Publication and issue: Études Médiévales Anglaises: Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 October 2024.
Issue edited by Colette Stévanovitch
Presentation
The notions of borders and crossing, and the articulation between them, can be conceived in many ways. Borders, whether natural or arbitrary, sealed or porous, fixed or mobile, as limits or confines, spatial or temporal, can be seen as an obstacle or a wall. They are also a challenge to be taken up and overcome (expansion, threshold to a new era), hence the notion of crossing (movement, transfer, transformation). As delimitations, borders help to constitute an identity which refers to the outside as otherness.
The theme “Borders / Crossing” invites scholars to investigate the literal and metaphorical boundaries that shaped the medieval English world. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Geopolitical Borders: Examining territorial boundaries and their impact on medieval English society, politics, literature, and language.
- Cultural and Social Crossings: Investigating the interactions and exchanges between different cultures, classes, and communities.
- Linguistic Boundaries: Exploring the evolution of the English language and its dialects, as well as the influence of other languages.
- Literary Crossings: Analyzing themes of travel, pilgrimage, and adventure in medieval English literature.
- Religious and Ideological Borders: Discussing the delineations between different religious beliefs, heresies, and philosophical ideas.
- Temporal Borders: Reflecting on the concept of historical periodization and the transitions between different eras in medieval England.
Timeline
- Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024
- Notification of Acceptance: Novembre 1, 2024
- Publication Date: June 15, 2024
Website address
https://amaes.fr/en/our-scientific-journal-ema
Contact details
Colette.Stevanovitch@univ-lorraine.fr.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions of original research articles from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please submit full papers of 5,000-8,000 words, including an abstract of 250-300 words, keywords, and a brief biography. Papers can be written in English or in French. Please ensure that your manuscript adheres to the journal’s formatting and style guidelines (Chicago Manual of Style).
CFP
For further details, see the original CFP below.
CFP_EMA_Borders(Posted 16 June 2024)
Publication and issue: JAWS Journal. Volume 10: Special Issue ‘Fragility’.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 18 November 2024.
Edited by: Lizzie Lloyd and Alice Hill-Woods
Theme presentation
We invite contributions to this hybrid JAWS issue, which combines a themed section on ‘Fragility’ and an open section. Fragility lends itself to breakage and rupture; fragility names that which is precarious. Fragility also offers redemptive change for things that ought to be broken.
Fragile systems demand critical thinking and organising; fragile bodies require more attention and softness. Fragility has often been framed in the negative, like a weakness to be avoided or a shortcoming to be bolstered. We support our creative and intellectual endeavours through funding applications across which clear methodologies, strong evidence and robust arguments reign. We urge our students to be more analytical, to work their critical faculties, identify weak reasoning and call out unsupported claims. In the everyday, we are urged to be tough, and to build structures with strong foundations that can withstand turbulence. We admire fortitude, fervour and unrelenting determination.
However, in the face of resilience – which, of course, has its merits – JAWS 10 looks at the potential inherent in fragility. What can we learn from tenuous connections? And from grounds that are shaky instead of firm? What can be read from interpretations that are ambiguous rather than clear? How can we continue to make within unsound structures? What happens when we settle our attention on people, materials and ideas that are prone to breakage or leakage, or bruising or erosion? And how do we respond to harmful fragilities? We invite you to submit the following: academic submissions up to 6000 words; artistic practice and/or visual essays up to 5000 words/12 images; interviews up to 4000 words; exhibition, book and event reviews between 1000 and 3000 words; reflective pieces between 1000 and 3000 words.
Timeline
Full draft papers due 18 November 2024 via submission on the Intellect website here or the email below. Double-blind peer review will then commence for all academic articles and artistic practice essays.
Website address
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students
Contact details
Posted 3 September 2024
Edited volume: Contemporary maternal subjectivities on the page and on the screen. HJEAS Books series.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 November 2024.
Edited by: Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the North American Department of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen. The title of her dissertation as well as the topic of her upcoming monograph is Mothers in the Wake of Slavery: The Im/possibility of Motherhood in Post-1980 African American Women’s Prose. Her research on North American representations of embodiment, motherhood, and womanhood has been published in journals such as Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (2022), Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2023), and Canadian Literature (2023). She has contributed chapters to edited collections such as Critical Insights: The Color Purple (Salem Press, 2022), Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh UP, 2023), Normative Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2023), and Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st-Century Black British and American Women’s Fiction (Peter Lang, 2024).
Zsófia Orosz-Réti, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Department of British Studies of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen. Her dissertation focused on the popular culture and its cultural memory of the 1980s in Hungary. Her research has been published in academic journals such as The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Words, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Acta Ludologica, The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, and she has edited special thematic blocks and issues on various aspects of game studies in The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (2023), Acta Philologica (2024) and Acta Ludologica (2025). Currently, her primary scholarly interest includes cultural memory and popular culture in general, and the problem of subject positions with limited agency in video games – including unheroic ludic narratives of civilians in war, or of faceless Everymen in dystopias. More recently, she works on maternal identities in games and new media.
Presentation
While cultural representations have tended to render the mother as a metaphor, a symbol, a repository of wisdom, or a figure who is only celebrated or reprimanded for her impact on her children, it has only been relatively recently that the mother as a person, as a subject has been at the forefront of art and theory. Concepts such as Adrienne Rich’s motherhood as experience and institution (1976), Sara Ruddick’s maternal thinking (1989), Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s formulations of queered motherhood (2010), Andrea O’Reilly’s matricentric feminism (2016), Christina Sharpe’s notion of motherhood lived in the wake (2016), indigenous understandings of motherhood within the framework of Two-Eyed Seeing (Wright et al. 2019), Nicole A. Corley’s conceptualization of Black m/otherhood (2022), or Sadie K. Goddard-Durant’s proposal to decolonize Black motherhood (2022) have played a role in re-shaping notions of motherhood and in widening the scope of representation. Recognizing the importance of matricentric representation and theorizing, we are seeking contributions for an edited volume that explore the complexities of maternal subjectivity in contemporary literature (broadly defined), visual art, digital media, video games, social media, AI as well as in film and on television. We invite interdisciplinary submissions anchored in literary and cultural studies that engage primarily with Anglophone contexts but we also welcome comparative analyses of motherhood in various cultures and backgrounds. We invite proposals for scholarly papers addressing questions related (but not limited) to:
- Post-millennial representations of motherhood and maternal subjectivities
- Post-COVID perspectives on motherhood
- Motherhood as/in nationhood
- Embodiment and motherhood
- Challenging the representational scheme of monstrous motherhood
- Defying idealized portrayals and the concept of normative motherhood
- The role of factors like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, ability, culture, language, religion, and nationality in shaping maternal subjectivity
- Maternal subjectivities and autobiographic writing
- Generational experiences in motherhood
Submission guidelines
Submit a structured abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the main arguments and theoretical background of the paper, and a brief bio (up to 150 words) containing your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief biography by November 30, 2024. Submissions should be sent to Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka (lenartmuszkazs@arts.unideb.hu) and Zsófia Orosz-Réti (reti.zsofia@arts.unideb.hu).
Notifications of acceptance will be due by 10 December, 2024. Completed papers (5000-7000 words, conforming to MLA in terms of format and citation style) are due by 15 March, 2025. All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Please note that acceptance will depend on the strength and fit of the final piece. Publication of the volume is expected in 2027.
Website address
https://sciendo.com/series/HJEAS-B?top-tab=books
The collection will be part of HJEAS Books, a series launched by the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (University of Debrecen, Hungary) and published by Sciendo-De Gruyter Brill. The edited collection is to be published in an Open Access e-book format and will be available in Print on Demand (PoD) form, with global indexing/abstracting. No contributor’s fee will be charged.
Contact details
- Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka (lenartmuszkazs@arts.unideb.hu) and
- Zsófia Orosz-Réti (reti.zsofia@arts.unideb.hu)
(Posted 5 September 2024 )
Publication and issue: EJES, special issues in volume 30 (2026).
Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 November 2024.
EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the borders and intersections between different research fields in English studies, including, but not limited to, literary analysis, linguistics, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. This expansive focus allows the journal to encompass the plurality of English studies in Europe, a reflection of its affiliation with the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Topics of special issues feature high-level scholarship as well as a reflection on the argumentative strategies behind ongoing work and emerging directions in the study of Anglophone language and culture.
Guest editing teams should consist of two or three scholars who work in different locations within Europe and who have some previous editorial experience. In some cases, EJES publishes issues that have grown out of a conference or a conference panel. Such issues can be considered if the resulting CFP also appeals to scholars who did not participate in the original event. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Proposals for topics for volume 30 (2026) should be sent to the editors before 30 November 2024:
- Isabel Carrera Suárez (University of Oviedo): icarrera@uniovi.es
- Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Artistotle University of Thessaloniki): katkit@enl.auth.gr
- Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University, Nijmegen): frederik.vandam@ru.nl
Procedure
- Aspiring guest editors submit a CFP of 300-500 words to the general editors. This document includes a list of leading questions (for examples, see the current CFPs on the ESSE website), and brief biographies of the guest editors.
- The general editors select new topics for the issues before the end of 2024. The chosen CFPs are edited to cohere with EJES’s aims.
- During the following calendar year, the resulting CFPs are distributed widely. Abstracts for potential submissions are collected in the spring of 2025 and are reviewed by the guest editors and general editors. 4. Selected authors are then invited to submit full-length essays of between 6,000 and 8,000 words by November 2025. These essays are peer-reviewed and appear in the EJES issues scheduled for 2026.
CFP
For further details, please check the original call inserted below.
(Posted 12 October 2024)
Publication and issue: CELS (Contemporary English Language Studies), No. 1: culture, language teaching, pedagogy and linguistics.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 December 2024.
Issue edited by Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Education
Theme presentation
Contemporary English Language Studies, published by Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Education, is an open access, peer-reviewed, scientific journal published online in English twice a year in June and January. It publishes articles in the fields of language education, teaching, professional development, language and culture, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. It is open to multidisciplinary approaches that include or focus on discussions about language, education and culture. The target audience of the journal is academicians, researchers, professionals, students and relevant professional and academic institutions and organizations.
Contemporary English Language Studies has a fully web-enabled review system with straightforward log-in and submission procedures.
The journal offers authors the option of tracking in real time the review process of their manuscript. The following file formats are automatically converted into a single PDF for use in the peer-review process: Word, RTF, TXT, LaTeX2e, AMSTex, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, Postscript, PICT, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint. EM supports the upload of multiple files in a single ZIP file.
Contemporary English Language Studies follows a double-blind peer-review policy. Authors must omit their name and affiliation from the manuscript. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should also be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. In order to maintain anonymity during the peer review process, please avoid stating your name when making a reference to your own work, either in the text or References, and use ‘Author’ instead. After the initial revision by the editorial team, at least two independent/external blind reviewers are appointed to each submission by the responsible editor. The independent reviewers are not affiliated with the same institution(s) as the authors of the submission. If the appointed reviewers do not reach a consensus regarding the submission as a result of the reviewing process, a third independent/external reviewer is appointed as a judge. In order for a submission to be accepted for publication, at least two reviewers should accept the submission. This review process normally takes about 12-16 weeks. The manuscripts could be one of the following types:
- Research studies: Scientific means of examining the characteristics of variables to further our understanding of a particular subject or topic making use of primary data. The subject or topic of a research study can include such things as a theory, ideology, or principle, practices, process or educational intervention.
- Review studies: They are conducted by making use of the published research, secondary data or sources to synthesize or analyse research already conducted in primary sources. They generally summarize the current state of research on a given topic.
- Literary studies/essays: They aim to study, explore, interpret, and evaluate literary works in a language involving novels, historical traces of arts and theatre works and authorial stances in the literal world. particularly welcomes studies that combine pedagogy and literature
Author teams whose first language is not English are strongly encouraged to choose to have their manuscripts professionally edited before submission to improve the quality and clarity of English.
Deadline: For Issue No:1, submissions are till December 30. For the other issues, any time is possible.
Website address: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cels
Contact details:
(Posted 7 December 2024)