We are happy to announce that the first volume of our new journal Philology. An International Journal on the Evolution of Languages, Cultures and Texts is now available on Ingenta Connect. Philology is devoted to the study of human traditions as they emerge from oral, written, digital, performed, ancient and modern texts and ethnotexts. Its purpose is to go beyond the boundaries of habitual fields of inquiry and to study the wide-reaching webs of relationships among humans and their artefacts, including texts. The journal advocates an unconventional, multicultural look on the origins and evolution of languages, texts and signs, challenging the traditional trails of philology, the former ‘queen of sciences’.

The journal is open to a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from the study of linguistic evolution to literary interpretation, from textual criticism to the investigation of texts and ethnotexts, from etymological reconstructions to the cognitive analyses of archaeological facies. The Journal is edited by Francesco Benozzo, Università di Bologna.

Be sure to download the podcast from author Jim Macnamara’s recent lecture The Lost Art of Listening: the missing key to democratic and civil society participation which took place at the London School of Economics.

Dr. Macnamara’s most recent book with Peter Lang is Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication.

Join Jim Macnamara, author of Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication for his lecture on Wednesday, November 23 at 6:30pm at the London School of Economics.

Read more about Dr. Macnamara’s research on organizational listening via the blog Everybody’s talking at me…is anyone listening?

New book series: Global Literary Modernisms

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new book series Global Literary Modernisms, edited by Professor Alex Davis and Professor Lee Jenkins of University College Cork and Professor Gregory Castle of Arizona State University.

Global Literary Modernisms provides a platform for literary scholarship on modernism across genres and geographies. We invite studies that link national literary traditions with extensive global and transnational contexts. The series engages with transnational, postcolonial, canonical and marginal modernisms as well as the legacies of modernism itself. If you’d like to read a more detailed synopsis, please click here.

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Gregory Frame’s The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation, was selected as the Runner-up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Award in 2016. The award ceremony took place at the BAFTSS annual conference in April 2016.

The award panel had this to say:

‘An assuredly deft and engaging exploration of how presidential figures function in American film and television, Gregory’s book is anchored in textual readings and it hits the right note …’

Read more on the BAFTSS website. For more information about the book have a look here.