Dear Colleagues, 

Ushering in Pride Month, it is our pleasure to announce the publication of our Summer 2023 Special Issue “Queer/Trans Media Now” (vol. 21.2), guest edited by NRFTS’s incoming Editor in Chief Matt Connolly and featuring articles by Clara Bradbury-Rance (Open Access), Lauren Herold, Paige Macintosh, Sergio Rigoletto, Zoë Shacklock, Sarah E.S. Sinwell, Gabriel Kitofi Tonelo, and Alex Zivkovic, along with 2022 SCMS Queer & Trans Caucus Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize awardee Míša Stekl’s winning essay “Queer Times in Moonlight.” Please see the Table of Contents for article abstracts as well as a list of book reviews by Angie Fazekas, Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, and Henry Powell.

Our 2023 cycle of the Holmlund Prize is now underway, with submissions due October 1; see the award guidelines and please help us get the word out to current graduate students/QTC members working in queer/trans cinema/media studies.

In other exciting news, we’re delighted to share that the 2023 SCMS Television Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Contest has a winner: Betsy Walters, PhD Candidate in the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University, whose prize-winning article “‘Throwing Shows Against the Wall and Hoping for the Best': NBC, Quality, and the Emmy Race for Outstanding Drama Series in the 2010s” will be published in our Winter 2023 issue.

Congratulations are also in order for this year’s two runners-up: Felicity Flesher (MA student, Library and Information Science, UCLA) for “The Female Frontier: The Lady Screenwriters Who Trailblazed the Television West,” and Amber Hardiman (PhD Candidate, Film, Television, & Media, University of Michigan) for “Witnessing, Testimony, and the Television Documentary Mode: Showtime's We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022) & the Undoing of Categorical Guilt with Black-Feminist Theory.” Bravo all around, and thank you to all who submitted and to our prize co-sponsors the Television Studies SIG peer reviewers and officers for their efforts and support jurying and facilitating this year’s prize.

We’re also excited to announce the launch of our NRFTS podcast, where you can listen to this recent conversation between Why Theory co-hosts Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan on TV's bottle episodes, a tie-in to Engley’s forthcoming article "The Limitation of the Bottle Episode: Hegel in Community.”

Last but not least, and definitely not to be ignored, over on the NRFTS Blog is Suzanne Leonard’s review of the 2023 Fatal Attraction reboot. We welcome your pitches/proposals for blog contributions at [log in to unmask].

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With best wishes for a restorative summer ahead.

Maria San Filippo • Editor in Chief
Matthew Connolly • Book Reviews Editor
Max Bledstein • Web & Social Media Editor

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