Calls for Manuscripts
Below is a current listing of calls for manuscripts that have been sent to us. If you would like to post a call here, please send relevant information to the ASLE Managing Director. Deadlines are in bold.
Those interested in journal and book publication should also consult the following pages:
List of Ecocritical Journals
List of Ecocritical Presses
Book-Publishing Wisdom (from C. L. Rawlins)
February 15, 2010. Early English Studies Journal is accepting articles that are concerned with any aspect of medieval or early modern green/environmental topics for the 2010 issue, “Green Thoughts in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds.” We welcome articles between 20 and 30 pages (including notes) that interrogate ecological or environmental questions that arise in literary and historical texts approximately between the years 1400 and 1700. We are looking for a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches to the idea of the “green,” which could include but is not limited to investigations of interior and exterior landscapes, the conception of the pastoral, gardens in literature, the effects of pollution, literary celebration of country-house poems, scientific writings and treatises, and journals that record weather or other effects on the land and sea.
Early English Studies (EES) is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and is open to general submission. Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents (.doc not .docx). Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2010
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Amy L. Tigner
Assistant Professor
English Department
University of Texas, Arlington
February 15, 2010. The Ometeca Journal, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the relationship of the humanities and science, is seeking submissions on eco-critical approaches to Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures for the special 2011 issue. Deadline is Febrruary 15, 2010. Please send articles, MLA style, no footnotes or end notes, to bur3@psu.edu -- Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, Associate Professor, Penn State University, Guest Editor Ometeca.
February 15, 2010. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Ecozon@ welcomes contributions for the Autumn 2010 issue. Ecozon@ is a new journal published by GIECO (Spanish Research Group on Ecocritical Studies) and EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment). The first issue will come out in Spring 2010. The inaugural issue will consist of essays by prominent ecocritics discussing the new trends of Ecocriticism. As of Autumn 2010 each issue will have a general section and a thematic section. Therefore, we are including here a call for both sections.
General Section:
Submissions must be academic papers, works of artistic creation and book or film reviews expressing the relationship between human beings, culture and the environment. Academic articles will be double blind peer reviewed. The proposed essays (limit of 6000 words) together with a 300 word (maximum) abstract both in Spanish and English must be submitted online using the subscription guidelines (free submission) from the website: www.ecozona.eu by April 15th in one of the following five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1000 for book and film reviews and 100 lines for poetry. Every submission must follow the MLA format and the author declares responsibility and copyright on all materials included in the paper such as images, quotations, etc. Further details will be on the journal website in January 2010.
Thematic section for Autumn 2010
Greening across borders: the natural environment in a globalized world
Guest editor: Christa Grewe-Volpp
Recent studies in ecocriticism have questioned the relevance of the local in a globalized world. Instead of celebrating “rootedness” or “re-inhabitation” or “bioregionalism,” critics suggest to open up the boundaries of place, to think, as Buell maintains in his essay “Ecoglobalist Affects,” “against” or “beyond” nationness, to take an ecoglobalist stance, which is “a whole-earth way of thinking and feeling about environmentality.” Val Plumwood (Environmental Culture, 2002) stressed the need to go beyond the often proclaimed small-scale self-sufficiency of local places to grasp the global effects of ecological communities. In her recently published Sense of Place and Sense of Planet Ursula Heise argues for the need of an “eco-cosmopolitan” perspective against narrowly defined place conceptions. In the 1990s cultural geographer Doreen Massey already called for a progressive sense of place which is always in process, does not have fixed boundaries or single, unique identities, is a mixture of wider and more local social relations.
This issue of Ecozon@ aims to pick up these trends in ecocriticism and analyze the imbrications of the local and the global from a green perspective. It focuses specifically on a transnational environment as a socially and culturally dynamic place with flexible or porous borders which has crucial consequences for our understanding of the natural world. The essays should analyze concepts of nature that are a part of a progressive sense of place, they should reveal how nature and a globalized culture are mutually active, reflecting each other's interdependence. Essays on literature (fiction and non-fiction), film and the arts could include the following topics:
• the migration of plants and animals
• the transnational effects of ecological catastrophes
• home and the natural environment in a mobile world
• future visions of a green world without borders in science fiction
• the maintaining of strict borders and its effects on the natural environment
• fluid (permeable) borders and a progressive sense of place
• bioregions cutting across political borders
• a gendered sense of natural places in a globalized world
• notions of purity from a globalized green perspective
• green spaces in globalized cities
• traveling and the transportation of green ideas
• cultural diversity and intercultural relations in Europe as models for a transnational approach to environmental problems
Please send your proposal (about 300 words) to Christa Grewe-Volpp through the submissions section of the journal until February 15. The deadline for the submitted articles in either English or German (max. 6000 words, MLA style with footnotes) is April 15. All articles should be submitted via the journal platform (www.ecozona.eu).
