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)

Posted May 24, 2010. Poets for Living Waters seeking Gulf Coast Poem Submissions. Poets for Living Waters (http://poetsforlivingwaters.com/) is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history. Former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky describes the popularity of poetry after 9/11 as a turn away from the disaster’s overwhelming enormity to a more manageable individual scale. As we confront the magnitude of this recent tragedy, such a return may well aid us.

The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.

This online periodical is the first in a planned series of actions. Further actions will include a print anthology and a public reading in Washington DC.

If you would like to submit work for consideration, please send 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to:

poetsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com.

Editors: Amy King & Heidi Lynn Staples

June 18, 2010. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 16: Postcolonial/Global Ecologies. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our Winter 2012 edition which will focus on postcolonial/global ecologies.

Originating within the American and English academies, ecocritical discourse has in past decades exhibited a pronounced tendency towards solipsism and at times, ethnocentrism, in its primary focus on English and American national literary traditions and ecologies. In reaction, recent publications such as Ursula Heise's Sense of Place, Sense of Planet, Graham Huggan's and Linda Tiffin's Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and Pablo Mukherjee's Postcolonial Environments have challenged the field not only to expand its canon to include non-Anglo-American literatures but also to address ecologies and environments outside of England and America and to propose new theoretical paradigms of globality or cosmopolitanism in response to global crisis and accelerated environmental degradation throughout the Third World.

The nascent field of postcolonial ecocriticism has been observed by some critics to be mired still in analysis of "eco-centric" content or in aesthetic assumptions about mimesis that have already been problematized in mainstream ecocritical discourse. Other problems might include the disproportionate analysis and consecration of a handful of writers (cf. Ghosh, Sinha, Roy, Yamaguchi) whose texts seem to "fit" the theory to the exclusion of other forms, discourses and writers throughout the world; the fetishization of critique of binaries such as the West vs. the Rest or the colonizer/colonized which do not adequately represent the complexity of global environmental relations; or the difficulty of mobilizing global narratives of scientific environmentalism given the incommensurabilities of the impact of climate change on local cultures and environments-- whether the Sahara or the Sundarbans--and the wariness of endorsing imperialistic or universalizing Western discourses which potentially exclude local knowledge.

This special issue of Green Letters is dedicated to deepening discussion of the postcolonial and the global, and in particular, to theorizing how eco-aesthetics might encode both the economic world-system and the planetary, registering both first and second nature; produce formal revolutions which reflect non-Euro-American ecologies rooted in the specificity of local place; gesture towards ecoglobalist perspectives of environmentality; or generate an understanding of the political, cultural, and aesthetic differences between literary and critical approaches to the environment across multiple national traditions but also of the structural homologies and similarities of concern, particularly in those ways in which literatures respond to the uneven development projects of global capital and their impact on local environments and subjects.

The editors encourage submissions which attempt to theorize the complexity of current relations between different cores and peripheries throughout the world-system or the various formations of new imperialism and exploitation in relation to non-Anglo-American environments and ecologies. The formulation of "the West" vs. the "rest" is clearly insufficient here: what is the impact, for instance, of Chinese development, both within China and without, in Africa or the Pacific, and how is this represented in literature, whether on the level of content or form? Or what are the internal fissures of ecological and environment issues in Europe? Finally, the recent "airborne event" of the volcanic ash cloud emitting from Iceland was significant in its disruption of the seemingly unmappable circulations of humans and commodities, offering a glimpse of the ordinarily invisible global system and its contingency to the natural world, staging the absurdity of oil dependency and fragility of just-in-time delivery, and briefly enabling the imagination of what a far greater environmental crisis might entail. How might literary and cultural texts participate in a similar staging or mapping of a global imaginary?

