Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 15:01:32 -0600 (CST)
Subject: MB: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (fwd)


                           
                            U N D E R C U R R E N T
                             Call for Submissions


UNDERCURRENT is a free journal available on the Internet through e-mail
subscriptions.  (See end of this message for how to subscribe for free.)
It is also available on World Wide Web at this URL address: 
           http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~heroux/home.html

We are seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an
analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations,
classes, or cultures.  We seek to publish analysis of the present from
diverse intellectual perspectives--feminist, historical, ethnological,
sociological, literary, political, semiotic, philosophical, cultural
studies, and so forth.  We seek applied analysis rather than theory.  Any
theoretical orientation ought instead to be apparent and immanent in your
particular focus on the present.  We especially encourage
interdisciplinary work. Article length varies according to your needs,
anywhere from "short-takes" of 500-1000 words to "feature" of up to 7500
words. 

As its audience is potentially much broader than that of academic journals
held only in university libraries, the style must account for an educated
audience which is not necessarily familiar with either the jargon or the
debates in a special field.  UNDERCURRENT wishes to publish articles that
address this broader audience while also conveying a vivid sense of how
current academic scholarship can contribute to our understanding of the
present.  We are attempting to bridge the gulf between academia and the
general reading public, a gulf which has allowed various misperceptions
about academia to become politically overcharged in the popular media. 

UNDERCURRENT is founded on four editorial principles which together make
it unique among journals.  It is interdisciplinary, applied, accessible,
and focussed on the present.  What do we mean by these four principles? 

1. "Interdisciplinary" means that it begins with academic disciplines and
works through/with/against them in new combinations either within articles
or between articles--in order to see what might be revealed by crossing or
fusing disciplinary borders and/or creating new hybrids as tools of
analysis. 

2. "Applied" means that it publishes only articles which perform an actual
analysis rather than explore theoretical issues.  Theoretical discussions
already have plenty of journals devoting space to them in every
discipline.  This is not the same as saying that theory is banished from
UNDERCURRENT, but rather that it is only theory in action that we wish to
publish. 

3. "Accessible" means that the articles are aware of an audience which is
not privy to specialized terminology, proper names, and the recent history
of your discipline.  This is not the same as saying that the articles
thereby lose rigor, but rather that they prove to be capable of interest
and comprehension by any intelligent, educated reader. 

4. "The present" means that our articles demonstrate an awareness of who
we are now.  (We includes any group of people alive.) An analysis of the
present highlights a force, trend, limit, idea, custom, event, or
structure which exerts some contemporary influence.  The "present" can be
either "residual," "dominant," or "emergent"--to use Raymond Williams'
terms. 

All submissions will receive a reply, however no copies can be returned. 
Any major citation format is acceptable, although endnotes must be used
rather than footnotes due to the contingencies of various platforms for
viewing electronic text. Submissions and queries can be sent in any of the
following ways, in order of preference: 

      1.> e-mail to "heroux-AT-darkwing.uoregon.edu" and note in the
subject field that this is a submission to UNDERCURRENT           
              
      2.> Mail a floppy diskette with your text in ASCII or
WordPerfect or RTF or any major word processor format(address below).  

      3.> Mail two copies of your essay by traditional post to:
            
                              UNDERCURRENT
                              Erick Heroux
                              Dept. of English
                              University of Oregon
                              Eugene, OR 97403


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