A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
Call for Applications for a Guest Editor, Special Section
of the Spring 2010 Issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange
The Board of Directors of ASIANetwork calls for applications for Guest Editor of the Special Section of the Spring 2010 issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange. Proposals should include the following information and meet the criteria listed below.
General Criteria
- A successful proposal should have a unified theme of significance to the goal of the ASIANetwork Exchange to serve as a journal for Asian studies in the liberal arts.
- The proposal should include a brief narrative including the guest editor's conception of the theme, a rationale for the topics of proposed articles, and ideas on how the audience will be engaged.
Specific Criteria
- The proposal should be both innovative and geared toward a liberal arts faculty.
- The proposal should identify 4-5 articles for the Special Section that will be solicited and edited by the author of the proposal to fill 32 pages (or more) of the journal.
- The proposal should include at least one article incorporating original research and at least one article focusing on either pedagogy, media resources, or usefulness for our students.
- The proposal should provide evidence of viability.
- Proposals should be no more than 1000 words.
- The author of the proposal should also include a one-page CV.
Other considerations
- Guest editors must be members of the network.
- Board members or Exchange editors are not eligible to apply.
Send applications: Tom Lutze and Irv Epstein, Illinois Wesleyan University, P. O. Box 2900, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900 or by e-mail to anexchange@iwu.edu.