Mosaic CfPs
Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
Two Calls for Submissions
1) Queer/Affect
Mosaic invites innovative, interdisciplinary, literary, and critical papers for a special issue on the potential of queer intervention into affect theory, an issue that will explore non-normative ways of feeling, existing, and relating. We invite papers on topics that might include, but are not limited to: emotion and expression; trauma theory; rewriting histories of feeling; collectivity; the impact of various affective states (shame, paranoia, hope, desire, etc.) on queer subjectivities; affect as methodology; anti-identity and anti- relationality; utopia; homonormativity; queer temporalities; death drive; public and private feeling; affective performativity.
Mosaic now follows an electronic submission process. If you would like to contribute an essay for review, please visit our website for details: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/submit. Email any submission questions to mosasub@ad.umanitoba.ca. Submissions must be received by: December 15, 2013.
2) From Page to Screen
Mosaic invites innovative interdisciplinary submissions on the transition-translation- transference between these mediums of cultural production in an increasingly digitalized world. We are interested in essays that take up such topics as: the evolution of textuality; intertextuality; interactive technologies; authorship; new media; digital humanities; hypertext; rewriting and adaptation; textual mediation in non-canonical texts—anything from graphic novels to video games; digital and analog media; between page and screen; multimodality.
Mosaic now follows an electronic submission process. If you would like to contribute an essay for review, please visit our website for details: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/submit. Email any submission questions to mosasub@ad.umanitoba.ca. Submissions must be received by: March 19, 2014.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions that conform to our mandate.
- Essays may be in English or French and must represent innovative thought (either in the form ofextending or challenging current critical positions). Mosaic does not publish fiction or poetry.
- Mosaic publishes only original work. We will not consider essays that are part of a thesis ordissertation, have been published previously, or are being considered for publication in another
journal or medium.
- Preferred length of essays is 7,000 words, to a maximum of 7,500 words. Parenthetical citationsand works cited must follow the conventions of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly
Publishing. Essays may feature illustrations.
- Mosaic’s anonymous peer-review process requires that no identifying information appear on theelectronic version of the essay itself. Submissions that meet our requirements are sent to specialists in the specific and general area that an essay addresses. Anonymous but complete transcripts of the readers’ reports are sent to the author.
Address inquiries by email to:
Dr. Dawne McCance
Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
University of Manitoba, 208 Tier Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 Canada
Tel: 204-474-8597, Fax: 204-474-7584
Email: Mosasub@ad.umanitoba.ca
Submissions: Submit online at www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/submit
