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Voices Across Borders: Reframing the Barriers of Vulnerability in Language, Culture, and Literature Guest co-editors: Gaetano Falco (Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”) Elena Spandri (Università degli Studi di Siena) Jun Pan (Hong Kong Baptist University) Copyeditor: Eileen Mulligan (University of Bari) In an increasingly hostile transnational political climate and environment, where current sweeping policy-making bodies demonize notions and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering division within and between societies, nation-states, and cultures, the need to encourage inclusive dialogue in academic research has never been more pressing. By reframing the barriers of vulnerability in all its forms—whether linguistic, cultural, social, and digital, or in their literary representation— this issue of Textus intends to construct a comprehensive and vibrant space for scholarly investigation and social change, encouraging interdisciplinary conversation. Vulnerability is a concept that usually implies the related ideas of fragility, inequity, and risk, but is also associated with resilience, empowerment and resistance (Butler 2014). It “is a concept with fleeting contours as much as it is an idea with assured academic success” (Ferrarese 2016:149). As such, it is characterized by indeterminacy and variability, which accounts for the current, “increasingly multidisciplinary interest in the topic.” (Nungesser and Schirgi 2024: 252). Over the last decades, the notion has gained the attention of various research areas, both embracing and articulating its conceptual boundaries, as the idea itself has been subject to reconceptualization in the field of international human rights law (Morawa 2003). The call for Voices Across Borders offers itself to multiple inflections, showcasing the need for change and empowerment as a key quality that underlies recent developments in the fields of – amongst others – (critical) discourse analysis, literary studies, cultural studies, (critical) disability studies, gender studies, environmental studies, migration, border discourse and cultural mediation, and museum studies. Among the possible angles, one may consider for instance exploring the pliability of the novel form to contemporary ‘humanitarian imaginary’ in the current context marked by a pervasive condition of conflict, the massive experience of vulnerability and mediatic exposure to violence (Ganguly 2016). Another option may be to consider the dual role of language as both a barrier and a bridge across various fields, including translation and communication (Davies 2012); or, as a resource for inclusion and a cause of exclusion of vulnerable groups, ranging from migrants to refugees and asylum seekers (Schrover and Schinkel, 2013), to women and LGBTQI+ people (Jones 2023). The papers selected will ideally address the core topic from either theoretical or applied and text-focussed perspectives, in literature, linguistics, and cultural studies, including discussion of best practices in teaching and other professional experiences. References Antinucci, Raffaella, and Adrian Grafe (eds.). Vulnerability and Resilience in English Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (McFarland, 2024). Bonacchi, Silvia, ed. Vulnerability: Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, 2024. Butler, Judith. “Introduction: On Linguistic Vulnerability.” In Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997: 1-42. Butler, Judith. “Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance.” In Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay (ed. by), Vulnerability in Resistance, Duke UP, 2016, pp.12-27. Butler, Judith, Precarious Lives: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Verso, 2006). Cunningham, Clare, and Christopher J. Hall, eds. Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Davies, Eirlys E. “Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers.” In C. B. Paulston, S. F. Kiesling, & E. S. Rangel (Eds.), The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication. Wiley-Blackwell 2012, pp. 367–387. De Vogli R., Lusiardi M. (2024) “The Ecological Crisis and Human Rights: Why We Are All Vulnerable ” Peace Human Rights Governance, 8(1), 135-152. Ferrarese, Estelle. “Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is?”. Critical Horizons, 17, 2 (2016): 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2016.1153885 Fernández-Santiago, Miriam, and Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández (eds.). Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2022). Ganassin, Sara, Alexandra Georgiou, Judith Reynolds, and Mohammed Ateek. 2024. “Vulnerability and Multilingualism in Intercultural Research with Migrants: Developing an Inclusive Research Practice.” Language and Intercultural Communication 24 (5): 385–93. doi:10.1080/14708477.2024.2411083. Ganguly, Debjani, This Thing Called the World. The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke UP, 2016). Ganteau, Jean Michel. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2015). Giladi, Paul, and Petherbridge, Danielle. “The Vulnerable Dynamics of Discourse”. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 2021: 195-225. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000151 Heikkilä, Mikaela, and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso. “Introduction: Approaches to Vulnerability in Times of Crisis.” Human Rights Review (2023) 24:151–170. Jones, Lucy, “Language, gender and sexuality in 2022”, Gender and Language, 17, 2 (2023): 1-18. Lewis, Hannah, Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum (Policy Press, 2014). Morawa, Alexander E., “Vulnerability as a Concept of International Human Rights Law”, Journal of International Relations and Development 6, 2 (June 2003): 139-155. Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard UP, 2011). Nungesser, Frithjof, and Antonia Schirgi. “Debating the Vulnerability Zeitgeist: Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Trialogue.” Human Studies, 47, 2 (2024): 251–260. Scarry, Elain, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (OUP, 1985). Schrover, Marlou, and Willem Schinkel. “Introduction: the language of inclusion and exclusion in the context of immigration and integration”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 36, 7 (2013): 1123-1141. Slaughter, Joseph R., Human Rights, Inc. The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (Fordham UP, 2007). Wu, Duncan, and Carolyne Forché (eds.) Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English 1500-2001 (Norton, 2014). Submission of abstracts Please send abstracts to: gaetano.falco@uniba.it, Timeline Deadline for abstracts submission (400 words plus references): 15 December 2025. Please put as subject line “Textus Cross-disciplinary Issue 6/2025 – abstract submission” Notification to authors: 15 January 2026 Deadline for submission of first draft of article (maximum 7500 words including references): 31 May 2026 Request for revisions following peer review: 15 July 2026 Deadline for final version of article: 1 September 2026

Writing the End, Imagining the Future: Ecoapocalypses and Ecotopias in Anglophone Literature Guest co-editors: Gioia Angeletti (Università di Parma) Roberta Grandi (Università della Valle d’Aosta) Nicoletta Vallorani (Università degli Studi di Milano) Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-Uluru (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) Copyeditor: Elizabeth Ritsema (Royal Holloway – University of London) In The Last Man (1826), Shelley thus envisioned the annihilation of the human race: an endemic disease being turned into a pandemic plague by a combination of war-related increase in human contacts and an unprecedented rise in air temperature. Nearly a century and a half later, Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975) imagined a sustainable society featuring mandatory waste recycling and electric engines, widespread bike-sharing, and advanced technological devices called “picturephones.” Science fiction has long exhibited an uncanny ability to anticipate the worst – and, more rarely, the best – of possible futures. Yet today, as climate change, global warming, the sixth mass extinction, phosphogeddon, and other eco-catastrophes have ceased to be speculative concerns and instead define the lived reality of many communities, the once-cathartic potential of apocalyptic narratives may be diminishing. As noticed by Amitav Ghosh, “There is, […], an important difference between the weather events that we are now experiencing and those that occur in surrealist and magical realist novels: improbable though they might be, these events are neither surreal nor magical. To the contrary, these highly improbable occurrences are overwhelmingly, urgently, astoundingly real.” (2017, 27) Over the last decades, eco-apocalyptic and dystopian works have functioned as a means of reflecting on contemporary environmental crises, serving as cautionary tales designed to warn and engage readers with urgent global concerns (Basu, Broad, and Hintz 2013; Bradford et al. 2008; Curry 2013). However, recent interdisciplinary research spanning psychology, anthropology, affect studies, environmental activism, participatory culture, and speculative fiction (Callahan et al. 2019; de Moor et al. 2020; Leyda 2023; Lockyer and Veteto 2015; McKinley 2008; Nairn 2019; Oziewicz, Attebery, and Dědinová 2022; Weik von Mossner 2017) suggests that an overreliance on apocalyptic frameworks may be counterproductive. Scholars argue that narratives centred on climate catastrophe risk engendering paralysis rather than action, as they can reinforce the perception of an inevitable and insurmountable collapse, discouraging proactive engagement with environmental challenges (Arnold 2018; Hull 2019). In response, alternative genres such as ecotopias and solarpunk offer visions of the future that inspire optimism rather than despair. These narratives imagine worlds that are not only sustainable but deeply appealing, fostering a desire for systemic transformation and encouraging active participation in building a more just and environmentally integrated society (Ulibarri 2022; Weik von Mossner 2017). This issue of Textus invites contributions that examine eco-apocalyptic visions, climate fiction, and environmental dystopias, as well as alternative imaginaries such as ecotopias, solarpunk, fantasy, afrofuturist and feminist utopias. We welcome ecocritical analyses of both classic and contemporary works of adult and children’s literature, along with other critical approaches informed by ecofeminism, intersectionality, blue and green humanities, energy humanities, posthumanism, new materialism, and affect studies. References Arnold, Elizabeth. 2018. ‘Doom and Gloom: The Role of the Media in Public Disengagement on Climate Change’. Shoresteincenter.Org (blog). 28 May 2018. Basu, Balaka, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz, eds. 2013. