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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THEMED ISSUES

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THEMED ISSUES

Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)

www.parergon.org

The journal Parergon, in print since 1971, regularly produces one open issue and one themed issue annually.

Recent themed issues include:

2014, 31.2 Medieval and Early Modern Emotional Responses to Death and Dying, guestedited by Rebecca McNamara and Una McIlvenna

2015 32.2 A Road Less Travelled: The Medieval and Early Modern World Reflected in New Zealand Collections, guest-edited by Chris Jones

2015, 32.3 Religion, Memory, and Civil War in the British Isles: Essays for Don Kennedy, guestedited by Dolly MacKinnon, Alexandra Walsham, and Amanda Whiting

2016, 33.2 Approaches to Early Modern Nostalgia, guest-edited by Kristine Johanson

2017, 34.2 Exile and Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, guest-edited by Lisa Di Crescenzo and Sally Fisher

We now call for proposals for future themed issues, specifically for 2020 (37.2)

Parergon publishes articles on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, from early medieval through to the eighteenth century, and including the reception and influence of medieval and early modern culture in the modern world. We are particularly interested in research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Parergon asks its authors to achieve international standards of excellence. The article should be substantially original, advance research in the field, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the critical debate.

Parergon, is available in electronic form as part of Project Muse, Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), and Humanities Full Text (from 2008); it is included in the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.

Themed issues contain up to ten essays, plus the usual reviews section. The guest editor is responsible for setting the theme and drawing up the criteria for the essays.

Time line

Proposals for the 2020 issue (37.2) should be submitted to the Editor by 1 March 2018.

Proposals should contain the following:

1. A draft title for the issue.

2. A statement outlining the rationale for the issue.

3. Titles and abstracts of all the essays.

4. A short biographical paragraph for the guest editor(s) and for each contributor.

5. An example of a completed essay if available. (This is not essential).

Proposals will be considered by a selection panel drawn from the Parergon International Editorial Board who will be asked to assess and rank the proposals according to the following criteria:

1. Suitability for the journal

2. Originality of contribution to the chosen field

3. Significance/importance of the proposed theme

4. Potential for advancing scholarship in a new and exciting way

5. Range and quality of authors

Guest editors will be notified of the result of their application by the beginning of May 2018.

The editorial process

Once a proposal has been accepted:

1. The guest editor will commission and pre-select the essays before submitting them to the Parergon editor by the agreed date (for issue 37.2, 1 June 2019).

2. The Parergon editor will arrange for independent and anonymous peer-review in accordance with the journal’s established criteria.

3. Once the essays have been peer-reviewed, the Parergon editor will communicate the feedback to the guest editor.

4. The guest editor will then be asked to work with the authors to bring the submissions to the required standard where necessary.

5. Occasionally a commissioned essay will be judged not suitable for publication in Parergon. This decision will be taken by the Parergon editor, based on the anonymous expert reviews.

6. Essays which have already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible for inclusion in the journal.

Please send enquiries and proposals to the Editor, Susan Broomhall, at susan.broomhall@uwa.edu.au