Theater-to-film self-adaptation: IS GOD IS (2026)

The AAS 2026 schedule is LIVE! Check out the panels, papers, and events on offer for this year's international conference. There's still time to register for both on-site and remote participation, with two online panels per conference day. www.burmanu.ca/aas2026

The AAS 2026 schedule is LIVE! Check out the panels, papers, and events on offer for this year's international conference. There's still time to register for both on-site and remote participation, with two online panels per conference day. www.burmanu.ca/aas2026

NEW BOOKS 📚 in the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series! link.springer.com/series/14654 🎮 John Sanders, Literary Game Adaptations: A Systems Approach (Monograph) 🍄 Pamela Demory, ed. Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment (Collected essays)

NEW BOOKS 📚 in the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series! link.springer.com/series/14654 🎮 John Sanders, Literary Game Adaptations: A Systems Approach (Monograph) 🍄 Pamela Demory, ed. Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment (Collected essays)

#CFP: #Tie-InMedia as Continuitive Works: From Franchise to Multimodal Storyverse, Caroline-Isabelle Caron how do #tieinworks such as novels, comics, audio-dramas, games contribute to the process of franchise building proposal of 250 words plus bio by Nov 30 to [email protected] #academicsky

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Probably of special interest to our North American friends! PAMLA papers wanted!

🔊Our full cast audio adaptation of The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele is free to listen to on our podcast.🐻‍❄️ Been thinking about Queen's Men plays a lot of late. Probably should do some more at some point. If people would be interested. #drama #audio #live #theatre audioboom.com/posts/862347...

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We love to see it, thank you for your service @jamesctaylor.bsky.social! 🙌

Still 3 more days to get your Dickens on Screen abstracts in! Deadline is Monday 11th - more info 👇

Funded 4-year PhD project with Stan's Cafe and Ben Spatz on filmed theatre, film-in-theatre, and other weird digital theatre things. Deadline 27 May. Please share: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

"aims to rejuvenate the study of literature in schools and universities by researching, facilitating, and championing creative-critical teaching practices. These include writing in style, recreative writing, writing-in-role, adaptation, and many others." #HigherEd www.nate.org.uk/2026/05/06/b...

Absolutely lovely Job! Senior Research Associate to join the School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing from 1 September 2026 until 30 April 2029, to work on the AHRC-funded project Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

Important not to overlook France as a producer of adaptations! See also this piece in French Screen Studies by Jean-Louis Jeannelle, about how the company Best Seller to Box Office has sought to develop an "adaptability quotient" doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for @dickenssociety.bsky.social! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).

This May 4th, I’m very happy to launch the CFP for a major scholarly conference on Star Wars, which will take place at Durham University in 2027. Please share widely across your networks and indeed to anyone who might be interested! starwarsat50.webspace.durham.ac.uk

Early concept art for the Death Star... From a 15th-century catalogue of designs for a variety of fantastic and often impossible inventions. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420 #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th

LAST WEEK to catch early bird registration rates! ONLINE-ONLY PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE! 💻

LAST WEEK to catch early bird registration rates! ONLINE-ONLY PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE! 💻

We love to see it, thank you for your service @jamesctaylor.bsky.social! 🙌

Happy Earth Day & hearty congratulations to everyone involved in this terrific collection! 🫶 🌏 🌍 🌎

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Early bird registration for AAS 2026 open NOW and at discounted rates through 1 MAY! See you in 🇨🇦 🫡

I haven't heard a single post about this anywhere-- disney's had their animators reanimate some of their recent iconic songs in ASL?? here's "we don't talk about bruno"??? this is amazing??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrv...

An adaptationist would be a great fit for Disney Studies!

An adaptationist would be a great fit for Disney Studies!

While registration for AAS 2026 at Burman U 🇨🇦 remains ongoing, applications & expressions of interest to host AAS 2027 are now open! Reach out to us here or our Board chairs @cbkenkar.bsky.social & @stinaface.bsky.social to learn more.

While registration for AAS 2026 at Burman U 🇨🇦 remains ongoing, applications & expressions of interest to host AAS 2027 are now open! Reach out to us here or our Board chairs @cbkenkar.bsky.social & @stinaface.bsky.social to learn more.

Next Monday!

Only 3 days left to submit a conference proposal for Polish Association for American Studies conference 'Morphing America' in Szczecin, Poland! Please send abstracts of approx. 300 words to [email protected] by 10 April 2026.

This is hugely important and has barely been theorized, let alone contended with by political comms leaders (besides Mamdani staffers). YouTube is the world’s largest media company now. As of May 2025 YouTube had the largest viewership. As of this month it posted a larger revenue than Disney.

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"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

litfilm.org/conference/l... If you’re interested in adaptation writ large, consider joining us for our 2026 conference on a timely topic: Adaptation/Nation!

Very happy to see this published. My co-conspirator in all things conference-related, @cbkenkar.bsky.social, and I are so proud of the students who wrote this review and grateful to everyone who made the event such a special one.

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

MTC is running a series of reading & writing groups this spring & summer. Our first reading group on the recent English translation of Punjabi novella Keeru by Fauzia Rafique hosted by Nico Millman & the translator Haider Shabaz will meet on April 15 @ 6pm ET. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yfvycxut

This week!

📣 OPEN ACCESS review of AAS 2025: Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth in Istanbul! doi.org/10.1093/adap...

Registration is NOW OPEN for AAS 2026, running 7-10 July! Online & in-person rates for delegates & attendees, with an early bird discount for a limited time! www.burmanu.ca/aas2026

📣 OPEN ACCESS review of AAS 2025: Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth in Istanbul! doi.org/10.1093/adap...

"When you get there, you will already be there." Maria M. Carrión revisits her 30-year-old essay on TWIN PEAKS as literature and finds that David Lynch's multi-media labyrinth still has the capacity to twist us up. #openaccess at @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social. lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/54_1...

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro... #JaneAusten #WutheringHeights @ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

Also, our March event on Adaptation and Authorship will take place on 4th March at 4-5pm (UK time) with William Proctor and Katrijn Bekers. DM if you've not got the zoom link!

Deadline today!

Great news for anyone planning to submit to History of Games 2026: the deadline has been extended to 10th March 2026!

Registration is NOW OPEN for AAS 2026, running 7-10 July! Online & in-person rates for delegates & attendees, with an early bird discount for a limited time! www.burmanu.ca/aas2026

adaptation really IS everywhere!