Humanities have long since recognized the importance of critical reading and thinking, or the ability for students to engage in higher-order thinking skills to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate texts and ideas.  With the growing decline of interest in the humanities and so many students now enrolling in colleges for more vocational ends, there is an emerging shift away from in‐depth reading/critical dialogue in both college and American culture.  Thus, many students now enter college with fewer critical tools that we once took for granted and that once made humanities engaging.   How do we approach this new cultural/student paradigm?  Are there more avenues of approach than simply resisting or easing up on expectations/requirements/objectives?  P

Guest Editors: Benjamin Haber, PhD Candidate Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel J Sander, PhD Candidate Performance Studies, NYU

Submission Deadline: June 1st 2017

** PLEASE NOTE: Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis for general issues.  A date is provided simply to comply with a required field on the UPenn CFP platform.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Space Between:  Literature and Culture 1914–1945 invites submissions from scholars of intermodernism and the interwar period.  

The Space Between is an annual peer-reviewed journal (now in its 12th year, sponsored by The Space Between Society) devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on the period bracketed by the two World Wars.  We are interested in approaches to texts of all kinds, emphasizing research on lesser-known writers and artists and understudied topics of the period.  

We require an additional few essays for an edited volume on queer visual cultures contracted with Universitas Press. The essays solicited are replacement essays and should prefereably focus on aspects such as queer representations and portrayals in video games, on stage, and on television. Although we have a substantial number of essays covering the queer in cinema, fresh proposals may be reviewed. At this stage we are looking for proposals for essays that can be finished within a month, as the volume is due to go to press next month. Essays requiring longer duration for completion are not encouraged at this point during publication. 

Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is the successor to the seminal British journal MOVIE (1962-2000). We are a peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal dedicated to publishing rigorous but accessible work that is concerned with the aesthetics of film and television style, close textual analysis, and/or the theory and practice of evaluating works of film and television. For Issue 8 (to be published late 2017/early 2018), in addition to our general call for papers, we are also requesting videographic criticism, and articles responding to the theme of 'moments of choice'. All submissions to be sent to movie.journal@gmail.com.