Call for Papers: Edited volume on Queenship in the Modern World

Charles Beem Announcement
Location
North Carolina, United States
Subject Fields
African History / Studies, Asian History / Studies, European History / Studies, Islamic History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies

Queenship in the Modern World

Edited by Charles Beem and Arianne Chernock

 

We are seeking essay proposals for an edited volume on the history of queens and queenship in the Modern World, 1789 to the present. We would also welcome the work of literary scholars working in a historical context.  The editors welcome all historical approaches; political, cultural, material, gender and sexuality studies, as well as studies of queens in both literature and film. We are particularly interested in proposals that consider the interplay of and exchanges between queens in western and non-western cultures. In keeping with the mission of the Queenship and Power series, this volume seeks to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens and empresses—both consort and regnant, as well as female regents and other women who wielded regal or quasi-regal power—pursued in order to wield the powers of queenship, both “soft” and “hard,” within the rapidly changing social, political, and cultural contexts of the modern world.

The volume will be published in the “Queenship and Power” book series for Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Charles Beem & Carole Levin. 

Chapter proposals should be 250-300 words, accompanied a brief CV and short biography. We are looking for essays in the 6,000-8,000-word range. Please email proposals to charles.beem@uncp.edu and chernock@bu.edu

Deadline for proposal submission: January 1, 2021.

Charles Beem is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke.  His publications include The Lioness Roared:  The Problems of Female Rule in English History (2006), and Queenship in Early Modern Europe (2019). 

Arianne Chernock is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Her publications include Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (2010) and The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women (2019).

Contact Information

P.o. Box 1510 Histoery Department, UNC Pembroke Pembroke NC 28372

Contact Email
charles.beem@uncp.edu