University at Buffalo, Gaylord National Resort Center, Washington, DC
March 21 - 24, 2019
This panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association-Conference (NeMLA) seeks papers that explore adaptations from comics into theater, or from theater into comics. Whether comics adaptations of classic plays, or celebrated graphic narratives that get adapted for the musical stage, the interplay between the stage and the comics page is rich and multi-directional, as both are visual narratives, with very different points of access and methods of meaning-making. The ill-fated Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark may not have much in common with a graphic novelization of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, for instance, but they share an attempt to grapple with the intersection of the two media.
NeMLA 2019 will be in Washington DC, March 21-24.
Learn more about NeMLA here: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
Submit abstract of 300 words by September 30 here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17233
Contact:
Emily Lauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Suffolk County Community College
Islip Arts 2K, Ammerman Campus
533 College Road
Selden, NY 11784
lauere@sunysuffolk.edu