Call for Papers: Early Career Researchers XI --- deadline extended to MARCH 15, 2024

2023-10-12

The interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access journal gender forum launched its first annual Early Career Researchers Issue in October 2013 in order to encourage the next generation of scholars who work at the intersection of gender studies and literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, and/or cultural history to publish their work in a guided publication process which is specifically designed to support the first publications of emerging scholars. Ever since then, gender forum has dedicated one special issue a year to presenting the work of early career researchers (ECR).

Contributions for the upcoming Early Career Researchers Issue XI (fall issue 2024) may be pieces composed specifically for the occasion or previously unpublished term papers or final theses, which have been carefully revised and adapted for the issue. Please note that given the journal’s focus on the intersection of gender studies and literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, and/or cultural history, all submissions must engage with topics and theories relevant to gender studies, feminist criticism, masculinity studies, transgender studies, or queer studies. We specifically welcome papers that highlight the intersections of issues of gender and sexuality with other social categories of difference.

The NEW due date for full article submissions (3,000-5,000 words) is MARCH 15, 2024.

Please submit your manuscripts via our new website:

https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/index

  1. Create a login (as author) under submissions
  2. Follow instructions

 

  1. Submission of files includes the following two documents:

 

  • full article of 3,000-5,000 words plus an abstract of 200-300 words
    • hand in MS Word documents only!
    • abstracts have to present the overall arguments or aim of the proposed paper along with the primary materials and theoretical concepts that they will engage in
    • documentation of source: MLA 9
  • a short bio note (150 words max.)

While we expect the papers to be carefully composed upon first submission, ECR scholars whose papers have been accepted must be prepared and willing to do at least two rounds of careful and thorough revisions based on double blind reader reports and the editors’ comments.

Publication date: Fall 2024

Editor responsible for this issue: Johanna Pitetti-Heil + tba

General Editors:  Susanne Gruß, Johanna Pitetti-Heil, Judith Rauscher