A special call for papers celebrating the work of Joe Tabbi—electronic book review's founder and long-term editor-in-chief—which will be published in a special issue of electronic book review during the journal's 30th anniversary year.
Joseph Tabbi is the founder of electronic book review, which is now celebrating 30 years of continuous publication, making it one of the first scholarly open access journals on the web.
ebr was one of the first literary journals to be invented online, and remains a central locus for cutting-edge critical discourse, methods that challenge the status quo, and in-depth work addressing the digital future of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts.
Tabbi is the author, most recently, of The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism. He wrote the biography of the novelist William Gaddis, one of the most important modern/postmodern writers of the 20th century, Nobody Grew but the Business: The Life of William Gaddis. Tabbi is a scholar who has been consistently critically engaged with the various intersections of science and literature, as evinced in his monograph on cognition, self-reflexivity, and autopoiesis Cognitive Fictions.
We are calling for scholarly essays, short contributions, reviews, images, remixes, and creative works of digital media for a special issue of electronic book review engaging Joseph Tabbi’s works and career as a researcher, organizer, and digital publishing pioneer. Selected contributions will also be included in a festschrift book.
Deadline for submissions: May 4, 2025
Submit online at: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/ebr/about/submissions. For scholarly works and short contributions, follow the provided instructions in the submission system. For creative works and images, include a brief abstract describing the work, a link to the work itself, and any other supporting materials as one PDF file.