Contributions to special issues of journals and to books
(arranged in the chronological order of the deadlines for proposals)


2010



Literature in the 21st Century
Revista de Estudos Literários, Volume 2 (2011)
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2010 (closed)
The Revista de Estudos Literários is published annually by the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra, a research centre funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This journal focuses mainly on literary criticism and literary theory. Each guest-edited volume will be organized around a specific topic. The review section will give particular attention to new literary criticism in Portuguese.
Revista de Estudos Literários [Journal of Literary Studies], Volume 2 (2011)
Editors: Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra) and Fernando Matos Oliveira (University of Coimbra)
Topic: Literature in the 21st Century
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the development of media competed with regimes of representation based upon writing. In recent decades, digital literacy has further accelerated the contamination between letter-based and digit-based representations. As an unstable and changing corpus of material and discursive practices, the institution of literature is now being modified by electronic textuality. Under the topic 'Literature in the 21st Century', this issue of the journal examines literary production and literary materiality in the new technological context, including its critical and aesthetic implications, and the changes in the conditions of production, distribution and reception. The editors welcome articles that look at ongoing processes through analysis of works and practices that may offer a glimpse into the future of the literary field.
Article proposals: a detailed proposal (c. 500-1000 words), including a bibliography, should be sent by e-mail to:
- Manuel Portela <mportela@fl.uc.pt>
- or Fernando Matos Oliveira <fmatosoliveira@sapo.pt>
All proposals will be reviewed in order to ensure that they conform to editorial policy. We accept articles written in the following languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2010. 
Articles: the deadline for delivery of completed articles (c. 6,000-7,000 words) is 31 May 2010. All research articles are subject to peer review. This issue is scheduled for publication in January 2011.
(posted 4 December 2009)



Women in Transit: Negotiating Public/Private Environments
Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 January 2010 (closed)
Contributions are sought for a book on women in spaces of transit in Anglo-American literature from 1860 to the present day. The projected edited book sets out to explore representations in literature of the presence of women in spaces of transit such as trains, hotels, bedsits, cafés, hospitals, parks, paths, rivers, etc. in which the familiar distinction between public and private space is eroded or suspended.
Among the questions we would like to address are the following:
- the significance that spaces of transit have had in shaping women’s identities and ways of expression;
- the ways in which women have negotiated their presence in spaces of transit, with the opportunities, surprises and dangers these spaces may entail;
- the currency of the public/private dichotomy and the equation public/male: private/female implicit in the ideology of 'separate spheres', a framework which has proved to be useful but limiting in the understanding of gender relations.
The book is intended as a follow-on to Inside Out: Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space, eds. Teresa Gómez Reus and Aránzazu Usanizaga (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008).
If you are interested in contributing a chapter of around 7000 words, please send an extended abstract (700-900 words) of your proposed essay, together with a brief CV, to Teresa Gomez, University of Alicante, Spain.
Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 January 2010.
Email: <mt.gomez@ua.es>.
(posted 15 October 2009)



Facts and Fictions: History, Rewriting and the Media in the 20th and 21st century English-speaking World
LISA e-journal
Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2010 (closed)
Understood as a series of outstanding events occurring at a given time and place, history usually reflects some sort of upset, or change, in the course of a society's conjunctural or structural evolution. The facts described as 'historical’' often take on a political, socio-cultural, or even an ideological dimension, to which should now be added a fourth, media, dimension -- of increasing importance in 20th and 21st century English-speaking societies. From the live broadcast of the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, only a few years after the BBC resumed television after the war, in a British context, to the global coverage of the sadly famous footage of the Twin Towers collapsing on 9/11, the immediacy of History has in fact long been mediatised, whether in the press or on the radio, on television or, still more recently, on the Internet.
But there seems to exist a second level in the mediatisation of history. Besides increasing access to factual news, the audience has witnessed the emergence of 'based-on-a-true-story fictions', some of them with a historical setting. As the oxymoronic expression itself suggests, this type of format potentially crystallizes the ambiguous relationship between history and stories. For if the mediatised representation of a given historical event itself entails the selection of the information transmitted to the audience, its fictitious representation further implies the reconstruction of a specific context where national history frequently combines with an individual’s story, as is notably the case in most docudramas. Generally able to convey the point of view of an often committed author on a contemporary situation, the docudrama is nevertheless but one of the many audiovisual formats which favour the rewriting of history. These also include television fiction or drama series and serials, as well as cinema productions whose scriptwriters and directors have chosen to focus on certain historical episodes of national, or even of global, importance, as, for instance, in the now long-established tradition of cinematographic 'social realism'.
Rather than the so-called 'on-the-spot' transcription of bare historical events as presented in the news or in current affairs and investigation programmes, this issue of LISA e-journal intends to examine the rewriting of history in audiovisual documents of a fictional nature. The articles selected for this number should then give insight into the special relationship between facts and fictions in the audio-visual media of the 20th and 21st English-speaking world, but also into the link between history and historical reconstruction, or reconstitution. Besides the analysis of how the mediatisation of history functions, contributors are invited to consider such questions as how media practitioners combine facts and fiction, what vision of a particular historical event or period they try to convey and what liberties they take as regards both the most commonly-held views among their fellow countrymen and the limits imposed on them by the main media institutions, for it seems that examining the relationship between history and the media necessarily implies simultaneously exploring the questions of rewriting and of the filters sometimes applied in the process of audiovisual reconstruction.
Please send your proposals (20 to 50 lines), along with a short bio-bibliographical note (300 words), to Dr. Amandine Ducray <aducray@hotmail.com> before 30 January 2010 (the deadline for completed articles is 30 September 2010).
Please follow the norms for presentation indicated on the Revue LISA/LISA e-journal website: http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/presentFr.php (soon to be changed to http://lisa.revues.org)
(posted 4 November 2009)



Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2010 (closed)
Multicultural Shakespeare is an international journal devoted to Shakespearean studies; it is a forum in which researchers, especially those from non-English-speaking backgrounds, can air local concerns and themes that contribute to the creation and understanding of Shakespeare as global phenomenon.
Multicultural Shakespeare appeared for the first time in 1972 as Shakespeare Translation on the initiative of Professor Toshikazu Oyama, the President of Seijo University in Japan. Since then it has undergone various changes. In 1986 it became Shakespeare Worldwide: Translation and Adaptation and in 2003, took on its present title. From its very beginning, Multicultural Shakespeare aroused interest around the world and attracted many prominent scholars, soon becoming an important publication in Shakespeare studies on a global scale. Initially devoted mainly to translations, Multicultural Shakespeare developed into a publication mediating vigorous discussions on the adaptation of Shakespeare's texts, their ontology and cross-cultural significance. It created an opportunity to present the universal dimension of Shakespeare's works by focusing on their local values found in the cultures of Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and USA.
First printed in Japan, now published in Łódź, Poland, Multicultural Shakespeare seeks co-operation with people who make, teach or simply enjoy theatre and literature, and who are interested in addressing the problems of translating, staging, reading and teaching Shakespeare worldwide.
We welcome contributions in various areas of Shakespearean studies, page and stage renditions of his plays, translations, critical analyses, book and theatre reviews.
For more information, visit the journal website: http://multicultural.online.uni.lodz.pl
(posted 29 January 2009)