March 1, 2010. Animals in Place. We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection investigating the relationship between animals and place. Multidisciplinary in its scope, the editors encourage submissions across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The editors envision a book that acknowledges and considers the role of place in the multiple situated
encounters between human and other animals.
Questions to be considered:
* How, if at all, do concepts of domestic, wild or feral places affect the contours and outcomes of encounters?
* How might the relational space change when we encounter individuals of a species in distinctly different places (i.e. enclosed versus open spaces)?
* In co-constructing knowledge about non-human animals, is space considered?
* How, if at all, are factors, such as chance, spontaneity and imagination, impacted by the locations we encounter animal others?
* What do non-Euclidean ideas of space offer to human-animal relationships?
We encourage potential contributors to negotiate the dynamic role of place in human-animal interactions and ethical relationships. Encounters in a variety of spatial and relational configurations will be included in the volume, enlivening and contributing to a collective imagining of animals in place, particularly the place of humans in a multispecies and multidimensional world.
Please submit proposals for chapters (500 words, maximum) and a short CV
by March 1, 2010.
Submissions should be sent to both Dr. Traci Warkentin (twarkent@hunter.cuny.edu) and Gavan P.L. Watson (gavan@yorku.ca).
Selected submissions will be notified by April 5, 2010. Completed chapters will be due by August 1, 2010.
For more information visit: http://www.gavan.ca/aip/
March 1, 2010. Writing the Jefferson: Creative Nonfiction Essays on Northern California and Southern Oregon
The border territory of the western half of northern California and southern Oregon is a region with a distinct landscape, people, and culture. The physical landscape of this region—site of the confluence of the Klamath, Siskiyou, Cascade, and Coastal mountain ranges and multiple watersheds (including the Rogue and Klamath Rivers)—defies artificial state boundaries and directly influences the region’s culture, including its local industry (including ranching, farming, orchards, timber, outdoor recreation, and others), history, and politics (such as water use issues in the Klamath Basin). The physical realities of similar natural landscapes and of geographical distance from more metropolitan areas of each state can lead to a sense of isolation for residents of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon and of familiarity to each other. As a result, residents from each state often feel a stronger connection to those across the border than they do to residents from the more populated regions of their own state, a fact reflected in the region’s history (such as when several border counties attempted to create a new state) and culture.
This is an invitation for submissions of proposals for creative nonfiction essays for an edited collection demonstrating your own engagement with some aspect of the region described above (although you do not need to be a resident of the region), whether it be the people, history, culture, natural landscape, geography, or (preferably) an exploration of the relationship between several. Your essay should resemble the style and forms of creative nonfiction (such as personal essay and memoir) and utilize abundant description, reflection, direct observation, personal experience, etc. Your essay should also reflect the peculiar sense of place that many residents of the region feel, possibly exploring the ways this is often determined by natural landscapes rather than artificial state borders or other boundaries. In addition, your essay could explore the larger themes of place, region, or locality and the ways these can have an influence on people and culture.
Proposals should range between 250 and 500 words. Please include a title page with the author’s name and contact information. Electronic submissions are preferred, but hard copy manuscripts will be accepted (although they will not be returned). Send submissions and questions to the addresses below. Submissions are due March 1, 2010. Proposals will be considered in the order in which they are received.
Steven Hall
Doctoral Candidate
English Department
Idaho State University
732 W. Whitman Street
Pocatello, ID 83204
orcaessays@gmail.com
March 26, 2010. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 15: Music
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK, explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our summer 2011 edition which will focus on music.
