Reception:

Texts, Readers, Audiences, History

The Journal of the

Reception Study Society

Website: http://copland.udel.edu/~pgold/webpage/RSSsite/rssjournal.html

Philip Goldstein,

editor-in-chief

University of Delaware

The editorial board:

Tony Bennett, The Open University

Temma Berg, Gettysburg University

Amy Blair, Marquette University

Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca University

Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University

Charles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Jim Machor, Kansas State U.

Steve Mailloux, UC at Irvine

Walter Metz, Montana State University

Toby Miller, UC at Riverside

Kimberly Nance, Illinois State University

Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati.

Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech

Patsy Schweickart, Purdue University

Janet Staiger, UT at Austin

Charlotte Templin, University of Indianapolis.

Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.

The journal will be refereed and will appear on line once each year on the RSS website. Essays submitted for publication will be evaluated by at least two members of the editorial board. Contributors can expect a response in a timely fashion. Essays should follow MLA guidelines and should not exceed 6,000 words Please submit proposals of 250-500 words to Philip Goldstein at pgold@udel.edu or at the University of Delaware, 333 Shipley St., Wilmington, DE 19801. For more information or to join the RSS, please visit the RSS webpage: http://copland.udel.edu/~pgold/webpage/RSSsite/index.html

Vol. 1 (Fall, 2008)