Edward Upward: Essay Collection
Deadline for proposals: 8 February 2010
Spanning nearly eight decades, the work of Edward Upward (b.1903, d. February 2009) is without parallel in English letters. Upward’s influence on the literature of the 'Auden generation' (from his quasi-Surrealist Mortmere fantasies to his political stories of the thirties) was outstanding; his life-long commitment to the Communist cause made him the moral authority for left-wing writers from the 1930s onwards. At the same time, Upward's own writings have often been eclipsed by the works of the authors he influenced -- most notably W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
Upward continued to produce significant writing after World War II. His three-volume autobiography The Spiral Ascent (publ. between 1962 and 1977) stands as one of the great politico-literary confessionals of the second half of the century. Upward's later story collections -- An Unmentionable Man (1994), The Scenic Railway (1997), The Coming Day (2000) and A Renegade in Springtime (2003) -- signal new artistic departures, even while they continue to offer a characteristic combination of political spokesmanship and artistic disappointment, of fantasy, autobiography and realism. Upward's passionate, though characteristically fraught, "blending of twentieth-century styles" (Frank Kermode) remains unique in English literature. Following Upward’s death, his works stand in need of revaluation.
The collection of essays will consider Upward's works from the 1920s until the 2000s, paying attention to the artistic, critical, political and socio-historical contexts of his oeuvre. The aim is an edited book publication or a special issue of a journal.
A wide spectrum of responses to Upward's oeuvre are invited. Topics of interest might include, but are by no means restricted to:
- Upward and (anti-)modernism; Upward as an avant-garde writer
- Upward’s influence on other writers -- or vice versa -- from the 1920s to today (e.g. the impact of Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats; his influence on Auden, Spender, Isherwood)
- renegotiations of 'realism' (socialist and otherwise) in Upward's writing
- the tension between autobiography and fiction in Spiral Ascent and Upward's later stories
- Upward and genre (historical fiction; Utopian fiction; social problem novel; fantastic writing, e.g. in the Mortmere stories and Journey to the Border)
- Upward and questions of canonization
- insanity and hysteria in Upward's prose / Upward and psychoanalysis
- 'Englishness' in Upward's writings Jan
- the Victorian legacy in Upward's works
- the 1930s as a continuing point of reference in Upward's works
- sexuality / gender issues
- religion / prophecy in Upward's oeuvre
- Upward and the English Left after 1945
Please send abstracts of around 500 words and a brief CV, plus any queries to Benjamin Kohlmann: <benjamin.kohlmann@lincoln.ox.ac.uk> by February 8, 2010.
Completed essays will be 6-7,000 words. A tentative submission deadline for finished papers is in December 2010.
(posted 4 January 2010)



Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera
Deadline for proposals: 26 February 2010
We would like to invite proposals for contributions towards this volume planned for publication by Africa World Press, as part of their Emerging Perspectives series. Essays are sought for sections which cover the following areas although these descriptions are intended to offer suggested lines of enquiry, and are not an exhaustive list.
Part One: political and historical (re)imaginings
In this section, essays will focus on the ways in which Vera uses history, myth and political unrest to develop an alternative narrative of Zimbabwe. The essays could also explore more specifically the focus on a feminine rewriting of events and question the process of female representation in history and politics.
Part Two: trauma and violence
Essays in this section will explore the effect of violence in Vera’s writing. This could include violence associated with war, violence against women, and violence committed by women. It might also include ways in which Vera’s writing style works with and against such violent episodes.
Part Three: Vera and traditions
In this section, essays will explore the ways in which Vera engages with, and often subverts or transgresses, various ‘traditions’. Traditions can be widely interpreted to include African traditions (e.g., how Vera is situated within Zimbabwean literature) and Western literary traditions and critical theories (e.g., ways in which Vera’s work intersects with French feminisms). 
Part Four: crossing spaces
Contributions to this section will focus on mobility within and between rural and urban (and other) spaces in Vera’s work. The essays might develop the idea that writing creates ‘a free space’ for women (Vera 1992) or the concept of the restless modern subject ‘railing against colonial containment  and articulating its desire for an elsewhere’ (Samuelson 2007).
Part Five: interviews and personal tributes
While the other sections focus on Vera as writer, this section will range more widely to include material on Yvonne Vera, the person. Contributions in this section will be more varied in format and could include interviews with Vera, obituaries, or personal tributes from those who knew her well.
Please send 400-word abstracts indicating the section into which your essay would be best placed by 26 February 2010, to both editors:
- Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo <p.dodgson-katiyo@shu.ac.uk>
- Helen Cousins <h.cousins@newman.ac.uk>
Full essays would be required by 30 July 2010.
(posted 18 December 2009)



ReCALL: Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning
Call for guest editors: submission deadline: 1 March 2010
The primary focus of ReCALL is the use of technologies for language learning and teaching, including all relevant aspects of research and development. Typical subjects for submissions include theoretical debate on language learning strategies and their influence on courseware design; research and development of practical applications; evaluative studies of courseware used in the teaching and learning process; exploitation and assessment of the potential of technological advances in the delivery of language learning materials; discussions of policy and strategy at institutional and discipline levels. ReCALL aims to appeal to researchers and practitioners in the area of computer-assisted and technology-enhanced language learning, normally but not exclusively operating in universities. It is also of interest to language teachers in secondary and tertiary education who may be considering the introduction of technologies into their teaching practice.
The journal is published triannually by Cambridge University Press: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=REC
The journal Editorial Board is inviting proposals for a special issue to be published in September 2011. Proposals should be submitted via email by 1 March 2010 to both the editors:
- June Thompson, <d.j.thompson@hull.ac.uk>
- and Françoise Blin, <francoise.blin@dcu.ie>
and will be evaluated for their relevance to the ReCALL readership, their timeliness and their academic quality.
Proposals should include:
1. The proposed title of the special issue
2. An outline of the chosen theme, timeliness of special issue, and target readership (500 words)
3. A draft Call for Papers (no more than 300 words).
4. Names, affiliations, contact details, and short biographical information about the proposed guest editor(s).
5. A selection of recent literature relevant to the proposed issue.
6. A list of potential reviewers (in addition to the regular ReCALL reviewers).
Guest editors will work in close collaboration with the editors of ReCALL, whose role is to oversee and manage the editorial procedure (dissemination of the Call for Papers, refereeing process, communication with authors, preparation of manuscript for publication). Duties of guest editors include:
- Writing a Call for Papers;
- Selecting and allocating reviewers for submitted and invited papers in collaboration with the journal editors;
- Selecting papers for the volume on the basis of the peer review. Guest editors are in charge of acceptance/rejection/revision and resubmission decisions and liaise closely with the editors on each of these decisions;
Writing an Editorial to the special issue;
- Assisting the editors in preparing the manuscript of the volume, in accordance with the published guidelines, so as to facilitate the publisher's work;
- Checking the publisher’s proofs.
Deadline for submission of proposals for special issue: 1 March 2010
Decision by Editorial Board: 1 April 2010
Call for Papers: 1 May 2010
Deadline for submission of papers: 31 October 2010
Deadline for finalizing manuscript: 20 April 2011
Publication: September 2011.
(posted 26 January 2010)



Utopia and Dystopia: Spring issue of Meridian Critic
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2010
The academic journal Meridian Critic (The Annals of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Literature Series) invites submissions for its first issue in 2010, dedicated to Utopia and Dystopia. Man's perennial concern with bettering the world, as well as the anxieties at the potentially regressive nature of the utopian ideal -- always attended by an indelible ambiguity --, has generated a wealth of creative manifestations, claimed variously by literature and the arts, by history, philosophy, sociology, etc. We are interested in new possibilities of research and interpretation offered by the rich field of the utopian imagination, with its shifting, indeterminate boundaries, and we welcome particularly approaches that explore the utopian impulse and the relevance of its representations in the contemporary context of the postmodern sensibility and of cultural globalisation.
Topics that might be taken into consideration:
•    Utopia and ideology;
•    From utopia to dystopia: continuity or break?
•    The legacy of Thomas More: paradigms of utopian/dystopian literature;
•    Utopia and children's literature;
•    Utopian/dystopian visions in film and the arts;
•    Utopia/dystopia as de/re/construction of a world: education, art, science, communication, power, etc.;
•    Utopia, dystopia, and science-fiction;
•    Utopia and the post-apocalyptic imagination;
•    Utopia, dystopia, and the panoptic society;
•    The “post-humanous future” – utopia, dystopia, and technology;
•    Post-utopia;
•    Ecotopia;
•    Feminism and the separatist utopia;
•    Consumerist paradises as escapist utopias.
Deadline for submission: 15 March 2010.
Maximum length of paper: 30,000 characters.
We welcome papers in English, French, German, and Romanian.
Please send your papers, accompanied by a 5-7 line abstract, 5-7 keywords, and a short bio-note (all in English) to the following addresses: <corneliamacsiniuc@yahoo.com> and <otiliai@usv.ro>.
Contact:
Dr. Cornelia Macsiniuc
University of Suceava, Department of English
Str. Universitatii nr. 13
720229 Suceava, Romania
Phone: +40 740 142 883
http://www.litere.usv.ro
(posted 28 December 2009)



