Publication Calls for Papers

Page last updated January 23, 2010

Posted: January 23, 2010
Deadline: ongoing

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is an interdisciplinary, refereed academic journal whose mandate is to publish research on, and to provide a forum for discussion about, cultural productions for, by, and about young people. Our scope is international; while we have a special interest in Canada, we welcome submissions concerning all areas and cultures. Jeunesse’s focus is on the cultural functions and representations of “the child.” This can include children’s and young adult literature and media; young people’s material culture, including toys; digital culture and young people; historical and contemporary constructions, functions, and roles of “the child” and adolescents; and literature, art, and films by children and young adults. We welcome articles in both English and French.

More information can be found on our website: http://jeunessejournal.ca

Articles may be submitted directly to our website or as attachments in Word or RTF format to: jeunesse@uwinnipeg.ca.

Alternatively, submit three copies on paper, along with a stamped, self-addressed return envelope, to:

Mavis Reimer, General Editor
Jeunesse
Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
Canada

All submissions should conform to MLA style. The name of the author should be removed from the submission and appear on a separate page along with contact information (including phone number and e-mail address) and a 100-word abstract.

Posted: January 18, 2010
Updated: January 23, 2010
Deadline: June 1, 2010

Open Letter Special Issue: Lisa Robertson

Open Letter is seeking submissions for a special issue dedicated to the work of Lisa Robertson.  One of Canada’s most innovative and challenging writers, Robertson’s work reveals a persistent interest in the relationships among epistemology, civic space, gender, language and the visual. Her poetic engagements with thinkers ranging from Virgil and Lucretius to William Wordsworth and Lady Montague, as well as her work in and against forms such as the epic, the pastoral, the essay and the manifesto reflect her ongoing interest in literary and philosophical history and the pleasures and politics of form.  This issue invites writers and critics to engage with any aspect of Robertson’s work. Possible topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) Robertson’s work and:

Please send your submissions by email to Heather Milne h.milne@uwinnipeg.ca by June 1, 2010.

Posted: November 30, 2009
Deadline: February 15, 2010/August 30, 2010

Inspiring Collaborations:
Canadian Literature, Culture, and Theory
Essays Presented to Barbara Godard

Contributions are invited for an essay collection that will mark and celebrate the vast and profound reverberations and influences of the scholarship of Barbara Godard. We seek essays that register some connection with Barbara Godard’s work across and between the fields of literary and cultural criticism, feminist semiotics and translation studies, and social and institutional analysis. Because Barbara Godard’s contributions have been so marked by their generic and disciplinary border-blurring, we especially encourage submissions that take up that mantle. The title of this collection borrows the name of an event held in her honour in Toronto in December of 2008. We also hope that “Inspiring Collaborations” will move contributors to think of the festschrift essay written “in honour of” Barbara Godard as an instance of collaboration with her, propelled by creative flows between her work and their own. Essays might even be occasions for new collaborations with other writers. Thus, we especially welcome submissions that engage with a text of Barbara Godard’s, directly or indirectly, and/or jointly written submissions. Since her own practice embodies a spirit of intervention, counter-hegemonic mapping, and self-reflexive interpretation, potential topics are endless, but may concern one of the following:

Visual art contributions are also most welcome.

Please send 300-word proposals to Jennifer_henderson@carleton.ca  by February 15th, 2010. Please include a brief bio/bibliographical note. Completed essays will be due on August 30th, 2010. Essays should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words. Questions may be directed to any member of the editorial team: Ray Ellenwood (bgfestschrift@gmail.com), Jennifer Henderson (Jennifer_henderson@carleton.ca), Eva Karpinski (evakarp@yorku.ca), or Ian Sowton (isowton@yorku.ca).

Posted: November 4, 2009
Deadlines: November 15, 2009 and February 1, 2010

Nationalism(s) and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood

Deadlines: 15 November 2009 and 1 February 2010

This proposed collection of essays seeks to address the interplay between nationalism (or nationalisms) and cultural memory in a range of texts for or about young people, including books, periodicals, films, television series, games, tourism sites, websites, and archives. The overall collection will be concerned with the ways in which cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national narratives, featuring young characters and/or targeting young readers who are often assumed not to possess any prior cultural memory. Submissions that examine the circulation of such texts across national borders are particularly welcomed.

