<div dir="ltr">Apologies for Cross-posting:<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">Persona Studies</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">: New Issue and Call for Papers and Creative Work</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">Persona Studies</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"> 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">The editorial board is also pleased to announce the launch of another issue of <i>Persona Studies</i>—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)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">In this issue:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Editorial: “5 Dimensions of the Online Persona”</span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Chris Moore, Kim Barbour, and Katja Lee unpack five constituent elements of online persona production and performance: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/658">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/658</a></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">“‘Get Off My Internets’: How Anti-Fans Deconstruct Lifestyle Bloggers’ Authenticity Work”</span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">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: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/640">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/640</a></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">“The Persona in Autobiographical Game-making as a Playful Performance of the Self”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">Stefan Werning examines how autobiographical games make quite literal the <i>playful</i> possibilities of persona construction and performance within the constraints and affordances of the technologies and platforms: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/650">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/650</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">“Constructing the Antichrist as Superstar: Marilyn Manson and the Mechanics of Eschatological Narrative”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">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: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/651">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/651</a></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">“The Hyphenated Persona: Aidan Quinn’s Irish-American Performances”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">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: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/64">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/64</a>: </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">“ALT-RIGHT: CTRL+A;DEL”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">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: <a href="https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/656">https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/656</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:25.68px;font-family:Cambria,serif">CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 &amp; 2018</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">OPEN ISSUE: 3.2 (2017)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">In this issue of <i>Persona Studies</i>, 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:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Consumerism</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Marketing</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Online &amp; digital Identities</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Life Writing</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Celebrity</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Print Media</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">War &amp;Terrorism</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Death &amp; Mourning</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Bodies</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Surveillance</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Children &amp; Family</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">         </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Arts &amp; Crafts</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Cambria,serif">SPECIAL ISSUE: Scientific Persona 4.1 (2018)</span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">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.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Themes and issues include but are not limited to:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Intersectionality and scientific persona</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Bodily expressions of scientific persona</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Internalization of science and scientific personas</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Scientific persona in colonial settings</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Artistic expressions of scientific personas</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Americanization of science and scientific persona</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Celebrity and scientific personas</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Comparative studies of scientific persona</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The relationship between scientific institutions and personas</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Pre-modern historical studies on scientific personas </span></li></ul><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Guest editors:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Prof. Mineke Bosch, Groningen University, the Netherlands</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Prof. Kirsti Niskanen, Stockholm University, Sweden</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Timeline</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">In the first instance, submit your abstract by 03 July 2017 by email to Kirsti Niskanen:</span></li></ul><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">kirsti [dot] niskanen [at] historia [dot] su [dot] se.</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Full paper requests will be issued by 21 July 2017.</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Full papers submissions due 27 October 2017 to the <i>Persona Studies</i> website.</span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Publication of Scientific Persona Special Issue scheduled for April 2018.</span></li></ul></div></div>