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Welcome to the IASIL Page for Publishing Opportunities. This page lists publishing opportunities in Irish Literature, Theatre, and Film. Publications with broader themes that pay substantial attention to Irish writing will also be listed from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm dates, deadlines, and so on with editors/publishers. Current Publishing Opportunities, Updated 9 August, 2007 Children, Childhood, and Irish Society, 1700-2007 (deadlines 1 November 2007/15 April 2008) Irish America, 1945-1960 (deadline 30 September 2007) The State of Modern Horror: The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (deadline 1 August 2007) The Fiction of Colum McCann – Essay Collection (30 June 2008) Redefinitions of Irish Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Postnationalist Approach (deadline 15 December 2007) Memory Ireland (deadline 31 July 2007) The Short Stories of John McGahern (deadline 31 December 2007)
Recent Publishing Opportunities John Huston (no deadline specified Samuel Beckett: Textual Genesis and Reception (deadline 20 May 2007) SHAW 28: "Shaw and War." (Deadline May 15, 2007) The New Irish (deadline 31 March 2007) Postcolonial Text – Special Issue: Ireland (deadline 31 March 2007) Studies in Franco-Irish Relations (no deadlline specified) Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (deadline 1 February 2007) Performing Violence in Contemporary Ireland (deadline October 2006 for abstracts/31 December for essays) ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES (deadline 31 December 2006) Joyce Studies Annual (deadline 15 November 2006) Beckett on TV A Special Issue of The Journal of Beckett Studies (deadline 30 September 2006)
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Children, Childhood, and Irish Society, 1700-2007 Changing conceptions of childhood in Irish society in the period 1700 to the present. The deadline for the receipt of proposal (two pages) is November 1, 2007, and completed articles (6000-8000 words) will be due by April 15, 2008. Send proposals to Professor Maria Luddy at m.luddy@warwick.ac.uk and Professor James Smith at smithbt@bc.edu Irish America, 1945-1960 The State of Modern Horror: The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (deadline 1 August 2007) The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is an interdisciplinary, biannual electronic publication which functions as a high-quality forum for the discussion of Horror and Gothic themed literature, film, new media and television from all over the world. For the third edition due to be published in October 2007, they are seeking submissions on “The State of Modern Horror”. They particularly welcome submissions on the following topics:
Articles should be written in endnote format (see previous articles eg. http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/LeFanuLovecraftGothicBaroque.html). They can be submitted for consideration to Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy at irish_gothic_journal@yahoo.ie or sent to The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies C/O The School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. The Fiction of Colum McCann – Essay Collection Submissions are invited for an edited collection of essays on the Irish writer Colum McCann. McCann has long been touted as one of the leading Irish writers of his generation and this collection seeks to address the relative, and surprising, absence of any critical engagement with McCann’s literary fiction. The editors are seeking essays on any and all of McCann’s published work in order to reflect the variety and quality of his achievement. This naturally means that a limited number of essays on any one text can be accepted. We are open to discussions of McCann’s work on any theme, theoretical prism, or close-reading strategy. Queries and submissions should be directed to either Dr Eóin Flannery – eoin.flannery@ul.ie , or Dr Susan Cahill – susan.cahill@ul.ie Essays should not exceed 7500 words and should comply with the MLA referencing system. Full submissions should be submitted by 30 June 2008. Redefinitions of Irish Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Postnationalist Approach Voices from various fields of study have recently focused their analysis on the numerous changes experienced in Ireland in the last fifteen years. In Northern Ireland the most outstanding of these changes has been the peace process, whereas in the Republic of Ireland the Celtic Tiger phenomenon is connected with numerous changes within social and economic spheres. In the last few years Ireland has registered a surge in the number of immigrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, with over 167 different languages currently spoken by around 160 nationalities, the appearance of a new underclass in the newly knowledge-based economy, and an increase in mental illnesses and suicide rate. These developments have all been accompanied by the most recent fears that the Celtic Tiger may be losing its bravado, as suggested by the recent announcements by a number of global companies to relocate to most cost-effective destinations. All these phenomena are often interpreted as the consequences of a rapid process of transformation in Ireland under the influence of globalisation, which has raised questions regarding the role of the nation-state and the validity of traditional definitions of Irish national identity. In the European context, Gerard Delanty has analysed how globalisation has caused not only the emergence of a new type of nationalism which differs from nineteenth-century nationalisms (1996), but it has also opened up “a space for reflection . . . in which to search for new collective identities” (O’Mahony and Delanty 2001: vii), with a European postnational identity as one of the options, inspired by Habermas’s analysis of citizenship and national identity in contemporary Europe. According to O’Mahony and Delanty, Ireland, in line with European modernity, is in “an overt phase of crisis and contradiction” (2001: vii) in which inherited constructs of nationalism and national identity are questioned, a process also analysed by Richard Kearney in Postnationalist Ireland (1997). The concepts of the postnational and the postnationalist – the latter, in the case of Ireland, emphasising current changes in analyses of nationalisms – have caused an intense debate in various fields of knowledge, often from opposed stances. Postnationalism has been interpreted as an inevitable reality in the current global circumstances, but also as an attack on the democratic basis of current states, or on the basis of national communities and their identities. In the Irish context, where the construction of an Irish national identity is inextricably interrelated to cultural nationalism and the Irish Literary Revival, current interrogations of traditional definitions of Irishness also raise interest in contemporary literary responses to the problematisation of Irish national identity. The aim of this book is to collect a number of articles from a multiplicity of fields, predominantly literature, but also including sociology, anthropology, economics, politics, philosophy, and history, so as to present a multifaceted view of contemporary redefinitions of Irish identity in the current postnationalist context. Articles with an interdisciplinary approach will be welcomed. Submissions for proposals of articles (between 6,000 and 8,000 words) should not exceed 500 words in length and should be accompanied by a short biographical note of the author(s). Please send proposals to Irene Gilsenan Nordin at ign@du.se AND Carmen Zamorano Llena at cza@du.se. Deadline for submissions of proposals is 31 May 2007 and full articles should be completed by 15 December 2007.
Essay submissions are invited for a proposed collection entitled ‘Memory Ireland’. Cultural memory has garnered increasing attention within Irish Studies, but while ‘memory’ is often mentioned, it has remained largely undefined, addressed only laterally; despite the ease with which we have used the term ‘memory’ in recent decades, it is not an easy concept. We have avoided discussion of how our cognitive capacity for memory might influence the formation of cultural memory, as well as how cultural memory itself shifts over time. Does cultural memory rely on memories of individuals and thus on cognitive principles, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? What do stereotypes of Irish memory – as extensive, unforgiving, begrudging, but also blank on particular, usually traumatic, subjects – reveal about the ways in which cultural remembrance works in contemporary Irish culture, and in Irish diasporic culture? Might ‘Irish cultural memory’ be said to differ from one time to another, from one place to another, or does something remain constant within the sphere of cultural memory? This collection will attempt to map, in other words, a landscape of cultural memory in Ireland. Theoretical, speculative and cross-disciplinary work will be particularly welcomed. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Deadline for submissions: July 31st, 2007. Enquiries and submissions to Dr Oona Frawley, School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland - email frawleyo@tcd.ie "Samuel Beckett: Textual Genesis and Reception" * The genesis of Beckett's texts, including manuscript development and the elaboration of intertextual references * Beckett's progressive experimentation with media such as television and film * The reception of Beckett's work in different critical contexts. Deadline for submissions: 20 May 2007. Publication date: August 2007. Litteraria Pragensia on the web: www.litterariapragensia.com SHAW 28: "Shaw and War." Deadline May 15, 2007. Perhaps more than any other playwright of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Bernard Shaw, in many of his controversial dramas, probes the age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war. Although himself opposed to war, Shaw could comprehend and brilliantly dramatize society's love affair with violence and combat, even as he satirizes this often fatal liaison. Shaw's multivalent ideas on war inform many of his major plays, including Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan. These and other Shavian plays dramatize GBS's commitment to "make war on war" and his abiding interest in the subject. The age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war is hard to comprehend and still more difficult to express. Through his incisive dramatic forensics, Shaw explores this perplexing paradox and makes us confront the issue of war, which is both the anathema and apotheosis of humankind. SHAW 28 will build on the growing body of critical literature that studies Shaw and war, and the guest editor of that volume invites papers for consideration that explore Shaw's dramatic and non-dramatic writings on war and human aggression. Of special interest are papers addressing Shaw's perspective on war through the lens of peace, gender, love and romance, and history. The guest editor also welcomes articles on Shaw's discussions with his contemporaries about war and encourages bibliographic essays on Shaw and war. Submission deadline is May 15, 2007. Please format manuscripts in the accepted style of SHAW (consult recent volumes) and send to the following address: Dr. Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Department of English, CPR 107, University of South Florida, Tampa , FL 33620, USA. Questions about the volume may be directed to llenker@admin.usf.edu. Arising from a recent successful conference in Galway dealing with the life and work of John Huston, several publishers have expressed an interested in publishing a new collection of essays on this most talented of American film writers, directors and actors. In finalising our proposal, the editor would like to add to the core of papers delivered at the conference and invite submissions on topics relating to Huston. These might include: studies of one or a number of his adaptations; his career as an actor; representations of race or gender in his work; his place within the Hollywood 'system', etc. Editors are particularly interested in expanding the list of films under discussion (we have a heavy emphasis on Key Largo, Moby Dick, The Dead). Please submit an abstract of approx 500 words at this stage. “THE NEW IRISH” The Short Stories of John McGahern The Journal of the Short Story in English intends to publish a special issue of the Journal on the short stories of John McGahern and therefore invites new and original contributions on all aspects of his short fiction as it is available in The Collected Short Stories. Preference will be given to individual close textual analysis of any of the 34 stories in the collection but other approaches are also welcome: thematic or textual comparisons between stories, their relation with the author’s novels, stylistic or generic considerations etc. All theoretical and methodological options will be considered but, for the sake of balance, the volume cannot include too many papers on the same short story, so should the situation arise you may be asked to choose a different text, that is why we recommend that proposals should be sent as early as possible to avoid any difficulty. The editors would prefer papers to be written in English but will take into consideration any relevant proposal in French. Submissions should not exceed 7000 words and should conform to the standard MLA Style Manual (1985). They are to be sent electronically to the guest editor, Claude Maisonnat, at the following address: <maisonnat@chello.fr> and also to the co-editors in France: Linda Collinge and Emmanuel Vernadakis at <Linda.collinge@univ-angers.fr> and <emmanuel.vernadakis@univ-angers.fr> or to the American co-editors at <todalec@mail.belmont.edu> and <PAINESTOVER@aol.com> If a paper manuscript is submitted it should be sent to Claude Maisonnat, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Département du Monde Anglophone, 74 rue Pasteur, 69007, Lyon, France. All e-mail submissions are expected to include the title of the paper, a 150 word abstract, a short contributor’s note with name, mail address, postal address and institutional affiliation. Studies in Franco-Irish Relations (Peter Lang) Brief description The Studies in Franco-Irish Relations series with Peter Lang emanates from the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies and its affiliate, the Association of Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS). It is a peer-reviewed yearly publication that considers proposals dealing with any relevant links - historical, cultural, literary, sociological, political, linguistic – between the two Gallic cousins, France and Ireland. The editors seek articles (not exceeding 6,000 words) that are in line with the main thrust of the series. The aim is to foreground areas of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary connection between France and Ireland as well as stressing the European dimension of the Franco-Irish nexus. Articles will be published in English and French. The editors encourage postgraduate submissions. Only fully paid-up members of AFIS are eligible to publish articles in the series. For more information on membership, please consult the website or the Treasurer, Dr. John McDonagh (john.mcdonagh@mic.ul.ie) First three issues · Volume 1: Reinventing Ireland Through a French Prism (2007) · Volume 2: Modernity and Post-Modernity in a Franco-Irish Context (2008) · Volume 3: Issues of Secularisation and Globalization in Ireland and France (2009) Editorial operations The manuscripts will be sent initially to one of the 3 general editors, who will then select 2 suitable members of the Advisory Editorial Board to conduct blind reviews of the material and comment on its suitability, make recommendations in relation to publication, suggest possible amendments and stylistic improvements. If both reports are not favourable, the article will not be published until relevant changes are made and deemed acceptable by both readers. Only articles that meet with the recommendation of both readers will be accepted for publication. Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies The editors of Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, request article submissions for the second annual volume of the peer-reviewed journal. The American Society of Irish Medieval Studies is an international and interdisciplinary body of scholars with the stated goal of expanding the field of Irish medieval studies in the United States. Eolas publishes scholarly articles in any field related to Irish medieval studies, including history, archaeology, theology, art history and literature. The Editorial Board will also consider articles dealing with periods on the periphery of the middle ages in Ireland, especially Iron Age and Early Modern Ireland. Articles should be directly related to Ireland in the middle ages in the widest sense of the term, although placing Ireland within a wider medieval European context will be considered. Historiographical articles will also receive consideration. Essays stemming from lectures or conference papers, especially the International Conference of Medievalists at Kalamazoo and the Irish Conference of Medievalists, are strongly encouraged. Unsolicited book reviews will not be accepted. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Footnotes are strongly preferred to endnotes or parenthetical styles of citations. Questions and/or manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format to the Editorial Board asims@mindspring.com <mailto:asims@mindspring.com> . The style sheet for Eolas can be found at the website for the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, http://www.irishmedievalist.com <http://www.irishmedievalist.com/> , but authors should consult The Chicago Manual of Style for further clarification. Photos (including color) are acceptable; please see the Style Sheet for further details. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2007. Performing Violence in Contemporary Ireland Scholars and practitioners working on topics in any discipline related to the performance of violence in Ireland are invited to submit proposals for publication in an edited volume of essays. The editors are interested in papers that address the performance of violence in the public arena, including paramilitary displays, cultural and political parades and marches, public protests and street performance, in addition to theatre, opera and dance. Essays (5,000 to 7,000 words) are particularly sought on the following topics, although we would be happy to hear from potential contributors with other perspectives on the central theme: The Performing Body Issues of Representation Violence and Efficacy Performing Power: social, political and economic Performance of violence and cultural identity Rituals of Violence Victimhood, Witness and Spectatorship This collection further develops themes to be debated at the conference “Acts of Aggression: the performance of violence in contemporary Irish Theatre Practice”, to be held November 17-18 2006 at the University of Ulster. It is expected to be one element in a major research project on the issue of the Performance of Violence. Please note that this is not a volume of conference proceedings. Any essays based on conference presentations will be expected to be substantially revised. Abstracts for proposed essays must be received by October 30, 2006 to receive full consideration for inclusion. Contributors will be notified in mid-November. Completed essays will be due to the volume editor by December 31st (unless otherwise mutually agreed upon). Negotiations with publishers are currently in progress and details will be announced shortly. Publication is expected to fall within the RAE 2008 publication period. Inquiries and abstracts should be sent via e-mail or post to: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick Inquiries about the November conference are also welcome Joyce Studies Annual The editors of the Joyce Studies Annual invite scholarly essays on all aspects of Joyce’s work and from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, but especially welcome historical, textual and comparative studies. JSA will continue to publish lengthy essays of 30-50 manuscript pages, but it will not be restricted to such expansive studies. They now follow the Chicago Manual of Style in matters of form. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout, and notes should be numbered consecutively and grouped on pages separate from the text. Please send manuscripts in Microsoft Word to Joyce Studies Annual, English Department, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458. Hard copy should be accompanied by version on disk or CD-ROM. Please direct questions to sicker@fordham.edu or mgold@fordham.edu. ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES, the scholarly electronic journal of AEDEI (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) invites authors to submit original contributions -in either English or Spanish- that engage in a critical way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media, for its Issue Nº 2, to be published in March 2007. Guidelines for submissions, which should be sent via email by 31 December 2006, are available on the journal website (http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/). Beckett on TV: A Special Issue of The Journal of Beckett Studies Beckett's interest in the broadcast media is well known, as is his willingness to embrace new technology both on stage and on screen. Often, this fascination has manifested itself in Beckett's exploration of the limitations rather than the possibilities of each medium, as well as the manner in which his works question the boundaries of each genre. Of Beckett's 28 shorter dramatic texts, five were written for television, and a good number, most notably Not I and What Where, were adapted for the screen. This special issue of The Journal of Beckett Studies will focus on Beckett's original work for television as well as his completed and proposed adaptation of stage work for the screen. Questions that may be dealt with include Aesthetic and philosophical issues raised by the TV work; the question of technology as it is staged in the TV work; themes of surveillance in Beckett's TV works or adaptations; Beckett's own adaptive strategies in this field, evinced, for example, in his work on Play, What Where (Was Wo) and the proposed adaptation of Krapp's Last Tape; the relation of the TV work to the visual arts; Beckett's use of music in his TV work; Beckett and virtuality; the relation of the TV work to the rest of Beckett's oeuvre; the relation of Beckett's own TV practice to that of other directors engaged in; the adaptation of his work for television; the relation of Beckett's TV work to the wider media culture of the time; the relation of Beckett's TV work to the discourse of television as a medium Articles addressing all aspects of Beckett's television work will be considered. Contributors should follow the MLA style guide, and submit their work by 30 September 2006. Please send copies by email to both guest editors. Ulrika Maude, University of Durham, UK (ulrika.maude@durham.ac.uk) and David Pattie, University of Chester, UK (d.pattie@chester.ac.uk) Call
For Submissions – Postcolonial Text – Special
Issue: Ireland. Postcolonial Text is an international, refereed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal, presenting a global forum for both the critical discussion of postcolonial literature, culture, history, and theory, and the publication of postcolonial poetry and fiction. Postcolonial Text fosters critical discussions about the culturally contested and, at times, theoretically slippery terrain of postcolonial studies. In particular, this e-journal examines the relationship between postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and such newly emerging fields as transnational cultural and globalisation studies. Postcolonial Text now seeks submissions for a specially-themed volume on Ireland and postcolonialism. Essays are invited from all disciplinary backgrounds, including literature, history, politics, sociology, visual studies, law, languages, and philosophy. Among the issues that might be addressed in potential contributions are Ireland and modernisation; historical revisionism; the Irish body; diaspora; the Irish language; migrancy; women’s studies; women’s history; utopianism; Irish republicanism; religious missions; charity and empire; cosmopolitanism and postcolonial theory; cultural trauma; postcolonial gothic; architecture and empire; globalisation and Ireland; the history of medicine and empire; cross-colonial solidarity movements. Deadline for submissions: March 31st 2007. Essays to be sent electronically to eoin.flannery@ul.ie or hardcopies to Eóin Flannery, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, Ireland.
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