Possible topics include:

The collection of essays will be edited by Benjamin Lefebvre, a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Worcester. Deadline for 200-word abstracts and bionote: 15 November 2009. Deadline for 20- to 25-page chapters: 1 February 2010. Please direct abstracts to the editor by e-mail: ben@roomofbensown.net. Authors whose work is selected for inclusion in the volume will be invited to present part of their work in progress at a one-day symposium to be held at the University of Worcester in April 2010. Queries are welcomed at any time.

Posted: October 7, 2009
Deadline: June 1, 2010

Old Left, New Modernisms

Guest editor: Dean Irvine, Dalhousie University
dean.irvine@dal.ca

By bringing together a multidisciplinary cast of scholars who work at the intersection of leftist and modernist studies, this special issue of Canadian Literature will negotiate between competing cultural discourses, allowing their coextensive narratives to engage in dialectical exchange and reanimating debates between leftists and modernists of the early to mid-twentieth century. This dialectical approach seeks to address the conjunctures and contradictions of modernist and leftist cultural formations in interwar, wartime, and Cold War Canada, a dialectic that recognizes the anti-modernism and social-political radicalism of the old left as mediating discourses in the formation of modernist aesthetic practices. Whatever the storied antagonisms between modernists and leftists, and however distorted the retellings by critics and historians of the late twentieth century, new scholarship on literature, theatre, and visual art in early to mid-twentieth-century Canada has shifted over the past decade toward more complex conceptions of the leftist social and political orientations of modernist cultural production.

Contributors to this special issue are invited to submit papers that address a wide dispersion of disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests related to modernisms in Canadian literature. Essays are welcome on the relationship between modernisms in Canadian literature and the social, political, economic, intellectual, and cultural histories of the left. Of particular interest are essays that address, but are not limited to, the following topics in the context of modernist literatures in Canada:

Modernisms and Modernities

Cultural Formations, Institutions, and Practices

Modernism and Radicalism

Locations, Translocations, and Dislocations of Modernism

Modernism and Radical Subjectivities

Essays should follow the submission guidelines of the journal: http://www.canlit.ca/submissions.php. Cover letters should indicate that the article is to be considered for the Old Left, New Modernisms special issue.

Submission deadline: June 1, 2010.

Posted: September 9, 2009
Deadline: April 30, 2010

Adolescence in Canadian Literature / L'adolescence dans la littérature canadienne

Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, published at the University of New Brunswick since 1975, invites submissions to a special issue focusing on depictions of adolescence in Canadian literature, to be edited by Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball, Heidi Butler, and Benjamin Lefebvre.

As a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood, adolescence has been deployed as a complex metaphor in the literature of numerous countries, including Canada, which has often been depicted as an adolescent (or emerging) nation. The editors welcome original submissions on Canadian texts from pre-Confederation to the contemporary moment for and/or about adolescents, including literatures from all regions, time periods, and types, including depictions of adolescence that extend the range of thirteen to nineteen in either direction. Interdisciplinary approaches are also welcomed.

Possible topics include:

• Generic and ideological distinctions between literature for adolescents
(the "YA novel") and literature about adolescents

• Adolescent perspectives and family dynamics, including
narration/focalization

• Adolescent voices and the shaping of cultural memory

• Adolescent rebellion and cultural citizenship

• Adolescence and war, crisis, risk, politics/activism,
nationhood/nation-building

• Peer groups’ effects on adolescent maturity

• Colonial and postcolonial discourses of adolescence

• The contemporary bildüngsroman and künstlerroman

• Global vs. local, rural vs. urban adolescences

• Adolescence and/as performance

• First Nations, racialized, gendered, queer, and trans adolescences

• Adolescence in English and French Canadas

Submissions should not be longer than 7,000 words and should conform to the MLA Handbook, 6th edition. Please submit electronically via Word attachment to scl@unb.ca. Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010, with publication scheduled for late 2010 or early 2011. We welcome submissions in English and in French. For more information, visit the journal’s website at http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/ or contact Heidi Butler at Heidi.Butler@unb.ca.