Topics could include, but are not restricted to:

• How literature stages the intersections and tensions between social and environmental ethics in postcolonial or non-Anglo-American states

• How social and political crises are environmentally embedded and mediated aesthetically through formal and generic experimentation: not merely on the level of content

• How environmental discourses, aesthetics or theories (which have often been shaped to Western ends) are recalibrated, jettisoned, or transformed in different cultural/environmental contexts

• How relations between the local/national/global are mediated/represented in postcolonial and world literature

• Potential problematics/exclusions/blind spots of dominant theories of globality, planetarity, cosmopolitanism, or bioregionalism in relation to specific ecologies or literary fields

• Theorization of new methodologies of comparativism which consider different locations in the world-system alongside "earth-systems"

• A political ecology or analysis of the world literary field - why, for example, are a small handful of texts "consecrated" while the vast majority of texts are unconsidered?

The guest editor of this issue is Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin). 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 author-date style and with few, if any, footnotes (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 18 June. A decision as to which articles will be commissioned will be made by mid-July and the deadline for first draft submissions will be the end of January 2011.

June 30, 2010. Toward a Literary Ecology of Place: Studies in American Literature, Editors:  Dr. Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic, USA and Dr. Rob Friedman, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Proposals Submission Deadline: June 30, 2010
Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2010

Objectives of the Book :
Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature, environment, and culture, suggesting that the “eco” in “ecocriticism” remains a signal without a clear reference, let alone a clear means of articulation. Ecocriticism, as Dana Phillips rightly points out in The Truth of Ecology, has had little coherent connection with the science of ecology and its pressing ontological questions. One of the premises of this anthology is that the term “ecology” does not belong exclusively to science. However, ecology’s scientific origins and intent, and its specifically biological implications, form a significant and coherent part of what the editors are calling the methods of literary ecology. Our second premise is that place, both natural and manufactured, is integral to literary ecology. Yet, as Edward S. Casey summarizes in The Fate of Place, place is such a fundamental concept, it has evaded theorizing because of its immanence and omnipresence. In recognizing place in literature specifically, literary ecology seeks to reintegrate appreciation for “nature,” however conceived, with human dwelling. In short, literary ecology aims to find ways to philosophically and practically articulate place, so that it can be discerned in works of literature.

We invite authors to reach beyond the simply literary toward an interdisciplinary set of analytic tools, utilizing geography, cultural studies, philosophy, biology, history, and of course ecology, in their attempt to delineate a literary ecology of texts, responsive to these and other areas of inquiry:

•    Human geography
•    Marxist, feminist and postmodern theories of space and place
•    The nature and methods of interdisciplinary inquiry
•    Political and social activism
•    Environmental justice
•    Sustainability
•    The corporatization of the “green”

Prospective authors are urged to consider such questions as:
1)    In what sense do we use the term “ecology”? Where are the challenges and insights of ongoing ecological science?
2)    How can we better theorize the ecocritical effort? What are the methodological tools we are using?
3)    Where does human geography intersect with literary ecology? To what degree can place/space studies assist us?
4)    How does studying literature of the urban illuminate the nature-culture relation, the ecological, and ideas of nature? How may literary ecology best acknowledge and move beyond the urban/rural dichotomy?
5)    What can specifically literary and linguistic analysis add that is valuable in an ecological sense? That provides methodologies for articulating complex relationships in complex environments and places?
6)    Is literary ecology a theory of literary analysis, a practice of authors, a practice of critics, or all of the above? To what extent is literary ecology specifically nation- or culture-bound?
7)    How may literary ecology best acknowledge the strengths and limitations of the human perspective for describing a world both human and non-human?
8)    Where and how does literary ecology acknowledge history, memory, or the human and non-human past and its relation to present and future? Do texts predominantly look either backward or forward and what does the weight of this attention contribute to the revelations of literary ecology?
9)    What is the theoretical role non-human and human otherness in our work?
10)    Is literary ecology necessarily activist? Hopeful? Value–based? What is the relationship of texts to social change and what does ecocriticism presume?

Target Audience :
This book is intended for students of literature, ecology, place and space, and material culture, from upper-division college and graduate students to scholars of these and related fields.

