CALL FOR ARTICLES
CALIFORNIA ITALIAN STUDIES, 2009
ITALY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Editors: Claudio Fogu and Lucia Re
CALIFORNIA ITALIAN STUDIES seeks for its first issue contributions on the theme of ITALY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. With this inaugural issue we want to provide an overview and critical assessment of the recent boom in Mediterranean Studies, with specific reference to perspectives placing Italy in a comparative and transnational Mediterranean context. Some of the questions we would like to address are: how does or can Italian studies contribute to Mediterranean Studies? Can we speak of a specifically Italian form of Mediterranean-ness? How have Italy and the Mediterranean interacted with and constituted each other over time? And finally, which critical perspectives within Mediterranean Studies can contribute to develop new approaches in Italian Studies? We seek contributions that address these questions, either through specific case studies or in a broader comparative context. We welcome submissions by both established and younger scholars in any discipline and any period whose present research and work in progress address this theme, as well as its theoretical foundations and implications. Submissions that make an effective and creative use of the digital format are especially encouraged.
Submissions may be any length between 15 and 50 pages (up to 12,000 words), and can be either made online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/ismrg/cisj or via email to the editors of the issue: Claudio Fogu, cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu, or Lucia Re, re@humnet.ucla.edu
DEADLINE: Electronic Submission by December 15, 2008.
California Italian Studies (CIS) is a new digital, peer-reviewed scholarly journal committed to publishing in a timely manner the finest, most innovative, and most potentially influential scholarly work being done internationally in the field of Italian Studies, including topics related to Italy in any discipline or cross-disciplinary and comparative field of inquiry, from the Middle Ages to the present. CIS seeks contributions meeting one or more of the following criteria: interdisciplinarity; comparativity; criticality.
For more information on CIS go to: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/italianstudies/index.html or write to our managing editor, Regina Longo regmlongo2@gmail.com
