Contributions to
special
issues of journals and to books
(arranged in the chronological order of the deadlines for proposals)
Screening Cultural
Diversity
Deadline for proposals: 15
July 2010
(closed)
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This volume which will be
published in the Anglo-amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American studies
(eds. Ahrens Rüdiger and Kevin Cope), Peter Lang, proposes to
explore how cultural diversity has been represented on the small
and large screen in both colonial and post-colonial contexts and
to reflect on the reasons for the editorial choices that have been
made. The wide range of possible subjects include, for instance,
discussions of traditional adaptations and post-colonial
interpretations of literary classics, examinations of film and
television productions dealing with major events in the (non-)avowed
history of (de)colonisation and analyses of films, programmes and
series in which questions of integration, diversity and national and
cultural identity are main or significant themes.
Contact: Renée Dickason >renee.dickason@orange.fr>
Please send an abstract (300 words) along with a short biography (200
words).
Deadline for abstracts: 15th July 2010
Deadline for submission of peer-reviewed articles: 15th October 2010
(posted 5 May 2010)
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The Practice of Theory and
the Theories of Practice in British Research in the Social Sciences and
Humanities
First issue of Recherches
Britanniques, an online journal on British society, politics and
culture, from the 18th to the 21st century
Deadline for proposals: 15
July 2010
(closed)
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http://www.recherches-britanniques.com/
The first issue of this
newly-founded e-journal is to be dedicated to an overview of current
engagement with theoretical issues among historians, social scientists,
and specialists of anthropology, geography, politics and international
relations in British research institutions.
Papers are expected to
delineate contemporary debates among British researchers over the
concepts, methods and theory of their discipline. Contributions may
also assess the extent of engagement with both transatlantic, European,
Asian theories and "native" theoretical frameworks. While it is
notorious that American intellectual life has been
greatly influenced by French theory for example, what about British
academia? How far have the works of French thinkers such as Jean
Baudrillard and Michel Foucault been discussed in Britain? What has
been the impact of other foreign theoreticians such as Charles Tilly
and Judith Butler, on methodological and conceptual debates in Britain?
To what extent is it possible to identify an "indigenous" theoretical
tradition, given Britain's privileged position at the crossroads
between Europe and America.
As the title of the issue
implies, the journal also welcomes
contributions on the "theory of practice" in contemporary British
research. By which
we mean an assessment of the impact of organizational change on
research
institutions, individual researchers and teaching practices in Britain.
Concerning teaching, contributions on methodological discussion over
the
use of IT and the Internet in the teaching of humanities at graduate
and
research level would be welcome.
Among potential subjects,
we welcome papers on current debates in
British academia over multiculturalism, gender, or the "pictorial turn"
in historical research.
A more detailed call for contributions may be consulted at the
following address:
http://www.recherches-britanniques.com/appels-a-contributions.html
Proposals have to be sent by July 15 2010 to Philippe Vervaecke at the
following address:
<philippe.vervaecke@univ-lille3.fr>.
The deadline for the submission of the papers is November 15, 2010.
The first issue of Recherches
Britanniques will be released in January
2011.
(posted 16 Jun 2010)
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Formal and Thematic Innovation
Journal of Language, Literature and
Cultural Studies, issue 5
Deadline for proposals: 30
July 2010
(closed)
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http://www.mta.ro
The Department of Foreign
Languages of the Military Technical Academy invites you to contribute
to the fifth number of the Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural
Studies "formal and thematic innovation".
LLCS publishes research articles and reviews in the following domains:
literature, literature and civilisation, comparative literature and
civilization, cultural studies, linguistics, applied linguistics,
translation studies, foreign language acquisition, foreign language
teaching.
We welcome contributions in the above mentioned fields, that are
original work, not published elsewhere. All papers are peer reviewed
blindly by independent reviewers and the results are communicated in
three months' time to the author.
Editing requirements
Articles
should be provided before 30 July 2010.
Languages: French and English
Paper size: A4, Font size: Times New Roman 14: Spacing: single line, 12
pages maximum, 6 pages minimum
Page setup: margins 2,5cm all over
Title of the article: Caps, bold, centered, followed by one blank
First name, last name, institutional affiliation (full address and
e-mail), centered, Times New Roman, followed by two blanks
Abstracts should be written in French and in English followed by a blank
Key words: maximum 10
Text of the article: justified
Footnotes: bottom of page, font size 10, numbering: continuous
References: the authors should be ordered alphabetically, not numbered
as follows: Deleuze, Gilles, Différence
et répétition, Paris, PUF, 1968
Titles of books: italics
Titles of articles: quoted
Articles will be submitted as MS Word documents.
Contact :
<ameliamolea@yahoo.com>
(English)
<magdamihailescu@gmail.com> (English and French)
<daniela_mirea@yahoo.com> (French)
See also the calls for
papers for issue 6 on the same subject.
(posted 1 May 2010)
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English(es)
Deadline for proposals: 30
July 2010
(closed)
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 ASSE
(Albanian Society for the Study of English) and the Department of
Foreign Languages, University of Vlora, would like to announce this
call for papers for contributions for its first issue of in esse: English Studies in Albania,
which is a scholarly journal devoted to the promotion of original work
in linguistics, literary and translation studies and language teaching
by scholars working in Albania and abroad.
The present issue is
entitled simply English(es) and aims at bringing together new and
intriguing perspectives and responses on matters of English or
Englishes.
Deadline for submissions: 30 July 2010
Articles should not exceed 6000 words. Please send articles as an
e-mail attachment to:
- Doc. Armela Panajoti
<armelap@univlora.edu.al>
- or Doc. Bledar Toska <bleditoska@univlora.edu.al>.
Please include a 250-word abstract and 4-5 keywords.
Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) for citation.
(posted 4 May 2010)
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Mrs Gaskell in Context
GRAAT Online
Deadline for
contributions: 31 July 2010
(closed)
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 The success of the BBC’s
2007 series, "Cranford", based on Mrs. Gaskell’s novel -- first
published in 1853 -- illustrates, above and beyond the continuing
fascination with costume drama in Britain, the considerable attraction
which Victorian society still exerts on contemporary popular culture,
as well as the broader appeal of the "neo-Victorian" as a key element
in the national "heritage" industry.
Mrs. Gaskell (1810-1865)
remains a central figure in the development of the Victorian
conscience, not least an accomplished exponent of its militant
middle-class humanitarian ethics. And her friendships with the
Brontë sisters, with Carlyle or Dickens, Ruskin or Harriet Beecher
Stowe, combine to alert us to the significance of her work in the
context of British intellectual history.
Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1854) complete a
triptych of works which all convey a vivid image of
mid-nineteenth-century life in England: the two novels published either
side of the "provincial" Cranford doing so from a resolutely industrial
perspective against the backdrop of the massive new manufacturing
centre of Manchester. Her ghost stories, too, now largely forgotten but
very popular during her lifetime, testify to the alluring co-existence
of the “"othic" and the "modern" in her work -- itself so typical of an
emerging Victorian paradox in relation to industrial development and
social welfare, progress and mounting anxieties about its effects.
The editorial board of
GRAAT Online invites submissions for the issue of the review to be
published in October. As well as Mrs. Gaskell's obvious significance as
one of the major figures in the Victorian literary canon, these
articles could address any aspect of Gaskell studies and their
relationship to broader Victorian themes, including, but certainly not
limited to:
-
style and language in her work (including her use of
dialect);
- Mrs Gaskell and the genre of the "industrial novel";
- social
structures and institutions in her work; Mrs Gaskell's non-fiction
(letters, diaries...);
- Mrs. Gaskell in relation to Victorian social and
political thought;
- Mrs. Gaskell as biographer;
- Mrs Gaskell and
the Industrial Revolution;
- Manchester, Knutsford and other locations in
her work;
- modern adaptations (Cranford
was also serialised in 1951 and 1972);
- the relationship between Mrs
Gaskell's work and twentieth-/early-twenty-first-century popular
culture and
(re-)visions of the past;
- the neo-Victorian...
Contributions should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words long, formatted
in accordance with the style sheet on this site, and must be sent (as a
Word or Open Office document) to <trevor.harris@univ-tours.fr> no
later
than 31st July. Any enquiries concerning the project may also be sent
to the same e-mail address.
http://www.graat.fr
(posted 10 February 2010)
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Neo-Victorian Gothic:
Horror, Violence, and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century
Deadline for proposals: 31
July 2010
(closed)
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We invite contributions
on the Neo-Victorian Gothic for the third volume in the forthcoming
Neo-Victorian Studies series, to be published by Rodopi in 2012. Since
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
(1969), which 'revisioned' Charlotte Brontë's tropes of female
persecution, imprisonment, and madness in Jane Eyre (1847), much subsequent
neo-Victorian literature has resorted to similar reworkings of Gothic
motifs, as well as giving modern twists to later nineteenth-century
sensation fiction. This collection will explore the subversive
potential, but also the ideologically conservative implications, of
recycling the Gothic genre in contemporary historical fiction, film,
and further aesthetic media that re-imagine the nineteenth century in
Britain, its colonial territories, and other geographical settings. In
her recent study of Gothic postmodernism, Maria Beville argues that it
is terror which constitutes "the potent link between the gothic and the
postmodern" (Gothic-postmodernism,
2009). Perhaps, then, neo-Victorianism might be said to revive the
spirit of terror in order to link our postmodern "culture of death",
our obsession with terror and even with terrorism (Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1993),
back to the angst-ridden uncertainties occasioned by Victorian
socio-political and cultural metamorphoses. What is the purpose of the
contemporary revival of the nineteenth-century fascination with the
irrational, the mysterious and the monstrous, and what questions does
it raise for subjectivity and/or ontology? To what extent is Beville
correct in claiming that it gives birth to a new "literature of
excess", aimed not so much at historical representation, but rather the
exploration of the limits of
representation and the celebration of the unrepresentable as the sublime?
Does such writing promote particular kinds of cultural memory and
cultural imaginaries over others and, if so, why? This volume will
further explore how the neo-Victorian Gothic interacts with alternative
traditions of representation, such as realism and postcolonialism, as
well as psychoanalytical, gender and queer theory.
Possible topics may include, but need not be limited to the following:
• Gothic
spaces: prison tropes, asylums, and nightmare cityscapes
• postcolonial Gothic and the monsters of imperialism
• Steampunk and the Gothic
• tropes of the Doppelgänger or double
• Gothic adaptations (e.g. reworkings of
nineteenth-century sensation novels)
• 'Gothicising' historical figures
• neo-Victorian vampires, criminals, and other
monsters
• the occult; spiritualist Gothic; neo-Victorian
hauntings
• versions of the neo-Victorian Gothic sublime
• gender politics: old/new imperilled femininities
and Gothic heroes
• Gothic sexualities: re-thinking degeneration,
perversion, and degradation
• problematising narrative manipulation and reader
expectation/response
• neo-Victorian Gothic and the limits of
representation
Please send 300 word proposals for 8,000-10,000 word chapters:
- to the series editors: Dr
Marie-Luise Kohlke <m.l.kohlke@swansea.ac.uk>
- and Prof Christian Gutleben <Christian.GUTLEBEN@unice.fr>
by 31st July 2010. Please add a short biographical note. Completed
chapters will be due by end March 2011.
(posted 3 March 2010)
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Reading Misreading
Issue 3.1 of L'Atelier
Deadline for proposals: 3
September 2010
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Contributions are invited from scholars
working in the fields of English studies to issue 3.1 of L’Atelier http://latelier.u-paris10.fr
What is misreading? What
is it to reading? What does it tell us about how we read? Those, simply
put, are the questions that this issue of L’Atelier will address. It
purports to challenge the common notion of misreading as corruption of
reading, as reading gone wrong, to look at it as a condition of
possibility of reading proper.
The following is a list of topics which may be considered, though the
list is by no means exhaustive:
- reading the canon,
reading with or against the canon
- misreading in the history of reading
- scenes of misreading in art, literature and criticism
- translation and cultural transfers as modes of reading/misreading
- fertile misreading: when misreading opens up new spaces to reading
We welcome papers (30,000-55,000 characters) in English or French.
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) should be sent to:
- Isabelle Gadoin
<isabeluis2@free.fr>
- Richard Pedot <richard.pedot@orange.fr>
Deadline for submission: 3 September 2010.
Deadline for completed essays: 15 December 2010.
The issue will appear in Spring 2011.
