[KS] CFP reminder for MENT, a Korean pop culture magazine

[Yin Yuan]

Hi everybody,

This is a reminder that pitches for the second issue of MENT are due
by *October
15, 2024.* Please submit your pitches to editors at mentmagazine.com

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CFP: MENT Magazine, Issue 2

We are inviting pitches and proposals for the second issue of MENT (
mentmagazine.com), a digital magazine on Korean popular culture. MENT
publishes critical and creative work that engages with Korean media forms
through a variety of cultural, social, and political perspectives.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Readings of Korean popular media texts, genres, and industries through
the frameworks of sociology and political economy
- Celebrity studies of Korean artists, idols, actors, etc.
- Local, transnational, and/or diasporic communities created through and
around K-media
- Connections between Korean popular culture and other forms of asian media
- How Korean popular culture intervenes in a broader public sphere
- Readings of smaller K-pop groups, underrated K-dramas, indie artists, and
alternative paradigms of the "popular"
- Experimental multimedia and video works

Proposals/pitches should be about 300-500 words, and include the following
elements:
1. Features a clear central argument
2. Explores broader stakes of the argument
3. Demonstrates awareness of the broader landscape of ideas you're
intervening in
4. Timeliness (what recent occasions give rise to your proposed piece)
5. Rigorous but publicly-accessible language

Please see more information pertaining to the proposal guidelines here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OjdPi9ln3LW78RLu80da7tkreF_CibHpsl2UHht38WI/edit?usp=sharing

Inquiries can be directed to editors at mentmagazine.com. We look forward to
hearing from you!

Best,
Yin Yuan
-- 
Yin Yuan, Ph.D.
Author of *Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the
Edible East
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/alimentary-orientalism/9781684484669>*(Bucknell
UP)
Associate Professor
Department of English
Saint Mary's College of California
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