Editor-in-Chief
Natasha Lvovich, City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College, NY, USA

Book Review Editor
Sandra Vlasta, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Editorial Board
Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Mary Besemeres, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Eva Gentes, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Rainer Guldin, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Julie Hansen, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Steven G. Kellman, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
Deven Patel, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Larry Rosenwald, Wellesley College, MA, USA
Marlon James Sales, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Paul Starkey, Durham University, Durham, UK
Juliette Taylor-Batty, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK
Stijn Vervaet, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Sergio Waisman, George Washington University, DC, USA
Adrian Wanner, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Elaine Wong, Trinity University, TX, USA

Advisory Board
Yasemin Yildiz, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Call for Proposals special issue 2/2024:
Australia’s Multilingual Literary Landscape

The ‘global turn’ in literary studies has destabilised the relationship among literature, language and nation, questioning the notion that a national literature is necessarily written in a national language.

This special volume explores the multilingual literary landscape of one specific nation. It aims to showcase the variety of languages in which Australian literature is written. Since Australia’s multicultural heritage is also a multilingual heritage, this volume aims to discover, disseminate and promote new understandings of the breadth of literature in this predominantly – but far from exclusively – Anglophone country.

We welcome analyses of Australian literature that is written in languages other than in English and analyses of literature that incorporates another language into a predominantly English text. Contributions might include but are not restricted to the following questions and topics:

How do writers represent multicultural Australia in languages other than English? How do writers weave another language or other languages into predominantly Anglophone writing?
How do Indigenous authors represent their linguistic heritage in their writing?
How do migrant writers negotiate the relationship between English and the language(s) of their home country?
How do authors represent the weight, primacy or dominance of the English language within their multilingual writing?
How do authors position themselves as writers of “Australian literature” through the prism of a language other than English?

Informal queries are welcome, and contributors are asked to submit an abstract by April 1, 2023. Please direct queries to Christopher Hogarth (University of South Australia).

Articles should be 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, and the deadline for their submission is October 1, 2023. Acceptance of the final versions of articles is subject to double-anonymous peer review. Please send articles as email attachments to Christopher Hogarth at Christopher.hogarth@unisa.edu.au.

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Call for Proposals special issue 1/2024:
Literary Self-Translation in the 21st Century: A Global View

Literary self-translation is defined as the phenomenon of authors translating their own writing and producing more than one linguistic version of a given literary work. While research on the topic has surged since the turn of the 21st century (for reference, see the Bibliography on Self-Translation), scholarship is overwhelmingly dominated by a restricted set of focal points: bilingual practices, literary figures of international renown (typically in the West), 20th-century contexts, a selection of major Western European languages, and minority-language settings in Spain.

This special issue of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism explores 21st-century self-translation related to languages, regions, writers, and literary genres that have thus far received little to no critical attention within self-translation research.

We welcome case studies, ethnographic research, larger-scale studies, genetic criticism, theoretical reflections, and any other approach that engages with and adds meaningful new perspectives to existing self-translation research. Possible research questions include:

• How do understandings of self-translation shift when we account for projects that are not limited to transfers between English, French, and/or Spanish, such as those incorporating lesser-translated languages like Bulgarian (e.g. Miroslav Penkov), Slovenian (e.g. Brina Svit), Swedish (e.g. Linda Olsson) or Yiddish (e.g. Chava Rosenfarb)? • What idiosyncrasies characterize the self-translation process when writers work with three or more languages, as in the case of Lisa Carducci (English-French-Italian-Spanish), Laià Fabregas (Catalan-Dutch-Spanish) or Monika Zgustovà (Catalan-Czech-Spanish)? • How can self-translation be mapped out in geopolitical regions or sociocultural spaces whose self-translation practices remain un(der)studied, such as Guatemala, India, Japan, and New Zealand? • How is the decision to self-translate shaped by linguistic and cultural minority settings, such as in Ireland (e.g. Doireann Ní Ghríofa), within the Francophonie like the Occitanie (e.g. Aurélia Lassaque) or Saint Boniface (e.g. J.R. Léveillé), or in indigenous communities in regions like Guatemala (e.g. Humberto Ak’abal), Canada (e.g. Joséphine Bacon), or Paraguay (e.g. Susi Delgado)? • How does the question of audience affect approaches to self-translating children’s literature, such as in works by Tomson Highway or Lene Kaaberbøl? • What can graphic novels, like those by Geneviève Castrée, Apostolos Doxiadis, or Nora Krug, tell us about intersemiotic self-translation and collaborative forms of self-translation? • How might the notion of the authorial self be complicated by the creative process involved in the self-translation of plays, as in those by Rudi Bekaert, Nilo Cruz, or Gilles Poulin-Denis?

Informal queries are welcome, and contributors are asked to submit an abstract by October 30, 2022. Please direct queries to Eva Gentes (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Trish Van Bolderen (independent scholar, Ireland).

Articles should be 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, and the deadline for their submission is April 15, 2023. Acceptance of the final versions of articles is subject to double-anonymous peer review. Please send articles as email attachments to Eva Gentes (eva.gentes@gmail.com) and Trish Van Bolderen (trishvanbolderen@gmail.com).

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The Call for Papers for issue 1 has been closed. We invite you to come back and read the results early 2023. This issue will be made freely available and is titled:
Literary Multilingualism Studies: Key Questions and Debates

Call for proposals
Forum: Reflections and Debates in Literary Multilingualism Studies

Every issue of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism contains a forum devoted to ongoing debates regarding literary multilingualism studies. Forum contributions are shorter, more accessible pieces of around 1000-2000 words that continue to reflect on the state of the field and on recent research in literary multilingualism. Contributions may take a range of forms, such as position papers, dialogues between scholars, roundtable discussions, responses to articles within the Journal of Literary Multilingualism, and responses to recent multilingualism conferences or events. We are also open to other possible formats. We particularly welcome perspectives on marginalised or neglected aspects of literary multilingualism, critiques of the field, and reflections on its future.

We welcome proposals and ideas for Forum contributions. If you would like to propose an entry to the forum, please contact the forum editors Juliette Taylor-Batty and to discuss your initial ideas