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The Global Circulation Project is a global map and dialogue on how key Anglophone works, authors, genres, and literary movements have been translated, received, imitated/mimicked, adapted, or syncretised outside Britain, Europe, and North America, or, conversely, how key works from outside these areas have been translated, received, imitated/mimicked, adapted, or syncretised within Anglophone literary traditions. It asks, what forms of intertextuality, reception, etc. are generated through cultural contact?

For example, in a pilot project supported by the British Academy on the global circulation of Charles Dickens’s novels, we are asking:

· How has Dickens been translated, received, imitated/mimicked, adapted, or syncretised outside Britain, Europe and North America?

· What forms of intertextuality have been generated with indigenous cultural forms?

· What is the role of Dickens’s Britain in the imaginary of other cultures?

Conversely, we study the role of the 1001 Nights in Anglophone culture. Thus: How have the Nights been received, imitated/ mimicked, etc.? What forms of intertextuality have been generated with Anglophone forms? What is the role of the Nights in the imaginary of British Literature?

Any authors, works, or genres with evidence of significant global/international circulation and impact from any time period may be the subject of an article.

Since the launch of the GCP in early 2010, we have published articles on Global Dickens by John Jordan (University of California, Santa Cruz), Global Modernisms/Modernities by Laura Doyle (U Massachusetts, Amherst), The Distant Future? Reading Franco Moretti by Rachel Serlen (Columbia University) and the Naturalist Novel in Asia by Christopher Hill (Yale). We also have a Call for Responses by Regenia Gagnier.

In the next few months we will also feature essays on the Anglo-Indian Canon by Norbert Schurer (California State University, Long Beach), Global Joyce by Ariela Freedman (Concordia U), Byron in China by Ting Guo (Exeter), Romanticism and Latin America by Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (U Mass Amherst), Medieval Race (by Geraldine Heng, U Texas, Austin). In the future, we expect articles on the Global Circulation of the New Woman by Ann Heilmann (Hull), the Global Circulation of key texts of Liberalism by Regenia Gagnier (Exeter), and many more.

We welcome proposals and submissions to the Global Circulation Project. Essential to the dialogic nature of the GCP is the participation of scholars outside Britain, Europe, and North America, and we especially encourage submissions of paired articles and responses across international boundaries.

Articles of up to 5000 words (excluding notes and bibliography) may be submitted for peer review through Literature Compass’s normal scholarly channels. Shorter and less formal responses to published articles are especially welcome to cultivate dialogue on global circulation. These will be reviewed by the Editor in Chief and at least one subject specialist in the appropriate language(s) of literary circulation.

All submissions must include full scholarly apparatus for notes and Works Cited. We apologize in advance to the scholarly community that at this time we are only able to consider submissions and responses in English; this may change as the dialogue and network grow.

For more information or to submit a proposal email Phil Smith at LICOEditorial@wiley.com.