ABOUT 2011 ISSUES
- Vol. 2, Issue 1: The Medievalism of Nostalgia |
- Vol. 2, Issue 2: Open Issue |
- Vol. 2, Issue 3: New Critical Modes |
Vol. 2, Issue 1: Medieval Disability Studies
Editors:
Helen Dell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Louise D'Arcens, University of Wollongong, Australia
Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia
Nostalgia, first perceived in the 17th century as an obscure condition of homesickness afflicting
soldiers serving abroad, is now recognized as a key symptom of modernity. Medievalism - the
re-imagining and re-invention of the Middle Ages - has provided a desirable home for the longings
of nostalgia since the 18th century or earlier. The essays collected in this special issue will
investigate the privileged association between the two terms.
Vol. 2, Issue 2: Open Issue
This issue will feature a cluster of essays on "Medieval Disability Studies," to be edited by Julie Singer, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA.
Vol. 2, Issue 3: New Critical Modes
Editors:
Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University, USA and
Cary Howie, Cornell University, USA.
This issue will examine and embody some of the new critical modes that are emerging among contemporary
medievalists (and postmedievalists). Critics have often been content to adopt the voice, citational
practices, textual apparatuses, forums and ambit of those who trained them, leading to a great deal of
continuity in published scholarship over the years. Others, however, have become restless with such modes
and models, choosing to disseminate their work and perform its content differently. This special issue
will examine new modes of writing, new media, and the very idea or possibility of critical novelty.
Possible topics include the reinvention of scholarly and authoritative voice; the affective turn in
critical practice; performativity and embodiment; amateurism; popular medievalisms; anachronism; and
hybridity of critical investments, genres and identities.
