[ecrea] /Persona Studies/: New Issue and Call for Papers and Creative Work

*/Persona Studies/**: New Issue and Call for Papers and Creative Work*

/Persona Studies/ is soliciting papers and creative works for TWO 
issues: an open call for 2017 and a 2018 special issue on Scientific 
Persona. Details listed below.


The editorial board is also pleased to announce the launch of another 
issue of /Persona Studies/—a rich compendium of work on digital persona 
productions from autobiographical games to lifestyle blogging, and 
celebrity persona performances of the Antichrist (Marilyn Manson) and 
Irish-Americanness (Aidan Quinn)

In this issue:

*Editorial: “5 Dimensions of the Online Persona”*

Chris Moore, Kim Barbour, and Katja Lee unpack five constituent elements 
of online persona production and performance: 
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/658

*“‘Get Off My Internets’: How Anti-Fans Deconstruct Lifestyle Bloggers’ 
Authenticity Work”*

Sarah McRae examines how communities of ‘anti-fans’ coalesce in online 
forums and actively monitor how bloggers perform authenticity according 
to ever shifting constructions of legitimacy: 
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/640

*“The Persona in Autobiographical Game-making as a Playful Performance 
of the Self”*

Stefan Werning examines how autobiographical games make quite literal 
the /playful/ possibilities of persona construction and performance 
within the constraints and affordances of the technologies and 
platforms: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/650

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*“Constructing the Antichrist as Superstar: Marilyn Manson and the 
Mechanics of Eschatological Narrative”*

Patrick William Osborne’s article focuses on construction of Manson’s 
controversial persona as an ‘Antichrist’ in the 1990s and the crucial 
role that Christian organizations and ideological frameworks played in 
not only crafting that persona, but infusing it with meaning and value: 
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/651

*“The Hyphenated Persona: Aidan Quinn’s Irish-American Performances”*

Loretta Goff guides us through how ‘Irish-Americanness’ has been 
performed across the twentieth century, and how it continues to be 
performed in American contexts today using Aidan Quinn as a case study: 
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/64:

*“ALT-RIGHT: CTRL+A;DEL”*

Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett’s creative practice contribution 
is a work of hypertext literature – part social media experience, part 
game, part choose your own adventure – and embeds us in the US 
Twittersphere during the final months of 2016 and January 2017: 
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/656

*CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 & 2018*

*OPEN ISSUE: 3.2 (2017)*

In this issue of /Persona Studies/, we are soliciting a wide variety of 
creative and critical works on persona. Topics of interest might include 
(but are not limited to) treatments of persona and:

·Consumerism

·Marketing

·Online & digital Identities

·Life Writing

·Celebrity

·Print Media

·War &Terrorism

·Death & Mourning

·Bodies

·Surveillance

·Children & Family

·Arts & Crafts

For both creative and critical works, please submit a 250-300 word 
abstract or proposal to personastudies [at] gmail [dot] com by 14 July 
2017. Artists and authors will be notified of initial acceptance by 21 
July 2017. Please note that official acceptance of the work is 
contingent upon peer review. Full papers (5,000-8,000 words) and 
projects are due 8 Sept. 2017.

For creative submissions where peer review or critical response is not 
desired, a full submission will be required by 8 Sept. 2017. Please 
advise in your initial proposal if you would a creative arts review.

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*SPECIAL ISSUE: Scientific Persona 4.1 (2018)*

The concept of “scientific persona” has been developed to understand the 
ways in which science is embodied and performed in a convincing way, and 
how this performance becomes part of what science is. It induces 
questions about the relation between the personal and the social, 
between the scientist, or scholar, as a person and the content of 
science. We are calling for submissions that will approach contemporary 
expressions and the history of scientific persona while focusing on the 
impact of the wider social and cultural context of gender, race and class.

Themes and issues include but are not limited to:

  * Intersectionality and scientific persona
  * Bodily expressions of scientific persona
  * Internalization of science and scientific personas
  * Scientific persona in colonial settings
  * Artistic expressions of scientific personas
  * Americanization of science and scientific persona
  * Celebrity and scientific personas
  * Comparative studies of scientific persona
  * The relationship between scientific institutions and personas
  * Pre-modern historical studies on scientific personas
Guest editors:

Prof. Mineke Bosch, Groningen University, the Netherlands

Prof. Kirsti Niskanen, Stockholm University, Sweden

Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven, Belgium

Timeline

  * In the first instance, submit your abstract by 03 July 2017 by email
    to Kirsti Niskanen:

kirsti [dot] niskanen [at] historia [dot] su [dot] se.

  * Full paper requests will be issued by 21 July 2017.
  * Full papers submissions due 27 October 2017 to the /Persona
    Studies/ website.
  * Publication of Scientific Persona Special Issue scheduled for April
    2018.


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