Katherine Mansfield Studies, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society, Volume 2
Deadline for proposals: 16 March  2010
Submissions for Volume 2 of Katherine Mansfield Studies are sought on the following:
• Critical articles on the theme of this issue: 'Katherine Mansfield and Modernism'
In addition, general submissions are sought on the following:
• Creative pieces -- poetry and prose on Katherine Mansfield
• Book reviews of recently published books on Katherine Mansfield or related books of interest to Mansfield scholars and enthusiasts
Mansfield was both a colonial and a metropolitan writer and the editors welcome submissions that explore both the European and non-European contexts for her formative role in literary Modernism. Mansfield’s important relationship with Virginia Woolf has already received critical attention, and articles that investigate this connection further will be received with interest. This issue will also encourage an emphasis on Mansfield’s as yet under-explored relationship with D. H. Lawrence. We will publish the winning entry in the Katherine Mansfield Society’s inaugural essay prize for a critical essay on Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. For further information please go to: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/essay-prize/
Through her critical writings as well as her brilliant innovations in fiction, [Katherine Mansfield] influenced, reflected and conveyed modernist aesthetic principles. Mansfield belongs with Virginia Woolf at the very core of British modernism. In terms of her influence on the development of modernist fiction, Mansfield’s transformative effect has been as decisive as that of any modernist writer of prose. As Ian Gordon once remarked: ‘She had the same kind of directive influence on the art of the short story as Joyce had on the novel. After Joyce and Katherine Mansfield neither the novel nor the short story can ever be quite the same again’. In 1934, T. S. Eliot selected Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ as an illustration of the dominant experimental tendency of contemporary fiction. Her innovations in the short-fiction genre (especially the ‘plotless story’, the incorporation of the ‘stream of consciousness’ into the content of fiction, and the emphasis on the psychological ‘moment’) preceded Virginia Woolf’s use of them, and they have been absorbed and assimilated – often unconsciously – by writer and readers of the short story.
Extracted from: Sydney Janet Kaplan, Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 1-3.
The following is a list of topics which may provide inspiration, though the list is by no means exhaustive:
• Mansfield and the Short Story
• Mansfield and International Modernism
• Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
• Mansfield and James Joyce
• Mansfield and T. S. Eliot
• Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence
• Mansfield and Modernist Feminism
• Mansfield and Modernist Aesthetics
• Mansfield as Modernist Muse
• Mansfield and Postmodernism
Articles
Submissions of between 5000–7000 words (inclusive of endnotes), should be emailed in Word format to the Editor, Dr Delia da Sousa Correa: <dasousa@open.ac.uk>
AND the Liaison Editor, Dr Gerri Kimber: <gerri@thekimbers.co.uk>
Please also send:
• a 50 word bio-sketch.
• a brief abstract (200 words) summarising your article.
• 5 or 6 keywords.
Creative writing
Pieces of creative writing on the theme of Katherine Mansfield -- poetry, short stories, etc, should be sent to the editors above, accompanied by a 50 word bio-sketch.
Book reviews
Book reviews of 500-600 words for single books and 900-1200 words for two or more books should be sent to the Reviews Editors:
- Dr Kathryn Simpson: <k.l.simpson@bham.ac.uk>
- AND Dr Melinda Harvey: <melinda.j.harvey@rmit.edu.au>
accompanied by a 50 word bio-sketch.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 16 MARCH 2010
A detailed style guide is available from the Katherine Mansfield Society website:
http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/the-katherine-mansfield-studies-journal
 (posted 17 October 2009)



