Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies on Hybridity and Star Trek

Guest Editor: Jackie Hogan (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Bradley University) Editor: James M. Decker (Professor of English, Illinois Central College)

Contact email:

 jlhogan@fsmail.bradley.edu or jdecker@icc.edu

Call for Papers:

Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_ILS.html).

We invite essays that investigate the concept of hybridity within the Star Trek universe.

Accepted essays will be published in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University Press). Please submit essays of no longer than 7,500 words to http://www.editorialmanager.com/interlitstudies/. Select “Special Issue Article” before uploading your manuscript.

Deadline for receipt of essays is September 30, 2020

Possible topics include hybridity and:

The Anthropocene     

The body, embodiment                                                                                  

Culture, language, religion, law                                            

Economics

Fandom                                  

Gender, sexuality       

Globalization, colonialism, postcolonialism

History

Immigration, diaspora, home                        

Identity

Media production, genre, performance

Philosophy, ideology, knowledge

Posthumanism, transhumanism                                                                     

Race, ethnicity

Resistance

Space, the environment

Technology