Category: Call for submissions

Postgraduate English Journal Call for Submissions

The Postgraduate English Journal, Durham University’s online peer-reviewed literary journal, has been publishing postgraduate research biannually since the year 2000 and is one of the longest-running online postgraduate literary journals in the UK. In recent years the journal has received reprint requests from academic publishers.

Early-career researchers/academics and postgraduates are invited to submit papers of 5 – 7,000 words (or book reviews of no more than 2000 words) by Monday 29th February 2016 for the journal’s 32nd edition.

Contributions from any area of literary research are welcome to reflect a wide diversity of interests. If submitting a book review, please contact the editors in advance with details of the book you wish to review. For queries or further information contact: pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

For more information about the journal, and to read current and previous issues, please visit: http://community.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/index

Please send submissions and Forum content to the editors, Arya Aryan, Daniel Norman and Douglass Virdee via pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

With best wishes and warm regards,

Arya Aryan, Daniel Norman and Douglass Virdee
Co-Editors
Durham University Postgratuate English Journal

(THE SIMON DENTITH MEMORIAL PRIZE)

The Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition is open to anyone studying for a higher degree (masters or doctoral) in the UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier than 31 July 2014. The prize for the winning entry is 100 GBP and a year’s subscription to the Society. The winning essay will also be considered for publication in Key Words.

The competition aims to encourage a new generation of scholars working in the tradition of cultural materialism, especially those whose research is rooted in the work of Raymond Williams.

Entries should be 5-7,000 words in length, including endnotes, which should normally be kept to a minimum. Entries must follow the Key Words Style Notes for contributors. The Style Notes, and information about previous winning entries, can be found on the Raymond Williams Society’s website: www.raymondwilliams.co.uk

Entries should be sent to Catherine Clay at catherine.clay@ntu.ac.uk.

They should be accompanied by a brief coversheet with the following details:

Name
Postal address
Email address
Institutional affiliation
Current or most recent programme of study
Date of graduation (if applicable)
Title of essay
Word count

Please also ask your supervisor to send us an email confirming your status.

The closing date for entries is 3 June 2016.

New deadline for articles submission: 29 February 2016

Deadline for articles submission: 31 January 2016

Guest Editors:

– Duarte Santo (CIERL-UMa);

– Ana Salgueiro (CIERL-UMa, CECC-UCP).

Islands are paradoxical. Although perceived as peripheral relative to mainlands and continents, islands are also centres of affective, cultural, and identity reference for those who were born and/or live on them. As spaces of transit and encounters, insular peripheries are moreover sociocultural and political realities marked by transgression, innovation, and (re)creativity.

It is important to give scholarly attention to the interrelated peripheralities and centralities of island spaces, cultural phenomena, and subjects. By expanding our focus beyond Western metropolitan centres, we can contribute to a new cartography of modernity that (re)views the cultural, epistemological, and (re)creative density of insular peripheries, shedding light on the modernities and modernisms to which they gave rise. High European modernism is often regarded as having been enacted by emigration from the provinces to the great European capitals (Eagleton, 1970; Silvestre, 2008), but what has occurred in reverse, with migration from centres to peripheries? How have modernisms been experienced in geopolitical and cultural spaces regarded as peripheral? How have (European and colonial) insular societies and subjects responded to such incoming modernisms? What role have peripheral geocultural spaces been assigned in constructing the narratives of diverse modernisms and modernities?

CIERL – Research Centre for Regional & Local Studies, University of Madeira, and Island Dynamics are pleased to propose a special issue of Urban Island Studies on the theme of ‘Peripheral Discourses of Modernity’.

Urban Island Studies is a peer-reviewed open access journal situated at the intersection of island studies and urban studies. The journal develops knowledge across disciplines, offering an urban perspective within island research and an island perspective within urban research.

This is an open call for papers, but submissions are particularly welcome from presenters at the first Insula International Colloquim. Papers are invited to consider the relationships between peripherality and centrality, the rural and the urban, isolation and exchange in island communities, as well as between islands and mainlands, worldwide.

Papers must be submitted by 31 January 2016 29 February 2016 at the latest to guest editors Duarte Santo and Ana Salgueiro (peripheral.modernity.uisj@mail.uma.pt).

To learn more about Urban Island Studies, contact the journal’s Lead Editor, Adam Grydehøj (agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org). Manuscripts should be between 4000 and 8000 words in length and must follow the author guidelines for Urban Island Studies. All papers must be in English and are subject to peer review.