Posted: August 25, 2009
Deadline: Ongoing

Northrop Frye Online

Joe Adamson (McMaster University) and Michael Happy (Mohawk College) are happy to announce the launch of a Northrop Frye web log, The Educated Imagination, which can be found at this link: http://www.theeducatedimagination.com. They are also launching an online journal, Myth and Metaphor, which welcomes articles on any matters related to Frye’s work and ideas, theoretical or applied.

Please send papers to: fryeblog@gmail.com.

Posted: July 13, 2009
Deadline: Ongoing

Call for Submissions to Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Opuscula is a new high-quality peer-reviewed, on-line journal/text series published by Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and specializing in short texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We seek submissions from scholars of a wide variety of diciplines and will include a diverse range of texts, including literature, philosophy, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks.

The goal of the journal is to establish open access to a substantial body of small but complete texts in scholarly editions to researchers and educators. Our first issue will be published in September 2010.

Submissions

Editions should generally be based on single witnesses although critical editions may be considered. Where texts are not English, translations may be appropriate but are not necessary. Texts should generally be under 6000 words in length, and each must be accompanied by an introduction in English of approximately 1500 words that provides historical, literary, and bibliographic context and codicological and palaeographic (or typographic) description. New editions of previously edited pieces may be considered but only if there are compelling reasons.

All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process and submissions for review must include facsimiles of any base manuscripts.

For more information regarding submissions or to propose a text, contact:

Frank Klaassen, General Editor
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
718 - 9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7N 5A5
frank.klaassen@usask.ca

Posted: January 26, 2009
Deadline: n/a

Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing Website

McMaster University Archives, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (U of Toronto) and Queen’s University Archives invite your participation in the Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing website to be launched in Autumn 2009.

We are contacting colleagues who may be interested in writing case studies of 500-800 words on a topic relating to Canadian publishing using archival materials from any of the three participating institutions. To date over 60 authors – senior and emerging scholars from across Canada – are writing. Studies are encyclopedic in nature, not heavily footnoted. Full credit will be given on the site.

General themes are:
Histories of publishing houses; People in publishing; Authors and their publishers/editors; Business of publishing (contracts & royalties, government support, marketing & distribution); Production (technology, design, illustration); Publishing and Canadian identity

We are particularly interested hearing from scholars who may already have used the publishers’ and authors’ papers at Thomas Fisher or at McMaster, but welcome all inquiries.

A list of topics is available at:
http://hpcanpub.mcmaster.ca/

For more information or to suggest a topic, please contact:

Thomas Fisher: Anne Dondertman: anne.dondertman@utoronto.ca
McMaster University: Judy Donnelly: donnellj@mcmaster.ca or Carl Spadoni: spadon@mcmaster.ca
Queen’s University: topics have been assigned

Posted: August 30, 2007
Deadline: None noted

ESC: English Studies in Canada
Call for Papers

ESC welcomes submissions on any topic which falls into the disciplinary purview of “English studies” broadly understood. All submissions are by electronic means only. Authors wishing to submit an article for peer review must go to ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/ESC/user/register, where they will be prompted to register with the journal as an “author” prior to following the instructions for submission on their user homepage. Since authors' names are not revealed to referees during assessment, the title but not the author’s name should appear on the uploaded article. All submissions require a 100 word abstract and a 50 word biographical statement. All articles and reviews must be prepared using parenthetical documentation and include a list of works cited as described in The MLA Style Manual, Chapters 4 and 5. In addition to scholarly and theoretical essays, ESC publishes book reviews, review articles, and short polemical essays on “the state of the discipline.” Preliminary inquiries and suggestions are welcome. Please contact the Managing Editor at esc@ualberta.ca.

