[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies

*Call for Papers: Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies*

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/42557/1/Voice_Studies_cfp_2019.pdf*
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Special Issue: ‘Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers: Cultural, 
Clinical, and Creative Approaches to Dysfluent Speech’


Guest editors: Daniel Martin and Maria Stuart

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 September 2019


This special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 
explores embodied experiences and cultural constructions of stammering 
from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literary and cultural 
analysis, speech therapy, neurological research and creative practice.


Despite the centrality of literary and cultural studies to the emergence 
of Dysfluency Studies (Marc Shell, Stutter 2005; Chris Eagle, 
Dysfluencies 2014), the 2017 Oxford Dysfluency Conference had no 
humanities-based papers. A recent conference at University College, 
Dublin (Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers, 12 October 2018) 
sought to address this imbalance, bringing cultural analysis into 
genuine exchange with scientific and therapeutic practice, and 
negotiating the tension between a medical model of ‘recovery’ and an 
emergent challenge (across disciplines) to cultural constructions of 
‘normal’ speech.


This special issue draws upon and expands the parameters of that event, 
developing an interface between cultural, clinical, and creative 
practice in the area of speech ‘disorders,’ and generating new forms of 
communication and exchange across these fields. Although inviting a 
variety of disciplinary perspectives, underlying this diversity is a 
shared sense of dysfluency less as a ‘disorder’ to be treated (within an 
attendant pathologizing vocabulary) than a form of communication that 
highlights the intricate relationship between speaking and being heard, 
vocal agency and cultural reception, vocal expression and philosophical 
systems, voice and identity.


Of particular (and problematic) importance has been the cultural work 
performed by the metaphoric stammer as a sign of various conditions 
(both personal and collective) with little connection to actual 
dysfluency. Marc Shell first drew attention to the metaphoric 
appropriation of the stammer as a sign of multiple forms of ‘impediment’ 
– not only vocal, but social, psychological, intellectual and 
metaphysical – and the societal assumptions that underlie such usage 
(Shell 2005). More recently, Daniel Martin has highlighted the way in 
which the ‘polymorphous metaphor of the stutter’ has ‘seduce[d] 
theorists from an awareness of the actual disability of developmental 
dysfluency’ towards ‘seductive descriptions of the “stuttering” rhythms 
of modern life, literature and aesthetics’ (Martin 2015). Following such 
interventions, even work that remains engaged with Gilles Deleuze’s 
influential ‘articulation’ of the metaphorical stammer (‘He Stuttered’, 
1998) needs to balance such usage with a sense of the corporeal 
experience of dysfluency (what Jay Dolmage has called ‘the embodied 
struggle for expression’ [2014]), an experience historicised in Eagle’s 
exploration of the interaction between literary practice and speech 
pathology (2014). Issues of embodiment, performance and creative 
disruption to normative speech have been the focus of work by Christof 
Migone (2012), Brandon LaBelle (2014), and Steven Connor (2014), while 
Joshua St. Pierre has explored the challenge posed by the dysfluent body 
to a post-capitalist economics of labour, communication and temporal 
‘efficiency’ (2013).


In terms of clinical practice, the embodied experience of dysfluency has 
(in various forms) been at the core of therapeutic work. Recent 
innovations in clinical practice have moved away from concepts of 
recovery based on fluency towards models of collaboration in which 
‘therapy’ is premised on exchange and interaction between therapist and 
client rather than hierarchies of expertise. Within such collaborative 
environments, both Narrative Therapy and Acceptance/Non-Avoidance 
Therapies have emerged as transformative structures that draw upon 
aspects of cultural and creative practice to rewrite the terms of the 
clinical encounter and its ‘outcomes.’


This renewed focus on embodiment invites diverse, interdisciplinary 
approaches that accentuate the embodied experience of stammering in its 
therapeutic, cultural and creative forms.


_Proposals are welcomed for submissions in (but not limited to) the 
following areas: _


• Narrative therapy (in clinical, cultural, or creative practice)

• Normative speech and counter voices of dysfluency

• Rethinking ‘recovery’

• Gender and dysfluency (the gendered experience and/or representation 
of dysfluency)

• Ethnicity and the speech ‘disorder’

• ‘Histories’ of dysfluency

• Literary embodiment

• Contemporary creative practice: expressive dysfluency

• ‘Assistive’ technology and vocal agency

• Mapping the brain: neurological perspectives

• Visualising dysfluency

• The cinematic voice


_Submission Procedures: _


Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be e-mailed by 10 September 
2019 to Maria Stuart ((maria.stuart /at/ ucd.ie) <mailto:(maria.stuart /at/ ucd.ie)>) 
and Daniel Martin ((martind86 /at/ macewan.ca) <mailto:(martind86 /at/ macewan.ca)>). 
Successful authors will be invited to submit either a 5000-8000 word 
article or a ‘Voicing’ to the editors by 10 December 2019.


Practitioner-scholars who work in the areas outlined in the CfP are 
invited to contribute to the ‘Voicings’ section of the journal, which 
offers a platform for experimentation with non-conventional forms of 
dissemination, such as:


• Practitioners’ reflections

• Vocal scores and transcripts of music/sound/audio/multimedia artworks

• Annotated interviews

• Photographic essays

• Excerpts of rehearsals, workshops, performances

• Voice essays and blog-style contributions

• Academic discussions of voice in the form of poetic scripts, libretti, 
mini lexicons, ethnographic notes

• Voice-related documents and archives


Please visit 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-interdisciplinary-voice-studies 
for more information on the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 
and for Notes for Contributors.


_Editors’ bios: _


Daniel Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at 
MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His work on Victorian 
literature and culture has appeared in The Journal of Victorian Culture, 
Victorian Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Blackwell’s 
Companion to Sensation Fiction. He has a forthcoming chapter on 
nineteenth-century dysfluencies in Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of 
Disability series.


Maria Stuart is an Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama, 
Film and Creative Writing at University College Dublin, where she 
teaches nineteenth- and twentieth century American literature. She is 
co-editor of The International Reception of Emily Dickinson and Ireland, 
Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire. She has published on the dysfluent 
poetics of Emerson and Dickinson, and Altered Auditory Feedback in The 
King’s Speech and the work of Alvin Lucier and Victoria Hanna.


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