Submission Procedures :
Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 1000 words on or before June 30, 2010. Proposal should clearly include the following:
•     An overview and outline of the general topic area to be address in the proposed chapter
•    A draft thesis statement summarizing the objective, focus, and purpose of the chapter
•     An explanation of the underlying research supporting the chapter 
•    An explanation of how the proposed chapter relates to the overall focus of this book and 
•    A brief professional biographical statement showing how the author’s work relates to his / her writing

Publisher:
The book proposal will be reviewed by The University Press of New England, The Center for American Places and the University of Alabama Press.

Important Dates:
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2010 
Author Notification: July 31, 2010 
Full Chapter Submission: September 30, 2010 
Editor’s Review Results Returned: January 1, 2011
Final Chapter Submission: July 31, 2011

Chapter Guidelines :
•    MLA format for text and works cited, using end notes
•    Chapters of 7500-10000 words
•    Authors will provide their own index terms with submission

Inquiries: Waldron@coa.edu, Robert.Friedman@njit.edu

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, and a 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

August 30, 2010. LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) VOLUME 2011, ISLAND WRITING: WRITING ISLANDS.

'Dreaming of islands—whether with joy or fear, it doesn’t matter—is dreaming of pulling away, of being already separate, far from any continent, of being lost and alone—or it is dreaming of starting from scratch, recreating, beginning anew.' So wrote Gilles Deleuze. But isn't this the Western view, the Northern Hemisphere perspective of island as refuge or island as site of colonisation? Southern islands need not be part of this frame. Nettie Palmer believed a place did not exist, except to the people who lived in them, until the islands, the places began to 'exist most formidably on paper'. And now, we have numerous island stories existing in various media. Joanna Murray-Smith, Dorothy Cottrell, E.J. Banefield, Randolph Stow, Oodgeroo Noonuccal are writers all linked powerfully in the public imagination with particular islands. Does each island need its own stories incomplete and place-making as each island has its own dreaming story towards the Murri sense. There are many hundreds of islands central to our region in the archipelago of the Great Barrier Reef alone (which includes Green Island where Nettie Palmer lived for nearly a year).

Is it the very boundedness of islands makes them different? The other powerful and contradictory metaphors of island, usually one or the other, as paradise or hell, open out on to other questions - about environments and Edens before the fall, move into other questions about cultural appropriation and tourism or discussions of convicts and the abject. Ecological change happens swiftly and are registered plainly in bounded spaces. Peter Hay argues the task of island art, the political task, is to engage with the land and sea and community, to construct an islandness imbued with cultural dynamism - that is through passionate engagement, and for drawing those links from the particular to the universal. Island embeddness offers an opportunity to interrogate divides between black and white, men and women, human and nonhuman, mass and high cultures, regional and cosmopolitan identities, and revisit the work of earlier writers.

The point of departure for this issue will be the environmental writings of Vance and Nettie Palmer and their writings about Green Island. Their 9 month sojourn became a search to understand the meaning of the island, the surrounding reef and its relationship to the sea, for all those who inhabited and used the islands and not only the humans, and the search in how to write about it. Nettie's poetic lyricism of modernism offered a form to entice the reader, but how do we frame this writing genre now (memoir, authobiography, eco-writing, travel) when we take into account the historical dimension? Historical dimensions and environmental embeddness are all the more important now with global warming; many of the low lying islands taking the intial brunt of the changes.

LiNQ calls for academic submissions that address Island Writing/Writing Island in its range of meanings, discussing literature and/or culture, present or past, with preference given to the Antipodean North: North Queensland, the archipelago of the Great Barrier Reef, the Pacific this side of the Equator. Similarly, LiNQ is seeking poetic and fictional treatments of writing islands and island writing from the evocation of a numinous island landscapes to the enduring effect of landscape, history, culture. Dr. Deborah Jordan of the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, will serve as guest editor of the special issue.

For fuller details and Submit manuscripts to
Email: d.jordan@uq.edu.au
Hardcopy: Dr D Jordan, EMSAH, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, Qld, AUSTRALIA

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE ON AUGUST 30, 2010 for Issue 27 December 2010.

September 1, 2010. "Oil Culture," special issue under consideration with the Journal of American Studies.

