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Announcing: California Italian Studies

California Italian Studies (CIS) is a new digital, peer-reviewed scholarly

journal created by the Italian Studies Multi-Campus Research Group (ISMRG)

of the University of California (UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa

Barbara, UCLA, and UC San Diego campuses). This journal will be published

annually online, through the California Digital Library, and will be managed

by the CIS Editorial Board.

CIS is committed to publishing in a timely manner the finest, the most

innovative, and the most potentially influential scholarly work being done

internationally in the field of Italian Studies, or on topics related to

Italy in any discipline, from the Middle Ages to the present. Relevant

disciplines include: medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary

studies, visual studies, history of art and architecture, cultural and

political geography, environmental studies, philosophy, religious studies,

history of science, musicology, literary studies, film, media and new media

studies, theater and performance studies, gender studies, political science,

anthropology, sociology, migration and diaspora studies, classical studies,

rhetoric, linguistics, ethnography and popular culture studies, and any

other cross-disciplinary and comparative field of inquiry.

CIS seeks contributions which meet one or more of the following criteria:

interdisciplinarity; comparativity; criticality.   Essays should be of

interest to a broad spectrum of scholars in and outside of Italian Studies.

Contributions that make the best and most creative use of the digital format

are especially encouraged.

Each issue of CIS will be thematic, with contributions focusing on a single

question or subject of broad interdisciplinary interest, but submissions on

other topics, as long as they are consistent with the general profile and

mission of CIS , will also be considered.

The first issue of CIS will be devoted to: Italy in the Mediterranean.  The

call for papers and submission guidelines will be announced shortly and

posted on the ISMRG website: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/italianstudies/

Languages: Contributions can be in either English or Italian.

The first issue will go online in 2009.

Subsequent theme issues planned include: Italy and the Public Sphere;

Italian Soundscapes;  Translation Theory and Practice; The Mezzogiorno;

National vs. Regional Identities; Italian Futures.

The journal will be permanently archived by the California Digital Library

at http://repositories.cdlib.org/ismrg/cisj/

2008-2009 members of the CIS Editorial Board

John A. Agnew, Dept. of Geography, UC Los Angeles

Albert Russell Ascoli, Dept. of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley

Margaret Brose, Dept. of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Dept. of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Claudio Fogu, Dept. of French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara

Jack Greenstein, Dept. of Visual Arts, UC San Diego

John A. Marino, Dept. of History, UC San Diego

Lucia Re, Dept. of Italian, UC Los Angeles

Steven Ricci,  Dept of Film, Television & Digital Media

          and Dept. of Information Studies, UC Los Angeles

Alessia Ricciardi, Dept. of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley

Deanna Shemek, Dept. of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Janet Levarie Smarr, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego

Mary Ann Smart, Dept. of Music, UC Berkeley

Jon R. Snyder, Dept. of French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara

Hayden White,  University Professor, UC Santa Cruz and Un. of California

2008-2009 executive committee of the Editorial Board:

Albert Russell Ascoli

Claudio Fogu

John A. Marino

Lucia Re

Deanna Shemek

If you have questions about the journal or about the first issue, please

contact CIS Managing Editor, Regina Longo at

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