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults.Brave New Teenagers. London, New York: Routledge. Bradford, Clare, Kerry Mallan, John Stephens, and Robyn McCallum. 2008. New World Orders in Contemporary Children’s Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582583. Buell, Lawrence. 2005. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Blackwell Manifestos. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. Callahan, Megan M., Alejandra Echeverri, David Ng, Jiaying Zhao, and Terre Satterfield. 2019. ‘Using the Phylo Card Game to Advance Biodiversity Conservation in an Era of Pokémon’. Palgrave Communications 5 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0287-9. Clark, Timothy. 2015. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Curry, Alice. 2013. Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270115. Dawson, Ashley. 2017. Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change. London , New York: Verso. Garrard, Greg. 2004. Ecocriticism. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203644843. Ghosh, Amitav. 2017. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Lectures. Chicago: The University of Chicago press. Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm, eds. 2009. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Nachdr. Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press. Hull, Alyssa. 2019. ‘Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse’. Literary Hub (blog). 22 November 2019. https://lithub.com/hopepunk-and-solarpunk-on-climate-narratives-that-go-beyond-the-apocalypse/. Iovino, Serenella, and Serpil Oppermann, eds. 2014. Material Ecocriticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Leyda, Julia. 2023. Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009317702. Lockyer, Joshua, and James R. Veteto, eds. 2015. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages. First paperback edition. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, volume 17. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. McKinley, Andrew. 2008. ‘Hope in a Hopeless Age: Environmentalism’s Crisis’. The Environmentalist 28 (3): 319–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-008-9169-1. Moor, Joost de, Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag, Michiel De Vydt, Piotr Kocyba, Michael Neuber, et al. 2020. Protest for a Future II: Composition, Mobilization and Motives of the Participants in Fridays For Future Climate Protests on 20-27 September, 2019, in 19 Cities around the World. Nairn, Karen. 2019. ‘Learning from Young People Engaged in Climate Activism: The Potential of Collectivizing Despair and Hope’. YOUNG 27 (5): 435–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308818817603. Oziewicz, Marek, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová, eds. 2022. Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Plumwood, Val. 2007. Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. Environmental Philosophies Series. London: Routledge. Ulibarri, Sarena. 2022. ‘Do You Believe in Climate Solutions? You Just Might Be a Solarpunk.’ Fix. 4 April 2022. https://grist.org/fix/climate-fiction/do-you-believe-in-climate-solutions-you-just-might-be-a-solarpunk/. Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative. Cognitive Approaches to Culture. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. Submission of abstracts and timeline Please send abstracts to: gioia.angeletti@unipr.it, r.grandi@univda.it, nicoletta.vallorani@unimi.it Timeline Deadline for abstracts submission (400 words plus references): 15 September

Call for Abstracts Textus issue 2/2025 – Literature The Voices of Water: Intermedial and Multimodal Blue Eco-Stories   Guest co-editors: Gilberta Golinelli (Bologna University) Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University) Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Vaxjio, Sweden – Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Sweden) Copy Editor: Gaia Amrita Whitright (Roma Tre University)   What does water tell us of its story? How many stories are there in the voices of water? And how can we learn to listen to its many languages and eventually ‘speak’ them? There have been in the past artists and writers who have tried to listen to the voices of the rain, the sea, rivers and lakes. But was it really the voices of water they were listening to? Or was it just their own? And how did they transform it into a communicative object that could be shared by other fellow beings. “The nymphs are departed” wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922) with a nostalgic take on the polluted Thames, as if centuries, and not just one, had passed from Wordsworth’s sublime exaltation of “the roar of waters, torrents, streams / Innumerable, roaring with one voice’ (Prelude, 1805). And that was before any discussion concerning climate changes and unprecedented droughts, before we knew of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, before the Dutch Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Paul Crutzen, gave a name and a visibility to the concept of Anthropocene (2000), before we ever heard the word Solastalgia (G. Albrecht, 2005), before the sustainable development goals were even conceived. Is there a possible genealogy of old and multifaceted blue eco-stories? And if it exists, does it contain values and perspectives that can be worthy of transformation and reintegration into today’ and tomorrow’s society? What of writers who in their literary works try to listen to the voices of water today? How do they interact, if they do, with science reports and evidences? What multimodal and intermedial strategies do they explore to host and welcome the voices of water and their own? Can their work facilitate the process of societal changes so necessary to the survival of future generations? Some, like Carla Benedetti (2022), think so. With the help of a powerful leverage: empathy. This volume invites papers dealing with old and new eco-stories of water, how they are fashioned and communicated multimodally and intermedially, and what they can do for us.   