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<span style="font-size:14pt">Some of you may find the below </span><span style="font-size:14pt">CFP of interest.
</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14pt">It's for </span>
<span style="font-size:14pt">a special disability-themed issue of </span><span style="font-size:14pt">COPAS (</span><i><span style="font-size:14pt">Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt">) and will be edited
by </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Dr. Tanja Reiffenrath and Gesine Wegner (a disability studies grad student who used to be here at OSU</span><span style="font-size:14pt">, but is now at</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> Liverpool
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">Hope</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span>
<span style="font-size:14pt">University at the Center for </span><span style="font-size:14pt"> Culture</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> and
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">Disability</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> Studies)</span><span style="font-size:14pt">. The issue will be</span><span style="font-size:14pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt">entitled "Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies,"</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14pt"> and</span><span style="font-size:14pt">
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">aims</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> to bring together young researchers (grad and recent post-graduate students) who work in American studies and in disability studies.</span></span>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14pt">I'll point your attention to the fact that they're looking for full-length submissions rather than just proposals/abstracts, and that the deadline is February 15, 2017. You can visit the link at
the bottom of the CFP for more info about the journal or to contact the editors.</span></span></p>
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Call for Papers: Thematic Issue 18.2 (2017)</p>
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Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies</p>
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Guest Editors: Tanja Reiffenrath and Gesine Wegner</p>
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Although experiences of disability have been an integral part of American life, disability has traditionally been approached as a research object in medicine and the social and rehabilitative sciences and, as Brenda Brueggemann maintains, continues to be dominated
by the medical discourse up until today despite an increase in alternative approaches. Ann Jurecic has argue that well until the second half of the century, little attention had indeed been devoted to individuals' first-person perspectives on their bodies
and selves as well as on a disabling social and physical surrounding. Since the 1990s, however, the newly established field of Disability Studies has continuously engaged with the language surrounding disability, the history of disability and of people with
disabilities, the philosophical place of differently-abled bodies and minds, and the ways in which disability is represented (and made metaphor) in literature and art. From Lennard Davis' Enforcing Normalcy (1995) and Rosemarie Garland Thomson'sExtraordinary
Bodies (1996) to Thomas Couser's studies on autobiography Recovering Bodies (1997) and Signifying Bodies (2009), Disability Studies as a discipline have quickly expanded and by now also address a number of intersectional discussions as Robert McRuer's Crip
Theory (2006) productively demonstrates. Moreover, recent studies confront the ever more pressing issue of biopolitics, like Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell's The Biopolitics of Disability (2015).</p>
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In this special issue of COPAS, we want to survey how a critical approach to disability that considers both the social construction and the materiality of the body enriches the interdisciplinary field of American Studies and may bring new perspectives into
the discipline. We welcome contributions from a wide range of methodological, medial, and topical perspectives within the field of American Studies that discuss the socio-historical construction of non-normative bodies and minds in American culture and help
to shed light on 'disability' and 'impairment.' Papers are encouraged to discuss the differences as well as overlaps and entanglements of a social and physical disablement and the material reality of impairment.
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Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following fields of inquiry:</p>
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• How is disability negotiated in American literature, history, and culture? Which cultural functions do non-normative bodies and minds fulfill in these 'texts' and how is their strategic and aesthetic representation influenced by genre conventions as well
as different medial and historical contexts?</p>
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• Why is it necessary and productive to introduce disability as a fourth category to the triangular intersection of gender, race, and class? What does the critical study of disability as a further identity category offer to the research done in American studies?
What does a deconstructive reading of disability tell us about the structures that underlie American culture? What kind of ideological underpinning(s) can be disclosed?</p>
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• How are disability narratives linked to national narratives of the United States? Which cultural and political functions are fulfilled by literary and cultural depictions of disability? Are they, for instance, used to reinforce or challenge the idea of the
American Dream? How do they reinforce, challenge or redefine American core values such as liberty, freedom and independence? What is their relation to America's preoccupation with 'health' and its contested health care system?</p>
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• How can research on the non-normative body done in other fields of study (e.g. Fat Studies, Intersex Studies, Transgender Studies, New Materialism, etc.) contribute to the field of Disability Studies? What are productive ways to bring these different research
approaches together? To what extent do these various fields of study need to remain separated?</p>
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• How can a critical approach to disability and impairment enrich and expand the research done in the Medical Humanities? How can differences and similarities in the research done on illness and disability be adequately addressed? In how far do literary and
multi-modal narratives insist on dissociating disability from illness?</p>
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The submission deadline is 15 February 2017. Please consult our online 'Guidelines for Submissions,' which provide a template file for download. Contributions should be about 5,000 to 8,000 words (excluding abstract and list of works cited); for further instructions,
see http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/pages/view/guidelines.</p>
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Graduate Teaching Assistant<br>
PhD Student, English Literature<br>
The Ohio State University</div>
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