Call for Papers: Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare
Special Issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and
Appropriation
The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, in
conjunction with guest editor Deanne Williams,
York University, extend a call for papers for B&L 9.2 (Fall 2014) on the topic of Girls
and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare.
In 2012, the United Nations celebrated the first “Day of the Girl Child,” highlighting the treatment
of girls and young women
as the key moral issue of our time. As the advancement of girls becomes a global economic, medical,
and social priority,
literary scholars are turning their attention to cultural representations of and by girls and to
historical and philosophical
conceptions of girlhood. This special issue of Borrowers and Lenders initiates a scholarly
conversation on girls and girlhood
in adaptations of Shakespeare, seeking papers that address the process of adapting Shakespeare for
girl actors, readers,
patrons or audiences; adaptations of Shakespeare’s “girl” characters; and girls’ responses to and
appropriations of Shakespeare.
We encourage contributions that range from Shakespeare’s contemporaries and Restoration theatre to
contemporary authors, playwrights,
visual artists and directors, as well those that engage with newer or non-canonical literary genres
such as online and Web 2.0 Shakespeares;
fanfiction and the graphic novel; autobiography, memoirs and life writing; Shakespeare for children;
and international, multicultural and
postcolonial adaptations.
Please send inquiries and completed essays as Microsoft Word documents sent as email attachments to
Deanne Williams:
dmw[at]yorku.ca by October 1, 2013. Essays should make original contributions to the study of
Shakespeare and of girlhood.
We encourage authors to consult Richard Lanham’s Revising Prose or Joseph Williams’s Style:
Lessons in Clarity and Grace as they edit their work.
Essays will be reviewed by the guest editor and then by the board of Borrowers and Lenders: The
Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation before
final acceptance. Upon acceptance, we will ask authors to verify all citations and to put their
essays into Borrowers and Lenders house style.
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation is a peer-reviewed,
online, multimedia journal that welcomes original scholarship engaging with the afterlives of
Shakespearean texts and their literary,
filmic, multimedia, and critical histories. It encourages contributors to use the online format to
its best advantage, in particular,
by imagining how to enhance or illustrate their essays with multimedia (screen captures, sound
clips, images, and so on). B&L won the CELJ's
"Best New Journal" Award in 2007. B&L is fully indexed in the MLA Bibliography. B&L
is currently co-edited by Dr. Christy Desmet (cdesmet[at]uga.edu)
and Dr. Sujata Iyengar (iyengar[at]uga.edu); correspondence should be addressed to
lenders[at]uga.edu or to Managing Editor Ms. Maria Chappell
(machapp[at]uga.edu).
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