[UPDATE] American, British and Canadian Studies special issue: Fictions of Academia, Extended deadline: 15 January 2016

full name / name of organization: 
Ana-Karina Schneider / Academic Anglophone Society of Romania

American, British and Canadian Studies, the Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania (http://abcjournal.ulbsibiu.ro/index.html), invites submissions for a special issue on Fictions of Academia, to be published in June 2016. We are especially looking for original critical essays that bring something new to the analysis of campus fiction, drama and film. Essays which theorize the genre of academic fiction or otherwise go beyond discussion of familiar texts are particularly invited, as are those which focus on unexpected or unfamiliar authors or texts.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
 Texts from/about cultures beyond the traditional settings of the Anglo-American academic novel.
 Texts which address previously unappreciated constituencies of academic fiction: older students, part-time instructors, non-teaching staff.
 Texts knowledgeable about recent changes in higher education as a result of neoliberalism, austerity, indifference to humanities and arts.
 Texts with post-colonial elements.
 Texts that portray the student experience.
 Cross-cultural contrasts within academic fiction.
 The academic novel as a site for metafiction.
 Implications for academic fiction of digital instruction or other emerging technologies.
 The campus novel where there is no campus.
 The academic novel as critique of theory, post-structuralism, multiculturalism, etc.
Guest Editors: Merritt Moseley, UNC Asheville
Ana-Karina Schneider, LBUS
Corina Selejean, LBUS
Submission deadline: 1 October 2015.
Submissions to Fictions of Academia should be sent to: moseley@unca.edu or corina_hila@yahoo.com and CC-ed to karina.schneider@ulbsibiu.ro
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, Multimedia and Digital Arts and related subjects. Articles addressing influential crosscurrents in current academic thinking are particularly welcomed. ABC also publishes book reviews and review essays, interviews, work-in-progress, conference reports, research projects outlines, notes and comments, and, annually, a list of theses on topics related to Anglophone Studies completed at Romanian Universities. 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.
Calls for papers inviting submissions to the non-commissioned issues are announced via the journal's web pages 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.