Rape in Crime Fiction
Deadline for proposals: 26 March 2010
Katarina Gregersdotter and Berit Åström of Umeå University in Sweden and Tanya Horeck of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK invite contributions for a collection of essays, which will discuss and theorise the various roles that rape plays in contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction.
Since Edgar Allan Poe’s trailblazing The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, the nature of the crimes, the motivations of the killers, and the description of the victims and suffering portrayed in crime fiction have transformed, mirroring societal changes and concerns. Paedophilia, for example, was unheard of in the classic whodunit of the 1930s and 1940s, but became a staple ingredient in British and American crime fiction of the 1990s.
http://www.massen-ramel.net/drupal/files/photos/noel-2009/DSC_0018_20091223_1380-exp.jpgOf particular interest for this study is the inclusion of rape -- of both sexes -- in the contemporary crime novel and the diverse functions it may fulfil. Recently, author Jessica Mann has noted the increasing levels of sadistic violence against women in crime novels, especially those written by women. According to Mann, 'The trend cannot be attributed to an anti-feminist backlash because the most inventive fiction of this kind is written by women...They are, one author explained to me, best qualified to do so because girls grow up knowing that being female is "synonymous with being prey" (The Observer 25 October 2009). In this collection we want to explore what is behind the rise in extreme images of sexual violence in contemporary crime fiction and, in particular, we want to look at how this thematic preoccupation relates to questions of gender, sexuality, emotions and power relationships.
There has been a great deal of international media attention recently on the impact of the new wave of Scandinavian crime fiction, including authors such as Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Kerstin Ekman, Åsa Larsson and Leena Lehtolainen. Are there any discernible differences between the treatment of rape across Scandinavian and Anglophone fiction? Is rape used in similar ways in these novels, for example as a plot device or as a means to shed light on human psychology? How is the reader invited to respond to the images of extreme sexual violence in these texts?
The tremendous international publishing success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is in no small part due to the power of his female protagonist, Lisbeth Salander. Described by Boyd Tonkin as 'the most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years,' rape is central to Salander's characterization; indeed, it is in response to the sexual crimes committed against her and other women that Salander derives her extraordinary mental and physical strength. What role does rape play in the formation of the contemporary female heroine of crime fiction? What role does it play in the formation of the contemporary male protagonist? How does Larsson’s work relate to female crime writers such as Val McDermid, Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky?
This groundbreaking collection will explore the connections between contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction by focusing on rape, a subject that has long been central to crime novels but that has yet to be sufficiently explored, especially in a cross-cultural study. In addition to the questions raised above, topics may include, but are not limited to:
• rape and the rise of the female protagonist
• rape, feminism, and agency in the contemporary crime novel
• victimisation and heroism
• the effects of rape on victim and perpetrator
• masochism, sadism and the body
• rape, emotion and affect
• rape and sexual, social and cultural politics.
The essays, which can discuss a single author or novel, as well as apply a wider scope, should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words.
Send your proposal, of no more than 500 words, with a brief biography to:
<katarina.gregersdotter@engelska.umu.se>
or <berit.astrom@engelska.umu.se>
no later than 26th March 2010.
Contributors chosen for inclusion in the essay collection will have until March 2011 to submit their finished essays.
Write to the editors with preliminary questions.
(posted 17 January 2010)



The role of female voices in constructing fictional maps of contemporary Britain
2010 Special Issue of Interactions
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2010
2010 Special Issue of Interactions, an international journal on British and American Literature and Culture (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
DEADLINE for proposals : March 31, 2010
Interactions is an international journal on British and American Literature and Culture, published annually by Ege University, Departments of British and American Studies (Izmir/Turkey).
It is internationally blind refereed and indexed in MLA International Bibliography and Thomson Gale Cengage, featuring essays on British and American Culture and Literature (ISSN 1300-574-X).
Contributions are invited for the 2010 issue (vol.19):
The role of female voices in constructing fictional maps of contemporary Britain
The work of women writers of dual or multiple cultural heritage in Britain offers a fascinating opportunity for cross-cultural analysis, and contributes to the positioning of English literature and language at a cultural crossroads of international scope and significance. The proposed issue invites contributions on the works of diasporic women writers who have contributed to drawing fictional maps of contemporary Britain. As writers responding to and incorporating their dual cultural heritage in their writing, often across a variety of genres and media, women writers have managed to chart new geographies of (un)belonging and draw new contours of literary Britain, rewriting the country as a multicultural physical and imagined space, while also contributing to the expanding "internationalization of English literature." (King, The Internationalization of English Literature, 2004)
Essays are invited on a variety of issues that emerge from the work of diasporic-transnational women authors, while placing particular emphasis on their inter/transnational reception.
Essays should explore, but should not be limited to, the following themes/topics:
•    re-constructing identities through memory;
•    re-visiting/re-writing history;
•    the relationship between gender, ethnicity and citizenship;
•    visions of ‘home’ and notions of 'belonging';
•    imagining Britain: space, place, cityscapes;
•    adaptation and rewriting as forms of cultural translation;
•    writing across genres and writing for the screen;
•    the reception and translation of diasporic women writers in Europe and beyond.
Articles (4000-7000 words) should follow MLA parenthetical citation format.
Please send submissions, by 31 March 2010, as word file attachments to both editors:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sebnem Toplu: <sebnemtoplu@hotmail.com>
Assist. Prof. Dr. Giovanna Buonanno: <giovanna.buonanno@unimore.it>
Interactions
Faculty of Letters
Ege University
Bornova 35100 Izmir/ Turkey
(posted 4 December 2009)



