Calls for Contributions

Submissions call for Dark Mountain: Issue 25 Submissions are now open for Dark Mountain’s 25th issue, a book that explores the deeper questions around exclusion from the land in an age of escalating climate and ecological breakdown. What might it take to reawaken our sense of being part of an animate world?

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Dark Mountain: Issue 25 will be published in April 2024. The deadline for submissions is Friday 10th November. For details on what and how to submit, please read our submissions guidelines. ...

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1550–1800

Editors: Dr Rosamund Paice and Dr Claudine van Hensbergen (Northumbria University)

At a time of environmental crisis, it has never been more important to engage with the history of mankind’s exploitation of natural resources. This edited collection of essays will look at water, focusing on the arts of water management through the fields of the arts, cultural history, and the environmental humanities. Our aim is to shed light on the ways in which humans ...

In December 2024, the bilingual online journal Interfaces will issue a volume on the relation between the book, its materials and the lifeforms of the non-human world. It welcomes papers (in English or in French) showcasing the book as ecomedia that can be explored from the perspective of ecocritical intermediality (Bruhn). The theme of this volume will also reflect the environmental and ecocritical turn in art history (Anderson et al.; Patrizio), and it may prompt theoretical forays into media archaeology (Huhtamo and Parikka). ...

CFP: Special Issue of Interconnections: journal of posthumanism

A growing body of contemporary fiction and film, along with more political and practical networks, such as zines, conferences, and writing collectives, engage with fungal discourses to think about the porous and permeable limits of bodies, to reconsider our relationship with space, time, death and decay, and to imagine novel ways of perceiving, living, and resisting power. What is perhaps most attractive to this novel spatial concurrence of politics, ontologies, and knowledge lies in the fungi’s ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on transgender cli-fi and sci-fi. We welcome chapters examining climate fiction and science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. We have confirmed contributors from a dozen countries on six continents.

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than September 1, 2023.

A sampling of confirmed contributors includes:

Call for Paper on “Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation”

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:

Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation

Since the study encompasses the whole range of Indian Diaspora literature, the author ...

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning based at Boston University is currently soliciting essays for a special issue on the intersection of music and the environment. The issue is scheduled for online publication in January 2024. Submissions across all academic disciplines are welcome. We welcome, too, contributions from musicians and individuals working in the music industry. We are particularly interested in the ways musicians, composers, lyricists, and audiences have addressed or responded to environmental concerns. Contributors can focus ...

NTRODUCTION

“Ecolinguistics: Voices from the Global South” is a ground-breaking collection of articles that delves into the various interests and fields of research associated with ecolinguistics. This book, written by top researchers in the subject, provides a unique viewpoint on how language and ecology meet in the Global South. This book is a crucial resource for anybody interested in the connection between applied linguistics and the natural environment, from questions of decolonization and the promotion of Southern epistemologies to the practical applications of ecolinguistic ...

The Society for the Study of American Travel Writing (SSATW) seeks proposals for a panel on “Wildness and Wilderness in American Travel Writing” at the American Literature Association’s Fall Symposium (October 26-28, 2023, in Santa Fe, New Mexico). Scholarship on any region or era of American Travel Writing is welcome.

The unfamiliar, unexplored, and unsettled places have long captivated the American literary imagination and travel writing. Whether we think of wilderness as sacred, shrinking, imagined, or simulated, how has the spectacle of wildness, in ...

Chapter proposals are invited for Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature. Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/PostcolonialEcofeministLiteratureProposals no later than June 10, 2023.

This is a volume of literary theory and criticism guided by both postcolonial and ecofeminist insights. To be competitive, proposals must: