Title:"Shakespeare in the Media: Old and New" 

 

Editors: Anna Maria Cimitile (amcimitile at unior.it) and Katherine Rowe (krowe at brynmawr.edu)  

 

Due on line: December 2011. 

 

 

 

 

Title: "Variation and Varieties in Contexts of English"

 

Editors: Giuseppe Balirano (gbaliarno at unior dot it), Julia Bamford (jbamford at unior dot it), Jocelyne Vincent (jvincent at unior.it) 

 

Due on line: July 2012 

 

 

 

 

Articles, books for review, images should be sent to the editors and cc to anglistica@unior.it. All material submitted for consideration must comply with the Anglistica guidelines available in pdf. below. Articles for our general issues or Miscellanies may also be submitted for consideration. Articles, books for review, images should be sent to the editors and cc to anglistica@unior.it. All material submitted for consideration must comply with the Anglistica guidelines available in pdf below. 

 

 

Title: “Writing Exile: Women, the Arts, and Technologies”

Editors: Wanda Balzano (balzanow at wfu.edu) and Silvana Carotenuto (silcarot at tiscali.it).

Description: 

 

The issue will explore ‘exile’ as experienced by contemporary female artists working in different media. The critical focus of this special issue is placed on the practices of creative writing, photography, video art, and on the recent web 2-0 platforms on the internet. Its critical assumption is that exiled women find a privileged space for the re-articulation of their condition of displacement, dislocation and diaspora in narration, in the visual mingling of tradition and experimentation, in the fluxes of information that constitute the emergence of new imagined ‘communities’ through the internet. Here, writing becomes a medium for new representations; photography and music provide ways in which women can share a sense of belonging and displacement; video-art allows for re-connecting and transforming; the web establishes new communication and communities.

The issue, which welcomes contributions including words, sounds and images, alongside interviews, theory and criticism, will be constructed around the following sections: 1) The Magic of Narration 2) Photography: History in Her/stories; 3) Visions and Sounds of Women, Resistance and Survival; 4) Digital Diaspora.

 

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

 

-Women as nomads, refugees, clandestine workers in public/private spaces, women without a home

-Women in war zones as migrant rape survivors

-Women as transnational survivors of sex trafficking

-Feminist theorizing of the intersections between technology and constructions of exile, identity and selves

-Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of exile/home and technology

-Technological narrations of queer exile: gendered lives, their pasts/futures

-Internet production and representation of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies

-Personal/creative narratives and oral history of theorizing on women and/as exiles

-The languages of exile; blogging and vlogging as female writing (also in politically sensitive areas)

-Artistic activism and issues of technological citizenship, transnationalism, and exile

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2012.

 

Deadline for completed articles: 30 April 2012.