Guest Editors:
Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (rbarre@email.unc.edu)

Daniel Worden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (dworden@uccs.edu)

Petroleum has long been recognized as a dangerously volatile commodity whose illuminative and propulsive capacities are inseparable from its destructive potential. This catastrophic power has been reaffirmed by the succession of environmental disasters that have accompanied the global expansion of oil extraction--a series of ecological tragedies culminating in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout--and the array of social antagonisms, global political conflicts, and chaotic economic cycles that have developed around the industry since its beginnings. Despite its disastrous implications, however, oil came to be embraced over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an unassailable "fact" of everyday American experience, a core issue of national political platforms, and a reliable pillar of industrial and financial capitalism in the U.S. While much work has been done to track the material and political processes that made the dominance of oil capitalism possible, relatively little scholarship has addressed the rise of oil as a cultural problem.

For this special issue, we seek essays that explore the wide field of "oil culture" that has emerged around the American petroleum industry in the 150 years since its inception in northwestern Pennsylvania. More specifically, we are looking for articles that examine how painting, sculpture, video and digital art, film and photography, popular visual culture and music, television programming, the print and digital news media, literature, advertising, and other forms of public culture have contended with the volatile material of oil and the systemic shifts that it has produced, and in so doing contributed to, or contested, the reorientation of modern American life around oil consumption. We hope, ultimately, to assemble a roster of essays that elucidate the complex role that imaginative representations have played in the establishment of oil as the primary commodity underpinning modern economic expansion and a fundamental ontological construct shaping social and political life in the United States and beyond.

Papers might address a range of subjects and problems, including:

--artistic engagements with oil, the petroleum industry, and
petro-carbon consumption
--art, environmentalism, and sustainability
--documentary photography and oil
--cinematic and televisual interpretations of oil
--oil in popular imagery and music
--oil companies and cultural patronage
--museums and the oil industry
--oil advertising and marketing
--petroleum at World's Fairs and Oil Expositions
--architecture and the oil industry
--the material culture of oil consumption
--oil and the culture of automobility
--race, class, and gender in the oil fields
--oil, mobility, and subjectivity

Proposal Process:
Authors are asked to electronically submit an abstract of 500-1000 words and an abbreviated cv (two pages) to Ross Barrett (rbarre@email.unc.edu) and Daniel Worden (dworden@uccs.edu) by September 1, 2010. Abstracts should articulate the central arguments, historical and/or theoretical implications, and methodological approach of the proposed essay, and situate the essay within relevant scholarly conversations. The abstract and cv should be sent as Word documents or PDFs.

After reviewing the proposals, the editors will notify the selected authors and submit chosen abstracts to the Journal of American Studies by September 8, 2010. Upon acceptance by the journal, authors will be asked to submit a full copy of their article to the issue editors by January 2011. The full version of the article should not exceed 6000 words, and should be accompanied by a short abstract (200-300 words). All articles will go through the peer-review process, and it is on the basis of these reviews that articles will be selected for publication in the special issue.

For further information on the special issue, please see: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177429

For further information on the Journal of American Studies, please see: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AMS

31 October 2010. EJES: The European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16, Issue 1 on “Dislocations and Ecologies.”

This special issue of EJES (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13825577.asp) addresses the dislocation of bodies (human and non-human), concepts, cultures, and goods across borders of various kinds not just in relation to notions of mobility, but with special attention to their interaction with their surrounding environments.

How might we investigate cultural representations of dislocation and ecology with respect, for example, to topics like travel, tourism, species invasion, and international environmental justice? How do travel narratives account for the complex ecologies of knowledge formed by bodies in physical contact with new and strange environments? In what way are the environmental implications of physical travel depicted, and how do issues of class, race, gender, and nationality play out on the traveller's body? Or, more generally, how do cultural texts (including visual, screen, and written media), represent the effects of dislocations into specific environments? The editors of this special issue welcome contributions from scholars working in all fields of Anglophone literature, language, media and culture that engage with environmental approaches to dislocation, migration, and border crossings of all kinds. Interdisciplinary projects and theoretical accounts of relations between dislocation and ecology would be particularly welcome. Proposals for contributions are welcome on topics which might include, but are not restricted to topics and themes such as:

