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INTERDISCIPLINARY
HUMANITIES
Ongoing call
for essays, poems, and cover artwork
Upcoming
Issues
Please
note: The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary
Humanities’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA
if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may
be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.
Deadline:
May 1, 2013
Fall
2013 - Fat Representations
Co-Editors:
Dr. Brenda Risch and Christoph Zepeda, M.A.
The peer-reviewed
journal Interdisciplinary Humanities invites submissions of scholarly
articles, nonfiction essays, and book and film reviews that explore representations
and theories of fat, gender and eating.
Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to:
Eating:
Representations of eating in popular culture, literature, film, and art.
How is eating positioned as an activity of significance/insignificance?
How is eating gendered, raced, classed, sexed, etc? What are the linkages
between eating and identity, and how are these connections theorized?
Fat Positive
Representations: How do positive representations of fat articulate
subjectivity? How is gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, age, physical
ability woven into or expressed through fat positive view points? What
theories of being rise out of positioning fat/plenitude/abundance as a
positive attribute?
Fat Superheros:
What makes a Hero or Heroine of size? What complexities and textures
of superhero-hood become visible in a fat superhero? How is she/he translated
in film, literature, paintings, action figures, comic books, graphic novels,
ceramics, and music?
Additional topics
include: Fat Sexualities; Fat Abroad; Global Perspectives on Fat/Size….
IH
asks that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature, double-spaced, numbered,
with one-inch margins on all sides, and that they do not exceed 6,000
words. Please include a 100 word abstract, c.v. and author biography of
200 words with your submission.
Send queries
and submissions to:
Co-Editors: Brenda Risch (brisch@utep.edu)
and Christoph Zepeda (czepeda@alliant.edu).
*Please note: The
Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’
parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their
essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be
found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.
Deadline:
Nov. 1, 2013
Spring
2014 - Online Learning in the Humanities
Send queries and submissions to Mary Ann Koory at (mak@broadviewnet.net),
Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas--Fort Smith (shusarik@fortsmith.edu),
o r Ronald Weber at (rweber@utep.edu).
IH is soliciting
original research and reflective articles on the use of technology for
teaching Humanities.
The editors are open
to all aspects and issues related to the use of technology for teaching
Humanities especially online instruction in Humanities, especially studies
of a data driven nature whether based in either a quantitative or a qualitative
methodology. We encourage reflective, integrative evaluations or essays
that challenge current practices and expectations and encourage experimentation
in novel approaches to humanities teaching and learning. Attention will
also be given to articles that review former experiences or provide case
studies that illustrate multidisciplinary approaches such as the use of
technologically enhanced instructional models in study abroad courses.
The goal of this project
is to explore the growing use of technology in the field of Humanities
and to assess the impact of technology and online instruction upon the
levels of learning among students in the Humanities.
*Please note: The
Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’
parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their
essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be
found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.
Deadline:
Jan. 15, 2014
Summer
2014 - Houston Conference Issue
Sacred Sites, Secular Spaces: Scenes, Sounds, and Signs in Humanistic,
Artistic, and Technological Culture
Deadline:
May 1, 2014
Fall
2014 -- Re-Imagining, Re-Remembering and Cultural Recycling: Adaptation
Across the Humanities
Guest Editor: Robert L. Neblett, robert.neblett@gmail.com
In an attempt to
reclaim adaptation as a more expansive subject of study that crosses disciplinary
thresholds, this issue deals with a broad range of topics related to the
re-visioning, or "seeing again," of familiar structures and patterns,
and the many innovations and anxieties associated with this process.
A number of issues will
be considered, including but not limited to reinterpreting the classics,
in/fidelity to source materials, chronological precedence as an in/accurate
gauge for textual primacy, the intention/agenda of the adaptor, adaptation
across media (novel to film, poem to song, play to musical, legend to
opera, pop culture snafu into internet meme), stylistic superimposition,
intertextuality and adaptation from multiple sources, and knowing vs.
unknowing audiences.
