European Journal of English Studies

期刊简介：EJES presents work of the highest quality in English literature, linguistics and cultural studies from the multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective that characterises the study of English in Europe. Rather than producing miscellanies of essays from across the disciplines, the aim of the journal is to publish substantial scholarly and critical interventions, from a variety of perspectives, on chosen themes, and thereby to influence the agenda in its disciplines. A research journal, written by and for specialists from all parts of the disciplinary spectrum of English Studies in Europe and beyond, EJES is also addressed to academics interested in the dialogical and plurivocal development of their subject and in innovative work outside their own area of expertise. To this end, it also offers non-specialists examples of recent approaches and new ways of conceiving and engaging the field of English studies. The journal places a high premium on readability, discussion of controversial issues, and the inclusion of a wide range of disciplinary, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Pronounced 'edges', EJES appears three times a year. Individual issues are devoted to specific themes, proposed by guest editors, and designed to attract cutting-edge research from across and between the disciplines that make up English Studies in Europe and beyond. Themes should therefore be designed to invite as broad a range of interpretations as possible. EJES does not normally publish volumes of conference proceedings, however we are prepared to consider proposals so long as an equal opportunity is given for contributions from scholars who did not participate in the conference. A substantial book review section keeps readers informed about new publications in the field. 'The cause is Europe . . . The cause is also English Studies in the broadest sense of that term . . . Moreover, the cause is debate.' (Editorial, EJES 1.1). The full EJES editorial policy can be found below. Inquiries with regard to book reviews can be sent to Nina Engelhardt . Please note that in principle EJES does not consider unsolicited book reviews. EJES Editorial Policy What makes EJES distinctive? What, in other words, do we mean by ‘European’ in the context of this journal? Although we wish EJES to privilege work of international quality produced within Europe, to interpret ‘European’ as a restriction on authorship by place of work would be unworkable and undesirable. As the official journal of the European Society for the Study of English, the journal will no doubt empirically target a primarily European readership. Yet to define its Europeanness in that way would only be to give it a geography, not a content, and, in relation to an increasingly de-territorialised discipline, perhaps an old-fashioned geography at that. Furthermore, any attempt to define a ‘European’ content risks a crass essentialist construction of a unitary Europe which defies the continent’s own history. Yet we do seek to assert the character of our journal in a way that distinguishes it from other journals of English Studies, in a non-parochial manner yet distinctly ‘European’ way. To that end we wish to harness the specificities of the heterogeneous practices of European English Studies that allow us to attract contributors and readers ‘in Europe and beyond’. The editors propose that what characterises the study of English through the larger part of Europe is its multidisciplinary, multicultural and, increasingly, multimodal nature. That is to say that in most of Europe the subject of English is made up, in diverse ways, of a range of disciplines or sub-disciplines, including Literary Studies, Critical Theory, Linguistics, Area Studies, and the study of Anglophone cultures. Each of these terms is itself plural in its conceptions, methodologies and practices, and each sub-discipline includes a variety of cultural forms, objects and media. ‘European’, in this sense, signifies the multifaceted view of the object of study and its corollary includes the potential for dialogue between the (sub-)disciplinary approaches which construct it. To this end, we strive to ensure that each volume is constituted by a series of topics that lend themselves to address, in a dialogical manner, from a variety of disciplinary (or interdisciplinary) points of view. While some individual issues will, by their nature, have a strong disciplinary identity, others will similarly draw contributions from a range of disciplinary approaches. As the original editorial, cited in the journal’s Aims and Scope, proclaimed: ‘the cause is debate’. If ‘European’ stands for ‘multidisciplinary’, it also stands for ‘multicultural’. The editors understand multicultural here as the inevitable situatedness of the subject (both the subject who reads and the subject being read) in the various concrete cultural contexts in which English is studied throughout Europe: in other words, a location for the study which is itself already a linguistic and cultural relatedness, and not necessarily a merely a bilateral one. The fact that European English Studies assumes a variable but located intercultural relationship to its objects of study is not only a matter of the defining foreignness of the study of English in non-Anglophone cultures, but embraces the increasing ‘strangeness’, even for Anglophone scholars, of the texts and contexts of the canon as it expands in genres, modality, media and geography beyond the traditional realms of English or American Studies. A second defining characteristic of European English Studies (‘and beyond’) would then be the foregrounding of the study of English as one of cultural relationship. The editors hope that the Journal will also play a major part in this dialogue between the texts and contexts of English and those of other cultures in which it is studied and with which it interacts – once more, across the various disciplines that constitute it. The editors further argue that that European English Studies are presently also characterised by their growth and mutability. There has been a massive expansion of English Studies in Europe over the last generation, and, through ERASMUS, TEMPUS, Bologna and, of course, ESSE, an equally impressive increase in contacts between its various localities which has provoked rethinkings and reconfigurations. Once again, although of particular concern to scholars working within Europe, the changing nature of the discipline and its objects—the new cultural contexts, uses and locations of English(es) in the world – is not restricted to this geographical area. The policy of EJES in its selection of themes will therefore also privilege, as characteristically ‘European’, an attention to such change, a continual questioning of the object of study, a constant attention to new texts and contexts, new approaches, new configurations, new interdisciplinarities, new objects of study, and the accompanying revision and revaluation of canons and methodologies. Finally, we return to the potential audience for EJES . While aware of the dangers of generalisations regarding the heterogeneous and unstable construction of Europe, we are confident that EJES guest editors and contributors shall aim to address an audience that does not take the discipline, its objects, or its questions for granted as part of a single disciplinary or cultural project. In short, the vocation of EJES is to seek out and address a questioning and heterodox readership in the various contexts that make up English Studies in Europe, and beyond. Peer Review Policy All submissions to the journal go through a rigorous, two-stage peer review process, based on screening by the editorial board peer review panel and by external experts when required.

