[Discussion] Disciplines and Disciplinarity

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 From   David M. Ball <dball@princeton.edu>   <Save Address>  
 To   cfp@english.upenn.edu  
 Date   19 Jul 2003 19:04  
 Subject   UPDATE: Critical Matrix: Disciplines and Disciplinarity (9/1/03; journal issue)  

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NB: Deadline Extension 

Volume 14, Special Issue: Disciplines and Disciplinarity 

Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture, is 
seeking original submissions for an issue dedicated to the problems and 
potential of disciplines and disciplinarity in the humanities. Within 
and between departments of study, it has become increasingly difficult 
to specify respective objects of investigation, critical methodologies, 
and most importantly, the intellectual stakes and precise nature of the 
work being done. English, French, German, rhetoric, and architecture-to 
name just a few-have begun to stand in as loose designators of cultural, 
geopolitical, ethical, or theoretical orientations. 

Which aspects of disciplinarity are valuable and need to be maintained? 
Which are unnecessarily rigid? Is the proliferation of "new" 
disciplines, for example gender studies and ethnic studies, a positive 
step toward producing innovative scholarship or a regression int 
o 
academic isolationism? Are scholars who write within traditional 
disciplinary boundaries running the risk of irrelevance? What roles can 
or should the humanities play in the face of advancing globalization? 
What will the landscape of the humanities look like if disciplinary 
boundaries continue to erode? 

Possible topics of investigation include: 

+ gender in the disciplines 

+ gender as discipline 

+ "new" disciplines 

+ shifting boundaries between the disciplines 

+ how disciplines intersect with one another 

+ how disciplines undermine one another 

+ working between disciplines 

+ transgressing disciplines 

+ disciplines and the profession 

+ the politics of disciplines 

+ the ethics of disciplines 

Submissions, 15-35 pages in length and according to the Chicago Manual 
of Style, are due by September 1, 2003. Information for individuals 
interested in submitting can be found at: 
http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/CM/call.html 

William McManus and David B 
all, editors 

matrix@princeton.edu 


William McManus and David Ball, editors 
CRITICAL MATRIX 
Program in the Study of Women and Gender 
Princeton University 
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