Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

PJES (Polish Journal of English Studies)

Published on 5th January 2023 in Academic Publications, Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

The PJES is looking for submissions about the latest English language literature for our 2023 issue! Pick a book that is so new that no one has written about it yet and write the first scholarly paper about it. You don’t need time to check the critical bibliography because your paper will be the very first on the list. We are expecting your submissions by March – don’t be late or somebody else will write about that perfect book first!

Polish Journal of English Studies – http://pjes.edu.pl/ – is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars working in the literature, history, and culture of the English-speaking world, as well as theoretical and applied linguistics. The journal is intended as a forum for the exchange of scholarly and scientific thought, ideas, and proposals within the broadly understood discipline of English studies. We invite our colleagues to contribute articles which would reflect their field of research and expertise. The articles will be blindly reviewed by two independent scholars prior to their publication. We publish general issues as well as specific, topic-oriented ones. The first fifteen issues are now available at http://pjes.edu.pl/issues/ as well as through a number of online data-bases such as ProQuest or DOAJ. Prospective contributors will find all the necessary details at http://pjes.edu.pl/for-contributors/information/ . If you have any questions, please, contact the editors at pjes@pjes.edu.pl

Contact Email: pjes@pjes.edu.pl

URL: http://pjes.edu.pl/

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Vol 27 (2023)

Published on 8th December 2022 in Academic Publications, Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Contributions are invited for the 27th Volume (2023) of Revista de Estudios  Norteamericanos. 

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos is an international scholarly peer-reviewed  English-language journal which publishes papers and reviews on diverse  aspects of U.S. Studies, mainly literary, cultural, historical, artistic, or critical,  and which has been instrumental in furthering research and publication in U.S.  Studies since 1992. The journal, published annually by the University of Seville  and supported by the Spanish Association for American Studies welcomes  papers from scholars whose research meets the scientific criteria established by  the journal and summarized in the Guidelines for Authors. Contributions  should follow the formal instructions for submission included in these  Guidelines and will be subject to double-blind peer review according to the  criteria specified in the Guidelines for Referees; a third expert may be consulted  if advisable. Authors will receive a full report of the referees’ reasons for their  decision. 

The journal will also occasionally publish thematic/special sections  foregrounding subjects of particular relevance in the field of US studies. These  Special Sections will be guest edited and contributions may be either by direct  invitation from the Guest Editors or by public call. All papers will undergo the  same rigorous process of double-blind peer review as for the miscellaneous  section. 

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos can be accessed at: 

https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS /index 

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos is included in the following databases and  indexes: SCOPUS, DIALNET, LATINDEX, CINDOC (IEDCYT), DICE, CIRC, MIAR,  RESH, ISOC, Dulcinea, IN-RECH, ULRICHSWEB, ERIH PLUS, MLA, and  ProQuest. 

Please note:  

Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos publishes in “post-print”: papers are  uploaded to the webpage following their acceptance after double-blind peer  review, and the volume corresponding to each year is closed in December. Due  to this, submissions are welcome all year round. This system speeds up the  process of publication and helps us to maintain the standards of the FECYT  certificate of excellence. Papers must be submitted through the Open Journal System webpage.

For any queries, please contact the Board of Editors at ren@us.es

CFP for Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design

Published on 12th July 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design,
Volume 1, Summer 2022

Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design is an annual peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Nicosia (UNIC).

We are now accepting contributions for the inaugural volume of Zealos due to be published in Summer 2022. Zealos welcomes original and previously unpublished articles that fall within the scope of the journal and follow internationally sanctioned scientific standards. Submissions are free of charge. We welcome contributions in Greek or English. Continue reading “CFP for Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design” →

Call for Papers: Journal of Ecohumanism

Published on 16th June 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to the inaugural issue.

