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Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Editorial Collective and Advisory Board

 

 

Editor

Tina Chen

 

Associate Editor

Charlotte Eubanks

 

Managing Editor

Su Young Lee

 

Editorial Assistant

Kendra McDuffie

 

 

PSU Editorial Collective

Jessamyn Abel, Asian Studies

Jonathan E. Abel, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies

Kathlene Baldanza, History and Asian Studies

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Jooyeon Rhee, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Chang Tan, Art History and Asian Studies

Nicolai Volland, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Ran Zwigenberg, Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies

 

Advisory Board

Cemil Aydin (2021), History, University of North Carolina

Ian Baird (2021), Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brian Bernards (2022), East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, USC

Nicole Boivin (2023)—Archeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Lan Duong (2023), Cinema & Media Studies, USC

Patrick Eisenlohr (2023), Anthropology, University of Göttingen

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (2024), English, University of California-Irvine

Paize Keulemans (2022), East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Laura Kina (2024), Art, Media & Design, DePaul University

Namiko Kunimoto (2023), History of Art, Ohio State University

Jerry Won Lee (2023), English, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies, University of California-Irvine

Lori Meeks (2021), Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC

Brinda Mehta (2024), French & Francophone Studies and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Mills College

Josephine Nock-Hee Park (2021), English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Michael J. Pettid (2022), Premodern Korean Studies, Binghamton University

Krishnendu Ray (2024), Nutrition and Food Studies, NYU Steinhardt

Zelideth Maria Rivas (2023), Japanese, Marshall University

Cathy Schlund-Vials (2021), English and Asian/Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Sarita Echavez See (2023), Media and Cultural Studies, University of California-Riverside

We Jung Yi (2021), Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) should be prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors' names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author's name and address and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author's previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

Submissions should include anonymized essay, abstract (125 words), and a separate document containing author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information (both email and mailing address).

 

Queries and submissions should be sent to: verge@psu.edu

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Issue 8.2

Visualizing Asias: Interventions in Asian and Asian Diasporic Art

Edited by Laura Kina (DePaul University) and Chang Tan (Penn State)

 

How does Asian and Asian diasporic art position itself in global, local, and transnational contexts in a post-identity-politics age when the concept of “Asian-ness” has been thoroughly deconstructed? How are these newly carved positions reflected in Asian and Asian diasporic art exhibitions, archives, and collecting? How do art practices, and the academic discipline of art history, allow us to visualize “Asias” anew as a multitude brought together by what individuals choose to do, instead of by what they are? How might shifting attention from identity to enactment underscore what Asian and Asian diasporic art stands for and intervene in how this art has been understood and/or conceptualized?

 

This special issue invites artists, curators, and scholars to envision and examine the flows, convergences, alliances, borders, and resistances of Asian and Asian diasporic art in terms of intervention. We interpret intervention in two ways. Drawing on an outward-facing definition of the term, we ask: what is the agency of artworks and projects in the world beyond art institutions? How does art tackle the entropic and the quotidian of its specific locality? How do artists, as individuals as well as collectives, create bonds and negotiate confrontations with communities? Concomitantly, we are also interested in the inward possibilities of intervention, asking contributors to consider how Asian and Asian diasporic art intervenes in the discipline of art history as well as contemporary art practices, instead of merely adding a new territory to the existing map of world art. 

 

We invite articles, artworks and curatorial projects addressing issues that are at the front edge of the arts and humanities—such as transnational feminisms and queer practices, transpacific studies, ecocriticism, and digital humanities—through the means of the visual and the performative. Theoretical explorations on the shifting grounds of the discipline are also welcome.

 

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2021

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Issue 9.1

OPEN ISSUE

 

This open issue invites essays related to the broader project of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, which showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical concern. Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge emphasizes thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national, subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes. Responding to the ways in which large-scale social, cultural, and economic concepts like the world, the globe, or the universal (not to mention East Asian cousins like tianxia or datong) are reshaping the ways we think about the present, the past and the future, the journal publishes scholarship that occupies and enlarges the proximities among disciplinary and historical fields, from the ancient to the modern periods. The journal emphasizes multidisciplinary engagement—a crossing and dialogue of the disciplines that does not erase disciplinary differences, but uses them to make possible new conversations and new models of critical thought.

 

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2021

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Issue 9.2

CULINARY CULTURES ON THE MOVE

 

Edited by Krishnendu Ray (NYU Steinhardt), Jooyeon Rhee (Penn State), and Tina Chen (Penn State)

 

Boundaries and borders are neither static nor innately cartographic: they are in constant flux and always in process of being reconfigured. This special issue highlights how studies of place and movement can help us remap culinary cultures and become more aware of the spatial dimensions of gastronomic practice. How does bodily movement and its constraints direct us to new points of view about culinary cultures in Global Asias? What are the forces behind the formation of culinary nationalism, nativism, and ethnocentrism in Asian and diasporic communities—and how have they affected the ways people practice and contest foodways? How do material contexts—from squatting to standing, from wells to sinks, from floor level cutting utensils to cutting boards, from cowdung cakes to natural gas— shape techniques, taste, and culinary habits? How do infrastructural investments and aesthetic imaginaries of food expand our understanding of the relationship between self and other?

 

We invite papers on transnational flows (both imaginary and real), border making and breaking, culinary heritages and innovations, techniques and technologies, and the relationships between the production, distribution and consumption of food in Asia and its multiple diasporas. We welcome projects that approach the study of food contextually and that highlight the intersectional and cross-disciplinary implications of spaces and movements of bodies, dead or alive, as produce, product or terminus. Theoretical explorations on the shifting grounds of the intersection of disciplines are also welcome.

 

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2022