CFP: Arkham’s Souls: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Batman’s Villains and Villainesses (original) (raw)

With Arkham’s Souls: A multidisciplinary Analysis of Batman’s Villains and Villainesses, we want to give the villains their merit, investigating their psychology, morality, motivations, symbolism, and philosophy. We are looking for papers that specifically analyse one of Batman’s enemies. The approach you choose can be of various types, philosophical or psychological, anthropological or literary. You can focus on gender studies as well as cultural studies. It is essential that your proposal is original and possibly not yet specifically considered by other studies on the genre. Chapters should be between 3000-4000 words inclusive of references, tables, and endnotes. The aim for the volume is to be a part of the Comicstudien series for De Gruyter. For this reason, we ask our authors to consider especially (but not only) the comic version of the mentioned characters. Final essays in German or English will be 3000-4000 words in length. Please send a brief abstract in German or English of 400 words (together with a short bio) by November 15th, 2021, to the editors, Justin Martin (just.f.martin@gmail.com) and Marco Favaro (marco-favaro@outlook.it).