{"id":4653,"date":"2023-06-06T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:54:11","slug":"cfp-english-journal-on-precarity-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4653","title":{"rendered":"CfP: English journal on &#8216;Precarity in Perspective&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The peer-reviewed journal&nbsp;<em>English<\/em>&nbsp;is seeking contributions for a special&nbsp;issue (eds. Archie Cornish, Kate De Rycker, and Cathy Shrank) which&nbsp;will&nbsp;bring together fresh perspectives on precarity, both as a topic for literature, and as an aspect of literary careers of the past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite the following three types of contribution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) 2000-4000 word think-pieces, reflections on practice or other opinion pieces on our key themes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b) longer pieces of finished research that engage with our themes on an intellectual, historical, theoretical or practice-based level (7000-8000 words)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) suggestions for relevant book reviews (books published from 2020 onwards)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send abstracts or essay\u00a0outlines to\u00a0kate.de-rycker@ncl.ac.uk\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>15 July 2023<\/strong>.<br>For more details, see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/english\/pages\/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/english\/pages\/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Archie Cornish (Sheffield), and I are guest editing a special issue of &#8216;English&#8217; (the Journal of the English Association), and we&#8217;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 &#8216;precarity in perspective&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re keen to hear from PhDs\/colleagues working on precarious contracts, as well as in different sectors- e.g. school teachers, librarians, archivists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Further details and suggestions for topics within that theme are available here in the CfP:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/english\/pages\/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/english\/pages\/call-for-papers-precarity-in-perspective<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peer-reviewed journal&nbsp;English&nbsp;is seeking contributions for a special&nbsp;issue (eds. Archie Cornish, Kate De Rycker, and Cathy Shrank) which&nbsp;will&nbsp;bring together fresh perspectives on precarity, both as a topic for literature, and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4653\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}