The study of music is a developing area in ecocriticism. Composers, songwriters and musicians in a wide variety of styles have come to understand their music through ideas about ecology or environmentalism. For some eco-philosophers, music is an important model for ecological relationality. Music also plays a central role in environmental protest and advocacy, while its consumption contributes to the ‘ecological footprint’ of the culture industries.
Topics, that can address any genre of music, could include, but are not restricted to:
• an ecocritical analysis of an individual songwriter, composer or genre
• music, audience and environmental protest
• theories of music and ecology
• music and eco-phenomenology
• ecocriticism and biomusicology
• a political ecology of the music industry
Green Letters is a peer-reviewed journal. Please note that each article should be accompanied by a brief biographical note. Articles should be typed double spaced, with references in the MLA style and any substantial footnotes at the bottom of each page (a more detailed style sheet will be provided on acceptance). Manuscript length should be between 4000 and 6000 words. Eventual submissions should be made via email with a MS Word attachment of the document. Please note also that articles should have a broad ecocritical flavour and be informed, to some degree, by ecological theory.
To have a submission considered please send an abstract (approximately 500 words) to GreenLetters@bathspa.ac.uk. The abstract should be sent as an anonymous attachment in Word document format along with a covering email giving your name, address and institutional affiliation. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 26 March. A decision as to which articles will be commissioned will be made by the end of April and the deadline for first draft submissions will be Friday 1 October 2010.
April 15, 2010. Essay Collection--Ecocritical Pedagogy and Early Modern Literature. Seeking for submissions for a collection of essays on teaching early modern literature, and Shakespeare in particular, from an ecocritical perspective.
The volume encourages essays that show how teaching early modern texts ecocritically can be a matter of engaging in political struggle on behalf of the environment. Presentist approaches and essays that look at Shakespeare in different historical moments (including contemporary performances/films) are particularly welcome. Those who are ecocritics who happen to teach Shakespeare or other early modern texts, in addition to those who would describe themselves as Shakespeare or early modern scholars, are equally welcome to submit.
Innovative, interdisciplinary, transgressive, and relevant approaches are encouraged. Please send submissions to Lynne Bruckner, Chatham University, lbruckner@chatham.edu.
May 14, 2010. The Brock Review is seeking scholarly essays and creative pieces for an upcoming issue on the theme of "Communicative Lands, Community Landscapes." This issue will focus on the perception, representation and phenomenology of landscapes as communicative devices and as centres of community. Submissions may focus on any historical era and/or geographical region. This issue will be co-edited by Dr. Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Department of Classics, Brock University).
Possible topics might include:
• political landscapes
• subjugated landscapes
• landscapes of subversion
• landscape and change
• storied landscapes
The Brock Review is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal published by the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University. Scholarly essays submitted to The Brock Review should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages in length. Essays should adhere to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and include endnotes (where necessary) and a bibliography. Manuscripts should be original works and should not be published (or under consideration for publication) in another format. Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal website (www.brocku.ca/brockreview) by the 14th of May, 2010. Each submission must be accompanied by a 100 word abstract, and a brief biography of the author.
It is the sole responsibility of the author to obtain any necessary copyright permissions for images accompanying an essay. If your essay is accepted for publication, you must provide copies of these permissions before your essay can be published.
Creative work (i.e.: paintings, photographs, poetry, short fiction or other types of work suitable to the online format of the journal) will also be subject to peer-review and should be submitted in an electronic format by the 14th of May, 2010. In the event that your submission is too large of a file to send submit online, CDs or DVDs can be sent to the address below. Creative work must be accompanied by a statement indicating the creator(s) of the piece have given consent to have it included in The Brock Review.
Dr. Keri Cronin
Editor, The Brock Review
c/o Department of Visual Arts
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, ON L2N 4C2 CANADA
May 31, 2010. Animal Studies and American Indian Literatures. Dustin Gray and Brian K. Hudson, editors.
We are now accepting submissions for a collection of essays to be potentially published in a special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures focusing on the intersections of Animal Studies and American Indian literatures. The proliferation of scholarly attention in the humanities to animals has been evident in the last decade. In 2009, both the journal of the Modern Language Association (PMLA, March issue) and the Chronicle of Higher Education (October issue) gave considerable space to the study of the relationships between human and nonhuman animals.