• ecocriticism and the cultural discourses of dislocation
• travelogues and their relationship to particular environments
• tourism and ecology
• physical travel and bodily knowledge
• imaginary travel and imagined landscapes
• postcolonialism and ecology
• cosmopolitanism and ecology
• international and transnational environmental justice
• migrant workers, labour and the environment
• travelling wastes, externalisation of environmental hazards
• species invasion and endangered environments
• environmental devastation and forced dislocation

Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:

- Alexa Weik <alexa.weik@unifr.ch>
- Christoph Irmscher <christoph.irmscher@gmail.com>.

The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.

Submission period September 1 - November 30, 2010. Blueline: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems and stories relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on the shaping influence of nature. We also welcome ecocritical essays or short non-fictional memoirs that interpret the literature and/or culture of the region or surrounding areas, including New York State, New England, and eastern Canada. Submission period is September through November. Decisions in mid-February. Payment in copies. Do not send previously published works. Simultaneous submissions considered if announced as such. Send manuscripts to Blueline, 120 Morey Hall, Department of English and Communication, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 13676. Electronic submissions welcome, as Word or html formatted files or as email messages to blueline@potsdam.edu.

January 1, 2011. Western American Literature. Special issue examining the urban and suburban West in literature, film, television, memoirs, and other forms.

We are interested in original work investigating the urban and suburban from a variety of critical perspectives. You might, for example, consider individual writers with a strong urban/suburban focus to their work, specific themes that reflect upon the increased urbanization of the West, place-based studies, environmental issues raised by sub/urbanism, or theoretical approaches that engage with and illuminate our perception of the topic (such as critical regionalism). Interdisciplinary essays and those taking innovative approaches to the topic are particularly welcome.

Your essay should not exceed 35 pages double-spaced, including endnotes and Works Cited. Please use endnotes, not footnotes, for substantive notes. Your manuscript should follow MLA style. All submissions are electronic to our guest editor, Neil Campbell, in Derby, England. Questions and submissions should go to n.campbell@derby.ac.uk directly. The deadline for submissions for this special issue is January 1, 2011.

Western American Literature also seeks general submissions offering innovative readings of canonical and noncanonical writers as well as wide-ranging pieces on the culture of the North American West, including Canada and Mexico.

Recent essays explore figures such as Ishmael Reed, Louis Owens, Wallace Stegner, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Snyder, N. Scott Momaday, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Cormac McCarthy, and Mike Davis as well as cultural geography, postcolonialism, aesthetics, California “orientalism,” Canadian and Mexican borderlands, US/Mexican War texts, the Lone Ranger radio show, Cold War representations of Indians in Disney’s Peter Pan, and CSI.

For general submission guidelines, see our Web site at http://www.usu.edu/westlit/submissions.htm. This call for submissions is ongoing.

Ongoing (posted April 21, 2010). Coriolis: Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies has just published its first issue at http://ijms.nmdl.org. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. We encourage submissions on any topic pertaining to maritime history, marine environmental history, and the literature, music, and art of the sea. We are particularly interested in publishing ecocritical studies on literature and the marine environment. Send queries to Daniel Brayton at dbrayton@middlebury.edu, or go to the website (http://ijms.nmdl.org).

Vol 1, No 1 (2010): Coriolis: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies

Table of Contents
http://ijms.nmdl.org/issue/view/473

Articles:

Editors and Authors by Paul J. O'Pecko

Here's for a Coriolis Effect in Maritime History by John B. Hattendorf

A Local Perspective of Hawaii's Whaling Economy: Whale Traditions and
Government Regulation of the Kingdom's Native Seamen and Whale Fishery by Susan A. Lebo

"Providence Brings to our Doors, the Delicious Treasures of the Sea":
Household Use of Maritime Resources in 18th-Century Connecticut by Ross K. Harper

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. 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 - jpollockleite@gmail.com
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.