(posted 21 June 2010,
updated 30 June 2010)
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The interface between
politics and discursive practices
Volume 9 of Culture, Language and Representation,
May 2011
Deadline for proposals: 10
September 2010
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The events having taken
place in the first decade of the XXIst century, the 11-S, the war on
Irak, the 11-M in Spain, or the global economic crisis, have
conditioned political strategies and how they are to be presented to
the citizens. In recent times, there has been in the USA a displacement
of the rhetoric of "the war on terror" to that of "Yes, we can",
understood as the battleground for controlling the production of
symbolic narratives and power relations. Thus, the exploration of new
alliances between discursive practices and politics appears today as a
major topic to be addressed in order to understand the construction of
social reality at a time of crisis and uncertainty.
Possible topics for analysis would include:
-
Critical discourse analysis of political rhetoric.
- Ideology and representation in political discourse.
- The interface of political discourse and the media.
- The role of social networking in conforming
political discourse.
- The internet and political campaigning: new
rhetorical strategies.
- Representations of power and politics in the Arts,
literature and cinema.
- Countercultural discourses and their dissemination
in society.
- The construction of social reality at the interface
of political discourse, sources of power and the media.
Both theoretical articles and case studies are welcome.
Deadline for submissions is: September 10th, 2010.
CLR is currently indexed in: Latindex, MLA, IBZ-IBR, ABELL, ISOC.
Please, send your contributions via e-mail to:
Articles in English: Jose
R. Prado <prado@ang.uji.es>
Articles in Spanish: José Luis Blas <blas@fil.uji.es>.
Questions or queries to be addressed to the Editors at the e-mail
addresses above.
(posted 1 March 2010)
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Études Irlandaises: French
Journal of Irish Studies
Deadline for proposals: 30
September 2010
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The Editorial Board of Etudes Irlandaises is seeking
submissions for the Spring 2011 volume of the journal.
Scientific project of the review :
Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in
English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature,
history, culture and arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes
Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary
subjects including: poetry / fiction / drama / film / music / politics
/ economy / social studies, etc.
General issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in
Autumn.
Etudes Irlandaises
is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions specializing
in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed interest in the
subject. Each number has a comprehensive section devoted to recently
published material on Ireland.
Submissions must be sent before September 30 (in order to be published
in the Spring issue of the following year) .
Contacts:
- General Information: Dr
Philippe Cauvet (Univ.Poitiers) <cauvetp@hotmail.com>
- For literature: Prof. Sylvie Mikowski (Univ.Reims):
<sylvie.mikowski@noos.fr>
- For history, civilisation, politics: Dr Karin Fischer
(Univ.Orléans) <karin.fischer@wanadoo.fr>
- For visual arts: Prof. Anne Goarzin (Univ.Rennes2)
<anne.goarzin@wanadoo.fr>
- For book reviews: Dr Cliona Ni Riordain (Univ. Paris 3)
<cniriordain@gmail.com>
(posted 18 May 2010)
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RHESIS, International Journal of Linguistics,
Philology, and Literature
Deadline for proposals: 1
October 2010
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 The
Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica ( http://www.diplist.it ) of the
University of Cagliari, Italy, announces the birth of a new academic
journal: RHESIS,
International Journal of Linguistics, Philology, and Literature.
http://www.diplist.it/rhesis/index.php
Rhesis is a new
peer-reviewed international online journal that is divided into two
streams:
Rhesis - Linguistics and Philology
aims at publishing outstanding contributions in all subfields of
functional linguistics that show a methodological orientation to the
empirical verification of theories. It welcomes contributions in all
empirically-oriented language studies with application to both
classical and modern languages, and it devotes particular attention to
theoretically-grounded studies in historical linguistics. It also
welcomes philological studies focusing on either textual or cultural
issues.
Rhesis - Literature
welcomes contributions on both classical and modern literatures of the
world, with a particular attention to critical innovation and
interdisciplinary research. It features contributions on the diverse
cultural manifestations of literature studies and related disciplines,
with a special focus on hybridization and on the problematisation of
genres
Rhesis will be issued twice a year,
in June and December. Both issues will features research articles,
review articles, research notes, and book reviews.
Authors: For further
information and details about submission of manuscripts. Contributions
in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian will be considered, but
an abstract in English should always be included.
Readers: Rhesis does not require a
subscription fee, but registration will be required to access the
contents of the journal; registration information will of course be
kept confidential
Call for Papers
The Editors invite the
submission of papers for the first issues of RHESIS, according to the subject
areas and themes outlined in the Journal presentation.
Submission should follow the guidelines indicated at http://www.diplist.it/rhesis/index.php?phpsessid=ad919be974147dd355ba19a1898e821a&sez=submission
and should reach us no
later than 1 October 2010 (ONE common deadline for both
Linguistics/Philology and Literature has been established for the first
issues).
The process of double
peer reviewing will take approximately one month, after which
individual authors will have a further deadline for the submission of
final versions, in case revising is necessary.
(posted 27 March 2010)
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Authoritarian discourse(s)
and resistance in the twentieth century
Issue number 6 of online
journal Textes et Contextes
Deadline for proposals: 1
October 2010
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http://revuesshs.u-bourgogne.fr/textes&contextes/
Issue number 6 of Textes et contextes (edited by EA
4182, Centre Interlangues, University of Burgundy) intends to reflect
on the types of discourse produced or imposed by totalitarian and, more
generally, authoritarian regimes or by a dominant central power over
its colonies, its regions or its periphery. The issue will concentrate
on the twentieth century without any geographical limitation. Discourse
is considered as a political tool in the service of power. Aspects
which can be studied are its use and its rhetoric as well as phenomena
of propaganda linked to official discourse, of manipulation, of
censorship, of self-censorship, etc.
It can be suggested that
authoritarian regimes also generate forms of resistance, simultaneously
with, and as a consequence of, authoritarian discourse. Studies about
the link between oppression and resistance in Germany, Italy and France
have shown that "oppressive or occupation regimes in Europe during the
Second World War and their opponents belong to the same world" because
they are born from the same culture, the same state structures, the
same social world and the same geostrategic world (F. Marcot et D
Musiedlak, Les résistances
miroirs des régimes d’oppression, Musée de la
Résistance et de la déportation de Franche Comté,
Université de Franche Comté, Paris X Nanterre, Presses
Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2006). Papers dealing with the
spaces of freedom offered by the forms of resistance born in
authoritarian contexts, with their dynamics, with the modalities
through which they escape authority/authoritarianism (exile, creation,
subversive forms of language, affirmation of individual or regional
history to counter official history...) will be welcome.
Part of the volume will
be devoted to the forms taken by propaganda and/or resistance in
artistic creation (literature, painting, cinema...).