Posted:May 9, 2008
Deadline: none noted

English Language Teaching

"English Language Teaching" is a new journal in English language teaching and education published by Canadian Center of Science and Education. We welcome research papers in English language teaching and education, theory, methodology and educational psychology in English language teaching.

Writing your manuscript in English and in MS-Word format, please send to: elt@ccsenet.org

For more information, please visit: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal.html

Posted: October 19, 2007
Deadline: none noted

Environmental Humanities Series
Wilfrid Laurier University Press

We are pleased to invite book proposals and manuscript submissions for a new book series in Environmental Humanities.

Series editor:
Cheryl Lousley, English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Editorial committee:
Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Environmental Studies, University of Vermont
Susie O’Brien, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Laurie Ricou, English, University of British Columbia
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, CRC in Sustainability and Culture, Environmental Studies, York University
Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

Description:

Environmental thought pursues with renewed urgency the grand questions of the humanities: who we think we are, how we relate to others, and how we live in the world. But unlike most humanities scholarship, it explores these questions by crossing the lines demarcating human from animal, social from material, and objects and bodies from techno-ecological networks. Humanistic accounts of political representation and ethical recognition are re-examined in consideration of other species. Social identities are studied in relation to conceptions of the natural, the animal, the bodily, place, space, landscape, risk, and technology, and in relation to the material distribution and contestation of environmental hazards and pleasures.

The Environmental Humanities Series features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. The scope of the series is broad: film, literature, television, web-based media, visual arts, and physical landscapes are all crucial sites for exploring how ecological relationships and identities are lived and imagined. The Environmental Humanities Series publishes scholarly monographs and essay collections in environmental cultural studies, including popular culture, film, media, and visual cultures; environmental literary criticism; cultural geography; environmental philosophy, ethics, and religious studies; and other cross-disciplinary research that probes what it means to be human, animal, and technological in an ecological world.

Bringing research and writing in environmental philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literature under a single umbrella, the series aims to make visible the contributions of humanities research to environmental studies, and to foster discussion that challenges and re-conceptualizes the humanities.

Forthcoming in 2008:

Jodey Castricano, ed. Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (cross-listed with Cultural Studies)

Nancy Holmes, ed. Introduction by Don McKay, Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems

For more information, contact:
Lisa Quinn
Acquisitions Editor
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
(519) 884-0710 ext.2843
Email: quinn@press.wlu

or

Cheryl Lousley
Series Editor
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Film Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
(519) 884-0710 ext.2197
Email: clousley@wlu.ca

Posted: September 13, 2007
Deadline: None Noted

New launch from Oxford Journals - CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the addition of Contemporary Women's Writing to our literature list. This exciting new fast-turnaround journal, unique in its field, critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present. The journal reflects retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women's writing.

Broad in its scope, CWW welcomes submissions relating to all literary forms and from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives.

For more information please visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/2996/1.

Posted: July 16, 2004
Deadline: not specified

CCL: Canadian Children's Literature

CCL is a bilingual refereed academic journal that advances knowledge and understanding of texts of Canadian children's literature in a range of media in both English and French. CCL publishes sound theoretically informed scholarship about all aspects of texts for Canadian children in both of Canada's official languages. The journal focuses on texts for and about Canadian children of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds both in terms of how the texts function culturally and ideologically in the lives of Canadian children and adults and of how they represent a specific kind of literature requiring consideration in terms of their artistry and of literary and cultural history and theory. CCL seeks articles from specialists in English and/or French literature, theatre and drama, media studies, literary theory, education, information science, childhood and cultural studies, and related disciplines on any and all texts for Canadian children in a range of contexts: the economic and cultural aspects of their production and consumption, the history and nature of children's literature and culture nationally and internationally, and literature and literary and cultural history and theory generally. CCL also seeks articles that explore the practical implications of the research it publishes for librarians, teachers, and other practitioners who work with child readers.

Articles may be submitted as attachments in Word or RTF format to: ccl@uwinnipeg.ca.

Alternatively, submit three copies on paper, along with a stamped, self-addressed return envelope to:

CCL, Department of English
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3L 1V9