Open Cultural Studies

MANUSCRIPTS

Open Cultural Studies encourages the submission of substantial full-length bodies of work. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via online submission system Editorial Manager available for this journal at https://www.editorialmanager.com/culture/default.aspx. In case of problems, please contact the Editorial Office of this journal at Katarzyna.Tempczyk@degruyter.com.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Text files can be submitted in the following formats: MS Word - standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) or RICH TEXT FORMAT (.RTF) or OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT (.ODT) or LaTeX. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors.

EDITORIAL POLICY

Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. We may also publish a paper under CC-BY-NC-ND license on author's request. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief:
Toby Miller, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana—Cuajimalpa / University of California, Riverside / Murdoch University

Managing Editor:
Katarzyna Tempczyk, De Gruyter

Assistant Editor:
Michał Kowalczyk, De Gruyter Poland

Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy, Compuscript

Editorial Advisory Board:
Deeptha Achar, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
Ece Algan, California State University, USA
Juan-Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jesús Arroyave Cabrera, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Sarah Banet-Weiser, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USA
Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK
Chua Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Desmond Cheuk-kuen Hui, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University, Sweden
Umberto Curi, Univeristy of Padua, Italy
Simon During, University of Queensland, Australia
Richard Dyer, King’s College London, UK
John Nguyet Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Anthony Y. H. Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern School of Communiction, USA
Kelly Gates, University of California San Diego, USA
Gretchen Gerzina, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Marie Gillespie, Open University, UK
Rainer Guldin, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Yang Guorong, East China Normal University, China
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Baron Kelly, University of Louisville, USA
Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia, Canada
Roy Krøvel, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Thomas Kuehn, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Joost van Loon, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Andrey Makarychev, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Estonia
Anna Malinowska, University of Silesia, Poland
Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Richard Maxwell, Queens College, City University of New York, USA
David Morley, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Graham Murdock, Loughborough University, UK
Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India
Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Riché Richardson, Cornell University, USA
Andrew Ross, New York University, USA
Jyotsna G. Singh, Michigan State University, USA
John Storey, University of Sunderland, UK
Graeme Turner, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Australia
Aimée Vega Montiel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Massimo Verdicchio, University of Alberta, Canada
David Walton, University of Murcia, Spain

Section Editors:

African Studies
Diego Maria Malara, University of Glasgow, UK

Animal and Plant Studies
Martin Bartelmus, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Arab Literature and Culture
Dallel Sarnou, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria

Architecture and Urban Studies
Cecilia De Marinis, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona, Spain
Dorotea Ottaviani, University of Sapienza, Italy
Yvette Putra, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Guido Robazza, University of Portsmouth, UK

Critical Race Theory
Amany Abdelrazek-AlSiefy, Humbold University of Berlin, Germany
Dallel Sarnou, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria

Critical Theory
Nicola Baird, London South Bank University, UK

Cultural History and Memory
Nicola Baird, London South Bank University, UK
Elena Lolli, École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL, Paris, France
Ann Murray, Ireland
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University, USA

Cultural Translation　
Patrizia Giampieri, University of Camerino, Italy
Adrian Izquierdo, The City University of New York, USA
Veronica Del Valle, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
Jinyue Wang, University of Queensland / Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT), Australia
Mengyuan (Lídia) Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Digital Culture
Nicola Baird, London South Bank University, UK
Clara Podlesnigg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Dallel Sarnou, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Dilek Öztürk Yagci, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Eco-Criticism
Amany Abdelrazek-AlSiefy, Humbold University of Berlin, Germany

Film and Cinema Studies
Zoe Crombie, Lancaster University, UK
Mark Fryers, Open University, UK
Martin Hall, ST John University, UK
Clara Podlesnigg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University, USA

French Theory
Martin Bartelmus, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Gender Studies
Amany Abdelrazek-AlSiefy, Humbold University of Berlin, Germany

Latin American Cultural Studies
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University, USA

Literature
Luca Cortesi, University of Pavia, Italy
Olga Fernandez Vincente, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Richard Jorge, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Dilek Öztürk Yagci, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Paolo Pitari, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jinyue Wang, University of Queensland / Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT), Australia

Material Culture
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University, USA

Media Studies
Clara Podlesnigg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Popular Culture
Clara Podlesnigg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Postcolonial Literature
Amany Abdelrazek-AlSiefy, Humbold University of Berlin, Germany
Dallel Sarnou, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Psychoanalysis
Martin Bartelmus, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Social and Cultural Anthropology
Diego Maria Malara, University of Glasgow, UK

Queer Theory
Corpus Navalón Guzmán,University of Murcia, Spain

Religion
Diego Maria Malara, University of Glasgow, UK

Visual Arts
Nicola Baird, London South Bank University, UK
Ann Murray, Ireland

Visual Culture
Nicola Baird, London South Bank University, UK
Ann Murray, Ireland
Clara Podlesnigg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University, USA

Language Editors:
Michael S. Coffey, College of Southern Maryland, United States of America
Gwynne Fulton, Concordia University, Canada
Luba Stephania Kozak, University of Regina, Canada
Mandi J. Reed, University of Florida, United States of America
Eric W. Ross, George Mason University, United States of America

Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15

Editorial Contact
Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk
Katarzyna.Tempczyk@degruyter.com

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