Approaches to Old Age
Guest Editors: Sarah Falcus (Huddersfield) and Maricel Oro Piqueras (Lleida)
This issue seeks to extend the variety and multiplicity of approaches in cultural gerontology, contributing to the dialogue between English Studies and Ageing Studies. We welcome contributions that explore old age across the full range of literary and cultural forms.
Global Responses to the ‘War on Terror’
Guest editors: Michael C. Frank (Dusseldorf) and Pavan Kumar Malreddy (Goethe University Frankfurt)
This issue proposes a thematic shift from the widely discussed traumatic impact of the 11 September 2001 attacks themselves to the transformative impact of the ensuing ‘war on terror’. In particular, it identifies a conceptual gap in the existing criticism on ‘9/11’ and its cultural resonance, which tends to privilege Euro-American responses to the event, while considering trauma, grief and suffering as primarily transatlantic experiences. The corresponding Anglophone canon of ‘post-9/11’ fiction and nonfiction literature, documentary, drama, and film has failed to address the responsive violence incited by the decade-long military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the destabilisation of political regimes in the Middle East, and other clandestine operations in the Global South in the name of countering ‘terrorism’.
CFP – Global Responses to the ‘War on Terror’
Poetry, Science and Technology
Guest editors: Irmtraud Huber (Berne), Wolfgang Funk (Mainz)
In the preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth famously calls poetry ‘the first and last of all knowledge’ and describes the poet’s task as carrying ‘sensation into the objects of science itself’. The editors invite contributions that explore relations between poetic and scientific knowledge, an association commonly neglected in favour of a focus on narrative. Moreover, we seek to explore how technological advances such as the invention and development of ever more sophisticated machinery or changes in the means of communication find echoes in the imaginary and structure of poetry.