Coming Soon:

Age Culture Humanities

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Announcement of Publication and Call for Submissions:

We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new journal, Age, Culture, Humanities, published by the Atheneum Press of Coastal Carolina University.

Age, Culture, Humanities seeks to promote cross-disciplinary, critical investigations of the experiences of age, aging, and old age, as seen through the lens of the humanities and arts.  The goals are to consider age as a category of identity, advance understanding of the aging process and of age differences across the lifespan, interrogate cultural articulations of aging and old age, and generate innovative, engaging scholarly approaches to the study of age and aging in the humanities.

All manuscripts undergo editorial screening; scholarly articles are selected for publication through a double-blind peer review process.  The journal will be published annually, both in print and online. 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Age, Culture, Humanities invites submissions in the following areas:

• Rigorous scholarly articles on topics that investigate the critical intersections of the arts and humanities with the aging process.  Methodologies and areas of investigation include art history and art criticism; communication and new media; critical theory; cultural studies; disability studies; history; identity studies; late-life creativity; linguistics; literary criticism; performance studies; philosophy and ethics; religious studies; and therapeutic uses of humanities and/or the arts.  Submissions may also address the psychological, sociological, political, anthropological, behavioral, or bio-medical dimensions of aging relevant to the humanities and/or the arts. (5,000-9,000 words)
• Scholarly position papers or curated forums on critical themes related to the areas of study listed above. (1,000-3,000 words)
• Brief, well-theorized essays on teaching humanities approaches to age and aging. (2,000-4,000 words)
• Reviews of recent book publications in humanities and arts scholarship relevant to aging and of gerontology scholarship relevant to the arts and/or humanities; reviews of conferences or symposia in these fields. Proposals for extended review essays are also welcome. (Individual reviews 500-1,000 words. Review essays 1,000-3,000 words)
• Reviews of recent fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama, film, performances, and art exhibitions relevant to aging or old age. (500-1,000 words)
• Proposals for themed clusters in future issues are also welcome.

Submission guidelines: Documents and queries may be submitted via email to ageculturehumanities@coastal.edu. Articles using MLA, Chicago, or APA citation styles will be considered, but accepted articles must be revised by the author into MLA style.

GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST
We are pleased to announce a new, annual graduate student essay contest in age studies in the humanities.  The contest is sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Age Studies Discussion Group, and the winning essay will be published in the new journal, Age, Culture, Humanities.
Submission guidelines: Articles to be considered for the contest should be labeled as such on the cover page, and should follow the format and content guidelines for submissions to Age, Culture, Humanities. Articles may be submitted via email to ageculturehumanities.org. The submission deadline for the 2013 graduate student essay contest is 15 March 2013.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL:
Editors
Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina University
Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University

Advisory Editor
Leni Marshall, University of Wisconsin - Stout
Advisory Board
Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston
Erin Campbell, University of Victoria
Josie Dolan, University of the West of England
Margaret Gullette, Brandeis University
Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
Stephen Katz, Trent University
Devoney Looser, University of Missouri
Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz
Helen Small, University of Oxford
Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington

Editorial Committee
Lynn Botelho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Anne Wyatt Brown, University of Florida, Professor Emerita
Sally Chivers, Trent University
Kate de Medeiros, Miami University
Heike Hartung, University of Graz
E. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University
Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University
Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College
Valerie Lipscomb, University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa
Christopher Martin, Boston University
Michelle Massé, Louisiana State University
Gordon McMullan, King’s College, London
William L. Randall, St. Thomas University
Susan Merrill Squier, Pennsylvania State University
Philip Sohm, University of Toronto
Pat Thane, King’s College, London
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Heinrich-Heine University
Barbara Frey Waxman, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

For further information, please contact:
Dr. Cynthia Port
Co-Editor, Age, Culture, Humanities
Department of English
Coastal Carolina University
PO Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528-6054
843-349-2565
ageculturehumanities@coastal.edu

Please send books for review to:
Dr. Cynthia Port
Co-Editor, Age, Culture, Humanities
Department of English
Coastal Carolina University
642 Century Circle
Conway, SC 29526