aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Fwd: MLA Call for papers: New book on Central Europe

[Robert De Lossa <radelo@earthlink.net>]

Ksenya Kiebuzinski brought to my attention a call for papers from 
PMLA. The call is as follows:

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Central European Culture. Papers are invited for a collected volume 
on contemporary central European culture. To be published in 2003 in 
the Purdue University Press series "Books in Comparative Cultural 
Studies," the volume will contain new work in the field. A contested 
notion, the concept of a central European culture is based on real 
or imagined and variable similarities emanating from historical, 
social, and cultural characteristics apparent in cultures ranging 
from Austria and the former East Germany to Romania and Bulgaria and 
Serbia to the Ukraine and so forth, thus comprising the Hapsburg 
lands and their spheres of influence at various times of history, 
including the present. With the tentative title "New Comparative 
Central European Culture," the book will contain work that is 
implicitly or explicitly comparative, following the notions proposed 
in comparative cultural studies at 
http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html. That 
is, instead of the single language and culture approach, authors 
will discuss topics in at least two cultures of the central European 
landscape or any other topic in literature, the media, 
communications, politics, economics, and the like that fits 
comparative cultural studies. As well, papers on theory and 
methodology engaging notions of or in comparative cultural studies 
as applied to the study of central European culture are invited. 
Papers should be 6,000 to 7,000 words in length and should follow 
the MLA style of parenthetical sources and works-cited list, without 
footnotes or endnotes. The deadline of submission is flexible but no 
later than December 2002. Send papers to the series editor, Steven 
Totosy (totosy@lib.purdue.edu).

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All those believing that Ukraine is part of Central Europe have an 
opportunity to put their pens where their mouths are...

RD