Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Due Date: 05-31-2027
Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi), the official publication of the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Istanbul University, invites submissions for its 2027 issues (Volume 37, Issues 1 and 2).
While our core focus remains on literary studies, linguistics, and cultural studies, we welcome interdisciplinary approaches that combine literary and linguistic analysis with insights from cultural theory and media studies—provided they maintain a clear relevance to our aim and scope.
We welcome original research articles that engage with current debates and critical issues in the study of Western (American, English, French, Belgian, German, Swiss, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, Latin American, and Modern Greek) languages, literatures, and cultures. In particular, we encourage contributions that reflect cutting-edge scholarship in areas such as, but not limited to:
- Contemporary literary theory
- Disability studies
- Human-animal studies
- Posthumanism and critical posthumanities
- Ecofeminism and ecocriticism
- Ecosemiotics and ecolinguistics
- Discourse studies
- Intersectional and decolonial approaches
- Digital humanities and media theory
- Film studies
- Medieval studies
- Posthuman communication studies
- Gender studies
- Narrative and identity in contemporary fiction
- Transnationalism and migration literature
- Crete studies
Submission windows:
Issue 1 (June 2027): 1–30 November 2026
Issue 2 (December 2027): 1–31 May 2027
Submission guidelines: Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. Re-use of thesis content, dissertations, or previously published conference material is not permitted. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
Languages of publication: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish