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ISSUES IN PRODUCTION:
—"Journeying America(n)s: Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives" — RIAS Vol. 17, Spring–Summer (1/2024) CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
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—"En Route: Hemispheric and Transoceanic Narratives of American Travels" - RIAS Vol. 17, Fall–Winter (2/2024) CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
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CALLS FOR PAPERS:
—"Vietnam and the Americas: 50 Years After" — RIAS Vol. 18, Spring–Summer (1/2025) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until October 31st 2024)
—"The 'Other' Border: The US/Canadian Border in Focus" — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
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—"Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality" — RIAS Vol. 19, Spring-Summer (1/2026) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until December 30th, 2024)
—"Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance"— RIAS Vol. 19, Winter-Fall (2/2026) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until June 30th, 2025)
—"Eastern Thought in the Americas"— RIAS Vol. 20, Spring-Summer (1/2027) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until December 30th, 2025)
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RIAS Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Paweł Jędrzejko, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Dr. Nathaniel R. Racine, Texas A&M International University, USA
RIAS Academic Secretary
Prof. Eugenia Sojka, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Associate Editors
—Dr. Justin M. Battin, RMIT University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
—Prof. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico
Journal Editors
—Dr. Anna Maj, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
—Dr. Małgorzata Poks, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
—Dr. Anjali Singh, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India
Book Review Editor
—Dr. Manlio Della Marca, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy
Founding Editors
—Dr. Michael Boyden, English Department, Uppsala University, Sweden
—Prof. Paweł Krzysztof Jędrzejko, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Past Editors-in-Chief
2016–2023: Prof. Giorgio Mariani, the "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
2010–2016: Prof. Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, University of Notre Dame, USA
2006–2010: Dr. Michael Boyden, English Department Uppsala University, Sweden
Past Associate Editors
2022-2023: Dr. J.D. Schnepf, Groningen University, the Netherlands
2020–2023: Dr. Lucie Kýrová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2017–2020: Prof. John E. Dean, Texas A&M International University, USA
2013–2020: Dr. György Tóth, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
2011–2012: Dr. Nancy Earle, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John's, Canada
Past Senior Copyeditors
—Mark Olival-Bartley, Amerika-Institut, LMU München, Germany
—Marta Cafiso, University of Rome ‘Sapienza’ Italy
—Meghan McKinney Jones, Department of English, University of Notre Dame, United States
—Dr. Emily Metzner, Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
RIAS International Academic Board
Zilà Bernd (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Manuel Broncano (Texas A&M University at Laredo, USA)
Theo D’Haen (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Carlos Garrido Castellano (Lisbon University, Portugal)
Thomas Claviez (University of Berne, Switzerland)
Jane Desmond (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign)
Virginia Dominguez (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign)
Maria del Mar Gallego Durán (University of Huelva, Spain)
Paul Giles (University of Sidney)
José Antonio Gurpegui (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Manpreet Kang (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India)
Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Elisabetta Marino (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Carlo Martinez (Università “Gabriele D'Annunzio,” Italy)
Samantha Viz Quadrat (The Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Roshan Lal Sharma (Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India)
Regina Schober (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Lea Williams (Norwich University, USA)
Sun Youzhong (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
RIAS Editorial Board
Marta Ancarani (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina)
Rogers Asempasah (University of Cape Town, Ghana)
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington, USA)
Claudia Ioana Doroholschi (The West University of Timișoara, Romania)
Beata Gontarz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester, UK)
Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa)
Manju Jaidka (Panjab University)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Eui Young Kim (Inha University, South Korea)
Rui Kohiyana (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan)
Kryštof Kozák (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Elizabeth A. Kuebler-Wolf (University of Saint Francis, USA)
Giorgio Mariani (Università “Sapienza” di Roma, Italy)
Márcio Prado (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Regina Schober (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Lea Williams (Norwich University, USA)
Yanyu Zeng (Hunan University of Science and Technology, China)
RIAS Peer-Referees
2022
Ricardo Arce (RMIT, Vietnam)
Hayder Naji Shanbooj Alolaiwi (Al Qadissiya Directorate of Public Education, Iraq)
Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Andrea Brady (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Steve Cannon (The University of Sunderland, UK)
Andrea Carosso (Università di Torino, Italy)
Saniye Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Turkey)
Juan Conde (Oxford University, UK)
Jeffrey Clapp (Education University of Hong Kong, China)
Aaron DeRosa (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
Ashley Farmer (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Krzysztof Fordoński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Jorge González del Pozo (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Donatella Izzo ("L'Orientale" University of Naples, Italy)
Marzena Kubisz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Denise Lynn (University of Southern Indiana, USA)
Diane Negra (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA)
Nathaniel R. Racine (TAMiU, USA)
Cinzia Schiavini (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Rajini Srikanth (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
John Eric Starnes (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Tyne Sumner (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Frederico Tarquini (Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Italy)
Ewa Wylężek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
2021
Zuzanna Buchowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Hal Crimmel (Weber State University, USA)
Virginia Dantonio (University of North Alabama, USA)
German Duarte (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Alexander Gates (Canadian Automotive Museum, Oshawa, Canada)
Marcos Gerhardt (University of Passo Fundo, Brazil)
Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Sebastian Konefał (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Marzena Kubisz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Mario Maffi (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Marcin Mazurek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Emily Metzner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Simon Sadler (University of California, Davis, USA)
Vladimir Sanchez Calderon (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston, USA)
2020
Debarati Bandyopadhyay (Visva Bharati University, India)
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA., USA)
Włodzimierz Batóg (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)
Justin Battin (RMIT International University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Zuzanna Buchowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Riccardo Capoferro (The "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy)
Trevor Carolan (University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC., Canada)
Valerio Massimo De Angelis (University of Macerata, Italy)
William Glass (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., USA)
Penelope Kelsey (University of Colorado Boulder, Co., USA)
Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Lisa Marchi (University of Trento, Italy)
Pilar Martínez Benedí (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy)
Marcin Mazurek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Virginia Pignagnoli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Luis Ramírez Carrillo (University of Torino, Italy)
Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko (University of Rzeszów, Poland)
Sabina Sen-Podstawska (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Bohdan Szklarski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland)
2019
Miloš Calda (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Marie Černá (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Marina de Chiara (University of Naples "L'Orientale," Italy)
Marketa Devata (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Jan Géryk (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Penelope Kelsey (University of Colorado Boulder USA)
Katariina Kyrola (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Lucie Kýrová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Stefanie Lemke (Coventry University, UK)
Taima Moeke-Pickering (Laurentian University, Canada)
Ladislav Nagy (Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Czech Republic)
Nicola Paladin (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti–Pescara, Italy)
Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Pavel Szobi (European University Institute, Firenze, Italy)
Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State University, USA)
György Tóth (Stirling University, Scotland, UK)
2018
Donatella Izzo (Università L'Orientale, Naples, Italy)
Vincenzo Bavaro (Università L'Orientale, Naples, Italy)
Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy)
Fiorenzo Iuliano (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State University, USA)
Fabrizio Tonello (Università di Padova, Italy)
Marco Morini (Università Saoienza di Roma, Italy)
Paolo Barcella (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy)
2017
Justin Battin (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Sonia Caputa (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Joanna Mstowska (KPSW Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland)
2015-2016
Susana Susana Araújo (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Gustavo Adolfo Luque (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina)
Ana Mauad (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil)
Sun Youzhong (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
The “Other” Border: Power, Culture and Politics and the Canada-US Border — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall–Winter (2/2025)
2024-06-02
The “Other” Border: Power, Culture and Politics and the Canada-US Border
RIAS Vol. 18, Fall–Winter (2/2025)
Edited by Jane Desmond and Jasmin Habib
(Call open until October 31st 2024)
The US-Mexico border has received a great deal of scholarly attention in the development of “Border Studies” in the US, and is almost nightly featured in the US nightly news. Yet, the US also has another border, that with Canada, and this book asks: what about the “other” border? In what ways can it illuminate the historical and contemporary relations between Canada and the United States, and contribute to the extension of border studies? Only recently have scholars in US or “American Studies” or “Hemispheric Studies” begun to pay more attention to the northern border, with works such as Sutcliffe and Anderson’s The Canada-US Border in the 21st Century: Trade Immigration and Security in the Age of Trump, Gillian Roberts Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border, and David Stirrup and Jeffrey Orr’s The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory. Building on these works, we seek to enlarge the questions and methods exploring this border. The positioning of the US and Canada as two stable democracies with the world’s longest undefended border creates a specific sort of case study for border studies. These two allies, similar in many ways, as settler colonial states with enduring indigenous populations, as states with diverse populations from many parts of the world, as ex-British colonies, as thriving capitalist systems (albeit with significantly different attitudes toward state supported social programs), could imply that there is little to be gained—that the border is a site of limited action. However, the positioning of Canada and the US as unequal in size, political power, and economic global impact play out in border crossing in many, often subtle ways. One of the impacts of this unequalness is the scant attention that most US Americans pay, or have to pay, to Canada on a daily basis. But for Canadians, the impact of what former Canadian premiere Pierre Trudeau once termed “the elephant” next door, the situation is different.In a simple example, it was reported that following the election of Trump the numbers of people searching for “how to immigrate to Canada” temporarily crashed the Canadian website with that information. (Click here to read the whole CFP).
Eastern Thought in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 20, Spring-Summer (1/2027)
2024-05-30
Eastern Thought in the Americas
edited by Anjali Singh and Marcin Fabjański
RIAS Vol. 20, Spring-Summer (1/2027)
(Call open until December 30th, 2025)
Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Taoism have profoundly influenced various facets of life in the Americas. The intersections of Eastern thought with North American, Latin American, Caribbean, and Pacific Islands philosophy and letters have a rich and varied history, beginning, in North America, with the influence of Eastern philosophies on Herman Melville or Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Melville’s “Buddhist” fascinations—philosophically mediated by his reading of Schopenhauer—gave rise to such poems as “Buddha,” or Rammon, and while his earlier insights into Zoroastrianism and Hinduism permeate many of his sea-locked novels, including the canonical Moby Dick. Emerson’s exploration of Hindu and Buddhist texts, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Lotus Sutra, is evident in his essays, where he extolled the virtues of self-reliance and the interconnectedness of all life. This legacy continued through the Modernist movement, with poets like T.S. Eliot, who incorporated themes from the Upanishads into his seminal work, The Waste Land, famously ending the poem with “Shantih shantih shantih” from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The Beat Generation further cemented the presence of Eastern thought in American literature, with figures like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg drawing heavily on Buddhist practices and philosophies: undeniably, Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums and Ginsberg’s Howl illustrate their deep engagement with Zen Buddhism and its teachings on spontaneity and mindfulness. (Click here to read the whole CFP)
Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance — RIAS Vol. 19, Winter-Fall (2/2026)
2024-05-30
Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance
edited by Saniye Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
RIAS Vol. 19, Winter-Fall (2/2026)
(Call open until June 30th, 2025)
As we approach the end of the twenty-first century’s first quarter, we find ourselves in an era that W.J.T. Mitchell famously termed the “pictorial turn”—a period marked by the abundance and explosion of visual imagery. Indeed, the phenomenon is by no means new; our species has always relied on its visual perception, in combination with other senses, creating a hybridity of perception expressed through cultural and artistic products. Visuals and visuality have become the expected and primary end-points of human experience and are key in our interpretation of the world. Moreover, what Mitchell described as a “postlinguistic, postsemiotic rediscovery,” a novel burgeoning of the visual, is placing the image, regardless of the form in which it is created and presented, at the center of our social and cultural interactions. Recognizing the crucial role of visuality in shaping our everyday experiences, we invite scholars and practitioners to contribute to a vibrant dialogue on the role and impact of visuality in the American context. (Click here to read the full CFP)
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