Images of catastrophe increasingly assault us through the media.  The world is reeling from the effects of war, natural disasters, famine, and disease.  Violence – natural and unnatural – has become a standard motif in contemporary storytelling, cultural documentation and sociopolitical reportage.  How, then, is such representation captured and characterized? What is being said and unsaid, and why?  Is catastrophe a comparative experience?

The editors of the Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies literary journal invite submissions on any aspect of this topic for its Fall 2006 edition. FACS is an interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for comparative study in the arts, humanities, language, culture and social sciences.

Possible topics include but are not limited to exploring representations of catastrophe as:

Papers should be no more than 25 pages or approximately 7,000 words, and should follow the most recent MLA guidelines. A separate title page should include the author’s name and address. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript pages to allow for blind review.

Send two hard copies and a CD of the manuscript to:
FACS Editor
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
P.O. Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33341-0991
E-mail submissions should be sent to facs_at_fau.edu. All electronic versions should be submitted in Microsoft Word.

About the Journal:
First published in 1992, FACS is dedicated to the promotion of scholarship that bridges two or more academic disciplines or modes of intellectual inquiry, including different languages and cultures.

Guidelines for Submissions:

1. FACS encourages submissions from young scholars.
2. Articles in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish are welcome.
3. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in double-spaced typescript, and should follow the most recent MLA guidelines. The author's name and address (including manuscript title) should appear on a separate page (not on the pages of the essay).
4. Please submit two hard copies of the manuscript, as well as a disk version, preferably in Microsoft Word 6.0 or plain text format.
5. Book reviews, of 1,500 to 2,000 words in length, should follow the above specifications
6. The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2002.

Created by Sue Yap
Updated by: Gregory Topple (anlcomputing.fau.edu)