A respected forum since 1962 for English literary studies, ELN (English Language Notes) has undergone a change in editorship and an extensive makeover. It is now a biannual journal devoted exclusively to special topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. The new ELN is particularly determined to revive and reenergize its traditional commitment to shorter notes, often no more than three to four pages in print. This attribute of the journal provides a unique forum for cutting-edge scholarly debate and exchange in the humanities.

Volume 46.1 of the new ELN (Spring/Summer 2008) will investigate the topic of time and literature, bringing new theoretical and historical concerns to bear on this well-established area of literary analysis. Contributors may wish to present recent research findings on particular writers or texts, or they may venture insights into broadly defined subjects, such as comparisons between the representation of time in literature and in other art forms, or relationships between aesthetic temporality and other modes of temporality (social, organic, technological, or religious). They may wish to explore topics where literary temporality intersects with one of the following fields of study: colonialism and post-colonialism; war; technology; philosophy; utopianism; economics; gender and sexuality; political history and theory; history of science; social groups or identities; geography and space; or psychoanalysis and trauma. Work that considers the relevance of literary temporality to our contemporary historical or cultural predicament is also welcome.

Position papers and essays of no longer than twenty manuscript pages are invited from scholars in all fields of literature, history, and the arts, although in this issue we are especially interested in work on nineteenth-century studies. We would like to see work that moves traditional literary analysis into new styles of critical writing. Experimental writing is welcome as well as interpretive and historical scholarship. The editors also encourage collaborative work and are happy to consider works that are submitted together as topical clusters. Another format that we invite is a debate or conversation between contributors working on a related aspect of temporality.

Please send double-spaced, 12-point font contributions and/or proposals in hard copy and on CD-ROM to:
Special Issue Editor, “Time and Literature,”
English Language Notes
University of Colorado at Boulder
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226

Specific inquiries regarding issue 46.1 may be addressed to the issue editor, Sue Zemka: (zemka@colorado.edu).

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2007.