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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Spatial Studies: Maps and Territories
Edited by Lisa Blansett and Matthew Edney
 
Spatial Studies: Maps and Territories seeks contributors from the
humanities and social sciences for an interdisciplinary collection of
essays engaging the cultural discourses of geography, cartography,
science, art, and literature; a major university publisher has expressed
interest in this project. The collection will focus on "pre-modern,"
"early modern," and modern conceptions and configurations of space
represented in a variety of social and cultural productions. Scholars from
the arts, geography, history, literature, should send 500 word proposals
for previously unpublished materials that treat the topic of how space is
culturally and historically
represented by 30 January 1998. Writers of the fifteen accepted proposals
will be notified by 30 April whether they should send a completed essay of
approximately 7,000 words to the editors. Because of the nature of the
collection, illustrations should be included where appropriate, but should
be read as part of the text rather than offered as supplementary
illustration. Writers will be responsible for obtaining permissions at
this stage.
 
Proposals (and essays) will be chosen according to how well they fit the
interdiciplinary focus of our collection; their quality of presentation;
and how well they work in the context of other essays as well as with the
overall goals of the publication.
 
Lisa Blansett is assistant professor of English at Florida International
University. Her book project "Cartographies: British Fiction and Mapping,
1700-1817" is being revised for publication.
 
Matthew Edney is associate professor of Geography-Anthropology; American
and New England Studies; and faculty scholar, Osher Map Library, at the
University of Southern Maine. His book Mapping an Empire was recently
published by University of Chicago Press.
 
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Lisa Blansett
Assistant Professor
English Department
Florida International University
DM 461A
Miami, FL  33199
(305)348-2507
 
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