Aspects which could be examined in this perspective include the notion
of democracy (or its absence) within artistic forms, the relationships
built up between the author (authority?) and the
reader/spectator/viewer, the forms of persuasion used by artists and
the reader/spectator/viewer’s margin of freedom (of resistance?). In
the particular instance of the novel, the works in which Nelly Wolf
examines the relationships between literature and politics (Le roman de la démocratie,
2003) could provide useful tools for analysis. Wolf, considering that
there exists an analogy between the novel and the principles on which
modern democracy is based, coined phrases like "the contractual novel"
or "the novel as democracy"; such notions could offer fruitful ground
for study.
Following such analyses,
papers could examine either how art produced in democratic contexts can
become a form of authoritarian discourse or, conversely, how art born
in authoritarian contexts and constrained by censorship manages to
create internal democracy and therefore a form of resistance.
Paper proposals (a
one-page abstract with a maximum of five bibliographical references)
must be sent before October 1st 2010 to
<revuetil@u-bourgogne.fr>.
Only previously unpublished papers will be considered for publication.
Accepted languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish,
and Russian.
Notice of acceptance: November 15, 2010
Reception of final articles: February 15, 2011
Results of the double-blind review process: May 15, 2011
Reception of revised articles: July 1st , 2011
Publication of the issue: November 2011.
Please note that
acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee
publication. Final acceptance for publication will depend on a
double-blind peer-review process.
For all further information please contact
<Melanie.Joseph-Vilain@u-bourgogne.fr>.
(posted 9 June 2010)
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Utilitarian Ethics
Revue d’Études
Benthamiennes
Deadline for proposals: 15
October 2010
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The Revue d’Etudes
Benthamiennes is a peer-reviewed online periodical, which has
been published by the Centre Bentham since 2006. Its aim is to
contribute to academic debates on all aspects of
classical and contemporary Utilitarianism. The theme of the
Autumn 2011 issue will be "Utilitarian Ethics". The editors invite
submissions from scholars in all disciplinary fields.
In An Introduction to the Principles of
Morals and
Legislation (1789), J. Bentham presented the Utilitarian
calculus
as a method to arbitrate on moral issues. He proposed a
consequentialist approach based on an assessment of the
pleasures and pains resulting from each action, in
opposition to appeals to religious doctrine or
to a universal "moral sense". Bentham however focused more on
the political and legal aspects of Utilitarianism, rather than on
its more purely ethicalaspects. The following generation of
Utilitarian thinkers, including J.S. Mill, H. Sidgwick and
G.E. Moore, attempted to ground Utilitarian ethics on sound
philosophical foundations.
Since the beginning of
the twentieth century, Utilitarian arguments and
methods have been thoroughly revised. In the past thirty years, they
have been at the forefront of debates in normative and applied ethics
in the English-speaking world, but
remain either unknown or caricatured in France.
This special issue will
highlight the vitality of Utilitarian ethics
and assess its relevance to contemporary moral questions. Articles can
deal with classical or contemporary Utilitarianism, normative or
applied ethics, or with the reception of Utilitarian ethics in the
French- or the English-speaking world.
Proposals (one-page
summary with no more than 5 bibliographical
references) should be sent before October 15, 2010 to the following
address: <revue@centrebentham.fr>.
Contributors
whose proposals are accepted will be
notified by November. The deadline for final articles is February 15,
2011. The articles will then be submitted to external
reviewers. Publication will be conditional
on favourable reports from the reviewers.
The REB is available online
at http://revue.centrebentham.fr/.
It will be transfered to the http://revues.org portal
in September 2010.
Articles on other topics related to Utilitarianism will also be
welcomed for later publication.
(posted 7 July 2010)
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Parnassus:
An Innovative
Journal of Literary Criticism
Deadline for proposals: 30
October 2010
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Parnassus: An Innovative Journal of
Literary Criticism (ISSN0975 - 0266 invites contributions for
its combined second and third number, to be published in India
(deadline for submissions: 30 October 2010). This journal aims at
investigating and researching new approaches to world literatures. It
proposes to promote innovative critical response in every branch of
literary studies. Submissions of research papers, book reviews,
conference reports and interviews are welcome from the established as
well as emerging scholars. Contributions should conform to the latest
edition of MLA Handbook/ Style Sheet and they should send both hard and
soft copies of the material. Email submissions are preferred.
The inaugural number of
the journal had papers on Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics, Women Writing in
Contemporary Indian English Fiction, Japanese Noh Drama, R. K.
Narayan's The Guide, The
Cultural Designation of Feminism, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, The Lady of Shalott, Manohar
Malgonkar's Open Season and
Blake's The Tyger. It also had a Panel report on "History and the South
Asian Novel Written in English", 20th European Conference on Modern
South Asian Studies, University of Manchester, July 2008. A brief
write-up on The International Aldous Huxley Society (IAHS) of
Germany was another special feature of the journal. There were some
reviews too. The contributors included MUSTAFA BAL (International
University of Sarajevo), A. N. DWIVEDI (Allahabad University), A. A.
MUTALIK-DESAI (IIT, Mumbai), ANITA MYLES (D.D.U. GorakhpurUniversity),
MÓNICA CALVO-PASCUAL (University of Zaragoza), CHRISTOPHER
ROLLASON, NANDINI SAHU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) and
ANITA SINGH (Banaras Hindu University).
Chief Editor: Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Senior Lecturer in English
at F.G. College, Rae Bareli, (U.P.) India.
- email:
<nilanshu1973@yahoo.com>, alternative email:
<nilanshu1973@rediffmail.com>
- mailing address: A-111,
Aawas Vikas Colony, Indira Nagar, Rae Bareli, U.P. 229001, India.
(posted 24 May 2010)
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Dislocations and Ecologies
European Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 16
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2010
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Guest Editors: Alexa Weik & Christoph Irmscher.
This issue addresses the
dislocation of bodies (human and non-human), concepts, cultures, and
goods across borders of various kinds not just in relation to notions
of mobility, but with special attention to their interaction with their
surrounding environments.
