CFP - Special Issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies [11.10.2010]
Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies edited by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Nathanael O’Reilly
Proposals are invited for a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies on Australian literature. The editors will consider papers on any aspect of Australian literature, but papers must have a postcolonial theoretical orientation. The editors are particularly interested in papers addressing work by Indigenous and emerging authors, and papers dealing with issues such as transnationalism, settler colonialism and immigration.
Please send 500-word abstracts in a Word document by February 1st, 2011 to Nathanael O’Reilly (nathanael_oreilly@uttyler.edu) and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (raweav1@yahoo.com).
Please do not send completed papers at this time. After reviewing the abstracts, the editors will invite contributors to submit completed 5000-word papers, which must conform to the latest MLA style. The deadline for completed papers will be provided at a later date. The special issue is schedule to be published in late 2011.
Please include the following with your abstract:
Name and Institutional Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
A brief CV