Call for Papers "Post-Identity"

Spectator: Call for Papers“Post-Identity”Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010)This issue of Spectator seeks papers that engage in current debates about“post-identity” and their significance to academic studies of identity andmedia within national and global contexts. Questions of post-race,post-gender, and post-human identities have been consistently raised withinthe disciplines of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new media theory, andgender studies, and this issue will examine the implications of these claimsand their relationship to the field of media studies.  This issue isparticularly relevant in a moment when, preceding and succeeding theelection of Barack Obama as President, critics and commentators havedeclared race as now “irrelevant.”  Academic essays, interviews, and bookreviews that interrogate the idea of “transcending” or moving beyondidentity, as well as representations of “post-identity” within film,television and new media, are all encouraged for submission.
Deadline for Submission (November 29, 2009)
Spectator is a biannual publication, and submissions that addresspost-identity and related topics are now invited for submission. Potentialtopics in the fields of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new mediatheory, and gender studies may include, but are not limited to:
New Media and Technology:•    New technologies, new media theory, and the erasure of identity•    Relationships between technology and race, gender or sexuality in filmor television•    Relationships between creative and industrial practices, newtechnology, and representation of identity•    New technologies, popular music, and identity•    Avant-garde, technology and identity•    New technologies and issues of nationalism, regionalism or diaspora
Science and Science Fiction(s)•    Representations of the “future” within scholarly texts and visual media•    Utopias, dystopias and connections to identity•    Representations of cyborgs, aliens, monsters and robots within visualmedia•    Special effects and identity•    Artificial intelligence•    Genetic engineering
Political culture and celebrity•    Stardom and identity within contemporary media•    Barack Obama and American racial politics•    Humanism and post-humanism
Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:• Janani Subramanian2000 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Unit CRedondo Beach, CA 90278Phone: 323-377-1786Email: jananisu@usc.edu
One copy of manuscript should be submitted, as well as a digital copy.Submissions can also be e-mailed directly. Manuscripts should include thetitle of the contribution and the name (s) of authors, as well as the postaladdress, e-mail address, and phone numbers for authors who will work withthe editor on any revisions. All pages should be numbered consecutively.Contributions should not be more than 5,000 words. They should also includea brief abstract for publicity. Authors should also include a briefbiographical entry. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned.
Articles submitted to Spectator should not be under consideration by anyother journal.
Book Reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please includetitle of book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review.Examples of possible books include: Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Raceand Gender Shape Public Opinion, Mixed Race Hollywood, Digital Diaspora: ARace for Cyberspace, Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, Draculas, Vampiresand Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture and Latino Spin:Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race.
Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new archivalor research facilities or methods as well as other relevant works related tothe field.
Electronic Submissions and Formatting. Authors should send copies of theirwork via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup files of alldisks. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, depending on theeditor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all contributors asto image and text requirements.
Current Board for SpectatorFounding EditorMarsha KinderManaging EditorWilliam WhittingtonIssue EditorJanani Subramanian
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