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2021

Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional internship among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this internship manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization’s temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the midst of constant transformations and evolutionary processes, contributing to the world defining, even perceiving new planetary narrations. In response, the Journal of Ecohumanism develops conversations to consider how challenging conditions shape the concept of citizenship as form, structure, identity, representation and insight, as well as how ecohumanism affects our civil experience of space and time. Continue reading “Call for Papers: Journal of Ecohumanism” →

EJES | Call for Papers for Volume 27 (2023)

Published on 22nd May 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, EJES Matters

The editors of EJES are issuing calls for papers for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2023. EJES operates in a two-stage review process. The first stage is based on the submission of detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) and results in invitations to submit full essays from which a final selection is then made. The deadline for essay proposals for this volume is 30 November 2021, with delivery of completed essays in the spring of 2022, and publication in Volume 27 (2023).

Procedure

EJES operates a two-stage review process.

1. Contributors are invited to submit proposals for essays on the topic in question by 30 November 2021.
2. Following review of the proposals by the editorial board panel, informed by external specialists as appropriate, the guest editors will invite the authors of short-listed proposals to submit full-length essays for review with a spring 2022 deadline.
3. The full-length essays undergo a second round of review, and a final selection for publication is made. Selected essays are revised and then resubmitted to the guest editors in late 2022 for publication in 2023.
EJES employs Chicago Style (T&F Chicago AD) and British English conventions for spelling. For more information about EJES, see: http://www.essenglish.org/ejes.html. Continue reading “EJES | Call for Papers for Volume 27 (2023)” →

15th ESSE Conference, Lyon / Zoom – Registration now open

Published on 19th May 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, ESSE Matters, Events

The registration to ESSE 2021 online conference is now open. All participants (ESSE members and non-ESSE members) need to register and are kindly asked to do so before July 15th to make sure their registration is validated before the summer break.

The registration procedure is explained here.

For ESSE members, registration is free: you’ll only need to create your account and then accept the terms of the contract in the Pre-register tab. Your registration will then be complete. Please do NOT click on “Complete my registration”, which is only for non-ESSE members.

For non-ESSE members, registration is 35 euros until June 15th (50 euros from June 16th): you’ll need to create your account, accept the terms of the contract in the Pre-register tab, and then click on “Complete my registration” and continue until payment.

Free guided tours of the city center (broadcast live online) and a free lecture on the world-renowned Lyon chef Paul Bocuse will be offered to registered participants (both ESSE members and non-ESSE members) by our partner New Generation Guide. To sign up, please click on the following link:
https://www.newgenerationguide.com/en/guided-tours/ESSE2021

The latest version of conference programme and book of abstracts is available here.

The conference will take place on the Cisco Webex web conferencing platform. You can download the application and test it by clicking on https://www.webex.com/test-meeting.html

CFP: 16th ESSE Conference, Mainz 2022

Published on 9th April 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, ESSE 16 (2022) Conference

16th ESSE Conference, Mainz 2022

Department of English and Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Philology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz,
and
Deutscher Anglistenverband (German Society for the Study of English)

look forward to welcoming you to the 16th ESSE Conference in Mainz, Germany,

Monday 29 August – Friday 2 September 2022

DEADLINES

  • Submission of proposals for Parallel Lectures (nomination by national associations): 31 May 2021
  • Submission of proposals for Seminars and Round Tables (proposals from prospective convenors): 31 May 2021
  • Submission of individual papers for Seminars and the Doctoral Symposium, as well as proposals for Round Tables and Posters: 31 January 2022
  • Registration will begin on 1 March 2022

CALL FOR SEMINARS, ROUND TABLES AND PARALLEL LECTURES

ESSE members are invited to submit proposals for seminars and round tables on topics related to our fields of study: English Language (including Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies), Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area Studies. Proposals for seminars and round tables should be submitted directly to the Academic Programme Committee (APC) at ESSE2022@uni-mainz.de. National Associations are invited to nominate potential lecturers. Suggestions for lecturers should be sent to the presidents or representatives of the national associations, who will send the nominations to the APC.

PROGRAMME FORMAT

SEMINARS – Proposals for seminars on topics within the three fields mentioned above should be submitted jointly by two ESSE members from two different national associations. The degree of international appeal will be one of the selection criteria used by the APC. In exceptional cases, the APC may permit one of the two convenors not to be an ESSE member (e.g. because they come from outside Europe), if it is argued that their presence is especially important for the seminar. Seminar proposals must include the names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of the convenors and a 100-word description of the topic. Unlike round tables, seminars are not pre-constituted events and will therefore be included within the APC’s future call for papers, although convenors may take an active role in approaching potential participants. The seminar format is intended to encourage lively participation on the part of both speakers and members of the audience. For this reason, papers should be orally presented rather than read. Further directions will follow in the call for papers.

