Tuesday 3 July 2018

Call For Book Chapter: Perspectives on India: History, Society and Polity Since 1857- with ISBN Number










CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER
Contributions are invited from research scholars and early academics for an edited volume (ISBN numbered) with the working title of “Perspectives on India: History, Society and Polity Since 1857”. The idea of the book is to historically evaluate the patterns and factors of India’s socio-political transition since 1857. It is expected that the articles will explore in detail how the socio-political structures of Indian society has been transformed during the colonial and post-colonial period and how these changes continue to influence contemporary Indian history, society and polity.   








It is hoped that the proposed book will be published by November, 2018. Chapter submissions should be unpublished original articles that may cover the following areas:  
Indian society
India’s colonial experience
Colonialism and power
Colonial influence
Changes in the socio-political structure
Gender issues
Caste and colonial transformation
Caste and gender in modern India
Indian Nationalism
Regional responses to colonialism and nationalism











Those who are interested to submit a chapter may send a detailed abstract of 500 words (including a working title and bio-note) by 30th July, 2018 to vineethmathoor@gmail.com
Contact Email: 

Tuesday 22 May 2018

CFP: Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) Volume 27 (March, 2019)












About DUJES
Since its inception in 1976-77, the Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) (ISSN 0975- 5659) has been providing a space for analysis, intervention and research across a wide range of areas related to English Studies. It is an annual peer-reviewed journal which publishes full-length articles on all aspects of English Studies, both theoretical and practical. The journal invites relevant contributions in areas such as Literature(s) in English as well as English translations, literary criticism and theory, issues related to research and research methodology, linguistics, ELT, and related fields of study. The journal also publishes reviews of texts, reference books and scholarly work related to the discipline. It is a peer-reviewed journal and all contributions are sent out anonymously to the Board of Reviewers for evaluation. Therefore, the name of the contributor and his/her full official address along with a short biographical note (not exceeding 100 words) and e-mail id should be given in a separate page to facilitate confidential peer reading. The contributors are expected to conform strictly to the following guidelines: 
Manuscripts of the full-length articles should be between 4000-8000 words (inclusive of works cited and endnotes) and the Reviews must not exceed a word limit of 2000. 
The manuscripts should be prepared strictly according to the MLA Handbook (7th edition) style. 
Endnotes must be used rather than footnotes. 
Works cited should be included in the manuscript. 
Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript for publication in other journals is not allowed and the work should not have been published previously. 


The next issue of DUJES (Vol. 27) is scheduled for publication in March, 2019. Contributions for possible inclusion must reach the Editors: Dr. Meena Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, and Dr. Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, by 31st October, 2018, at dujes78@gmail.com.











Contact Info:
The research papers for publication may be sent in the following email id: dujes78@gmail.com.


For further information and queries, write to:
The Editors, DUJES (Vol. 27)
Department of English,
Dibrugarh University,
Dibrugarh-786004
Assam, India.






Email:- basildarlongdiengdoh@dibru.ac.in for any further queries and concerns.

Contact Email: dujes78@gmail.com
URL: http://www.dibru.ac.in

Thursday 10 May 2018

CFP Themed Issue: Human Rights and Literature (Ed. Prof. Pramod Nayar)










Special Issue: Human Rights and Literature (Vol. 10, No. 4, September 2018)


To be edited by

Prof. Pramod K Nayar
Dept. of English, the University of Hyderabad, India


Human Rights and Literature has now acquired considerable standing as an ‘interdiscipline’, as one anthology characterizes it. With a keen political, both state and humanitarian-activist, interest in refugees, the displaced and the injured, not to mention a market for misery, the last decades of the twentieth  century has seen the rise of varied narratives – memoirs, testimonies, eyewitness accounts, and literature – by and around these categories of humans.

Critics have examined the narrative traditions of Human Rights, the idea of the ‘person’ in this discourse, literary genres most congenial to mapping the ‘human’ and the human’s rights. Distinguished literary-cultural scholars such as James Dawes, Joseph Slaughter,  Elizabeth Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis, Domna Stanton, Elizabeth Anker, Lynn Hunt, among several others, have pioneered the study of the narrativization of the human, and therefore of Human Rights. With a quickening interest in ‘precarious lives’ in the work of Judith Butler, Adriana Cavarero, Bryan Turner, and others, conditions and narratives of precarity as documented in Literature have also come in for attention. Tangentially, the work of scholars like Hillary Chute on graphic novels have illuminated the role the medium and the genre plays in documenting suffering and the ‘personhood’ of victims.
























This special issue seeks papers on the interface, Literature and Human Rights. Essays can examine a single text or group of texts/authors as these develop ideas about the person, her/his ‘social ontology’ and rights. We are interested in areas such as ecological crisis and Human Rights, biomedicine and Human Rights, canonical authors and their constructions of victims, the human and the subhuman, to mention a few possible realms for exploration.
Completed essays, within 5000 words, must reach the Guest Editor by 10 July 2018. Preliminary enquiries, preferably clearly focused ones, are welcome.














How to submit:
Please your submission to pramodknayar@gmail.com and editor@rupkatha.com following the Submission Guidelines at http://rupkatha.com/submissionguidelines.php. Please do not submit through the Submission Portal (http://rupkatha.com/review/index.php/rjis). This applies only to this issue.
Submission Deadline: July 10, 2018

Tentative Publication Month: September 2018    

Wednesday 4 April 2018

CFP: Anthology on Trauma Literature: An Echo of Ignored Screams











Call For Articles:

Psychology abounds in literature as it reflects and translations the inner world of human beings. This has its multiple manifestations in almost all the genres of literature from Aristotle to Freud, from Chaucer to till date writers. Needless to say, it is also associated with feminism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary criticism etc. Trauma, memory, pain, wound not only affect the psyche of characters but also divide, destroy and transform their identity. Trauma and pain have been portrayed through memories, introspection, retrospection, foreshadow, flashback and awful remembrances in literature.








This anthology on Trauma and Literature would expand trauma’s conceptual framework in literature and psychology, helping us understand the role of trauma in the division, destruction and formation of identities. Some sub-themes have been listed below but are not limited:
Trauma and childhood memories in literature
Trauma and child abuse
Trauma in women writing
Trauma and war
Trauma and terrorism
Trauma in Post-colonial Studies
Trauma in Film Studies
Trauma in Theatre
Trauma in Third and Fourth World Literature
Trauma and Rape
Psychological theories and approaches towards trauma
Traumatic literature
Literature and psyche
Psychology and trauma
Trauma in LGBT Literature
Trauma in Partition Literature
Truama in Diaspora Literature











Editing Requirements:
● Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: 1.5 lines, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides
● Title of the paper: bold, Sentence case (Capitalize each word), centered
● Text of the paper: Justified. Font & Size: Times New Roman – 12
● References: Please follow MLA style (8th Edition)
● Articles should be submitted as MS Word attachments only
● The length of article should be 3000-5000 words
Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars/ faculty/ researchers/ writers/ professors from all over the world. The book will be published with an ISBN by a renowned publisher.















Deadline for submissions: December 28, 2018
Contact email: englishlanguageesp@gmail.com

Contact Info:
Editor
Dr. Priti B.Sharma, 
Asst. Professor, 
Amity University Mumbai.
Email Id: englishlanguageesp@gmail.com

CFP: Parenting Through Pop Culture: Making Sure Media Matters













CALL FOR PAPERS
It has become nearly impossible to raise children without them being influenced by popular culture, even when screen time is restricted. Whether it be in the form of radio, television, paperback children’s novels, toys, or advertising, the media is increasingly shaping the identity of those who consume it. The purpose of this collection is to create concrete strategies for parents to use that will stop their kids from being passive consumers of popular culture by turning them into active participants. Thus, unlike other parenting books that warn about the dangers of the media, this book not only admits the inevitability of the media’s influence in modern life but works to produce approaches that turn this influence into a positive force. No doubt, despite all the problematic representations that saturate popular culture, many contain themes that speak toward equality, saving the environment, liberation, and beyond. And, while many of these concepts can be readily critiqued as well, by fostering critical conversations between parents and children about the media even the worst of these representations can serve as a learning moment that can positively impact kids. As editors of this collection and parents ourselves, we believe that meeting kids on their own ground can make it easier to talk about complex concepts such as race, gender, sexuality, war, immigration, and so on in a way children can relate. More importantly, having such conversations also better equip children to deal with the power of media as they grow older because they are taught to be aware of representations and what they consume. In doing so, this collection seeks to take the knowledge incorporated in critical theory in order to tangibly export it to parents as a form of praxis that will foster bonding, avenues of conversation, and change over the elements of popular culture that their children are already consuming.










As a result, we are look for chapters between 4,000 and 6,000 words that develop strategies for talking to children about popular culture. Chapters could be focused on more generalized strategies or on specific artifacts of popular culture, and can be designed for talking to kids anywhere between kindergarten through high school. At this point we are interested in a broad range of intersectional chapters that could include, but is not limited to the following:
• Analysis on advertising
• Analysis on specific songs or musical artists
• Dealing with Disney
• Dealing with fast food and agricultural representations
• Dealing with social media (musicly, snapchat, etc)
• Dealing with YouTube
• Representations surrounding race
• Representations surrounding gender
• Representations surrounding disability
• Representations surrounding sexuality
• Representations surrounding specieiesm
• Specific strategies on individual TV shows
• Specific strategies on individual movies
• Specific strategies on individual comics


At this point, we are only requesting an abstract and a bio as we finish the last stages of securing a contract. Once secured, we are anticipating the date for the first draft to be due by the fall of 2018 with subsequent editorial time and revision to follow. We expect publication to be during the summer of 2019 with the final draft being completed toward the end of spring. If accepted, we will work with you to ensure you have the necessary time to complete your chapter with all the quality and polishing it deserves.










TO SUBMIT: Please e-mail a 500 word abstract along with a brief bio of no longer than 150 words to debate@binghamton.edu no later than May 4th, 2018. You should expect to hear back no later than May 14th, 2018 as to the status of your acceptance.


Please feel free to contact us with additional questions