Topics on American Indian literatures may include but are not limited to:
•Representing (un)ethical treatment of animals
•Analyzing the intersections of gender and animality
•Recognizing relationships between humans and nonhumans
•Marking animality as an exercise of tribal sovereignty and/or jurisdiction
•Comparing the politics of vulnerability between species
•Examining the figurative language of animality
•Tracing the position of the animal within federal Indian law and policy
Of particular interest would be an approach working closely with Native-authored theory and criticism in dialogue with current Animal Studies theory.
Deadline for abstracts of 250 words or less is May 31st 2010. Deadline for completed articles is December 15th 2010. The length for completed articles is between 6000-7500 words including all notes and bibliographic information. No previously published or simultaneous submissions, please. All submissions and inquires should be sent to briankhudson@ou.edu.
June 1, 2010. Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention
This collection of essays will focus on terrain vague—marginal, semi-abandoned space in or along the edge of the city—as abstract concept, specific locale, and subject of literary, architectural, or otherwise artistic intervention.
Ignasi de Solà-Morales defines terrain vague as land in a “potentially exploitable state but already possessing some definition to which we are external,” or “strange places” that “exist outside the city’s effective circuits and productive structures” (119, 120). Gil Doron similarly defines “landscapes of transgression” as derelict sites where “nature has started to reconstruct the built or (now) ‘ruined’ environment. . . . space[s] that opened in the dichotomy of what we perceive as city and nature” (255).
We are particularly interested in responses to the idea, as expressed by Luc Lévesque, that “‘terrain vague’ offers a counterpoint to the way order and consumption hold sway over the city. Offering room for spontaneous, creative appropriation and informal uses that would otherwise have trouble finding a place in public spaces subjected increasingly to the demands of commerce, the ‘terrain vague’ is the ideal place for a certain resistance to emerge, a place potentially open to alternative ways of experiencing the city.”
We invite submissions from a range of fields, in particular literature, architecture, ecocriticism, urban studies, cultural geography, the visual arts, and film studies. Suggested topics may include:
Site and situation
Forms of documentation
Contextual definitions/theorizations
Urban wilds
Transgression and recreation
Urban natural history
Environmental justice
Interventions
Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words, accompanied by a brief bio, to site.situation@gmail.com. Inquiries are welcome. This information is also posted online at: sitesituation.wordpress.com. The deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2010. Completed essays will be due on 1 February 2011.
Manuela Mariani, The Boston Architectural College
Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts, Boston
June 30, 2010. The Backwaters Press Announces Letters From Grass Country: Essays on the Contemporary Poets and Poetry of the Great Plains, Edited by Mary K Stillwell and Greg Kosmicki.
• Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2010
• Publication date Fall 2011, perfect bound
• Scholarly or familiar essays about the poets of the Great Plains, their lives and their work
• Focus on new poets as well as established
• Cultural diversity strongly encouraged
• Interest in neglected poets of the region
• Broader essays about the influence on poetry and poets of the region—culture, ethos, geography, history, etc. welcomed
• Submit Word 97 or newer attachment by e-mail to: Lettersfromgrasscountry@yahoo.com
• For further info: www.thebackwaterspress.com
July 1, 2010. Our Earth, Nature, Environment and Ecosystem: Inaugural issue of the Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies: An Online Open Access Journal invites papers (essays, articles, conference/seminar papers) and book reviews from teachers, research scholars, activists, enthusiasts from all over the world on the topic, “Earth, Nature, Environment, Ecosystem and the Human Society” for the Inaugural Issue to be published in January, 2011. Keeping in mind the global phenomena of the crisis of the indigenous languages, the journal is going to be a bilingual one. Papers focussing on any related area can be submitted from the following disciplines either in Bengali or English: Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Education, Music, Economics, Commerce and Mathematics.