ROUND TABLES – The aim of round tables is to present topics and problems currently seen as shaping the nature of the discipline. At a round table a pre-constituted panel discusses issues of fairly general scholarly or professional interest in front of (and subsequently with) an audience. In other words, round tables are not sequences of papers, but debate sessions. Proposals should include a 100-word description of the topic and the names and affiliations of at least three participants (including the convenor), who must be drawn from more than one national association. The maximum number of speakers will be five.

PLENARY LECTURES – A number of distinguished keynote speakers, including at least one representing each of the three main fields covered by ESSE (English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area Studies), will give plenary lectures by direct invitation of the organizers.

PARALLEL LECTURES – In addition to the plenary lectures, there will be approximately 12 parallel lectures given by ESSE members nominated by their national associations. These parallel lectures are expected to have a wide appeal and to reflect recent developments in scholarship in one of the three areas mentioned above. They will be fifty minutes in length. National associations should forward a description of their nominee’s proposed topic together with a brief summary of his or her CV. Each national association can propose up to three lecturers, each of them in one of the three main fields mentioned above, so that the APC can have a wide range of options for the final selection. Please note that ESSE will not finance the parallel lecturers’ costs of attending the conference, but that their conference fees will be waived.

POSTERS – Posters will be devoted to research-in-progress and project presentations. The aim is to provide additional opportunities for feedback and personal contacts. Further details will appear on the ESSE Messenger website; the deadline for posters will be 31 January 2022.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM – Young scholars who are writing their PhD theses in English studies may apply to make a brief presentation of their work-in-progress at one of three workshops in the fields of English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area Studies respectively. These presentations should deal with the issues/hypotheses addressed in the thesis, the results so far obtained and above all the methodology applied, with the purpose of getting feedback from peers and established scholars in the field. Each workshop will be coordinated by two international experts, who will select from the applications and convene the corresponding sessions. Enquiries about this feature should be addressed to Emeritus Professor J. Lachlan Mackenzie (VU University Amsterdam, NL): lachlan_mackenzie@hotmail.com. Further details will appear on the ESSE Messenger website; the deadline for the submission of applications will be 31 January 2022.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Professor Anita Auer (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Professor Işıl Baş (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey)
Professor Rainer Emig (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Professor Anja Müller-Wood (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Professor Vincent Renner (University of Lyon, France)
Professor Titela Vîlceanu (University of Craiova, Romania)
Professor Susanne Wagner (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)

PROPOSALS FOR SEMINARS, ROUND TABLES, LECTURES AND POSTERS
ESSE2022@uni-mainz.de

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT 16TH ESSE CONFERENCE, Mainz 2022
https://esse2022.uni-mainz.de/

Call for Posters

Please send your proposals for Posters to ESSE2022@uni-mainz.de.
Deadline: 31 January 2022

Call for Seminar Papers

The Call for Seminar Papers will open in September 2021 when the seminars have been chosen.

Scholars wishing to present their paper at the ESSE 2022 Conference in Mainz are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed presentations directly to the convenors of the respective seminars.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022

In most seminar sessions, the presentations will be limited to 20 minutes including discussion.

Doctoral Symposium

One of the features of the 16th ESSE Conference is the Doctoral Symposium, which continues an ESSE tradition dating from 2012 and is designed to provide a platform for young scholars to present and receive feedback on their work. The Symposium is open to PhD students who are writing their theses in English Studies and are at least in the second year of work on their doctorate at the time of the Symposium. To be eligible, either their supervisor or they themselves must be known to the Treasurer of ESSE as a member of an ESSE-affiliated Association (or, in relevant countries, of a Department that belongs to an ESSE-affiliated Association) at the moment of application.

