Deadline: 06/10/2020
Contact: Kirsten Schuhmacher, UC Davis
Email: kschuhmacher@ucdavis.edu

The last ten years of work in early modern studies has looked increasingly toward nonhuman and more-than-human worlds as part of a broader environmental humanities turn towards the green and blue. This new direction has attracted an upcoming generation of scholars interested in studying Spenser and his ecological world. This call for submissions asks to hear these new voices and their experience working in Spenser’s ecologically dense world. Specifically, we are looking for broadly construed ecological, ecocritical, and/or environmental humanist readings of one of Spenser’s stanzas (either from The Faerie Queene or the shorter works). These readings should be a brief 500-700 words and will appear in a special fall edition of The Spenser Review on Spenser and ecocriticism. We are asking that new scholars (i.e. advanced students, post-docs, and early career scholars) contribute. Please send a 150-200 word abstract as well as the intended stanza to kschuhmacher@ucdavis.edu (editor) and tjwerth@ucdavis.edu (curator/reviewer) by June 10th. Please submit the abstract as an email attachment, preferably a Word (.doc[x ]) or .txt file.

Posted on April 29, 2020