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Writing Technologies

Unit(s) of assessment: English Language and Literature

School: School of Arts and Humanities

Writing Technologies is an online peer-reviewed journal which publishes research on the relationship between technology and textuality. It focuses on the place of technology in both established and emerging fiction, assesses recent critical and theoretical debates about writing’s technological locations, and explores the forms of literary innovation that are made possible by new modes of articulation. We encourage submissions which explore any connection between literature, culture and technology.

English Research at NTU

Subjects and issues for consideration might include:

Production:

New media and digital writing (including hypertext writing, multimedia writing, weblogs and computer games) perhaps most recognizably embody the textual opportunities and transformations that technology enables. Research into the full impact of these developing technologies remains embryonic, and Writing Technologies will include essays which engage with and interrogate emerging digital textualities. While it will offer a forum for research into new media technologies, this journal is especially interested in work which considers the wider contexts and other histories of writing’s technological locations.

Reproduction:

New technologies of textual reproduction are restructuring literary history, transforming interpretation and even transfiguring the literary object itself. Digital archives, literary databases, internet search engines, discussion boards, open source software, weblogs and virtual learning environments are allowing alternative modes of access to literature, creating new reading communities and initiating different interpretative practices. Writing Technologies welcomes essays which explore the impact of these (and other) modes of reproduction on the disciplinary shape and scope of literary studies.

Fictions:

This journal seeks essays which examine the various ways in which literary texts engage thematically with technology. Science fiction and cyberpunk will certainly provide Writing Technologies’ contributors with material for consideration, but it will also seek to publish articles on other narrative engagements with technology. We are particularly interested in publishing work on the technological dimensions of early- and pre-twentieth century literature.

Writing Technologies seeks to publish work on the recent theoretical interrogation of:

modernity, postmodernity
history, memory, archives
colonialism, postcoloniality, globalization, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, the digital divide
gender, sexuality, cyberfeminism, the body
materiality, virtuality, simulation,
subjectivity, consciousness, the machinic, the posthuman
futurity, utopias, dystopias
language, information, communication
ethics, politics, democracy, resistance, community, networks.

We welcome research that explores particular theorists’ engagements with technology and textuality, including such established figures in literary, critical and cultural theory as Theodor Adorno, Benedict Anderson, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson and Marshall McCluhan. We are especially keen to receive essays on theorists who are increasingly at the centre of debates about technology and culture, including Manuel Castells, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Friedrich Kittler, Bruno Latour, Brian Massumi, Sherry Turkle, Paul Virilio and Slavoj Žižek.

General Editors

Daniel Cordle: Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Philip Leonard: Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Editorial Assistant

Souvik Mukherjee: Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Editorial Advisory Board

Tim Armstrong Royal Holloway; University of London, UK
Simon Mills; DeMontfort University, UK
Neil Badmington; University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Douglas Morrey; University of Warwick, UK
Sarah Brouillette; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Pramod K. Nayar; University of Hyderabad, India
James Brown; Middlesex University, UK
Julian Murphet; University of Sydney, Australia
Timothy Clark; University of Durham, UK
Tatiani G. Rapatzikou; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
N. Katherine Hayles; Duke, USA
Kumiko Sato; Earlham College, USA
George Landow; Brown University, USA
Jonathan Sawday; Strathclyde University, UK
Rob Latham; University of Iowa, USA
Will Slocombe; University of Aberyswyth, UK
Lydia Liu; Columbia University, USA
Gavin Stewart; University of Bedfordshire, UK
John Marks; Nottingham University, UK
David Woods; Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Submissions are welcomed on any topic pertinent to the journal. In submitting to the journal authors assert that their work is their own, is original and has not been published elsewhere.

Guidelines

Articles should normally be 5000-6000 words long and be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae; we will consider lengthier articles only if the additional material they contain substantially improves them.
Articles should be presented with the appropriate scholarly apparatus. Referencing should follow the guidelines published by the Modern Humanities Research Association.
By submitting an article, authors assert that they have permission to reproduce all copyrighted material therein and accept responsibility for any failure to secure this permission.
Articles should be submitted in the form of an electronic attachment. Click here to submit. They should be double-spaced throughout, be in Arial font 10, and a brief author biography should appear at the end.
Articles considered appropriate for the journal will be anonymously peer-reviewed.
Authors accept the right of the editors to make minor changes to the copy in the interests of sense, tone and house style.
On publication, copyright resides with the journal.

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