Participants will have an opportunity to make a brief presentation of their work in progress in one of three strands: English Language & Linguistics, Literatures in English, and Cultural & Area Studies. Their presentation should deal with the issues addressed or hypotheses tested in their doctoral research, the results so far obtained, and above all the methodology applied, with the purpose of gaining feedback from established scholars in the field and from their peers. Each presentation will last no longer than 10 minutes, followed by 15 minutes’ discussion. Participants are expected to attend all the presentations in their own strand and to take part in the discussions. There will also be extensive opportunities for informal contact with other participants and with the academics present at the conference. The Symposium will be opened by the President of ESSE.

Note that each PhD student can submit an application to only one strand of the Doctoral Symposium and should specify in the application which strand they wish to be placed in. Applications must include a letter from the student’s PhD supervisor giving the (provisional) title of the dissertation and confirming that the student is working under his/her supervision and has completed at least his/her first year of PhD studies. The Treasurer of ESSE will check the eligibility of all applicants and their supervisors. Participants in the Doctoral Symposium can participate fully in the ESSE Conference and can, if they so wish and their abstract is accepted, present a paper in one of the seminars.

The application should take the form of a summary of the project of no more than 300 words, indicating:

  • The main topic and issues, including the thesis proposed/hypothesis defended;
  • The methodology (theoretical tools and standpoints);
  • Where relevant, the corpus under consideration;
  • The results obtained so far.

Each strand of the Symposium will be coordinated by two experts (to be known as Convenors). They will make a selection from the applications received, chair the discussions and respond to the presentations.

Applying to participate

Applications (including the letter from the applicant’s supervisor) should be sent, no later than 31 January 2022, to the Coordinator of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium, Professor J. Lachlan Mackenzie (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) at lachlan_mackenzie@hotmail.com, to whom general enquiries can also be addressed. The eligibility check and the selection of submissions by the Convenors will be completed and announced by 15 February 2022.

Applying for financial support

Those applicants who have been selected for participation can apply to ESSE between 15 and 28 February 2022 for financial support, to a maximum of €500 per applicant. Eligible expenses are airfares, ground transportation costs and accommodation. Applicants for financial support must themselves be members of their national associations affiliated to ESSE, except for those whose associations do not consider PhD students eligible as members; in this case, their supervisors or the department to which they are affiliated must be members of an association affiliated to ESSE. Applications for financial support will be considered during March by a Committee consisting of the Coordinator of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium and the three Convenors from the ESSE Board; the Committee’s definitive decision will be communicated to all applicants by 30 March 2022.

Applications for financial support should be sent, no later than 28 February 2022, to the Coordinator of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium, Professor J. Lachlan Mackenzie (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) at lachlan_mackenzie@hotmail.com. Each application for financial support should include three documents (in attachment to the e-mail of application):

  • the applicant’s CV;
  • a letter detailing the applicant’s eligibility clearly and fully explaining the need for financial support, including a provisional budget for travel costs and/or accommodation expenses;
  • a signed statement from the applicant’s supervisor, including a declaration that it is impossible for the applicant to draw on private means or any other sources of funding, including funding earmarked for the ongoing doctoral project, for the purpose of participating in the ESSE Doctoral Symposium.

Please note that ESSE’s decisions about selection for participation and about financial support are final and not subject to appeal.

ESSE2022@uni-mainz.de

CFP | Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies

Published on 13th March 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the inaugural issue of the journal – a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals, and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

Scott Fitzgerald proposes that “[t]hat is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” Literature is unique but it is limitless in its extent, for “literature is life,” as Robert A. Nimmo puts it. ‘We belong’, as literature is human. Human narrates the story and is told in the story. Human makes hi(s)tory and is told in hi(s)tory. Literature is human/ities and it “is the question minus the answer” for “the birth of the reader,” as Roland Barthes suggests. We come to set sail for new articles, new writers, and new readers. We come to take responsibility for the space we belong to.

