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ABC
Studies, the Journal
of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, invites submissions
for a special issue on Post-Racial
Americas: Cultural Studies in the Age of Barack Obama,
due out in June 2011.
The special issue will examine the changing dynamics of race,
cultural economy and identity politics in what has been dubbed the
‘post-ethnic’ Americas. We are looking for position papers and
critical essays that aim to contribute theoretical
reconceptualizations of the global turn in American and Canadian
Cultural Studies, particularly under the transformative impact of
9/11 and the 2008 Elections in the US.
Special
Issue
Editors:
David
Howard, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Adriana
Neagu, Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca
Submission
deadline, March
15.
American,
British and Canadian Studies
appears biannually in June and December. It is a peer-reviewed
journal that sets out to explore the intersections of culture,
technology and the human sciences in the age of electronic
information. It publishes work by scholars of any nationality on
Anglophone Studies, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies,
Postcolonial Theory, Social and Political Science, Anthropology, Area
Studies, Film and Television, Multimedia and Digital Arts and related
subjects. Articles addressing influential crosscurrents in current
academic thinking are particularly welcomed. We
invite provocative contributions in the form of articles that
seek to take Anglophone studies to a new level of enquiry across
disciplinary boundaries. ABC
also publishes book reviews and review essays, interviews,
work-in-progress, conference reports, and research projects outlines.
To maintain an ongoing dialogue with our readers, we alternate
commissioned themed issues, where papers are actively commissioned by
the special issue editor, with issues featuring unsolicited
submissions that address themes of immediate interest to us.
Decisions
on articles submitted are normally made within two months. Calls for
papers inviting submissions to the non-commissioned issues are
announced via the journal’s web page and in the journal itself. Our
primary goal is to bring together in trans-cultural dialogue scholars
conducting advanced research in the theoretical humanities. As well
as offering innovative approaches to influential crosscurrents in
current thinking, the journal seeks to contribute fresh angles to the
academic subject of English and promote groundbreaking research
across conventional boundaries. Within the proposed range of
diversity, our major scope is to provide close examinations and lucid
analyses of the role and future of the academic institutions at the
cutting edge of high-tech. To respond to the increasing demands of
‘acceleration’ in the twenty-first century, an electronic edition
of the journal is now being made available, offering full access to
subscribers, and free access to the tables of contents, abstracts and
reviews to non-subscribers. Articles published in ABC
are
abstracted and indexed on the journal’s website. Detailed
guidelines for submission are given on the journal’s website
http://abcjournal.ulbsibiu.ro/.
Contributions can include: articles, in-depth interviews with both
established and emerging thinkers and writers, notes on
groundbreaking research, and reviews of recently published fiction
and critical works. Tables of contents and sample full text articles
can be viewed without a subscription and our search feature is
publicly available.
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