Websites:

Urban Island Studies: http://www.urbanislandstudies.org

1st Insula International Colloquim: http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/?page_id=64

CIERL-UMa website – call for articles/publications: http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/?page_id=1180

Duarte Santo

Ana Salgueiro

Adam Grydehøj

June 2015

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures: http://www.euppublishing.com/series/ecsalc

The Female Fantastic, 1860-1930: On the Gendered Supernatural in Texts by Women

Where realism was the signature feature of earlier Victorian fiction, mid-to-late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century writers increasingly embraced fantastic modes. Rosemary Jackson, in her 1981 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion,inaugurated the now-ubiquitous truism of literary studies that late Victorian fantastic narratives frequently hold strong – and often covertly revolutionary – metaphorical relations to social concerns. Supernatural and symbolic texts are ideal sites for encryption of radical queries and pervasive anxieties related to gender, sexuality, religion, medicine, science, ethnicity, substance abuse and colonialism (to name a few).

This is an especially persistent trait – one manifested and developed in many directions in the Edwardian and early Modernist fantastic. In supernatural thrillers, ghost stories, science fictions, and amorphous fantasias, counter-cultural angsts find substitutive satisfactions and conflated expression.  The uncanny effects of fantastic literature enable this; indirection, obscuration and innuendo are ideal mediums for saying-not-saying things. Indeed, whatever energies crescendo in fantastic literature are exactly those that  realism – by default – tends to eclipse, reduce, or normalize.  Experiments in form and language, from aestheticism to Modernism, only add to the covert power of fantasy.

Given the substantial scholarship dedicated to non-realist representations written by male writers, this book project will specifically explore women-identified writers’ uses of the fantastic from 1860-1930. Writers like Ouida, Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Mary Butts, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sylvia Townsend Warner used narratively polymorphous fantastic sub-genres to dramatize their particularly activist arguments and ideas. This provided the flexibility to explore not only the darkest corners of the external world, but also the deepest subterranean secrets of the mind. For not only did women-identified writers wield these forms’ easy strategic cover to subvert the status quo, but they also used them to explore the gendered psyche’s links to imagination, pathology and creative, personal and erotic agency. In addition to providing dynamic presentations of female and gender-queer subjectivity, these texts also illuminate intriguing and complex relationships to key moments in gender(ed) history.

This collection will be submitted to an already-enthusiastic selective academic press.

We invite submissions that engage in any related issues, including the following:

• Fantastic figures (ghosts, mummies, werewolves, vampires).
• The evolving genre and forms of the fantastic/supernatural
• Occult communication networks: Annie Besant, Emma Hardinge Britten, Helena Blavasky, and the women of the Golden Dawn
• The shifting meaning/purpose of the female fantastic from mid-century (Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Florence Marrayat, Charlotte Riddell) to the fin de siècle  to the 20th-century
• The transatlantic, global, or colonial supernatural
• The role of the fantastic or otherworldly in conceptualizations of gender and sexuality
• Nationhood, the “fantastic” other, race, and empire
• Nationalism, Fascism, Socialism and other political movements
• Pacificism, war, and trauma
• The fantastic in periodical and print culture
• Visualizing or depicting the fantastic through illustrations, art, performance, photography and film
• Science, pseudo-science, psychoanalysis, medicine,and the supernatural
• Mental illness, Addiction, and Social Deviance
• Relations of Fantastic to Aestheticism, Decadence, Symbolist, Surrealist, Modernist or other movements
• Female-authored sources for and/or reactions to more “canonical” fantastic literature
• Female academic influences on the Classical and/or “Oriental” imagination (Jane Harrison and Margaret Murray, for example)

Abstracts should be 500 words, exclusive of a selected bibliography and brief author’s bio. Final papers should run between 4,000 – 6,000 words (inclusive of endnotes and works cited) and be formatted in current MLA style. Revisions may be requested as a condition of acceptance. Please send all queries to the editors (Dr. Elizabeth McCormick, Dr. Jennifer Mitchell, and Dr. Rebecca Soares) atFemaleFantasticBook@gmail.com.

Submissions Guidelines and Timeframe

By February 15, 2016:

• Send one electronic copy of your 500-word abstract toFemaleFantasticBook@gmail.com;
• Include a selected bibliography of 10 sources;
• and a brief bio of less than 250 words.

By March 15, 2016:

We will notify applicants of our decisions.

By July 15, 2016

Full papers are due.

Call for Submissions: “Women’s Voices”

Short Story Journal is seeking short stories and critical articles on the theme of women’s voices for its spring 2016 issue.

–       Submissions should not exceed 4000 words (if possible, please use MLA format).
–       Email submissions as .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachments, and include your full name, contact information, and a brief bio on the first page.
–       Email short stories to April L. Ford: april.ford@oneonta.edu.
–       Email critical articles to Dr. Suzanne Black: suzanne.black@oneonta.edu.
–       The editors are accepting submissions until February 1, 2016.

Short Story is a refereed scholarly journal published every spring and fall. It is a joint publication of the University of Texas at Brownsville, SUNY College at Oneonta, and Claflin University, SC. The editors solicit manuscripts on every aspect of the short story, particularly those with a theoretical basis, as well as previously unpublished short stories, short stories in translation, book reviews, and interviews.