The first issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies welcomes papers and book reviews addressing general studies on Literature and Drama from all disciplines within the Humanities. As a multi- and interdisciplinary journal, we particularly welcome research with an interdisciplinary approach. Papers may be theoretical, empirical, or interpretative in nature, and all submissions will be considered. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Literary/Theatrical/Dramatic Studies
Literary/Theatrical/Dramatic Genres
Literary/Theatrical/Dramatic Theories

Literature/Drama and Sociology
Literature/Drama and Psychology
Literature/Drama and Rhetoric

Literature/Drama and History
Literature/Drama and Politics
Literature/Drama and Philosophy
Literature/Drama and Music
Literature/Drama and Science

Please send a digital copy of the complete manuscript using the template provided by Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies to essencecritiquejournal@gmail.com by Friday April 30th 2021.

Submission length is 5000-8000 words for original articles, and 1500-2000 words for book reviews. Please omit references to the author in manuscripts to ensure anonymous reviews. The journal does not accept manuscripts previously published by or simultaneously submitted to other publication venues. Please contact essencecritiquejournal@gmail.com with any questions.

CFP Essence and Critique

CFP – Babel-AFIAL 30 (2021)

Published on 6th March 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Babel – AFIAL welcomes proposals of articles and book reviews for issue number 30, which will be published at the end of 2021. The deadline for those submissions will be 15 April 2021, and they are to be uploaded to our website, after due registration, at the following link:

http://revistas.webs.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL

Babel – AFIAL (ISSN 1132-7332, eISSN 2660-4906) is a yearly academic journal focusing on Anglophone and German Studies. It was founded in 1992 and publishes articles and reviews in the fields of language, linguistics, literature and culture. From 2019 it is published online. All articles must be original and may be written in English, German, Spanish or Galician. Submissions go through a double-blind peer review process, involving at least two external readers specializing in the corresponding field.

This journal is indexed in international databases such as ABELL, EBSCO, ERIH Plus, MLA International Bibliography, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

New Journal: REIIT Revista Educación Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia

Published on 26th February 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

It is a pleasure to announce the creation of the Journal REIIT Revista Educación Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia, which is structured around three main sections: Research, Innovation and Transfer. This is an annual publication where each contribution will follow a double-blind peer review. Each issue will comprise three research articles, three articles dealing with innovative practices and one or two revolving around knowledge and society transfer. All the articles must contribute to research on the area of education at the national or international level and they can deal with different education stages and levels from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The submissions will take place online and the deadline for this first issue is April 15, 2021. It is necessary to be registered and logged in on the following website: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/eiit/submission/wizard in order to send any article and check the submission status. The submissions will not exceed 9,000 words, including footnotes, references and graphics, charts or images. Submissions are accepted in Spanish, English and French. They should be original and they should not be undergoing any process of revision for other publications. In addition to this, the authors have to send another document indicating the name of the responsible author as well as the postal address, ORCID, telephone number and email address of all the co-authors (if any). More information regarding the publication guidelines, the recommended format for the articles and the nature of the journal can be checked on our website https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/eiit.

CFP for the Polish Journal of English Studies

Published on 19th February 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

The Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), Polish chapter of the ESSE, would like to invite you to submit your proposals to the Polish Journal of English Studies – http://pjes.edu.pl/ – a peer-reviewed journal for scholars working in the literature, history, and culture of the English-speaking world, as well as theoretical and applied linguistics. The journal is intended as a forum for the exchange of scholarly and scientific thought, ideas, and proposals within the broadly understood discipline of English studies.

We invite our colleagues to contribute articles which would reflect their field of research and expertise. The articles will be blindly reviewed by two independent scholars prior to their publication. We publish general issues as well as specific, topic-oriented ones. The first five issues are now available at http://pjes.edu.pl/issues/ as well as through a number of online data-bases. Prospective contributors will find all the necessary details at http://pjes.edu.pl/for-contributors/information/ .

If you have any questions, please, contact the editors at pjes@pjes.edu.pl

CFP for Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

Published on 19th February 2021 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Special Issue 2/2022 – Theorizing Literary Animals

Guest editor: Dr. Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin

This special issue seeks essays in English that engage with as well as challenge existing work in animal studies in relation to literary texts and/or theories from across different genres, historical periods, and linguistic and national traditions. Topics for possible essays include the following:

  • relationship between animal studies and literary theory and/or history
  • theorizing human-animal hybridities and continuities in literary texts
  • alternatives to anthropocentrism and/or anthropomorphism in literary criticism and theory
  • intersectionality and animal studies
  • triangulating between animal studies, ecocriticism and literary theory/studies
  • animals and translation theory
  • impact of the animal rights movement on literature
  • pedagogical approaches to combining animal and literary studies

Timeline:

  •  1 November 2021 – proposal submission deadline (200-word abstract, 7 keywords, 5 theoretical references, 150-word author’s bio-note)
  • 15 November 2021 – notification about acceptance
  • 1 February 2022 – submission of full papers (Instructions for authors regarding formatting rules and style sheets can be found on the journal’s webpage: http://studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philologia/pdf/Instructions_En.pdf)
  • 30 June 2022 – publication of the special-themed issue

Please send your abstracts and papers to both email addresses: studia.philologia@lett.ubbcluj.ro and vyroubae@tcd.ie.

CFP

CFP – Theorizing Literary Animals – 2 2022 EN

New Journal | IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies

Published on 17th November 2020 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies
Call for Articles for the First Issue of IDEAS in April 2021

It is an honour for the IDEA Association to launch its academic journal: IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies.

IDEAS is an international, electronically published and peer-reviewed journal devoted to English literary studies. The journal aims to supply a highly qualified academic platform for the exchange of diverse critical and original ideas on any aspect of literatures written in English, cultural studies, and literary theory. The first issue will be published in April 2021.

Original articles, interviews and book reviews will be considered for publication.

Papers will be submitted through the submission system available on the website.

The deadline for the submission of papers for the first issue is 15 January 2021.

Please visit the journal website for further information about the journal: https://www.idea.org.tr/ideasjournal

CFP for the Winter 2020 issue of the ESSE Messenger

Published on 10th August 2020 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, ESSE Messenger CFPs, ESSE Messenger Matters

Theme: “Make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em wait”: Sensation, mystery and detection in the Victorian novel

Deadline: 15 November 2020

The ESSE Messenger invites contributions that address:

  • reasons and factors that lead to the popularity of such kind of novels;
  • construction and narrative techniques of sensational plots;
  • treatment of sensational characters;
  • contribution of these novels to the creation of popular fiction and reasons for them becoming bestsellers;
  • contribution of Victorian writers such as Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle to the prosperity of such novels;
  • reception of such novels by the Victorian reading public and critics in the context of the imposed belief in morality and order, expected aesthetic value and worldview of Victorian realism;
  • reception of such creations by the reading public today and their echoes in contemporary fiction.

CFP 29-2 W2020

Details here.

CFP for the Volume 26 (2022) issues of EJES

Published on 7th May 2020 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, EJES Matters

The editors of EJES are issuing calls for papers for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2022. Potential contributors are reminded that EJES operates a two-stage review process. The first is based on the submission of detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) and results in invitations to submit full essays from which a final selection is then made.

The deadline for essay proposals for this volume is 30 November 2020, with delivery of completed essays in the spring of 2021 and publication in Volume 26 (2022).

Procedure

EJES operates a two-stage review process.

  1. Contributors are invited to submit proposals for essays on the topic in question by 30 November 2020.
  2. Following review of the proposals by the editorial board panel, informed by external specialists as appropriate, the guest editors will invite the authors of short-listed proposals to submit full-length essays for review with a spring 2021 deadline.
  3. The full-length essays undergo another round of review, and a final selection as well as suggestions for revisions are made. Selected essays are then revised and resubmitted to the guest editors in late 2021 for publication in 2022.

EJES employs Chicago Style (T&F Chicago AD) and British English conventions for spelling.

1. Going Viral: Chronotopes of Disaster in Film and Visual Media

Guest editors: Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos (Ankara University) and Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam)

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2. Victorian Materialisms

Guest editors: Ursula Kluwick (University of Bern), Ariane de Waal (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

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3. Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis

“Plus ça change, moins ça change.”

Guest editors: Florence Binard (University of Paris) and Renate Haas (University of Kiel)

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CFP for the Summer 2020 issue of The ESSE Messenger

Published on 17th November 2019 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, ESSE Matters, ESSE Messenger CFPs

Theme: Language, discourse and gender identity

Guest editors:

Dr. Isil Bas, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
Dr. Maria Socorro Suárez Lafuente, University of Oviedo, Spain

Deadline extended: 30 June 2020.