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: · Textual, figurative, and multimodal representations of old and new eco-stories of water and their intermedial relation. · Nostalgia, pastoral and environmental discourses: between fiction and scientific knowledge. · Literary critical approaches and ocean/blue cultural studies. · Gender, genre(s) and genealogies of blue storytelling. · Empathy, social impact and transformative power of blue-eco-stories. · Issues of gender, nature, and aquatic environment. Social changes and changing constructions of aquatic environment. · The rhetoric of water: questioning and re-fashioning aquatic environments   Keywords: blue ecocriticism, water, anthropocene, solastalgia, climate changes, resilience, transformation, humanities and science relation, empathy, intermediality, multimodality, language ecology (with specific reference to the aquatic environment), fiction and literary texts.   References: Albrecht, Glenn, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2019 Benedetti, Carla, La letteratura ci salverà dall’estinzione, Torino, Einaudi, 2021 Bruhn Jørgen, Schirrmacher Beate, Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media, New York, Routledge, 2022. Bruhn, Jørgen and Niklas Salmose, Intermedial Ecocriticism, Lanham, Lexington Books 2023 Dobbin, Sidney I., Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative, New York, Routledge, 2021 Ellestrom, Lars, Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality, Palgrave, 2010 Hogan Colm, Patrick et al (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotions, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2022. Salmose, Niklas (ed.), Contemporary Nostalgia, special issue of Humanities, 2019 [available at https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/1568-contemporary-nostalgia] Submission of abstracts and timeline Please send abstracts to: gilberta.golinelli2@unibo.it, maddalena.pennacchia@uniroma3.it and niklas.salmose@lnu.se   Timeline Deadline for abstracts submission (400 words plus references): 15 September 2024. Please put as subject line “Textus Literature Issue 2/2025 – abstract submission” Notification to authors: 30 September 2024 Deadline for submission of first draft of article (maximum 7500 words including references): 31 December 2024 Request for revisions following peer review: 15 February 2025 Deadline for final version of article: 15 April 2025

Call for abstracts Textus issue 1/2025 – Language The Breeding Grounds of Conflict:Discourses of War, Discrimination, Protest, and Disinformation   Guest co-editors: Bronwen Hughes (Parthenope University of Naples) Margaret Rasulo (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University/University of Vienna) Copy Editor: Laura Ann McLean (University of Turin) Sticks and stones will break my bones, and words will always hurt me. Although the word ‘conflict’ brings international warfare readily to mind, disagreements can occur at any level or setting. By adopting a broader definition of the term, other fissiparous contexts and circumstances are called into play. Stripped of its many connotative features, conflict entails the duality of opposing factions, the ‘taking of sides’, the perception of an enemy, and the apportioning of interest. Our era is witnessing a surge of opinions, actions, and beliefs of a conflictual nature. The manifold contexts in which conflict arises range from overt hostile manifestations of dissent to covert hate-inducing tactics. The daily exposure to a myriad of viral inoculations of animosity which contaminate our personal and professional identity impacts upon our ever-diminishing resilience as human beings, leading to vulnerability and permeability. In the presence of a persistent feeling of defencelessness when faced with conflict, alarming levels of negative emotional expenditure are likely to emerge, with an ensuing sense of fear, coupled with other adverse feelings of anxiety, anger and frustration. Linked to cultural and collective trauma, fear is indeed the emotional force that shapes human agency as well as attitudes. In conflict-steeped contexts, individuals are confronted with a lingering perception of threat brought about by social disruption and division. In political settings, fear is at its pinnacle when it strives to divide the world into “good” and “bad” citizens, thus legitimizing politics of exclusion, dramatization and emotionalization (Wodak, 2015). In the spirit of the survival of the fittest, in such dire circumstances, rather than stifling divergencies through resolutory actions, we tend to react by taking the emotional turn, prompting either the avoidance or the instigation of conflict (Bramsen et al. 2014; Wahl-Jorgensen, 2019). Thus, despite the much-needed call for a ceasefire across all breeding grounds of conflict, worldwide evidence points to the normalization (Wodak 2015) of hostile