<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">Call for Papers</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="6">Happiness</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4">A special issue of <i>Writing from Below</i></font><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Emergent research into happiness is still largely situated in fields such </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">as sociology, psychology, and neuroscience. Traditionally the uncontested</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> domain of the Humanities, the question of “How should we live?” is too</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> rarely approached in contemporary literary and cultural studies. Indeed,</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> even in a thriving field such as affect studies, research still largely</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> focuses on negative emotions, ugly feelings (Ngai), shame (Probyn),</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> paranoia (Sedgwick), failure (Halberstam), and the cruelty of optimism </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">(Berlant). But perhaps the critical tide is turning. Scholars are</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> beginning</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> to theorise the end of our well-rehearsed “hermeneutics of suspicion,” and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">conjecturing what comes after (Felski). They are mapping the potential</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> path</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> for a “eudaimonic criticism” (Pawelski &amp; Moore) and an “ethics of hope”</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (Braidotti), looking towards a more positive future (Muñoz). Critical and</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> historical studies on empathy (Meghan; Keen), joy (Potkay) and happiness</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> itself (Ahmed) are also emerging.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Inspired by the growing body of scholarship on optimistic representations </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of gender, sexuality, and queerness, <i>Writing from Below</i> enters the fray</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> with this invitation to explore and interrogate positive, affirmative, successful,</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> fulfilling, and life-affirming expressions of gender and sexuality in</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> contemporary or historical art, literature, culture, and society.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For the full call-for-papers, and to submit your work, visit our website: </span><a href="http://www.writingfrombelow.org.au/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">www.wri<span class="gmail-m_-6555599708670153875gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-6555599708670153875gmail-aQJ">tingfrombel</span></span>ow.<wbr>org.au</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The deadline for submissions is <b>29 May 2017</b>.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For more information, please contact our guest editor, Dr Juliane </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Roemhild: </span><a href="mailto:J.Roemhild@latrobe.edu.au" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">J.Roemhild@<wbr>latrobe.edu.au</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Dr Stephen Abblitt</b><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Managing Editor</span><br><i>Writing from Below</i><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">La Trobe University, Victoria, 3086</span><br><a href="http://www.writingfrombelow.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">www.writingfrombelow.org.au</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-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