How might we investigate
cultural representations of dislocation and ecology with respect, for
example, to topics like travel, tourism, species invasion, and
international environmental justice? How do travel narratives account
for the complex ecologies of knowledge formed by bodies in physical
contact with new and strange environments? In what way are the
environmental implications of physical travel depicted, and how do
issues of class, race, gender, and nationality play out on the
traveller's body? Or, more generally, how do cultural texts (including
visual, screen, and written media), represent the effects of
dislocations into specific environments? The editors of this special
issue welcome contributions from scholars working in all fields of
Anglophone literature, language, media and culture that engage with
environmental approaches to dislocation, migration, and border
crossings of all kinds. Interdisciplinary projects and theoretical
accounts of relations between dislocation and ecology would be
particularly welcome. Proposals for contributions are welcome on topics
which might include, but are not restricted to topics and themes such
as:
· ecocriticism and
the cultural discourses of dislocation
· travelogues and their relationship to particular environments
· tourism and ecology
· physical travel and bodily knowledge
· imaginary travel and imagined landscapes
· postcolonialism and ecology
· cosmopolitanism and ecology
· international and transnational environmental justice
· migrant workers, labour and the environment
· travelling wastes, externalisation of environmental hazards
· species invasion and endangered environments
· environmental devastation and forced dislocation
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words,
as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both
guest editors:
- Alexa Weik
<alexa.weik@unifr.ch>
- and Christoph Irmscher <christoph.irmscher@gmail.com>.
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.
Download
the cfp in pdf format.
(posted 20 February 2010)
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Gender Resistance
European Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 16
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2010
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Guest Editors: Evgenia Sifaki & Angeliki
Spiropoulou.
Socio-historical
developments that have characterised the turn of the present century,
such as increasing globalisation, migration and transnationalism, new
technologies, the growth of the beauty industry and the medicalisation
of the body, as well as various initiatives in equality and human
rights legislation, have ushered in new conditions of experiencing and
thinking subjectivity. This issue seeks to interrogate the new
experiences and conceptualisations of gender and sexualities that have
been part of these transformations. Specifically, notwithstanding the
assimilation of traditional feminist demands in official cultural
discourses, what new forms of resistance to conventional gender
discourses, categories and practices, and inversely, what novel
manifestations of resilient gender asymmetries have emerged in this
allegedly 'post-feminist' era?
We invite contributions
that address the modes in which contemporary Anglophone literary,
visual and popular culture refract and respond to the question of
gender and sexualities today. Themes that could be addressed include,
but are not restricted to:
• novel
gender formations and experiences in contemporary Anglophone literature
and culture
• gender and genre
• the response of contemporary women writers to the
gender conditions of the 21st century
• gender and racial, ethnic and religious minorities,
transnational communities and diasporas
• new ways of performing gender
• gender, sexualities and the law
• reproduction and new reproductive technologies
• reconfigurations of gendered private and public
spaces
• developments in theories of gender and sexuality
Detailed proposals
(1,000-1,500 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:
- Evgenia Sifaki at
<evsifaki@gmail.com >
- and Angeliki Spiropoulou at <aspirop@uop.gr>.
The deadline for
proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of completed essays by 31
March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.
Download
the cfp in pdf format.
(posted 20 February 2010)
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Challenging Boundaries:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Interpreting
GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Issue
number 19, 2011
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2010
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Interpreting studies is a
comparatively young discipline (or sub-discipline) that has only
recently been introduced into academic curricula. An interpersonal
mediation between two (or more) parties, the process differs from
written translation through its orality and immediacy. The interpreter,
standing at the liminal space of in-betweenness, is called upon to
promote communication while remaining faithful to the speaker and
retaining a neutral and invisible presence. As with translation
studies, research in the field involves a number of disciplines
(linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurophysiology, cultural
studies, political science, etc.); the potential dynamics of an
interdisciplinary approach to interpreting is the focus of this issue
of Gramma. Research on interpreting from a number of disciplines will
foreground the fluidity of any type of imposed boundaries that always
prove arbitrary and confining. In an increasingly “glocal” environment,
this interaction and alternation between Self and Other in the
interpreting process throws into question the notion of a pure and
separate national, ethnic, linguistic, social or cultural entity.
Papers are welcomed on the following or related topics:
•
interpreting ethics
• conference interpreting
• community interpreting
• interpreting as mediation
• sign-language interpreting
• interpreting as intercultural mediation
• professionalism in interpreting
• interpreter training
Papers should not exceed
the length of 7,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography) and
should be double-spaced. They should adhere to the latest MLA style of
documentation and should be submitted electronically in the form of
Word document to the editors of the issue, Fotini Apostolou and Ebru
Diriker, at the following e-mail addresses:
<fapostol@enl.auth.gr> and <diriker@boun.edu.tr>.
Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2010
(posted 19 March 2010)
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Housing Fictions: the
House in Writing and Culture, 1950 to the Present
European Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 16
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2010
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Guest editors: Janet Larson, Francesca Saggini &
Anna Enrichetta Soccio.
'In a world
which seems bent on ruin and oblivion, we cannot refuse a
feeling of affectionate respect for the courage with which such old
houses still confront life, cherish its traditions, and are a sanctuary
for the lovely wreckage of the past' -- Virginia Woolf, 1917.
'Whose house is this? Say, tell me, why does its lock fit my key' --
Toni Morrison, 1992. |
This issue aims to engage
the variety of European approaches to the study of the house in
Anglophone literatures and cultures from the standpoint of
contemporaneity. Houses are of course not mere assemblages of bricks,
roofs, rooms, doors, furniture; rather, they are both lived experiences
and the image of an episteme, inhabited dwellings produced through and
producing subjective experiences of time and space. As such they are
signs reflecting the dynamic interplay of diverse and contending
forces: individual and collective, (trans)national and individual,
artistic and theoretical, generic, social, economic, cultural and
psychological. If for many writers the house provided a fiction of
firmness, how well does this notion hold true today in a world in a
state of flow, continually rewritten, restructured or dismantled by
diasporas, resettlements, border-crossings, blendings, and
transformations in identity and culture?
Submissions are invited
from scholars working in the fields of the Anglophone literatures,
language, media and culture, including the arts and architecture.
Contributors may emphasise theoretical/methodological approaches or
textual readings. Invited topics include, but are by no means
restricted to, the following:
• the
cultural architecture of the house;
• the house and the episteme; the disciplines and
discourses of the house;
• thresholds and boundaries of/in the house;
• the
house and the nation or peoples; the discourses of the house in
post-colonial and transcultural perspectives;
• gendered or classed houses;
• the house and the visual.
Detailed proposals
(500-1,000 words) for articles of c.5,000 words, as well as any
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to all the
three guest editors:
- Janet Larson at
<jlarson@andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
- Francesca Saggini at <fsaggini@unitus.it>
- and Anna Enrichetta Soccio <esoccio@unich.it>.
