Our Call asks you to propose essay ideas that unite the two areas of contemporary scholarship: music and the American Dream. Our plan is to publish them with a respected press. Currently, we have an expression of interest from a highly regarded University press with whom we have a “first look” agreement.
WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE
This is a call for papers that address two current popular areas of research and publication: Food Studies and studies of the American Dream. Interest in Food Studies from various disciplines has skyrocketed in popularity and importance across multiple fields in the last ten/fifteen years. Likewise, studies of the American Dream, after a relatively quiet dormancy from the early 1970s to the millennia, have had a noteworthy resurgence. Our Call asks you to propose essay ideas that unite these two areas of contemporary scholarship. Our plan is to publish them with a respected press. Currently, we have an expression of interest from a highly regarded University press with whom we have a “first look” agreement.
Who We Are. We are both scholars of the American Dream: Jeff principally studies literature and popular (food) culture and publishes literary essays and collections. Robert is a sociologist by training, and while he has been publishing within sociology on the American Dream, he has also been actively publishing literary essays as well as co-editing literary collections (primarily with Jeff).
DEADLINE AND HOW TO APPLY
We tell you this because our principal Call for Papers site is on UPenn CFP listserv (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/), and while we will be happy to receive and review proposed literary essays that address the intersection of food and the American Dream in (American or world) literature, we do not envision the collection as limited to literary essays. Indeed, we invite, and will welcome, strong proposals from any social scientific, humanities, or arts and music discipline, in addition to proposals from literature.
Interested? What you need to do: Draft a 250-500-word proposal for an essay that will ultimately be between 4,500 – 6,000 words in length. Send your proposal along with your c.v. to both Robert and Jeff at:
Do so by February 13, 2023. You will receive a notice of receipt. Questions? Write us at the above email addresses. You will receive a prompt reply.