South Atlantic Review: Saving English, World Languages and the Humanities: What and Who Should Be Included in the Conversation?
Due Date: 08-12-2023
Changes to job security, faculty workloads, and notions of what constitute student success proliferate. Add to this the general national decline in university and college enrollments that creates an urgent situation and the need to address it. A sudden turn to asynchronous online teaching added to students’ sense of isolation and distancing from their studies and their instructors. Moreover, the general devaluing of the humanities and associated skills raises concerns of how do we communicate our value to the public? What role can assessment play in making the case for the humanities? These and other factors impact the declining enrollments in English, world languages, and humanities. In addition, ChatGPT, AI, and online translators menace the value and existence of the humanities in yet another way. This special volume focuses on factors threatening English, French studies, and other world languages as well as humanities programs, with a view to exploring creative solutions. What and who should be included in this conversation? What needs to change? What should be preserved? What’s next?
We invite narratives, case studies, research, and other creative responses to our questions.
Please submit a 250–350-word proposal and brief bio by 12 August 2023 to both editors: E. Nicole Meyer (nimeyer@augusta.edu) and Christina R. McDonald (McDonaldCR@vmi.edu).
Please label as “Special Issue on Saving Humanities” in the subject line of your email.
Deadlines
Note: We welcome early submissions and will begin peer review of all submissions as they are received; however, we will only respond after the deadline. We do not anticipate extending any of the following deadlines.
Author’s Proposal Deadline for 250–300-word Proposals: Monday, 12 August 2023
Editors’ Response to Proposals Deadline: Monday, 6 November 2023
Author’s Completed Manuscripts Deadline: Monday, 10 June 2024
Editors’ Response to Manuscripts Deadline: Monday, 26 August 2024