Calls for Submission

A call for papers has been announced for an essay collection on professional wrestling and performance, edited by Broderick Chow (Brunel University), Eero Laine (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), and Claire Warden (University of Lincoln). Scholars in many fields (notably, anthropology, sociology, sports studies, and media studies) have taken up professional wrestling as […]

Michele Lockhart and Kathleen Mollick seek contributors for their third collection of essays considering political women and leadership. Having published two edited collections, Political Women: Language and Leadership (2013) and Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric (September, 2014), they are seeking to shift their focus from American and global political women and their

Since the mid nineteenth century, American girls have had books written especially for them, often featuring the same characters who begin to feel like their friends, enemies, and overall substitute social cliques. From the perfect, golden-haired Christian in Martha Finley’s nineteenth-century Elsie Dinsmore series to the imperfect high school beauties in Sara Shepard’s recent Pretty

Essays are requested for an edited volume that explores notions of the abject and abjection in relation to the boundaries between the comic, the everyday, and the political. This volume will consider topics that are both contemporary and historical, grounded in material objects and theoretically inclined. The common thread that will join them is an