Category: Calls for Papers
TOPICAL ISSUE GUEST EDITED BY Dr Katharina Gerund (Erlangen/Nürnberg) Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena) DESCRIPTION In contemporary popular culture, black womanhood frequently takes centre stage. It occupies an increasingly central place and articulates new...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Dr Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon) Dr Iolanda Ramos (Nova University of Lisbon) DESCRIPTION From novels to government reports, the Victorians attached unprecedented significance to domesticity. The...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Dr Justyna Stępień Dr Beata Zawadka (Szczecin University) DESCRIPTION “Medium is the message,” as Marshall McLuhan asserted in his seminal 1964 work entitled Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man....
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Prof. Enrique Uribe Jongbloed (Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano) DESCRIPTION The recent changes in the political leadership of various countries has revealed attitudes ranging from disinterest to downright disenfranchisement...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Nicole Hodges Persley, (University of Kansas, Department of Theatre) Baron Kelly (University of Louisville, Department of Theatre) DESCRIPTION This special issues plays against African American theater scholar Harry Elam’s discussion...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Prof. Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero (University of Córdoba, English Studies) DESCRIPTION Last year’s commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’s death (in April 1616) was, according to the...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Dr Richard Warren (Royal Holloway, University of London) DESCRIPTION The focus of this special issue will be on how the British artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood received and transformed antiquity....
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Dr Maureen Burns & Dr Adam Dodd (The University of Queensland) DESCRIPTION This issue provides a collection of critical cultural perspectives on popularising science. Many cultural studies scholars use science studies,...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Professor Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro) DESCRIPTION There are strong indications that a significant transformation is underway in the so-called “Humanities.” After a period of intense crisis...
TOPICAL ISSUE BY Dr Anna Pochmara & Dr Justyna Wierzchowska (University of Warsaw, Poland) DESCRIPTION Andrew Ross, in his now classic text “Uses of Camp,” points to Prince and Michael Jackson and their...