The upcoming ESSE Messenger issue will concentrate on both the role of language in creating gendered identities and alternative “discourses” that envisage the existence and possibility of plural and variable existences and worlds that challenge traditional sexed and gendered polarities.

Continue reading “CFP for the Summer 2020 issue of The ESSE Messenger” →

CFP for the Winter 2019 issue of The ESSE Messenger

Published on 19th July 2019 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Theme: The book-to-film debate in the age of visual commodities

New deadline: 15 November 2019.

‘Did you read the novel?’ – ‘No, but I saw the film.’ This is a dialogue that often takes place today. Besides being common, this short conversation is also very revealing about the relation between the printed text and its visual representation as a film or TV series. And, obviously, it couldn’t be otherwise in a world dominated by TV sets, computers, tablets and smart phones with video facilities incorporated, and by video games, rock videos, home cinema, and many other appliances that reproduce images. More than that, the new commercialism could not but take advantage of such a reality and turn everything into commodities and try to extract profit from them. Novels about Harry Potter or Games of Thrones would probably not have achieved such rocketing success if they hadn’t subsequently had their visual adaptations.  J.R.R. Tolkien might still be resting on dusty library shelves surrounded by his Middle-earth if he hadn’t been (re)discovered by film makers and adapted for the silver screen.

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CFP for the New Series of “The AnaChronisT”

Published on 28th May 2019 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

The New Series of The AnaChronisT invites academic papers for its next issues.

We welcome papers in any field of English and American literature, culture and literary theory.

Papers may be submitted at any time.

The New Series of The AnaChronisT is an international academic journal published by the Department of English Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

It is indexed by major research databases, and appears annually.

The 2019 issue will have a thematic section on “Dehumanization in Literature,”

as well as a general section.

We welcome papers for both sections of this issue until 15 August 2019.

For submission guidelines and further information, visit our website

https://www.theanachronist.org/

EJES – Call for Papers for Volume 25 (2021)

Published on 16th May 2019 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

The general editors of EJES are now issuing calls for papers for two issues of the journal to be published in 2021. Potential contributors are invited to submit detailed proposals of up to 800 words to the guest editors of the topic they are interested in.

The deadline for proposals for this volume is 31 December 2019.

Procedure

EJES operates in a two-stage review process.

  1. Contributors are invited to submit proposals for essays on the topic in question by 31 December 2019.
  2. Following review of the proposals by the editorial board, informed by external specialists as appropriate, the guest editors will invite the authors of short-listed proposals to submit full-length essays for review with a summer 2020 deadline.
  3. The full-length essays undergo another round of review, and a final selection as well as suggestions for revisions are made. Selected essays are then revised and resubmitted to the guest editors in late 2020 for publication in 2021.

EJES employs Chicago Style (T&F Chicago AD) and British English conventions for spelling and punctuation.

Feminist Responses to Populist Politics

Guest editors: Mónica Cano Abadía (University of Graz), Sanja Bojanić (University of Rijeka), Adriana Zaharijević (University of Belgrade)

‘Populism’ is as slippery a term as the political soil it rhizomes in. During the last decade, it has been tested in political reality on numerous occasions and with varying outcomes. The distinction between right and left populisms has also become a staple in everyday academic, policy, and civil society discourses. On the left or the right, populisms often act as a bogeyman, as a threat to politics as usual, and as a sure sign that the world is, yet again, out of joint.

But are these misgivings of any substance? Perhaps the world is actually disjointed. It may be that populisms, left or right, fill in the cracks and fissures that have been lain open for only a short period of time, one that coincides with decades of sustained feminist efforts to change the world for the better. Despite the gains, much of what has been won is now being brought to a halt – and it seems that populisms play their share in this stoppage. It is therefore vital to ask what feminist responses to populisms could be. Can the answer to this question be reduced to the issue of political allegiance, or is it a matter of needing to adjust to new political realities? Would this imply then embracing these realities as well? What is the role that populisms now play in shaping the relationship between radical and mainstream feminisms? If we claim that feminism has always been populist to a certain extent, then we have to have a clear notion of the populus at its core. Alternatively, we might categorically posit that feminist populism is a contradiction in terms and therefore also reject the possibility of left populist feminisms.