【译文】EJES 从欧洲英语研究的多学科和多文化视角展示了英语文学、语言学和文化研究方面最高质量的作品。该期刊的目的不是发表跨学科的杂文，而是从不同的角度就选定的主题发表实质性的学术和批判性干预，从而影响其学科的议程。 EJES 是一本研究期刊，由来自欧洲及其他地区英语研究各个学科领域的专家撰写并为之服务，它也面向那些对其学科的对话和多元发展以及对自己专业领域之外的创新工作感兴趣的学者。为此，它还为非专业人士提供了构思和参与英语研究领域的最新方法和新方法的示例。该期刊高度重视可读性、对有争议问题的讨论以及广泛的学科、文化和理论观点的包容。 EJES 发音为“edges”，每年出现三次。每期都致力于特定主题，由客座编辑提出，旨在吸引欧洲及其他地区英语研究跨学科和跨学科的前沿研究。因此，主题的设计应吸引尽可能广泛的解释。 EJES 通常不出版会议论文集，但只要为未参加会议的学者提供平等的贡献机会，我们就准备考虑提案。大量的书评部分让读者了解该领域的新出版物。 '原因是欧洲。 。 。其原因也是最广泛意义上的英语研究。 。 。此外，原因是辩论。 （社论，EJES 1.1）。完整的 EJES 编辑政策可以在下面找到。有关书评的询问可以发送给 Nina Engelhardt。请注意，原则上 EJES 不考虑未经请求的书评。 EJES 编辑政策 EJES 有何独特之处？换句话说，在本期刊中我们所说的“欧洲”是什么意思？尽管我们希望 EJES 优先考虑欧洲境内制作的具有国际品质的作品，但将“欧洲”解释为按工作地点对作者身份的限制是行不通的，也是不可取的。作为欧洲英语研究学会的官方期刊，该期刊毫无疑问将主要针对欧洲读者。然而，以这种方式定义其欧洲性只是赋予它一种地理，而不是一种内容，并且，相对于日益去领土化的学科，也许是一种老式的地理。此外，任何定义“欧洲”内容的尝试都有可能对统一的欧洲进行粗鲁的本质主义建构，而这违背了欧洲大陆自身的历史。然而，我们确实寻求以一种不同于其他英语研究期刊的方式来维护我们期刊的特征，以非狭隘的方式但又明显的“欧洲”方式。为此，我们希望利用欧洲英语研究的异质实践的特殊性，使我们能够吸引“欧洲及其他地区”的贡献者和读者。编辑们提出，欧洲大部分地区英语研究的特点是其多学科、多文化以及日益多模式的性质。也就是说，在欧洲大部分地区，英语学科以不同的方式由一系列学科或子学科组成，包括文学研究、批判理论、语言学、区域研究和英语文化研究。每个术语本身在概念、方法和实践上都是复数的，每个子学科都包括各种文化形式、对象和媒体。从这个意义上说，“欧洲”意味着研究对象的多方面观点，其推论包括构建研究对象的（子）学科方法之间对话的潜力。为此，我们努力确保每卷都由一系列主题组成，这些主题适合以对话的方式从各种学科（或跨学科）的角度进行讨论。虽然某些个别问题本质上具有很强的学科特征，但其他问题同样会从一系列问题中汲取贡献。