Epiphany, June 2010 issue
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2010
Epiphany is an online journal on arts and social sciences (ISSN 1840-3719)
It is a refereed semiannual journal and a publication of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of International University of Sarajevo. The journal started its publication in 2008, and it publishes original articles on arts and social sciences such English literature, political science, Psychology and Visual Arts and Communication Design. Up to now we have published three issues.
Epiphany is also indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org
Epiphany seeks contributions for its forthcoming volume to be published, June 2010, on arts and social sciences. Articles are welcomed in the areas of English literature, political science, Psychology and Visual Arts and Communication Design.
Articles should not exceed 6000 words; book reviews, 600-1200 words.
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2010.
For any enquires regarding this Call for Papers, or related issues about epiphany, you may:
- contact Dr. Mustafa Bal at <mailto:mbal@ius.edu.ba>
- or access the Journal webpage at http://www.ius.edu.ba:8080/epiphany/index.php?journal=epiphany
(posted 4 December 2009)



Shakespeare et l'Ailleurs / Shakespeare and Elsewhere
Les Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir / The Journal of Shakespearean Afterlives, Cahiers n°4
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2010
Ed. Muriel Cunin and Pascale Drouet.
http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/licorne/sommaire.php?id=3680
What does “Elsewhere” mean? It refers to an ambivalent form of space. It can hold out the promise of another life, of an escape to "The Azure", of an invitation to the voyage when the routine drudgery of life is dull, drab or even unbearable. But it can also be synonymous with want, wandering, loss and exile, or with a form of menacing emptiness and bring out the fear of the unknown. Be it read in a positive or in a negative way (it will be worth wondering if the multiple forms of Elsewhere may allow the notion to escape this polarity), it is always a physical or spatiotemporal projection towards the unfamiliar. Hence the following questions: can Elsewhere be located anywhere? Is it a utopia (or a dystopia)? Is it a fantasy, an illusion, a delusion? Can it be mapped or is it to remain uncharted? How can it be represented? How can it be staged?
Suggested topics:
- Elsewhere and the distancing, travelling, discovering, conquering and territorialising process, that is to say, to use Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's terms, the dynamics of the smooth space to be subjugated; Elsewhere as the promise of new worlds and new spaces; Elsewhere as a form of encounter with another territory, but also with the Other, which is reminiscent of the dialectics described as follows by Richard Marienstras: "Moving away from what is near, moving close to what is far off, inverts the usual relationship of man with his social and natural environment" (Richard Marienstras, Le proche et le lointain).
- Elsewhere in its relation to exile and banishment, to what is "outside", to unmappable territories -- "ces contrées d’en dehors des cartes" (Yves Bonnefoy) --, in a deterritorialising process; and, more radically, Elsewhere as "the undiscovered country" of Death, a country that cannot be imagined or represented. Which means Elsewhere as the space of exclusion, exclusion from society and the natural order (Richard Marienstras).
- Elsewhere as a form of dream, as an escape to imaginary buildings and landscapes. Elsewhere as part of theatrical illusion, as a place for ephemeral creation and, more broadly speaking, as artistic space. Papers may focus for instance on perspective as a passage to another space, just like the stage described by Serlio, which becomes a place of wonder: "within a small space could be seen palaces aligned in perspective, with great temples and divers houses near and far, fine, spacious open places decorated with many buildings, long straight streets, crossed by side streets, triumphal arches, marvellous high columns, pyramids, obelisks and a thousand other singular artefacts" (Sebastiano Serlio).
- Elsewhere as a reflection of Bonnefoy's Hinterland. Elsewhere as opposed to here and now, as a mental place, a place for quest, a "country of higher essence" (Yves Bonnefoy) where projection and reminiscence interact; the "unlocatable elsewhere" as opposed to the "perishable here" (Yves Bonnefoy). How can they be linked? How can they be reconciled?
- Elsewhere as a form of withdrawal (which can also be a form of opening) into inner spaces, which may result in switching off through madness, melancholy, meditation or prayer. Hence the following question: how is it possible to avoid autism or schizophrenia? How is it possible to reconcile inner and outer space, reality and imagination?
Completed contributions, either in French or in English, with note on contributors (200 words) and abstract (200 words), should be sent by attached file (.doc or .rtf) to <pascale.drouet@neuf.fr> and <muriel.cunin1@libertysurf.fr> before 30th April 2010.
For the style-sheet specific to the Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir please see
http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/licorne/document.php?id=4067
(posted 6 April 2009)



