Call for Papers

(Issue 9, Dec. 2025)

Ex-Centric Narratives:

Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

 

Please submit your abstracts by December 31, 2024

for any of the following two parts

 

PART I

Theme: Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America

Since the late 2000s, American politics has been increasingly spoken of in terms of culture wars, old and new, that they polarize the American public and often lead to full-on conflicts acted out in the streets or in courts of law, in the mass media or governmental and intergovernmental bodies. Post-2010s, we have witnessed cultural battles related to the #metoo and the Black Lives Matter movement, education, healthcare, the biotech revolution, and infrastructure policy, while more recent ones concern presidential elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and manifestations of the planetary environmental crisis.

But culture wars also feed into myth and the process of myth-making itself. Reception work on myth, within and beyond America, has been lending expression to culture war long before culture war emerged as an analytical category. Moreover, myth reception has come to involve a diverse array of approaches to and patterns of revisiting, treating, retelling, and rethinking myth.

Potential contributors are invited to critically discuss work on myth that originates in or otherwise involves America and that relates to past or present (supra)national culture war(s); reception work that either addresses, gives expression to, or question cultural battles shaping and reshaping America and its geocultural ambit.

Contributors may choose to focus on one or more of the following indicative topics:

• Culture war as myth and/or mythos
• Culture war based on, drawing from, or driven by myth
• The historical trajectory of (a) culture war as myth-making process
• The influence of (a) culture war in the myth-making process
• Myth(making)’s effects on perceptions of culture war(s)
• Myth (in the arts, media, or scholarship) enlisted in or serving culture war
• Myth resisting or criticizing culture war
• Myth actively opposing culture war
• Approaches to and/or patterns of myth reception developed in the context of culture war
• Instances of myth reception as instances of culture war
• The premises, instantiations, or implications of culture war in myth-inflected texts
• Myth reception and culture war in new media, digital media, and transmedia outlets
• Myth reception, culture war and the question of agency of today’s “prosumer” or “critical digital inventor”
• The contribution of myth to the viral status of American culture wars
• The worldwide influence of American culture wars through the lens of myth
• Myth’s liminality and transformative capacities vis-à-vis the transnational/transcultural impulse of American culture wars
• Myth and culture war affecting cultural canons and canonicity itself

Contributions: Length of abstract: 150-180 words.

 

Part II

Theme: Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

In Part II, we are open to original material that aligns with the scope and standards of our journal.

We accept a wide range of contributions in any sub-field of Anglophone Studies, as you can see from the list of topics below:

• Anglophone literary production
• Anglophone culture
• Anglophone media and culture
• Anglophone media, culture and literature

Potential Contributors are invited to submit their abstract on any theme that derives from the topics above.

Contributions: Length of abstract: 150-180 words.

YOUR ABSTRACTS for either PART I or PART II should include:

• title
• author(s)
• author contact information
• affiliated institution
• brief bio
• 4-5 keywords

PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAILS/ABSTRACTS TO:

PART I

• Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Email: aidel@enl.uoa.gr
• Noelia Gregorio (UNIR-Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain)Email : noelia.gregorio@unir.net

 

PART II

• Tatiani Rapatzikou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Email: excentricnarratives@enl.auth.gr