[Englecturers] Announcement: Modernist Cultures: A New Academic Journal

[englecturers at lists.ucr.edu]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-msa_members at chaos.press.jhu.edu
[mailto:owner-msa_members at chaos.press.jhu.edu] On Behalf Of Cassandra Laity
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:47 AM
To: msa_members at chaos.press.jhu.edu
Subject: Announcement: Modernist Cultures: A New Academic Journal


Modernist Cultures: A New Academic Journal

(www.modernist.bham.ac.uk)

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new electronic journal,
Modernist Cultures, which will be published twice a year (Spring and
Autumn). Modernist Cultures is a free, easily accessible e-journal: it is
open to anyone who is interested in the vibrant field of modernist studies,
and it aims to use the resources of the internet to facilitate scholarly
debate. Articles will focus on the multiple intellectual and artistic
contexts of modernity, and will also consider issues of cultural production
and circulation. The journal aims to provide a forum for explorations of the
most interesting contemporary debates in modernist studies. 

Modernist Cultures seeks to examine the interdisciplinary and international
contexts of modernism and modernity. The journal is indebted to no single
theoretical paradigm or critical model but is committed to innovative
scholarship and to dialogue across international borders. The editors'
intention is to create a genuinely interdisciplinary space for the lively,
polemical discussion of contemporary trends in the field, a discussion that
will, we hope, represent the heterogeneity of current critical approaches
and foster debate between scholars working within different intellectual
traditions. We invite essays from various fields of inquiry, including
anthropology, art history, cultural studies, economic history, ethnography,
film studies, geography, history, literature, musicology, philosophy,
political theory, sociology, urban studies, and visual culture. We look
above all for essays that cross the boundaries between such fields, bringing
together disparate modes of thinki! ng and writing in an attempt to
reanimate the discourses through which modernist cultures have hitherto been
conceived.

The inaugual issue of Modernist Cultures, which contains articles by
Marjorie Perloff, Michael Coyle, Edward Comentale, Douglas Tallack, and
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, is broadly concerned with the concept of modernism
and with current work in what has become known as the "New Modernist
Studies". Issue 2 (Medium and Message in German Modernism) will be edited by
Thomas Pfau (Duke University) and will be published in the autumn of 2005.
Issue 3, edited by Scott McCracken (Keele University) will be devoted to
Modernism and the Everyday and will be published in spring 2006. The
journal's editors warmly welcome proposals for future issues, and we invite
anybody with suggestions for topics to contact us by email.


Andrzej Gasiorek (University of Birmingham):
A.B.P.Gasiorek at bham.ac.uk

Deborah Parsons (University of Birmingham):
D.L.Parsons at bham.ac.uk

Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University):                   mmoses at duke.edu 











Cassandra Laity
Associate Professor 
Co-Editor, _Modernism/Modernity_
Department of English
Drew University
Madison, NJ 07940
Phone: 973-408-3141
Fax: 973-408-3040

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo at jhupress.jhu.edu with the
following line in the body: unsubscribe msa_members you at your.email.address.
Or visit this web site: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/msa_members_listserv.html