Calls for Contributions

Storied Deserts: Re-Imagining Arid Environments

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2021

Celina Osuna, Arizona State University

Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University Contact email: tynana@cardiff.ac.uk or celina.osuna@asu.edu

Desert landscapes and ecologies have become central to our perceptions of space and place and to the stories we tell ourselves about the environment. In Western traditions, we frequently see deserts represented as dead or valueless, or merely as exotic backdrops. Such depictions often encode racism and histories of colonial violence. Our conceptions of the desert as wasteland or hostile wilderness can be traced back to Biblical ...

“From Literary Composition to Cinematic Adaptation: A Study of Indian Cinema through Popular Literature”

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from academics and writers for publication in an edited volume with ISBN. Authors are requested to strictly follow the submission guidelines mentioned herewith in their papers. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication. The proposed title of the volume which is below, may subject to change:

From Literary Composition to Cinematic Adaptation: A Study of Indian Cinema through Popular Literature

BRIEF ...

Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the fields of composition, acoustic ecology, bio-acoustics, ethnomusicology, historical musicology, biology as well as ecocriticism, biosemiotics, ecosemiotics, phenomenology.

Ethnomusicology Review would like to invite you to share perspectives from your research for our online platform “Sounding Board.” Texts on any of the following subjects are welcome:

-Music and Climate Change

-Music in the Age of Anthropocene

-Post humanities and sounds /music ...

Brill gladly invites authors to contribute to their book series “Nature, Culture, and Literature” (www.brill.com/NCL). This series is dedicated to publications which approach literature from an ecological standpoint. It involves the practice of ecocriticism, focusing on critical textual analysis and theories on human/nature relationships. It is open to scholars in green media studies, environmental history, philosophy, social and cultural theory, and linguistics, as well as national literatures and comparative literature.

Are you interested? Submit a proposal and/or manuscript to Christa Stevens, Acquisitions Editor (Stevens@Brill.com).

CFP: Essay or collaboration for the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics by scholars from, and/ or writing about, South-East Asia, Scandinavia, or Africa.

Please query ASAP to ecopoetics2020@gmail.com with a proposed topic. Indicate what geographic areas, time span etc. your essay would cover and if possible which writers you are interested in addressing. We will respond with a request for an abstract if the topic is of interest and does not duplicate prior commitments. The draft essay of approximately 5000 words will be due ...

Chapter proposals are invited for the book Ecofeminist Drama: Environment, Gender, and Theatre. Interested authors should send a 300- to 500-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published chapter or article to Dr. Douglas Vakoch at dvakoch@ciis.edu by April 28, 2021. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.

Confirmed chapters include:

Introduction. Ecofeminism and Drama, Işıl Şahin Gülter, PhD, Department of English Language and Literature, Fırat University, Turkey Drama, Displacement, and Ecofeminist Advocacy in Africa, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, PhD, Department of the Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, ...

We invite contributions to the second issue of the Journal of Posthumanism, an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal promoting innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM.

Submission Deadline: 2 August 2021

We invite papers, commentaries, interviews, book reviews, and artistic works investigating the posthuman condition in its diverse modes of being and knowing.

All submissions should follow the latest guidelines of APA style referencing. You are welcome to submit full-length papers (5000-6000 words), commentaries (1000-2000 words), book ...

CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Issue of Studies in American Fiction “The EcoGothic”

We invite submissions for a special issue of Studies in American Fiction devoted to the ecoGothic, an emergent critical approach that explores the intersections between the Gothic imagination and the natural world. The ecoGothic offers suggestive pathways toward theorizing the environmental humanities by investigating how such texts at times harbor the monstrous, the spectral, and the sublime. Gothic anxieties haunt some of our most environmentally-focused literature. Likewise, natural elements and environmental concerns emerge, ...

Chin Music Press establishes environmental imprint, Reverberations Books Santa Cruz, CA—3/8/21— Independent publisher, Chin Music Press, has launched a new imprint focused on environmental issues. Reverberations Books will publish writings on critical topics including climate change and environmental justice as well as environmental preservation.

Reverberations Books founder, Gregory Graalfs of Santa Cruz, California, “has been a close partner during his time in the print business,” says Bruce Rutledge, publisher at Chin Music Press based in Seattle, Washington. “Greg has helped shepherd some of our most memorable books through the publishing process ...

Multiple Knowledges. Learning from/with Other Beings

“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumer- able solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. […] After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. […] But ...