IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Editor: Dr Melissa Kennedy
ISSN: 2187-0608 (online)
The IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship is an editorially independent and internationally reviewed interdisciplinary journal associated with LibrAsia: the Asian Literature and Librarianship. For more information about the associated conference, please click on the banner at the bottom of the page.
A small number of papers from the associated IAFOR conference proceedings are selected by the journal editor(s) for reworking and revising subject to normal processes of review. It is expected that between 5 and 10 percent of papers included in any given conference proceedings will be developed for inclusion in the associated conference journal. The editor may also commission pieces or accept articles from the open call, all of which must be subject to the same processes of peer review.
IAFOR's journals reflect the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences and are organized thematically. Editors may choose to issue one, two or even three volumes of a journal depending on the quality and range of submissions in the respective conference proceedings.
Volume 1 - Issue 1 - "Literary Journeys and Journeys in Literature"
Publication: April 2012
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The 2011 Librasia conference theme, "Journeys of Discovery" was a departure point for papers exploring cross-cultural and international travels and the cultural and linguistic translations these entail. Essays on the circulation of travellers and texts between East and West take a common comparative approach, often with an eye for illuminating counter-histories, counter-narratives, and counter-interpretations that challenge stereotypes and dominant ideologies about East-West relations and cultures.
Contact: literature_journal@iafor.org
Editor
Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, Austria
Assistant Editor
Thomas French, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Editorial Board
Anthony Carrigan, Keele University, UK
Myles Chilton, Chiba University, Japan
Richard Donovan, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Enrique Galvan Alvarez, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Johnny George, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan
Jeff Mather, United International College, China
Simon Robertson, University of Hertfordshire, UK
About the Editor
Dr Melissa Kennedy
B.A (The University of Canterbury), MA (Bourgogne University), PhD. (Bourgogne University/The University of Canterbury)
Melissa Kennedy was educated in her native New Zealand, and France. and holds a dual doctorate from the universities of Canterbury and Bourgogne. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Vienna.
Melissa Kennedy specialises in postcolonial literature and cultural studies, with a focus on integration and difference in Indigenous and minority cultures. She has published several articles on Maori and Pacific Island literature and cultural self-representation, Francophone literature, and on the impact of cultural globalisation, diaspora and transculturation on and in postcolonial minorities.
Her current research centres on identity issues for the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan, and more generally considers cross-cultural and international exchange between indigenous groups. She is currently writing a book of interviews with well-known and successful Ainu politicians, activists, artists, writers and academics about their lives, experiences and vision for Ainu culture.
About the Assistant Editor
Dr Tom French
B.A (Royal Holloway, University of London / Kyoto University of Foreign Studies), MA (Durham University), PhD. (University of Southampton)
Thomas French is a graduate of London, Durham and Southampton Universities. His research specialisms include modern Japanese History, East Asian International Relations and Japanese Politics.
He is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, and as a Research Coordinator for the United Kingdom Defence Forum.
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