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e-pisteme, a postgraduate electronic journal based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

e-pisteme, a postgraduate electronic journal based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University, is dedicated to publishing fresh and vibrant research of the highest quality from postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. The journal focuses on themes that reach across disciplines, seeking to challenge traditionally defined ways of thinking and conducting research. e-pisteme is an international platform for academic exchange publishing peer-reviewed scholarly articles by early career researchers.

The editors invite contributions for the forthcoming issue on the theme of GENDER from postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Suggested areas for articles include, but are not restricted to:

Cinema, Film & Television
Embodiment, Space & Time
Equality & Liberation
Feminism, Anti-feminism & Masculinism
Gender, Sex & Androgyny
Language & Linguistics
Stylistics & Discourse
Teaching, Learning & Acquisition
Transgender & Transqueer

Please send submissions in Microsoft Word format to: e-pisteme@ncl.ac.uk All submissions must contain the following information:

* Completed article (3000-4000 words)
* Abstract (100-200 words)
* 3 to 5 Keywords
* Name / Affiliation / Stage of study
* E-mail address

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 20th JUNE 2009

For more information about e-pisteme and our submission guidelines, please visit: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/e-pisteme

POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH: The University of Durham’s Online Literature Journal

Postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe are invited to submit papers of not more than 7000 words on the topic of ‘Artifice’ within the broad range of English Studies for Issue 19 of this fully refereed online journal.

 

Papers MUST conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than February 15th 2009.

 

e invite papers from every area of English studies considering this theme and related issues in literature. Areas of interest may

include:

 

• Authorial authenticity and textual ‘sincerity’
• Performance and theatricality
• Intertextuality (including ekphrasis)
• Literary depictions of superficiality and insincerity throughout the ages
• Reader reception (including responses to artistic deception and questions of complicity)
• Literary artifice, self-conscious fictionality and the postmodern
• Editorial and commercial implications of the ‘artificial’ text

 

In addition, you are invited to send 1000-word papers on the topic of ‘Beginning your PhD: What You Wish They’d Told You.’ The paper should offer practical and friendly advice on how best to make a start on a PhD project, covering such topics as planning your thesis, goal-setting exercises and managing your time in the early stages of study. What are the tips and recommendations that have worked best for you? These papers are intended to offer helpful advice and support for new PhD students and postgraduate students considering doctoral study. Papers on all topics pertinent to the issue will be considered.

 

Visit the journal’s website at:

 

www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm