[lg policy] Mailing list submission: JOSTES's CFP

[Alexandre Couture Gagnon]

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Fall 2016 issue, themed “Journeys: Literal, Metaphorical or Imaginary.”

Submission deadline: October 31, 2016.

http://southtexasenglish.blogspot.com/p/current-cfp.html

‘Journey’ is a word that evokes images and feelings of freedom, escape, newness, experience, and curiosity. Within English studies, a journey may be literal, requiring movement across borders and spaces; figurative journeys often develop the inner dynamic of a character; and whimsical voyages, on the other hand, take place in the mind—the ultimate creative, uncharted territory. While the genre of “travel writing” has recently experienced a great surge of interest, JOSTES understands journey stories as wider in scope than a particular literary genre; “journey” is at the heart of human experience, as literary characters and writers embark on transformative excursions within space and/ or within themselves.

The JOSTES editors are looking for scholarly articles between 5,000 and 8,000 words which address our theme: “Journeys: Literal, Metaphorical or Imaginary.”  We encourage contributors to reflect on English Studies (both undergraduate and graduate) and themes that reflect the idea of journeys, movement and travel.  We encourage submissions from literature (American, British, or other literature written in English), linguistics, rhetoric, composition, literary theory, pedagogy and the English classroom, and academia itself. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Literature
• How have authors’ journey experiences (a trip/ vacation, migration, displacement, diaspora, and exile) shaped certain literary texts?
• How does literature with a keen interest in “journey” discuss ideals of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship?
• The literal, metaphorical or imaginary journey of characters within poetry and fiction
• Journey themes in children’s and adolescent literature: literal journeys, coming of age stories, psychological and intellectual and/ or developmental
• Close readings of published or archived travel-diaries/ travel-journals
• Travel Writing theory
Sociolinguistic
• Second language learning as a journey to a new multilingual persona
• Linguistic fieldwork as a journey to another place, culture, and language
• Language change as a reflection of community journey (for example, the rise of gender-neutral pronouns in response to society's changing attitudes)
Rhetoric & Composition
• The rhetoric of journey stories (fiction or nonfiction)
• The writer’s metaphoric journey / writing as a recursive journey
• The student writer’s metaphoric journey in the composition classroom
Pedagogy in the English Classroom
• We would also welcome an exploration of how an inter- or trans-disciplinary approach to English Studies and the English classroom symbolizes the concept of a journey

All submissions, including book reviews, must be original work and not be under consideration elsewhere.


Alexandre Couture Gagnon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
One West University Boulevard
Brownsville, TX 78520

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