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Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University In/ability to work plays a critical role in definitions of dis/ability, but the complexities of the relationship between people with disabilities and the world of work have only recently started to gain scholarly attention.  Contributions… Continue reading →

Call for Papers: Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University Disability Studies Quarterly is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives. Please circulate accordingly and direct questions to Dr. David Turner at d.m.turner@swansea.ac.uk. In/ability… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies on ‘Embodiment’ Guest Editor: Sarah Brophy, McMaster University a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on ‘Embodiment’ to be published as volume 33.2. Embodied lives, in all their corporeal, social, sensory, affective, political, economic, and technological dimensions, are the primary grounds for auto/biographical production. Building on… Continue reading →

Medically unexplained symptoms, hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, psychogenic illness, somatic symptoms, functional illness, malingering—there is ongoing debate amongst specialists in medicine, psychology, sociology, and the medical humanities about how to classify, diagnose, treat, and explain disorders affecting body and mind. Meanwhile, in popular culture, these terms are misunderstood, unknown, or rejected outright—what was once called “psychosomatic” illness is… Continue reading →

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions that further the discussion of disabling and enabling narratives from a disability studies perspective. JNT is a forum for the theoretical exploration of individual narrative texts and of the intersections between narrative, history, ideology, and culture more broadly. Essays might engage with topics such as literature and dis/enabling environments and social space, how… Continue reading →

Call for Papers: Studies in Gothic Fiction Special Issue – Disabled Gothic Bodies Guest Editor: Dr. Alan Gregory The Gothic is a mode that displays a sustained cultural fascination with the disabled body. As David Punter notes, ‘the history of … dealings with the disabled body runs throughout the history of the Gothic, a history… Continue reading →

Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality York University, Toronto, Canada http://ht.journals.yorku.ca Submission Deadline: 15th May 2016 Borders are constructed to regulate the movement of people, resources, and information, as well as to structure and appraise different forms of knowledge. They can also be used to isolate the causes of adverse health effects, protect equitable standards, recognize different health… Continue reading →

‘Different Adulthoods: Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories’, special issue of Feminism and Psychology ‘Development’ as a unitary, universal and consistent process has been subject to significant critique by critical developmental psychologists such as Erica Burman. The contribution of Burman’s work to interrogating ‘development’ in childhood has been acknowledged recently in the special issue of Feminism… Continue reading →

We invite you to submit an essay of no more than 1,600 words in length by 31st March 2016, for the Fourth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition. The winners will receive prizes of $1,500 and selected participants will have their articles published in Hektoen International. Two prizes will be awarded: Military Prize—on a medical topic related… Continue reading →

Call For Papers: Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Katie Ellis, Mike Kent and Rachel Robertson The collection is a new contribution to global interdisciplinary disability studies. The book will consist of contributions from established and new voices in international disability studies outlining their own manifestos for the future of the field.  Interdisciplinary fields covered will… Continue reading →