The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0529 Wednesday, 28 October 2009
From: Katherine Rowe <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 13:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CFP Shakespeare Quarterly Special Issue on New Media
CFP Shakespeare Quarterly Special Issue on New Media (with a experiment
in open peer review)
Shakespeare's works have provided launch content for new media
technologies since the seventeenth century, as Peter Donaldson has
observed. At the turn of the 21st century, we are experiencing
particularly rapid transformation of our basic tools for studying,
teaching, learning, reading, performing, editing, archiving, and
adapting Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Quarterly invites submissions of essays on the impact of
media change, now, in all these arenas of Shakespeare studies.
Submissions that make innovative use of new media publication modes,
such as hyperlinks to the Folger Shakespeare Library's digitized
collections, are particularly welcome.
Some examples of possible approaches:
. formalist analysis of Shakespeare's works in new media formats (games,
mash-ups, hypertext editions);
. readings of specific works (virtual performances of Shakespeare
online; multimedia theater; "60-Second Shakespeare");
. theoretical engagements with the costs and benefits of remediation and
media convergence in the classroom, in performance, reading, archiving,
and/or research;
. reviews of multi-mediated performances; and
. accounts of the cultural values accruing to Shakespeare in new media,
of Shakespeare's changing (or timeless) "brand," Bardolatry and media
change.
Essays must be received by January 15, 2010. Please upload submissions
to Editorial Manager, Shakespeare Quarterly's online manuscript tracking
system, at www.edmgr.com/sq.
For instructions on formatting your submission, please see our
Contributor Guidelines.
UPDATE-OPEN REVIEW
For Shakespeare critics and scholars, among the most significant
consequences of media change will be transformations in how we
communicate about our work and publish new research. In keeping with the
topic of its special issue, "Shakespeare and New Media," Shakespeare
Quarterly is conducting an experiment in open peer review that will
apply only to the special issue. After the initial editorial evaluation,
authors will be invited to opt into the open review process. For those
who do, their essays will be posted online for public commentary and
feedback by the journal's readers. Authors may respond to this feedback
before submitting their revised essays for final selection by the
editors. (Authors who decline the open review and opt for a traditional
review will not be penalized in the selection process.)
The open-review period will be conducted in partnership with
MediaCommons, a digital network dedicated to promoting scholarly
discourse about media studies and the digital humanities
(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/). To learn more about
their open-review platform and to read an assessment of the
possibilities of peer review in a digital age, go to
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/.
The open-review period will open 1 March 2010 and close 5 May 2010.
For more information about the special issue "Shakespeare and New Media"
or about Shakespeare Quarterly, and for a fuller description of the open
review process for this issue, go to
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=542.
Katherine Rowe
Chair and Professor of English
Bryn Mawr
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