Deadline:
November 1, 2014
Spring
2015 - Alfred Hitchcock
Guest Editor: Michael Howarth
This special issue will focus
on Alfred Hitchcock, the "master of suspense" whose career spanned from the
1920s to the 1970s. Hitchcock produced and directed over fifty motion pictures,
in addition to hosting two anthology series on television.
His film craftsmanship is still
relevant today, as his influence is continuously cited by contemporary filmmakers
and he is regularly taught in cinema classes.
For this special issue, we
will be looking for scholarly articles, book reviews, and nonfiction essays
that explore various aspects of Hitchcock's work and personal life, and how
the two often connected: music, television, gender, humor, voyeurism, film
history, or film theory, to name just a few.
All essays should be
interdisciplinary in nature and not exceed 6,000 words. Please send inquiries
and submissions to Dr. Michael Howarth at howarth-m@mssu.edu.
Deadline:
Jan 15, 2015
Summer 2015: Conference Issue from 2014 Conference
Deadline:
May 1, 2015
Fall
2015 - Environmental Aesthetics
Guest Editor: Tony Lack, The University of Alaska, Anchorage
This special issue will focus
on Environmental Aesthetics, broadly conceived, to include the following suggested
topics: The aesthetic value and/or function of selected works of environmental
literature, art and architecture; re-visioning traditional aesthetic theories
of the beautiful and the sublime in light of environmentalist critiques; the
relationship between environmental aesthetics and environmental preservation;
critiques of the anthropocentric point of view and the aesthetics of nature;
the "enhancement" of nature; the aesthetics of wilderness; historical, cross-cultural
and comparative analyses of environmental aesthetics; and evolutionary approaches
to the aesthetics of nature.
Of particular interest are scholarly
articles, book reviews, and nonfiction essays. Submissions should not exceed
6,000 words. Please send inquiries and submissions to Dr. Tony Lack at: alack@kpc.alaska.edu. |
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Deadline:
Nov. 15, 2015
Spring
2016 - Out of the Past and Into the Night: The Noir Vision in American
Culture
Guest Editor: Doré Ripley, California State University, East Bay
When American movies
made their way across the Atlantic after World War II, the French film critics
couldn't help but notice their dark and brooding quality, dubbing them noir.
Classic noir texts by authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler
featured characters that take on the big dark city as alienated, angst-ridden
antiheroes.
Classic noir faded
in the late 1950s, but during the 1970s, we find a resurgence of noir
with the emergence of a new form dubbed neo-noir, a form set in the near
future where a gloomy dystopia with an environmentally corrupt aesthetic reflects
the characters' personalities as they question the essence of human nature.
When set in the past, such as Polanski's neo-noir, Chinatown, the concerns
are contemporary, most decidedly. Neo-noir, in turn, has spawned cyberpunk,
retro noir, and steam punk as aficionados still squabble over whether
noir is a genre, style, or movement.
From classic to neo-noir,
this issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities will examine from a diversity
of perspectives, themes, and approaches, the history, issues, and theories of
the noir vision in American culture as exemplified by literary and mass
cultural fiction (films, texts, art, pulps, comics) and explore a wide variety
of interactions with historical, social, political, psychological and literary-cinematic
contexts.
Please send inquiries
and submissions to Doré Ripley at dore.ripley@gmail.com.
Deadline:
May 1, 2016
Fall 2016: Expanding the Scope of Horror
Guest Editors: Edmund Cueva and William Novak
The proposed
set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer
a new practical model for research and analysis as an alternative to the
rigid and dichotomous methodologies often used in investigations on horror.
Currently, most of the scholarship either tends to situate horror on the
fringe of academic research and therefore not worthy of attention. Or,
research isolates and defines horror as being strictly the intellectual
property of those who are experts in literature or film.
The proposed
paradigm would seek to create a multidisciplinary investigatory paradigm
that will bring together into productive discussion such varied disciplines
as classics, art history, philosophy, architecture, psychology, religious
studies, history, gender studies, music, and the traditionally associated
areas of literature and film.
The special issue
would serve as a starting point for future discussion and research on
horror in all of its multiple and complex forms. Please send inquiries
and submissions to: Edmund Cueva at cuevae@uhd.edu
and William Nowak at nowakw@uhd.edu.
