[Discussion] CFP: Waste (11/15/05; journal issue)

[gpultar@cstgroup.org]

From: VERB <inverb@lehigh.edu>

VERB, a peer-reviewed online and print journal of the humanities, is soliciting
articles, fiction, and poetry for our second of four issues on "waste," broadly
defined. Submissions can apply, describe, analyze, expand, or compare cultural,
textual, or theoretical understandings of waste in any form: garbage, excess,
poorly-spent time, poorly exercised potential, and so forth. Submissions can
also examine how various media--literature, film, or the plastic arts--interpret
waste. And we're open to other ideas, too.

VERB will accept scholarly articles, fiction, and poetry of almost any length
for publication in our online journal; submissions to be considered for our
print journal should be no more than 3000 words (about twelve double-spaced
pages) in length, excluding endnotes. The deadline for submissions to the second
issue is 11/15/05; later submissions will be considered for future issues.

Finally, VERB is an interdisciplinary journal and consequently has a constant
need for reviewers/referees in any humanities discipline--English Literature,
Popular Culture, American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, History, and
Philosophy, to name a few. Interested candidates should send a short letter of
intent and a CV to inverb@lehigh.edu.

*To read our editorial policies, visit:
http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/about/editorialPolicies

*To read the submission guidelines and submit your work, visit
http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/about/submissions

*To read the current issue of VERB, visit:
http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Nate Eastman
inverb@lehigh.edu

----------

P.S.

This information from our manual for reviewers may help you better craft
a piece for submission:

///VERB/ is an interdisciplinary journal published and sponsored by the
Humanities Center at Lehigh University. Its goals are to encourage, collect, and
make available writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on topics
that lend themselves to socially significant and original academic work. It also
appears in a newsprint version available by request from the Lehigh University
Humanities Center. Our audience consists of undergraduate and graduate students,
university faculty, and dedicated nonspecialists.

Manuscripts considered for publication in /VERB/ should fulfill the following
criteria:

Relevance: The manuscript should focus on /VERB/&#65533;s topic (e.g. waste);
the connection of the manuscript's content to the theme for each issue of /VERB/
should be immediate and clear.

Significance: The manuscript should address an issue or several issues of social
or academic significance, broadly defined.

Originality: The manuscript should make a contribution to the academic
discipline or disciplines in which it works.

Perceptiveness: The manuscript&#65533;s treatment of its subject or subjects
should be non-trivial and non-obvious to an expert in the field.

Accessibility: The manuscript&#65533;s style, tone, and subject should be
accessible to our readers: discipline-specific theory and jargon should be
avoided or explained; discipline-specific understandings of subjects and events
should be broadened to fit an audience of intellectually able and academically
interested nonspecialists.




>From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List