Though we are open to any suggestion for the inclusion of any topic, we give a tentative list of areas for submission:
• Ecocriticism
• Ecofeminism
• Environmental disasters in History
• History of Environmental Changes
• Conception of Dis/harmony between the natural and the human worlds in literature
• Philosophies of Environment, Nature and the Mother Earth
• Political theories, debates and movements involving the crisis of environmental changes
• Teaching Environmental Studies Effectively
• Nature, Environment and Music
• Eco-friendliness and industrial production
• Social and Environemental Accounting
• Social Cost of Water and Wind Polution
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Common Properties
• Environmental Consciousness of Students
For submission of writings, please send:
* Completed article (3000-5000 words)
* Abstract (100-200 words)
* 3 to 5 Keywords
* Brief CV
For Book Reviews:
* 1000-1500 Words
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 07.01.2010
Website Address: http://bhattercollege.org.in/bjmsjournal.php
Contact: editor@bhattercollege.org.in
Ongoing. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (www.religionandnature.com/journal) welcomes submissions and special issue proposals from any disciplinary perspective, with any regional or temporal focus, that explore the relationships among human beings and what are variously understood by the terms religion, nature, and culture.
The JSRNC is a quarterly, interdisciplinary, peer-refereed journal, that has been publishing since 2007. It is affiliated with the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (www.religionandnature.com/society). Further information about the journal, including guidelines for special issue proposals and for preparing manuscripts for submission, as well as samples of the diverse types of articles the JSRNC publishes, can be found at http://www.religionandnature.com/journal.
Please feel free to contact the editors at journal@religionandnature.com with ideas, suggestions, or questions. If the hyperlinks above do not work, simply cut the following url into your browser and go to the society or journal domain in http://www.religionandnature.com
Ongoing. Invitation to Join the “Environment” Keyword Working Group
At the 2007 American Studies Association-Environment and Culture Caucus (ASA-ECC) Business meeting we got the ball rolling on a session that was planned, accepted and presented at the 2008 ASA meeting. This session, “Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture,” was modeled on and linked to Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler’s NYNU Press book, Keywords for American Cultural Studies (2007). The ECC’s session was chaired by William Gleason and comment was provided by Lawrence Buell. Papers were presented by Karla Armbruster, Nature; Kent C. Ryden, Place; Basia Irland, Eco-Art; Randel D. Hanson, Sustainability; and Christopher Sellers, Environmental Justice.
Also at the ASA’s 2008 meeting, Bruce Burgett and Deborah Kimmey presented a session on the website they and Glenn have developed as a place to continue developing their keywords project online. Please see http://www.keywords.nyupress.org/ In the book and on the site, you will find Vermonja R. Alston's keyword essay on environment.
Working with Bruce and Glenn and building on the momentum from the "Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture" panel at the 2008 ASA, Joni Adamson and Bill Gleason of the ASA's Environment and Culture Caucus have launched a special Keywords Blog to create a new "state of the field" inventory and analysis of the central terms in the study of environment and culture. This project will be hosted by the NYNU Keywords site and administrated by Deborah Kimmey of the University of Washington. Ours will be the first working group exploring the possibilities of developing projects through the Keywords for American Cultural Studies site.
If you go to the homepage for the Keywords site, you will be able to view a Powerpoint of Bruce’s 2008 ASA session on the possibilities for working groups using the site. Deborah Kimmey, who administrates the website, was part of this panel. You can also view a blog on the session that took place both before and after the conference session. The blog highlights discussions surrounding the value of online projects leading to both online publications and traditional publications.
The goal of our working group’s project is to build on Vermonja Alston’s essay on “Environment” in Keywords for American Cultural Studies and create a new “state of the field” inventory and analysis of the central terms we currently use in the study of environment and culture. We intend to develop an expanded list of “keywords” in this field through collaborative conversation and scholarly exchange. Like Keywords for American Cultural Studies itself, the roots of this project may be found in the iconic “blank pages” at the end of Raymond Williams’s Key Words, and one of our goals is to inscribe our field more fully into those pages. At the same time, we wish more specifically to expand and reconsider the influential inventories already included in such important volumes as, for example, Lawrence Buell’s The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005), Carolyn Merchant’s Radical Ecology (1992; 2005), and the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2004), which have already offered powerful models for identifying and defining central terms for the study of environment and culture.
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and departments to join with us in this project. Our first step will be to develop, collaboratively, an expanded list of “keywords” in the field. We see the blog thus first as a space to discuss potential terms, in the process modeling and reflecting on the ways we see our disciplines (and inter-disciplines) contributing to the broader critical conversations surrounding environmentalism, environmental justice, sustainability, place, climate change, and other central topics. We thus also imagine this shared space, in other words, as a place to discuss the ways that different fields, in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, might work together to solve interlinked social and environmental challenges.
After we have generated an expanded list of terms, we will work (likely through the Keywords Collaboratory) to produce Keyword-style entries for a new volume on Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture. As the first research working group to utilize this site, we will be participating with the site organizers in imagining what can happen in online research spaces and collaboratives.
If you have any questions, please email either Joni Adamson (Joni.Adamson@asu.edu) or William Gleason (bgleason@Princeton.EDU). We look forward to the start of an interesting conversation.
Ongoing. The Journal of Ecocriticism is an electronic review that focuses on research which investigates the links between nature, society and literature. It invites manuscripts that address any issue of interest to ecocritics, and especially encourages new scholars in the field to submit work to the journal. Proposals for special issues are also encouraged. Please visit http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe for more details.
Ongoing. Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, a peer-reviewed, open-source academic journal, is proud to announce both a general Call for Papers for its upcoming June and December issues and its recent move from California State University, Fresno to a new home as the flagship journal of the Ecopedagogy Association International. Green Theory & Praxis represents a scholarly effort to present research papers and essays at the transformative nexus of ecological politics and culture, social structures, sustainability education and ecocriticism. The editorial board takes the position that many human societies and their attendant political economy and cultural norms depart strikingly from what is needed to maintain ecological harmony and planetary/ species flourishing. We offer a forum for careful study of the theoretical and rhetorical positions, political and economic adjustments, behavioral and institutional alterations, pedagogical and cultural mobilizations, and spiritual emergences that will or should emerge in response to increasing ecological damage of both a physical and psychic nature. We seek critical analysis of the root causes of various ecological crises and to link theory to concrete prospects for social change through pedagogy broadly conceived. We anticipate transdisciplinary papers, and invite scholars and activists from throughout the world to submit manuscripts for peer review. Please visit http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org/index.php/journal to submit your work online and receive more information.
The book review editors at Green Theory and Praxis are also looking for reviewers in various areas of Green Studies. If you would like to join our reviewers list, please send a cover letter and vita to the editor of the appropriate area below:
Ecocriticism - Richard Pickard - rpickard@uvic.ca
Ecoliteracy and Environmental Education- Jeri Pollock - jeri.pollock@canteiros.org
Ecopolitics and radical political theory - Sean Parson - sparson@uoregon.edu
Environmental communication - Elizabeth Dickinson - edickins@unm.edu
Environmental Film - Salma Monani - mona0046@umn.edu
Environmental-political economy - Samuel Fassbinder – cassiodorus.senator@gmail.com
Ongoing. Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies (http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal published by DePauw University and edited by Ralph Acampora, Lynda Birke, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Joan Gordon, Tora Holmberg, Susan McHugh, and Sherryl Vint. Humanimalia has three aims: to explore and advance the vast range of scholarship on human/animal relations, to encourage exchange among scholars working within a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and to promote dialogue between the academic community and those working closely with animals in non-academic fields.
We invite innovative work that situates these topics within contemporary culture via a variety of critical approaches, including but not limited to feminism, queer theory, critical race studies, political economy, ethnography, ethnozoology, literary criticism, science and technology studies, and media studies. Ideally, we seek papers that combine approaches, or at the very least draw upon research in other disciplines to contextualize their arguments. As much as possible, we seek papers that connect their analyses of animals and human/animal interactions to existing material practices related to animals or the discourse of animality.
We publish articles of 5000-9000 words and seek both broad, theoretical submissions that have a conceptual focus and intervene in the field of animal studies, and also more particularly focused works that situate their arguments within more specific fields, debates and examples. Articles are blind peer reviewed.
We also invite concise, thematically contained short essays that provide insight into current developments and debates surrounding any topic related to animal studies (1,500-2,500 words). Humanimalia also reviews items of interest in the fields of animal studies, including books, new journals, DVDs, and conferences. Reviews should involve a description of the item's content, an assessment of its likely audience, and an evaluation of its importance in a larger context (1,500–2,500 words). Review submissions undergo editorial review.