What we publish

Textual Cultures welcomes submissions of essays (5,000-12,000 words) on all aspects of textual scholarship and reviews (short reviews, 750-1250 words and review essays, 1750-2000 words). The journal regularly publishes essays and reviews in English, French, Spanish, and Italian, and occasionally in German, Russian, and other languages. Our goal is to publish scholarship regardless of the language of composition, within the limits of our resources.

Textual Cultures is hosted by IUScholarWorks and provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. No author fees associated with submission or publication are charged. Whole issues of the journal and individual essays are available as downloadable pdf files. Past issues are archived through IUScholarWorks.

Please send essay submissions and queries by email to Marta Werner, Editor-in-Chief (marta.werner@gmail.com), with “Submission to Textual Cultures” in the subject line.

If you are interested in writing a review for Textual Cultures, please contact the appropriate book review editor and attach a copy of your c.v.

  • British and Anglophone Book Review Editor: Logan Esdale (esdale@chapman.edu)
  • European Book Review and Contributing Editors: Alvaro Barbieri, Università di Padova (alvaro.barbieri@unipd.it) and Paola Italia, Università di Bologna (paola.italia@unibo.it)

Essays

The endeavor of Textual Cultures is to widen our understanding of how new developments in fields such as codicology, material philology, art history, musicology, and cultural studies are redefining our notions of what constitutes a text in diverse cultural contexts. Textual Cultures is committed to reviewing a wide range of works across these and other disciplines. Most manuscripts accepted for publication by Textual Cultures are standard essay-length, 5,000 to 12,000 words. We are interested in publishing work that is experimental in terms of genre and format and will seek to accommodate such work within the limits of our technological infrastructure.

Reviews

Textual Cultures features two distinct forms of reviews. Short reviews (750–1250 words) focus on a single work, eg, a recently published scholarly edition, digital project, or book of criticism relevant to textual scholarship. Essay reviews (1750–2000 words) examine the work under review within larger theoretical and cultural contexts.