Calling
all Book Reviewers!
IH
editors are looking for well written book reviews of new publications
that educators might use in interdisciplinary classrooms or scholarship.
These can be scholarly works as well as textbooks that examine themes
and ideas across disciplines. This is an excellent opportunity for young
scholars and graduate students to publish! Please submit your reviews
to Ed Cueva (cuevae@uhd.edu).
Books
Available for Review
Blom,
Philipp and Veronica Buckely
Twilight of the Romanovs: a Photographic Odyssey across Imperial Russia
Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-51668-3. (http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Twilight_
of_the_Romanovs/9780500516683)
Englehardt,
Joshua, ed.
Agency in Ancient Writing
University Press of Colorado, 2012. 978-1-60732-199-6.
(http://www.upcolorado.com/book/_
welcome/Agency_in_Ancient_Writing_cloth)
Esterberg,
Kristin G. and John Wooding
Divided Conversations: Identities, Leadership, and Change in Public
Higher Education
Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. 978-0-8265-1899-6
(http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/ index.php/books/490/divided-conversations)
Furtado,
Peter, ed.
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-25181-2
(http://thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-histories-of-nations/)
Glenney
Boggs, Colleen
Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Columbia University Press, 2013. 978-0-231-16122-0
(http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/ 978-0-231-16122-0/animalia-americana)
Goldstein,
Phyllis
A Convenient Hatred: the History of Antisemitism. Facing History and
Ourselves
2012. 978-0-9819543-8-7. (http://convenienthatred.facinghistory.org/)
Hayot,
Eric
On Literary Worlds
Oxford University Press, 2012. 978-0-19-992669-5.
(http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/ subject/LiteratureEnglish/LiteraryTheory
/?view=usa&ci=9780199926695)
Joyce,
Arthur, A., ed.
Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca
University Press of Colorado, 2013. 978-1-60732-202-3
(http://www.upcolorado.com/book/
Polity_and_Ecology_in_Formative_Period
_Coastal_Oaxaca)
Mair,
Victor H., Sanping Chen, and Frances Wood
Chinese Lives: the People Who Made a Civilization
Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-25192-8
(http://www.thamesandhudson.com/media
/images/Chinese_Lives_PR_25696.pdf)
Mallory,
J. P.
The Origins of the Irish
Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-05175-7
(http://www.thamesandhudson.com/
The_Origins_of_the_Irish/9780500051757)
Morris,
M. Michelle Jarrett
Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
Harvard University Press, 2013. 978-0-674-06633-5. (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/
catalog.php?isbn=9780674066335)
Contact
Ed Cueva (cuevae@uhd.edu) so that
he can send you a copy of the book.
Deadline:
Ongoing
General essays: We ask that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature
and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Moreover, essays should be in
Microsoft Word format. Submit your essays for consideration to Stephen
Husarik at shusarik@uafortsmith.edu
and Lee Ann Westman at
lewestman@utep.edu. Detailed submissions
guidelines can be found on the >Journal
webpage.
Interdisciplinary
Humanities defines "interdisciplinary humanities education" as any
learning activities with content that draws upon the human cultural heritage,
methods that derive from the humanistic disciplines, and a purpose that is
concerned with human values. Academic courses don't have to be labeled "humanities"
to be interdisciplinary. Integrated courses and units are often disguised
under such names as World History, Freshman English, Music Appreciation, Beginning
Spanish, Introduction to Religion, Senior Honors, etc. Integration can range
from the use of a novel in a history course to team teaching to comprehensive
thematic extravaganzas that combine the arts, literature, philosophy, and
social sciences.
HERA welcomes manuscripts
from university colleagues, but also ones that examine interdisciplinary scholarship
and education in elementary grades, teacher education, adult public programs,
graduate seminars, educational radio and television, museums, and historic
parks.
Artists wishing to have
their works published on the cover of IH should submit works that
are representative of the theme(s) of a particular issue.
*Please note: The Humanities
Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’ parent
organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays
are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.
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