This Call for Papers is for an interdisciplinary reader on Meghan Markle. We invite contributions to a peer-reviewed open call featuring research on the politics of race, monarchy, and “royal” feminism. The editors are particularly interested in critical essays that explore how a Black American female in the British monarchy speaks to, or pushes back against, conventional power dynamics in Brexit-era Britain. Submissions may take interdisciplinary theoretical and/or methodological approaches. Interdisciplinary analyses are also encouraged.

 

We invite articles that engage, but are not limited to the following themes:

 

• Doria Ragland and Meghan Markle’s Black motherhood

• Colorism vs. anti-Blackness

• “Royal” feminism

• (Post) Colonialism and misogynoir

• Black Britons and the Crown

• White empire and the Windsors

• The Podcast LISTEN!

• The sisterhood between Meghan Markle and Serena Williams

• The Commonwealth’s response to the Duchess of Sussex

• The One Drop Rule:  Are Archie and Lillibet Black?

 

Submission Details

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All proposals should be sent by January 15, 2023, to the attention of Duchess Harris: harris@macalester.edu AND Julie Schwietert Collazo: writingjulie@gmail.com. Accepted papers will be due on/or before May 1, 2023.

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Please attach your contribution as a Word document and use ‘Meghan Markle' for your subject line. Include the following in the body of your message: Your name and a short biography; a 200-word abstract; a list of five keywords/subject tags; preferred email address. If you are affiliated with an institution, please include the name. Unaffiliated scholars are welcome to submit proposals as well.

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Scholarly contributions should be no more than 20 pages, inclusive of notes and citations. Citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style’s in-text citation method (15th edition). Interviews and critical essays should be 3,000 words or fewer.

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A submission will not be considered for publication if it is currently under consideration by another journal or if it has been published previously.