The peer-reviewed journal English is seeking contributions for a special issue (eds. Archie Cornish, Kate De Rycker, and Cathy Shrank) which will bring together fresh perspectives on precarity, both as a topic for literature, and as an aspect of literary careers of the past and present.
We invite the following three types of contribution:
a) 2000-4000 word think-pieces, reflections on practice or other opinion pieces on our key themes
b) longer pieces of finished research that engage with our themes on an intellectual, historical, theoretical or practice-based level (7000-8000 words)
c) suggestions for relevant book reviews (books published from 2020 onwards)
Please send abstracts or essay outlines to kate.de-rycker@ncl.ac.uk by 15 July 2023.
For more details, see https://academic.oup.com/english/pages/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective
Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Archie Cornish (Sheffield), and I are guest editing a special issue of ‘English’ (the Journal of the English Association), and we’re looking for articles (7,000-8,000 words), shorter think-pieces (2,000-4,000) and suggestions for book reviews on the theme of ‘precarity in perspective’.
We’re keen to hear from PhDs/colleagues working on precarious contracts, as well as in different sectors- e.g. school teachers, librarians, archivists.
Further details and suggestions for topics within that theme are available here in the CfP:
https://academic.oup.com/english/pages/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective