-boi led detective fiction to harlequin romance, proliferate in number and ki nd, while migrating across media, reshaping film, television, and video games. This symposium asks how literary, cultural, and media studies hav e transformed in response to the genre boom and how they might continue to evolve in the future. What might scholars and critics learn from chan ges in genre fiction and its reception? What concepts or methods are ade quate to these ongoing transformations? Does the scholarly turn to genre raise the possibility of new academic institutions, as well as new crit ical practices?

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Read a recap of the Symposium by CALS Graduate RA Jess Rafalko here.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/sprin g-symposium-2023-the-genre-boom-humanities-and-the-rise-of-genre-fiction -2/

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