Call for Papers: Gender & Public Memory

Call for Papers: Gender & Public Memory

Southern Journal of Communication

CFP:  Special Issue on Gender and Public Memory

Guest Editors: Tasha Dubriwny & Kristan Poirot, Texas A&M University

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: OCTOBER 1, 2016

This special issue aims to interrogate the role of gender in public memory practices, articulating the stakes of various constructions and exclusions. We invite essays from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives that focus on communication, gender, and public memory.  We invite essays that touch on any of the following areas (and others that are not listed here):

-         Public memory of feminist and/or LGBTQ social movements

-         Sites of public memory devoted to women and women’s accomplishments

-         Analyses of national monuments and museums that take gender as an orienting perspective

-         Feminist and/or queer theorizing of public memory practices
-         Queer sites of public memory

-         Ethnographic investigations of gender and public memory

-         Memory, media, and gender

-         Gendered practices of commemorative journalism

Authors should submit manuscripts electronically by October 1, 2016 to the Manuscript Central website for SCJ: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rsjc .   Authors should indicate that they are submitting the manuscript for consideration in the special issue by selecting “Gender and Public Memory” from the drop-down menu.

All manuscripts should include an abstract of approximately 150 words and a list of key words that clearly indicate the scholarly conversation to which the essay contributes. Submissions may be in either APA or Chicago, and must be original research not under review elsewhere.

Manuscripts should not normally exceed 25 double-spaced pages, including text, references, notes, tables, and figures.  Writing must be free of sexist and discriminatory language. Upon notification of acceptance of a manuscript, the author must provide a copy of the completed manuscript as well as camera-ready copy of any artwork and figures, and must assign copyright to the Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Inquiries may be made to the guest editors, Tasha Dubriwny (tdubriwny@tamu.edu) and/or Kristan Poirot (poirot@tamu.edu).