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.
Download
the cfp in pdf format.
(posted 20 February 2010)
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The UK Political Landscape
in the 21st Century: Players, Strategies, Stakes
LISA e-journal
Deadline for proposals: 1
November 2010
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http://lisa.revues.org/index3921.html
Academic studies devoted
to contemporary British politics usually focus on either a single or a
series of electoral campaigns (psephology, with a thematic approach); a
leader, a party (chronological monograph) or a set of parties (usually
limited to the three main parties); a political philosophy or school of
thought (anarchism, trade unionism, liberalism, conservatism,
nationalism, euroscepticism, fascism…). Much rarer are works offering
to embrace a more comprehensive thematic spectrum in a synchronic
perspective.
The project is to map, in
as much detail as possible, the British political landscape in the
early 21st century, i.e. to present the players (major, minority,
national parties, party factions, trade unions, federations, pressure
groups, think tanks, etc.) who, on the electoral and media
centre-stage, on its fringe or in the Westminster lobbies, try to
impose their agendas and influence the public debate in a way that
serves their own purposes. The field of research therefore stretches
from the extreme-right to the far-left and includes both registered
parties and organisations whose action is mainly political (influencing
the elected representatives, mobilizing the citizens, taking an active
part in public life outside officially constituted groups, etc.).
Submissions are invited
which examine the contemporary British political landscape and enable
the readers to have a better understanding of its fabric. To this
purpose, authors may decide to explore the following points:
1) Ideology and identity
- What
is the ideological background (thinkers, theorists, events, etc.) on
which the identity of the party/organisation is founded?
- What does the party/organisation now stand for? What are the core
values that provide coherence to the group? Is the latter still
faithful to its original values (resilience, mutation, rebirth, etc.)?
- Is it possible to establish a sociological profile of its members?
2) Agendas and strategies
- What
are the official objectives of the party/organisation in today’s
socioeconomic and political context?
- What methods does it favour to promote its ideology or carry out its
action (election, lobbying, information, etc.)?
- What means of communication does it use (media, network, etc.)?
- Who is its target audience (voters, militants, elected
representatives, opinion leaders, etc.)?
- What image does it try to project and how is it generally perceived?
3) Achievements and stakes
- What are the party’s/organisation’s achievements and how influential
is it in the early 21st century?
- What role does it intend to play on the British political scene?
- To what extent can its action produce dramatic economic, social or
political changes?
Other approaches may be
considered (comparative study between various parties, analysis of the
interactions between political parties and lobbies or think tanks,
etc.). Interdisciplinary researches are welcome (psephology, cultural
studies, communication studies, government and political studies,
political science, political psychology, etc.) and, in this case,
collective contributions may be accepted.
The articles should be
written in English and include a selective bibliography listing the
reference works published on the chosen topic as well as the latest
researches carried out in this field. They should be sent together with
a short biography of the author(s) (max. 200 words), an abstract (max.
300 words) and a selection of keywords (major references, actors and
events). The articles should not exceed 75 000 signs (excluding
footnotes, appendices and bibliography). Please follow the norms for
presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website.
Please send your proposals (maximum one A4 page) together with a short
biography by 1st November 2010 to David Haigron
<david_haigron@yahoo.fr>.
(posted 16 April 2010)
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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
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 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)
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Formal and Thematic
Innovation
Journal of Language, Literature and
Cultural Studies, issue 6
Deadline for proposals: 30
November 2010
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http://www.mta.ro
The Department of Foreign
Languages
of the Military Technical Academy invites you to contribute to the
sixth number of the Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural
Studies "formal and thematic innovation".
LLCS publishes research articles and reviews in the following domains:
literature, literature and civilisation, comparative literature and
civilization, cultural studies, linguistics, applied linguistics,
translation studies, foreign language acquisition, foreign language
teaching.
We welcome contributions in the above mentioned fields, that are
original work, not published elsewhere. All papers are peer reviewed
blindly by independent reviewers and the results are communicated in
three months' time to the author.
Editing requirements
Articles
should be provided before 30 November 2010.
Languages: French and English
Paper size: A4, Font size: Times New Roman 14: Spacing: single line, 12
pages maximum, 6 pages minimum
Page setup: margins 2,5cm all over
Title of the article: Caps, bold, centered, followed by one blank
First name, last name, institutional affiliation (full address and
e-mail), centered, Times New Roman, followed by two blanks
Abstracts should be written in French and in English followed by a blank
Key words: maximum 10
Text of the article: justified
Footnotes: bottom of page, font size 10, numbering: continuous
References: the authors should be ordered alphabetically, not numbered
as follows: Deleuze, Gilles, Différence
et répétition, Paris, PUF, 1968
Titles of books: italics
Titles of articles: quoted
Articles will be submitted as MS Word documents.
Contact :
<ameliamolea@yahoo.com>
(English)
<magdamihailescu@gmail.com> (English and French)
<daniela_mirea@yahoo.com> (French)
(posted 1 May 2010)
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Narrative practices and
Anglo-saxon documentary film-making: from propaganda to dissent
LISA e-journal
Deadline for proposals: 1
December 2010
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 From the expository documentary
pioneered by John Grierson in 1926 to
the interactive and reflexive genre that Michael Moore's films
emblematically illustrate, the history of the documentary is one of
ever-changing cinematographic forms. In his seminal book on the topic
( Representing Reality,
Bloomington and Indiana, Indiana University
Press, 1971), Bill Nichols splits these filmic productions into four
categories (expository, observational, interactive and reflexive) which
nevertheless seem to interweave to spawn a new hybrid genre mirroring
the reality it investigates. These variations correspond to different
challenges: they are suited to the reality that is recorded and also to
the message that the filmmaker wants to get across. Whether the topic
is political commitment, a collection of memories, didactic essays or a
social investigation, the documentary never stops revisiting its
narrative structures to rewrite History or conjure up counter-versions
of historic events. Because of the political strength that
mimetic illusion endows the documentary with, this genre can further
propaganda (The New Deal) and political dissent alike (conspiracy
theories).
The purpose of this issue
is to study the strategies devised by
documentary film-makers when they choose to narrate History. Possible
topics range from a study of the discursive strategies at work in the
films that helped modernize the genre to the analysis of the discourse
on History in the films that investigate events of the past. The
following topics represent possible fresh fields of investigation:
-
Documentary and censorship: when historic truth
comes up against vital national interests
- The role of television in the evolution of the
documentary
- Politically committed documentaries
- The writing of a Counter-History or the politically
committed documentary form
- The social tradition of the documentary
- The fictional dimension of the documentary
- The documentary as a collection of memories
Proposals should not exceed 500 words, should include a short
bibliography and should be sent by 1st December 2010
- both to Delphine Letort
<Delphine.Letort@univ-lemans.fr>
- and to Georges Fournier <gr.fournier@wanadoo.fr>.
(posted 16 April 2010)
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Studies on the
Post-scriptum
Deadline for proposals: 15
December 2010
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Building on the
conference organized at the University of Burgundy October 23, 2009, we
are organizing the publication of a three-part collection of articles
dedicated to the theme of postscripts. Articles must be submitted
electronically to one of the three email addresses below before
December 15th, 2010. For the style sheet, please ask
<centre.interlangues@u-bourgogne.fr>.
Letter-writing: The
classical rhetorical custom of the postscript with respect to its
traditional role in the letter is of primary interest to the
collection. But articles could also address the reinterpretation
offered by some letter writers, such as lists containing several
postscripts or a postscript as long as or longer than the body of the
letter. In what ways can this "afterthought" allow for the expression
of feelings forbidden in the letter itself? Why relegate to the
postscript information that is apparently essential? The relevance of
the postscript also begs some consideration as an instance of revision
that has an effect on the addressee. A postscript can then be
considered as a refusal of closure, or a manner by which to bypass the
closure announced by the signature.
Articles can explore all
time periods and all forms of letters, real and imaginary, and can
include practice in electronic correspondence. All approaches are
welcome. Please send all articles electronically to Sylvie Crinquand:
<Sylvie.Crinquand@u-bourgogne.fr>.
Literature: The study of
post-scriptum in the field of literature is an opportunity for a
discussion across three axes. First, what are the effects on voice
evoked by the addition of a post-scriptum: the introduction of a clear
break or a change in or inflection of voice? Or the introduction of an
instance of polyphony? Or the expression of another enigmatic voice of
desire that cannot be expressed except in an eccentric way, separate
from the main message? What is the effect on the reader of "punctum"
(Roland Barthes) of post-scriptum? The second axis will consider the
question of punctuation, or disconnection: does the post-scriptum mark
a refusal of a final thought or the fantasy of writing without an
end? What alteration to logical time (the moment of seeing, the
moment of understanding, the moment of closure) does the addition of a
post-scriptum evoke? And finally, articles could discuss the question
of reading, in particular the reading of the other: does the
post-scriptum engender a readjustment of perspective in comparison with
the main message? Does it modify the chronology of the reading
experience? Does it influence the reading of the other by
preempting it? Does it therefore acquire a value of
"pre-scriptum"?
Articles can explore all
time periods and all literary genres. Please send all articles
electronically to Christelle Serée-Chaussinand:
<christelle.chaussinand@u-bourgogne.fr>.
Film: The existence
of cinematic postscripts will be examined first by investigating the
literal representation of this concept through the example of film
adaptations. Another area to explore could be the act of rewriting,
indeed of what may be referred to as "cinematic remorse": the concept
of "remakes", and in particular "self-made remakes", such as Coppola's
Apocalypse Now Redux. Films can be analyzed as texts but articles
studying "remakes" with a commercial approach can offer valuable
insight into this topic. Furthermore, the third area of study
encompasses the creation of DVD bonus features. The specific
rhetoric of these diverse productions, which offer additional
commentary about filming, can be investigated within the supplementary
tracks included with films. We would also like to include articles
pertaining to economic repercussions of these bonus features as well as
their legal status. Please send articles electronically to Isabelle
Schmitt: <Isabelle.Schmitt@u-bourgogne.fr>.
(posted 5 April 2010)
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Spectacles and Things:
Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism
Special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies
Deadline for proposals: 30
December 2010
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Neo-Victorian Studies invites
essays for a 2011 special issue which aims to investigate a hitherto
under-explored aspect of neo-Victorianism: visual and material culture
and the complex relationship between the twentieth/twenty-first and
nineteenth centuries in neo-Victorian products and productions.
The re-entry of the
nineteenth century into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture
tends to be both highly visual and material, making its appearance, as
it does, on a contemporary capitalist market and packaged to appeal to
a wide consumer base. Neo-Victorian visuality and materiality take
centre stage on numerous levels, ranging from memory as haunting,
ghostly appearances and inter-textualities, and biofiction of iconic
figures from the period, through prevalent tropes of photography,
microscopes, dioramas, exhibition and museum spaces, to the
construction of scopic and panoptic regimes, as well as complex
narratological perspectives. Processes of marketing and consuming
Victoriana likewise pertain to the visual, as do constructions of an
academic point of view that seeks to understand the relationship
between the nineteenth-century past and the contemporary moment in
terms of re-vision.
Literary descriptions of
the Nineteenth Century, as well as cultural presentifications
(Gumbrecht) of all things Victorian, try to make the past as tangible
as possible -- via depictions or reproductions of Victorian interiors
and fashions, steampunk culture, or re-enactments of one-time living
conditions – presenting the Nineteenth Century in commodity form.
Theoretical approaches to this current renegotiation of the past
include deconstructionist theorisations and Marxist approaches such as
Cultural Materialism, which deem the neo-Victorian project deeply
ideological, since it allegedly fetishises Victorian culture and
nourishes a nostalgia for the values, social structures and
accomplishments of the past.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
•
materialism, commodity culture, and consumerism
• the world of the senses
• neo-Victorian representations of painting and other
visual arts
• fetishised objects: collections and exhibitions
• fashion
• scientific vision and the physical world
• photography and image culture
• other ways of seeing: spiritualism and spectrality
• comics and graphic novels
• film and TV series
This special issue
derives from the international conference "Fashioning the
Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the 19th Century in Contemporary
Literature and Culture" (April 2010, Erlangen, Germany), but is not
limited to submissions by conference participants.
Articles between 6000-8000 words should be submitted by e-mail Word
Document attachment to the guest editors:
- Nadine Boehm
<nadine.boehm@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de>
- and Susanne Gruss <susanne.gruss@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de>,
- with a further copy to the General Editor, Marie-Luise Kohlke
<neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk>.
Please address enquiries or expressions of interest to the guest
editors.
