Thursday, March 6, 2014

Where to Share: Options for My Jane Austen Project

JASNA Annual General Meeting (Jane Austen Society of North America)
I just Google searched Jane Austen Conference and this is what came up. This is pretty much the conference of all Jane Austen conferences. It takes place in a different city every year, and each conference is centered around a different theme. This year's theme is Mansfield Park (which my paper will have nothing to do with) but maybe an upcoming year could work for my paper.

Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
This is JASNA's journal for Austen scholarship. (And I think JASNA is pretty much where most Austen conversation happens). It is where I have found a lot of my own sources for this project. They publish a print and on-line version, so either option is available to me.

Journal of Popular Romance Studies
There are a lot of journals dedicated to Romantic studies (as I discovered from another Google search). This one seems focused on romance, not Romance, but their current issue is focused on 19th Century Britain (and they specifically mention the Jane Austen fan lit). Maybe they will have future issues suited to my paper as well.

BYU English Symposium
I have yet to present a paper at BYU's English Symposium. Though not specific to my topic, this would be a good experience for me, and it counts as presenting!

Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media
I found this blog-journal while looking for more "alternative" sources to share my project. They publish "refereed" essays but also have part of their site dedicated to open discussion on anything cult media. If my paper goes they way I expect it to, I should have a tie in to cult media studies.

AustenBlog
There are a lot of random Austen blogs out there. After searching through a lot of junk, I found this blog (which may also be junk) but it seemed more promising. This blog is dedicated to discussing all things Austen in popular culture. They don't accept any long or scholarly things but I bet I could submit parts of my brief "alternative" final project.

There are probably a ton of other places I could publish or present, but finding them are harder than I anticipated. I think my best bet is probably JASNA's journal; I have found some crazy things there so I feel like they are pretty open to accepting submissions.

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