The linguistics and literariness of Love
Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Neofilologii i Komunikacji Społecznej (Journal of Literary and Linguistic Studies)
Deadline for submitting articles: 31 May 2010
We would like to announce that the 3rd issue of Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Neofilologii i Komunikacji Społecznej (Journal of Literary and Linguistic Studies published by the Institute of English, German and Communication Studies, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland)  is currently being prepared for publication in 2010.
The title of the present issue is The linguistics and literariness of Love.
We are looking for articles which would focus on the concept and experience of love as expressed in language, both the language studied by linguists and the one examined by literature specialists.
The final date for submitting articles (Times New Roman 12; space 1,5; length between 4 000 and 8 000 words) is 31st May 2010.
Please send the electronic version to prof. Jacek Fabiszak <fabiszak@amu.edu.pl>
or dr Wojciech Klepuszewski <wojciech.klepuszewski@tu.koszalin.pl>.
(posted 23 January 2010)



Little Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000
A special issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (RCEI)
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2010
The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (RCEI) is now accepting original submissions of essays for publication in the 2011 April issue. The deadline is November 15, 2010.
Please see http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing/Submissions.html for submission.
As editor of this RCEI special issue on "Little Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000", I would welcome contributions from scholars around the world, and any others who have a stake in the understanding of this phenomenon
For more information contact Manuel Brito: <mbrito@ull.es>.
Papers, but not limited to, focusing on these issues are invited:
- What role/s little magazines played in changing poetry and social perspectives in the period 1970-2000?
- How academy subsumed innovations and creative research pusblished in little magaziones?
- Market vs. individual position in the making of little magazines.
- The role of the editors as trademakers, practitioners, and creative researchers.
- What are the benefits of these little magazines considered as 'high' culture? Were they useful?
- How technological production affected potential readers of these little magazines?
- Historical view on this kind of literary proudction.
Completed papers should be no more than 7,000 words.
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses is a peer-reviewed academic journal auspiced by the University of La Laguna (Spain) focusing on English studies.
(posted 8 August 2008)


Permanently Valid Calls for Papers

The Brontës and the Idea of Influence
A thematic dossier in the “Writers, writings” section of LISA e-journal
In March 2007, Stevie Davies, Patricia Duncker and Michele Roberts gathered around Patsy Stoneman at Haworth in Yorkshire to talk about the influence that the Brontës had had on their evolutions as authors, and more generally, about the source of inspiration that the most famous family of writers in England could represent. Patsy Stoneman had already tackled the topic by publishing a book entitled The Brontë Influence in 2004 with the help of Charmian Knight. The issue of LISA e-journal "Re-Writing Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre, Past and Present" is further evidence of Charlotte Brontë's influence on the writers of the following decades or centuries. So far, these studies have been quite limited and this field of research, "the Brontë influence", offers a wide range of possible developments.
Moreover, if the four authors' poetry and novels have already been the object of numerous studies, there is much left to write about the influences which were exerted on the Brontës, whether religious, literary, philosophical or cultural. Taking account of the context of  a work is often a good way of understanding the issues underlying a text: the path taken by the Brontës, their journeys, their stays abroad, the books they read, etc. could prove to be very enlightening. Besides these external factors, one could also consider the interactions between the three sisters, who wrote in the same room and who read passages from their works aloud.
A final aspect to identify and study could be the influences which are exerted within the Brontës' works themselves. How can one account for the progress of the heroes and heroines? How is the influence that characters have on one another expressed? What role does nature play in the destiny of characters? Which other elements intervene in the novels?
This dossier devoted to the Brontës intends to analyse the works through the perspective of influence and three different fields of research can thus be considered:
-    influences on the Brontës
-    the idea of influence in the Brontës’ works
-    the Brontë influence on the writers of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Please send your proposals (one A4 page maximum) to Dr. Élise Ouvrard <ouvrard_elise@hotmail.com>.
Accepted articles will be published in the thematic dossier "The Brontës and the Idea of Influence" in the "Writers, writings" section of LISA e-journal:
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/publicationsGb.php?p=2&numId=0&it=dossiers
(posted 10 January 2008)