This special issue addresses feminist visions of politics as a different answer to populisms’ challenges. We wish to mark ambivalences and name conceptual reasons for why it is insufficiently daring or even reactionary to place feminist emancipatory strategies close to politically divisive contemporary tendencies. Instead, we call for a return to notions of feminist resistance and resilience – notions that put an emphasis on agency, change, and hope in the face of the grave challenges we are faced with around the world. The following topics may be addressed:

  • What does ‘feminist populism’ refer to?
  • To what does feminist resistance to populism refer?
  • How does feminist resilience function?
  • What are the consequences, challenges and possible solutions that feminist resilience can bring about in civil society and institutions?

Detailed proposals (up to 800 words) for full essays (7,500 words), as well as a short biography (max. 100 words) should be sent to all of the editors by 31 December 2019: Mónica Cano Abadía (monica.cano-abadia@uni-graz.at), Sanja Bojanić (sanja.bojanic@uniri.hr), Adriana Zaharijević (zaharijevic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs)

Disseminating Knowledge: The Effects of Digitalized Academic Discourse on Language, Genre and Identity

Guest editors: Rosa Lorés Sanz (Universidad de Zaragoza), Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Recent decades have seen a substantial evolution in discursive practices, particularly those associated with institutions, the sciences and the economy. This state of affairs has been enhanced by the appearance of digital platforms, which have made of the web a privileged access platform both for knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination in an increasingly globalized society. This scenario is also characterized by the use of English as the international language of communication, most users being non-native speakers of the language. Thus, the spread of electronic platforms as well as the use of English as a vehicle of international communication have led to the emergence of new discursive practices or the adaptation of existing ones to the digital mode.

Digital affordances, and the immediacy, visibility, and connectedness they bring along, have changed the way we communicate and project our identities. They have also changed the way we approach texts as objects of analysis. This special issue aims to become a forum for some of the latest contributions to this topic. Proposals from different analytical approaches are welcome. These approaches might include computer-mediated discourse analysis, pragmatics, intercultural rhetoric, genre-based analysis, corpus studies or multimodality. The following topics may be addressed:

  • Are digital genres in academic settings modelled on traditional genres in paper format? Or, rather, is the digital mode generating new genres? What are their rhetorical and discursive features?
  • How is identity constructed and represented in digital academic discourse?
  • In which ways has the use of English as a Lingua Franca in the academic world been influenced by the use of digital platforms? To what extent do culture and discipline affect the shaping of academic web-mediated discourse?
  • How do verbal and visual modes interact in academic digital contexts? Which new methods of approaching discourse are needed to understand web-mediated texts?

Detailed proposals (up to 800 words) for full essays (7,500 words), as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both editors by 31 December 2019: Rosa Lorés-Sanz (rlores@unizar.es) and Giuliana Diani (giuliana.diani@unimore.it).

Call for Papers: Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) 10, 2021

Published on 6th March 2019 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes

Early Modern European Crime Literature: Ideology, Emotions and Social Norms

Edited by Maurizio Ascari and Gilberta Golinelli

This issue aims to explore various inter-related fields within the vast domain of European crime literature, with a particular focus on the British Isles. The literary and cultural phenomena we intend to investigate range from street literature, with its variety of broadsides and chapbooks, to drama (from revenge tragedies to domestic tragedies) and providential fictions, including the translation and transnational circulation of crime stories. While studying the connection between real crime and the literary imagination at various levels, this issue delves into the ideological import of crime narratives intended as prevention of crime, a form of psychological ‘policing’ that compensated for the absence of organized police forces by reasserting the inevitability of mundane and supernatural punishment.

Main deadlines:

30th June 2019: Please send your proposal and working title to the editors maurizio.ascari@unibo.it; gilberta.golinelli2@unibo.it.

20th July 2019: Notification of proposal acceptance.

10th January 2020: Submission of articles to the editors.

The complete CfP is available at http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/index

 JEMS 2021 CfP