For submission guidelines, please consult the journal website http://www.neovictorianstudies.com
Deadline for submission of completed papers: 30 December 2010
(posted 30 August 2010)
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Female Aestheticism
Special Oct. 2011 issue of
Cahiers
Victoriens et Edouardiens
Deadline for proposals: 31
December 2010
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The 74th issue of CVE
will be devoted to "Female Aestheticism".
The proposed special issue seeks to chart the progress of the study of
"forgotten female Aesthetes". Ten years after the publication of Talia
Schaffer's ground-breaking book, The
Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
(University Press of Virginia 2000), what is the current state of
research on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British female
novelists, poets, essayists and visual artists influenced by or working
within the Aesthetic Movement?
Original essays may be
submitted exploring specific Aesthetic works/authors/artists, or
addressing broader questions of social networks, cultural influence or
resistance, and aesthetic significance.
<>Suggested
authors/artists may include: Ouida, Una Ashworth Taylor, Elizabeth Von
Arnim, Olive Custance, Marie Corelli, Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet, Victoria
Cross, Alice Meynell, Ella D'Arcy, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Netta Syrett,
Mona Caird, Elizabeth Pennell, Michael Field, Mary Evelyn Pickering De
Morgan, Annie Swynnerton...
<>
Suggested topics may include:
-
the connections, influences and differences between male and female
Aesthetes
- circles and networks of female Aesthetes
- the influence of periodicals in the making and
circulating of the work of female Aesthetes (The Yellow Book, Woman's
World etc.)
- female Aesthetes and art institutions (Slade School
of Art, Grosvenor gallery etc.)
- gender and genre
- the New Woman and the Female Aesthete
- the Female Aesthete and Pre-Raphaelitism
- the Female Aesthete and Realism/Naturalism
- female Aestheticism and Modernism, or/and female
Aesthetes in the eyes of female Modernists
The deadline is 31 December 2010. Paper length is between 4000-6000
words.
Presentation style is MLA, with a few specific requirements:
Font: Times New Roman 10, double-spaced
Please use footnotes, NOT endnotes
A "Works cited" section should be included at the end of the article
Please email your submission (in English or in French) as an RTF
attachment together with an abstract and a short bio in a separate
document to <catherine.delyfer@univ-montp3.fr>.
Your name and affiliation should not appear anywhere on the paper.
Email enquiries are welcome.
(posted 29 June 2010)
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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman (1792)
Deadline for proposals: 31
December 2010
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Rodopi Press Amsterdam /
Atlanta announces a new series of literary studies entitled Dialogue
under the general editorship of Michael J. Meyer.
The series will offer new and experienced scholars the opportunity to
present alternative readings and approaches to classic texts (those
which have received canonical acceptance in either American or
Continental Literature). As the guest editor for the volume on
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of
The Rights of Woman, I have developed a list of several
different topics or approaches that have in the past elicited a
significant level of disagreement among critics or have an inherent
controversial element.
Ultimately, 6 or more essays will be selected from younger scholars or
those with limited publication and more recent PhD degrees as well as 6
or more from scholars who are considered experts in the field.
The latter scholars may write an essay that responds to the topics
listed or may be selected by the editor to respond to the paper of a
younger scholar. The goal will be to pair the readings and to establish
a dialogue between the two contributors. Another possibility would be
to share the senior scholar's response with an emerging scholar to
establish a sort of Point / Counterpoint reaction. The major goal of
the series would be not only to open the door to voices which are
silenced by the selective nature of academic presses but to encourage
new approaches and insights that will both enliven the text and promote
further discussion of the work in question.
Emerging scholars will be defined by the following criteria: MA ABD or
recent PHD, Instructor, lecturer or Assistant Professor status,
publications limited to articles in journals and monographs and / or
chapter studies; they will have 6 years or less from the awarding of a
doctoral degree. Experienced scholars will demonstrate the following:
teach at the Associate Prof level or above, have at least 7 years
experience from the awarding of the PHD, have published book-length
studies, and are considered to be an authority or well-known
commentator on the title or author.
Contact for further inquiries:
Enit K. Steiner
English Department
University of Zurich, Switzerland
<enit.steiner@es.uzh.ch>
(posted 1 September 2010)
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Latinolandia-USA:
International Perspectives on the Transforming USA in the 21st century
LISA e-journal
Deadline for proposals: 1
March 2011
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http://lisa.revues.org/index3917.html
At a time when the number
of U.S. Latinos is expected to rise to 50 million (15% of the U.S.
population in the 2010 Census), with a U.S. Latino growth rate of 24.3%
almost four times the growth rate of the U.S. population (6.1%), a new
catchphrase is making rounds and headlines: "Latinolandia-USA." The
buzzword, originally initiated by a Californian advertising company,
rightly testifies to the ever-growing profound impacts of U.S. Latinos
on the contemporary and future social, educational, communicational,
technological, religious, cultural, culinary and fashion setup of the
U.S.A..
Surprisingly, domestic
and global politics as well as a large section of the (inter)national
and interdisciplinary research community still do not pay sufficient
attention to these striking developments and transformations in this
Third Millennium. This LISA e-journal number on "Latinolandia-USA:
International Perspective on a Transforming USA in the 21st century"
will aim at contributing to closing this research gap from an
international and interdisciplinary angle. Thus, we invite North,
Central and South American, European and other international
contributors from various disciplines to submit innovative critical
vistas on the emergent real and discursive landscape of
"Latinolandia-U.S.A.," thereby assessing the new (inter)national
significance and role of U.S. Latinos within and beyond an ever-more
Latino-realigned, glocally transforming U.S.A. in the 21st century.
Given the broad scope of
the subject matter we are interested in contributions covering
theoretical angles, linguistic approaches, literary and cultural
treatments, gender analyses, genre discussions, historical ventures,
sociological methodologies, popular cultural emphases, film and
(multi-)media studies, including re-examinations of key concepts and
categories such as migration, diaspora, exile, identity, community,
transnationalism, hybridity, borders, third spaces and third figures.
Proposals, in English
(maximum one A4 page), should be sent together with a short biography,
by 21st September 2010, to both co-editors:
Dr. Karin Ikas
<k.ikas@soz.uni-frankfurt.de>
and Professor Francisco A. Lomelí
<lomeli@spanport.ucsb.edu>.
Completed articles on the
accepted proposals will be expected for 1st March 2011. Please follow
the norms for presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website and include
a short biography.
(posted 16 April 2010)
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Permanently Valid Calls for Papers
The Brontës and the
Idea of Influence
A thematic dossier in the
“Writers, writings” section of LISA e-journal
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 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)
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