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Founded | 1982 |
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Founder | Robert A. Collins |
Type | Professional organization |
Focus | Academic study of science fiction, fantasy, and horror |
Location | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Method | Conferences, publications, listservs |
Members | 450+ |
Key people | Pawel Frelik, president; Novella Brooks de Vita, first vice-president; Jim Casey, conference coordinator |
Volunteers | 23+ |
Website | www |
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), founded in 1982[1] is a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts.[2] Its principal activities are the organization of the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA),[3] which was first held in 1980,[4] the publication of a journal, the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA), which has been published regularly since 1990, and the production of a news blog and other social media that publish information of interest to the membership.
Membership in the IAFA is open but almost all members are scholars, teachers, and graduate students in the field of science fiction studies or fantasy literature or horror literature, or are authors.[5]