Calls for Contributions

RES RHETORICA journal (https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/about)

Rhetoric of Ecology in Visual Culture CFP Vol. 8 No 2 (2021)

“There is no PLANet B,” reads the inscription on a cardboard poster held by the organizers of the 3rd Kraków Green Film Festival (https://www.greenfestival.pl/) to be held on August 13-23, 2020. The great popularity of this international festival proves the importance of the issues raised by the filmmakers who are “focused at improving the culture of life in accordance with the «green» values.” The films presented at the festival (available ...

Request for Chapters Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts Deadline for Proposal Submissions: October 15, 2020.

We invite chapter proposals from both scholars and practitioners of environmental and disaster risk communication for an edited collection which the ATTW Book Series Editor, Tharon Howard, has invited us to submit for consideration for the research line of the ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication.

Edited by Samuel Stinson, Minot State University and Mary Le Rouge, Kent State University

For the past twenty years, scholars ...

A special issue of ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture (http://www.zaa.uni-tuebingen.de)

Guest Editors:

Moritz Ingwersen, American Studies, University of Konstanz,

Timo Müller, American Studies, University of Konstanz

This special issue seeks to address the construction of American subjectivities and cultural narratives by tracing the material elements that sustain and suffuse them. Many American foundation narratives center on the struggle of a bounded heroic individual against the unruly forces of a “natural” environment that taunts and incites fantasies of human mastery, ...

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Call for papers Pandemics in European Literature (20th – 21st ce.): Theory and Practice

Guest Editors: Nikoleta Zampaki, PhD Candidate of Modern Greek Philology, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, e-mail: nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr, nikoletazampaki@hotmail.com

Peggy Karpouzou, Assistant Professor of Theory of Literature, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, e-mail: pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr

Paper proposals are invited for a special issue on the topic of Pandemics in European Literature (20th -21st ce.): Theory and Practice and they might explore the topic of pandemics in the European Literature. ...

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) is currently accepting proposals for participants to be featured on our recently launched podcast series, EcoCast. Scholars and educators doing work related to ecocriticism, environmental and social justice, community-based learning, and any other topic that falls under the purview of ASLE’s vision are welcome to submit proposals for participation in the podcast. Proposals can come from individual scholars or small groups (3-4), with preference given to scholars proposing topics that have not been ...

Discourses of contamination and pollution have long figured in crime writing. Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century, crime fiction has frequently elucidated a correlation between transgressive acts and the topographies in which they occur. Within this, it is the detective’s heightened capacity to interpret material and spatial signs – often through the embracement of new technologies and innovative modes of deciphering the social body – that allows for the containment of deviancy and restoration of order. Whilst crime fiction’s mutability has enabled ...

Proposal Deadline – August 23, 2020

Lexington Books welcomes book proposals for edited volumes, co-authored books and single-author, scholarly monographs for the series “Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives”.  This series seeks to explore the subject of ecofeminism from a number of diverse perspectives. The governing assumption of the series is that ecofeminism is not only a mode of scholarly discourse and analysis, but also a hub for social formation and action. What distinguishes this series in particular is that it ...

According to the United Nations’ environmental risk index, a by-country report on the effects of global climate change, the inhabitants, locales, and economies of global south nations will be disproportionally affected as global warming intensifies. Many of these nations are projected to be hit by a triple whammy: rising populations, combined with already-vulnerable economies and spikes in severe weather events will result in massive disruptions to livelihoods and cultural practices, as well as mass migrations as environmental refugees flee to more habitable areas. ...

The Cape Comorin Publisher’s Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities. The aim is to explore the disciplines of ecocriticism into comparative literature (American, European, Indian Literature (19th-21st ce.), ecofeminism, ecopoetics, eco-/bio-art, ecopsychology, ecoaesthetics, ecomaterialism, environmental communication, environmental history, ecophenomenology, energy and natural sources, petrocultures etc.

The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences. The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields ...

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transgender Literary Theory and Criticism. We are seeking chapters that show how transgender theory can provide novel insights for developing literary theory and conducting literary criticism, as well as chapters that analyze specific literary works that explore transgender identity and experience from the perspectives of a variety of literary theories. A sampling of confirmed contributions follows: