Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 43 No. 2 | September 2017
Call for Papers
Intermediality in Global and Sinophone Contexts
Guest editor, Yomi Braester (University of Washington, USA)
Intermediality and new media studies are especially likely to benefit from a global perspective: new media is used in different and innovative ways around the world. Yet the paradigms of intermediality and new media studies may have neglected the lessons of the global south. The special issue explores intermediality and new media from a comparative perspective, with special interest in (but not exclusive to) Sinophone cultures, thereby modifying and challenging the pioneering work done in a largely West European and American context, by writers such as Thomas Elsaesser, Friedrich Kittler, Lev Manovich, Katherine Hayles, and Jussi Parikka.
The issue seeks essays grounded in the humanities and that address any form of cross-media texts and images, from the rethinking of forms of communication in the late nineteenth century to the current reliance on mobile digital devices. In so doing, the essays may reformulate and rehistoricize the visual, spatial, and other “turns.” Essays may also consider how cultural hegemony has been upheld or undermined by textual and visual strategies employed across media. Contributions may address issues related to — but not limited to — hypertextuality, computer-generated art, gaming, surveillance, mobile screens, and virtual reality.
Please send abstracts (750-word max) to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw on or before September 15, 2016. Final essays of 6,000-10,000 words, 5-8 keywords, and a brief bio will be due on December 15, 2016. Manuscripts should follow the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout and typeset in 12-point Times New Roman. For further instructions on documentation, consult our style guide http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/submissions.php
Yomi Braester is Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. His books include Witness against History: Literature, Film and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China(Stanford UP, 2003) and Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (Duke UP, 2010), which was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize, post-1900 category, by the Association for Asian Studies. He is also the co-editor of Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia(Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2010); a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas on “The Missing Period: 1949–1976 in the PRC” (2011); and a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture on Taiwan cinema (2003).
He served as the president of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) in 2006–2008 and is an editorial board member of Modern Languages Quarterly (MLQ), Concentric, and book series at Edinburgh University Press, Hong Kong University Press, University of Washington Press. In 2013 professor Braester was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and he is the in-coming editor of Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, currently indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Each issue of Concentric publishes groups of essays on a special topic as well as papers on more general issues.http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/
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Ioana Luca
Associate Professor
Department of English, NTNU
Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
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