Reminder (and with the usual apologies for cross-posting), I am still
soliciting abstracts for *Entering the Multiverse* (deadline: Aug 31)


Call for Chapters: *Entering the Multiverse*, Edited Collection

Update: Call for new forms/chapters (fiction, creative nonfiction, academic
essay, comic, poem, etc.)



Editor:

Paul Booth, DePaul University



The multiverse is, seemingly, everywhere all at once. The recent success of
multiverse-focused media across platforms (e.g., films like *Everything
Everywhere All at Once *or* Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse; *television
like the CW/DC multiverse crossovers or the *His Dark Materials*
adaptation; literature like *Dark Matter* by Blake Crouch or *This Is How
You Lose The Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; multiple comic
book/graphic novel storylines, etc.) speaks to significant issues within
contemporary culture. Different from transmedia (one narrative told across
media boundaries) or shared universes (spin-offs that take place within the
same media universe), multiverse fiction explores alternate realities,
multiple canons, and contradictory realities within the confines of one
fictional narrative.



In this volume, I hope to encompass the multiplicity of the concept of the
multiverse through multiple perspectives. This is a story that can only be
told through the edited collection: where each chapter of which advances a
theory of the cultural relevance of the multiverse concept while retaining
its own unique philosophy or theory.



Chapters can be in whatever form the author thinks best suits the topic:
fiction, creative non-fiction, academic essay, comic, poem, etc.



I am particularly interested in the concept of the multiverse across
cultural boundaries, non-western approaches to the multiverse concept, and
multiple iterations of the multiverse.



Chapters may explore, but are certainly not limited to, the following
topics:

-       Scientific explorations of the concept of the multiverse

-       The multiverse in various media forms

-       Different types of multiverses

-       Inclusion in multiverse fiction

-       Historical explorations of the concept of the multiverse

-       Multiversal theories

-       Practical applications of multiverse theory

-       Diversity and the multiverse




Please submit proposals of 300-500 words with a brief biographical
statement and contact information via email attachment to Paul Booth at
[log in to unmask] no later than Aug 31, 2023. In your proposal, please note
what genre you will be writing in. Notice of acceptance will be sent out by
Sept 15, 2023. Draft chapters of 5-6,000 words (inclusive of works cited)
will be due March 15, 2024.



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Paul Booth, PhD
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Associate Dean
College of Communication
DePaul University
14 E. Jackson
Chicago, IL 60604

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