patterns and propaganda without counter remedies or calls for action. Be it open or proxy warfare, online/offline hate speech, climate injustice or economic disparity, the sheer callousness of conflictual behaviour – whether ideational, ideological, or emotional – erodes the very fabric of society and leads to widespread polarization. Conflict is by its very nature complex, and the recent global pandemic with its attendant move to online platforms has added new layers of difficulty. Online environments are intrinsically conducive to the proliferation of conflictual discourses often linked to the viral spreading of disinformation. Indeed, information warfare abounds on social media sites, and is often blamed for intensifying societal polarization by creating echo chambers (E. Bakshy et al., 2015). For political, social, religious, or economic reasons, these filters tend to prevent people from being exposed to evidence-based information (Del Vicario et al. 2016), resulting in the blurring of social boundaries dangerous common ground which not only excludes the ‘other’, as an individual or perspective, but also breeds conflict. The phenomenon known as context collapse, inherent to the architecture of social media, and consisting in the blurring of social boundaries between the private and the public, or the personal and the professional, only serves to aggravate the problem (Davis and Jurgenson 2014). When every interaction is addressed to a multiple audience and the distinctiveness of context collapses, the platform takes over and controls the only gateway to/for information. Language does participate in the worldview of conflicts, and discursive representations of antagonism may serve to exacerbate or ameliorate situations of unacceptable strife. One such dynamic is the Us and Them division (van Dijk, 1998) that reproduces positive self-presentation and negative other- presentation (Reisigl and Wodak, 2001). This view of the world not only mobilizes conflict to initiate or stifle necessary social action, such as passing vital legislation to solve climate change or immigration, but also legitimizes attacks on existing institutions and the rule of law. Extensive exposure to the dynamics of conflict and contingent factors therefore provides significant insights into the role of language and discourse in understanding and addressing such issues. Whatever the context of usage, discourses of conflict, due to their insidious nature can, and often do, go undetected. Lack of awareness, in turn, leads to collateral damage stemming from asymmetries of power, opposing interests and reduced social capital. Conflict, as emerges from the above discussion, is a phenomenon of such complexity and breadth, that it cannot be fully understood within the boundaries of a single discipline and needs to be addressed from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Contributions to this issue of Textus will therefore extend the debate by raising the levels of critical awareness and providing understanding of the multiple ways in which hostile systems perpetuate themselves to the grave detriment of the basic needs of individuals and groups. Possible areas of research include but are not limited to the following: · Discourses of Nationalism · Gender Identity Representation · Political discourse · Health discourse · Immigration · Physical and sexual aggression, from individual violence to mass aggression, including genocide and terrorism. · The dynamics and evolution of conflict and resolution. · Peace research · Religion and anger · Gender and anger · Ethnicity, marginalization and anger · Isolation and competition · (Im)politeness theory · Geo-political fields of tension · Hate speech and xenophobia, racism, disability, sexism, discrimination · The representation of identity in traditional and new media · Institutional discourse and identity representation · Identities and conflict in translation · Identity construction in postcolonial settings · Language, gender identity and sexuality · National/nationalist identity construction · Language, identity and disability · Language, identity and ethnicity · Language, identity and ageism · Language, identity and religion · Linguistic identity construction: native/L1 vs. non-native/L2 · Identity in academic, professional and specialized domains.   Selected methods and approaches should

Call for proposals – Textus issues 2025 Call for proposals Textus issues 2025 All Textus calls for papers are open only to AIA members The editorial board of Textus invites proposals for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2025. Textus has traditionally approached topical areas of research separately in its three yearly issues. In the first two issues to be published in 2025, the focus will remain on language (issue 1/2025) and literature (issue 2/2025). The third issue (3/2025) will respond to the pressing need, expressed by an increasing number of scholars, to engage with inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches; it will therefore present a common theme embracing two or more research areas within the field of English studies. Proposals (500 words including references) will need to indicate: Two co-editors working at different Italian universities (for issue 3/2025, the two co-editors must belong to different research areas); A non-Italian guest editor from a foreign university; A native speaker copyeditor. Proposals for all three issues should be sent by 30 January 2024 to: aiasegreteria@unito.it