U N D E R C U R R E N T Call for Manuscripts [Please post] UNDERCURRENT is a free journal available on the Internet through e-mail subscriptions. (See end of this message for how to subscribe for free.) We are seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations, classes, or cultures. We seek to publish analysis of the present from diverse intellectual perspectives--feminist, historical, ethnological, sociological, literary, political, semiotic, philosophical, cultural studies, and so forth. We seek applied analysis rather than theory. Any theoretical orientation ought instead to be apparent and immanent in your particular focus on the present. We especially encourage interdisciplinary work. Article length varies according to your needs, anywhere from "short-takes" of 500-1000 words to "feature" of up to 7500 words. As its audience is potentially much broader than that of academic journals held only in university libraries, the style must account for an educated audience which is not necessarily familiar with either the jargon or the debates in a special field. UNDERCURRENT wishes to publish articles that address this broader audience while also conveying a vivid sense of how current academic scholarship can contribute to our understanding of the present. We are attempting to bridge the gulf between academia and the general reading public, a gulf which has allowed various misperceptions about academia to become politically overcharged in the popular media. UNDERCURRENT is founded on four editorial principles which together make it unique among journals. It is interdisciplinary, applied, accessible, and focussed on the present. What do we mean by these four principles? 1. "Interdisciplinary" means that it begins with academic disciplines and works through/with/against them in new combinations either within articles or between articles--in order to see what might be revealed by crossing or fusing disciplinary borders and/or creating new hybrids as tools of analysis. 2. "Applied" means that it publishes only articles which perform an actual analysis rather than explore theoretical issues. Theoretical discussions already have plenty of journals devoting space to them in every discipline. This is not the same as saying that theory is banished from UNDERCURRENT, but rather that it is only theory in action that we wish to publish. 3. "Accessible" means that the articles are aware of an audience which is not privy to specialized terminology, proper names, and the recent history of your discipline. This is not the same as saying that the articles thereby lose rigor, but rather that they prove to be capable of interest and comprehension by any intelligent, educated reader. 4. "The present" means that our articles demonstrate an awareness of who we are now. (We includes any group of people alive.) An analysis of the present highlights a force, trend, limit, idea, custom, event, or structure which exerts some contemporary influence. The "present" can be either "residual," "dominant," or "emergent"--to use Raymond Williams' terms. All submissions will receive a reply, however no copies can be returned. Any major citation format is acceptable, although endnotes must be used rather than footnotes due to the contingencies of various platforms for viewing electronic text. Submissions and queries can be sent in any of the following ways, in order of preference: 1.> e-mail to "[log in to unmask]" and note in the subject field that this is a submission to UNDERCURRENT 2.> Mail a floppy diskette with your text in ASCII or WordPerfect (address below). 3.> Mail two copies of your essay by traditional post to: UNDERCURRENT Erick Heroux Dept. of English University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 ABOUT FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS: You can subscribe yourself to UNDERCURRENT by sending a one-line e-mail message: SUBSCRIBE UNDERCURRENT [log in to unmask] Address it to: [log in to unmask] Problems or questions can be e-mailed to [log in to unmask]