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

[Yin Yuan]

CFP: MENT Magazine, Issue 3
Submit your pitches to editors at mentmagazine.com by *September 30, 2025 *for
potential inclusion in the third issue.

Dear Korean Studies Community,

We are inviting pitches and proposals for the third issue of MENT (
mentmagazine.com), a Korean pop culture magazine that combines critical
analysis, fan practice, and visual storytelling. We publish longform
essays, interviews, multimedia art, and other experimental forms, and our
goal is to bring together scholars, fans, and cultural workers to think
critically and creatively about how Korean media and fandom shapes
community, politics, and everyday life.

For our third issue, we particularly welcome--but are not limited
to--pieces that explore how media and culture are shaped through relations
of co-creation: idols as assemblages of body, image, capital, labor, and
environment; fandom practices as the crossing of the human and the
algorithmic, the individual and the collective; as well as tropes and
figures of such relations in film, television, music, and public life. What
implications do such entanglements hold for our contemporary moment? How
and when are they dangerous? How and when might they be liberatory?

Further, such entanglements are carried forward through practices of
documentation, adaptation, and memory. We invite work that considers these
practices in the broadest sense. Who are the record keepers? What rituals
sustain or revise them? Which archives persist, and which are forgotten or
erased?  How might different forms of cultural production and reception
help forge new solidarities?

We welcome multimodal and experimental work that not only analyze these
ideas but also play with them at the level of form. Of course, we are also
always open to ideas that fall beyond the scope of the prompts above. We
hope to build a diverse living archive through the essays, experiments, and
creative practices that we assemble together.

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>*
Co-editor of MENT <http://mentmagazine.com>, a Korean pop culture magazine
Associate Professor
Department of English
Saint Mary's College of California
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