CFP: Helsinki English Studies

Howard Sklar, PhD

Department of English

University of Helsinki

CALL FOR PAPERS

(no longer accepting submissions)

Helsinki English Studies (HES), the electronic journal of the Department of English at the University of Helsinki, is accepting submissions for a special issue of the journal to be published in the winter/spring of 2009. The theme of the special issue will be:

EMOTIONS:

IMPLICATIONS FOR LITERARY, LINGUISTIC AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

In recent years, researchers in a wide variety of fields have taken a renewed interest in the nature and function of the emotions. This journal issue seeks to contribute to discussions that have taken place in English departments on the implications of the study of emotions for literary, linguistic and translation studies.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Literary Studies

· the role of emotions in literary experience/response

· the role of emotions in literary interpretation

· case studies of individual works of literature in terms of reader emotions, character emotions,

textual dynamics that produce emotions, etc.

· the role of specific emotions in literary production and response

· empirical studies of readers’ emotional responses to literary works

the connection between emotions and ethics in literary studies, response, writing, etc.

Linguistics

case studies of the language of emotions, including:

· metaphor

· rhetorical dynamics

· rhythm

· lexical features

· empirical studies of reader production/reception of linguistic features relating to emotions

Translation Studies

· factors in translating emotional language

· factors in translating emotional subtext

· case studies dealing with emotion-related issues in translating works from English to Finnish,

Finnish to English, English to Swedish, Swedish to English

Reviews of recent books (2006 or later) that address some of the themes listed above. Of particular interest are books that have already generated discussion or exerted influence on research that is being conducted in the area of emotions and literary studies/ linguistics/translation studies.

Submission

Submission is open to all instructors, students, researchers and emeriti affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Helsinki. In order to be considered for submission of a paper or review article, you must first send a one-page abstract (single-spaced, maximum 500 words) of your proposed paper or article.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1, 2008.

Abstracts should be sent electronically as MS Word documents to Howard Sklar at howard.sklar@helsinki.fi. For paper proposals, the subject heading for your email should read “Paper Proposal: HES Emotions.” Also, beneath the title of your abstract, please indicate the area of specialization (literary studies, linguistics, or translation studies) of your proposed paper. For review articles, the subject heading for your email should read “Review Article Proposal: HES Emotions.”

From the abstracts that are submitted, 8-10 paper proposals will be selected for development into full papers, and 2-3 review article proposals will be selected for development into full reviews. In selecting abstracts for development, some emphasis will be given to providing a rough balance between the three areas of research (literary, linguistic, translation). Applicants will be notified of selection/rejection by October 1, 2008.

For proposals that are accepted for development into full papers or articles, the deadline for submission of the completed papers (maximum 5000 words) and review articles (maximum 1500 words) will be December 15, 2008. All papers and reviews that are considered of acceptable quality will be published in the winter/spring 2009 issue of the journal.

Note on style: Please use the MLA or Harvard style sheets for all submissions. Also, as this issue encourages contributions from three disciplines within the field of English Studies, please use prose that, while academic, is geared to a general audience within the field. As much as possible, avoid the use of technical terminology.

About the editor

Howard Sklar, PhD, recently completed his doctorate through the Department of English at the University of Helsinki. The title of his dissertation is The Art of Sympathy: Forms of Moral and Emotional Persuasion in Fiction. He has also contributed essays on the dynamics of reader sympathy to academic journals and essay collections. At the University of Helsinki, Sklar teaches “Fiction, Ethics and the Significance of Reading,” a course offered through the departments of English and Comparative Literature. In addition to his university-related work, Sklar teaches English in the public schools of Espoo. He has been a secondary school English teacher, in the United States and in Finland, since 1987.

Advisory Committee

· Ritva Leppihalme, Ph.D., is a university lecturer and docent in the Department of English at the University of Helsinki. She will review submissions related to translation studies.

· Heli Tissari, Ph.D., is co-ordinator for Varieng, the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English. She will review submissions related to linguistics.

Past issues of the journal are available at: http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/HES_new/hes.htm

STYLE GUIDELINES

(last updated Nov. 9, 2008)

In the past, the HES journal has generally followed the Harvard style of documentation, and this will be the style that will be used for this issue, as well. For general guidelines on this style, please see the Department's guidelines for theses and papers, which can be found at the following link:

http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/images/kuvituskuvat/guidelines.rtf

One important exception to the Harvard style as presented in the above-linked document: Please use the full first name of each author listed in the references section of your essay. (Harvard style usually provides only the first initial of the author's first name.)

A few additional stylistic points:

* All documents should be MS Word files (no exceptions!).

* All text (including title and by-line) should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman (the style may be changed for the journal issue, but I'd like font consistency until that decision is made).

* Title and author's name should be centered and in boldface.

* Your last name and the page number should appear in the top right-hand corner of each page, beginning on page 2.

* Margins should be set as follows: Top and bottom, 2.5 cm; left and right, 3.5 cm.

* Text should be double-spaced.

* Block quotations (all quotations of more than one sentence) should be double-spaced and indented from the left and right margins by 1.5 cm.

* For references, use the Harvard parenthetical style, with author's name followed by the date and page number, in the body of the text (Sklar 2008: 45).

* For reference notes, use endnotes only. Endnotes should not be used for providing basic references, but only for providing information that is related, but not essential, to the body of the essay.

* You should have a "References" section following the endnotes section. Follow the Harvard guidelines for listing references (but, again, with the author's full first name).

* In the case of multiple references by a single author, list them in chronological order (in other words, oldest to newest).

* In the case of multiple references by a single author in the same year, add lowercase letters in order to distinguish between references: Sklar 2008a, Sklar 2008b, etc. The first reference (Sklar 2008a) should contain the title that precedes the other 2008 titles alphabetically. In other words, between the following two Sklar 2008 titles, The Art of Sympathy (my dissertation) and "Sympathy as Self-Discovery" (a journal article), the first would be Sklar 2008a and the second would be Sklar 2008b, since the Art of the dissertation title precedes the Sympathy of the journal article's title.

One additional stylistic point already mentioned in the CFP: As this issue encourages contributions from three disciplines within the field of English Studies, please use prose that, while academic, is geared to a general audience within the field. As much as possible, avoid the use of technical terminology.

Lastly, just a reminder that papers should not exceed 5,000 words. Book reviews should be limited to 1,500 words. Deadline for all manuscripts is January 15, 2008.

Note: The deadline for submission of proposals has passed. Notifications for accepted proposals have already been sent. No new proposals will be accepted at this time.