Calls for Papers

The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation welcome original scholarship engaging with the afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic, multimedia, and critical histories. We encourage contributors to use the online format to its best advantage, in particular, by imagining how to enhance or illustrate their essays with multimedia (screen captures, sound clips, images, and so on).

Currently we solicit essays, book reviews, accounts of Appropriation in Performance, essay-clusters, and new discoveries for upcoming general and special issues. General issues appear in the Fall/Winter, and Special issues in the Spring/Summer. Future special issues include Canadian Shakespeares (2007, guest editor Daniel Fischlin), and Shakespeare and Actors of Color (2008, guest editor Ayanna Thompson). We welcome suggestions for themes for special issues.

We accept submissions for general issues year-round, and are also currently accepting essays for our upcoming special issue, Shakespeare and Actors of Color, B&L 4.1 (Spring/Summer 2008), guest-edited by Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University. This special edition of Borrowers and Lenders seeks to examine the use of actors of color in contemporary Shakespeare productions. We welcome essays that address such questions as: How does Shakespeare’s cultural capital inform the desire to employ actors of color in modern productions? How do Shakespearean productions complicate and/or ameliorate anxieties about the significance of race vis-à-vis color in performance? Is there a relationship between the employment of actors of color and the desire to adapt Shakespeare’s plays politically, culturally, and/or socially? Please send essays by electronic mail to ayanna.thompson@asu.edu by May 1, 2007.

General inquiries should be addressed to the General Editors, Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, by email at borrowers@english.uga.edu or to Associate Editor Robert Sawyer at resawyer1@charter.net. Book reviewers may contact our book review editor, Kalpen Trivedi, directly by email at kalpen@uga.edu. Reviewers of Appropriations in Performance may contact our performance review editor, Matthew Kozusko, directly at mkozusko@ursinus.edu, for guidelines.