The
Journal of World Literature (JWL) aspires to bring together scholars interested in developing the concept of World Literature, and to provide the most suitable environment for contributions from all the world’s literary traditions. It creates a forum for re-visiting global literary heritages, discovering valuable works that have been undeservedly ignored, and introducing aspects of the transnational global dissemination of literature, with translation as a focus. The journal welcomes submissions that can concurrently imagine any literary tradition, in any language, moving beyond national frames to simultaneously discuss and develop the cosmopolitan threads of a variety of literary traditions. It also welcomes contributions from scholars of different research backgrounds working collaboratively as well as from group research projects interested in showcasing their findings, in order to meet the challenge of a wider and deeper discussion of literature’s networks.
The editorial board of the
JWL has begun accepting submissions for open-call issues.
The introductions of the issues of the first two years are available Open Access to familiarize yourself with JWL and its applied scope.
Editors-in-Chief David Damrosch,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA Theo D’haen,
University of Leuven, Belgium Ronit Ricci,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Zhang Longxi,
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Editorial Board Michael Allan,
University of Oregon, Oregon, USA Omid Azadibougar,
Hunan Normal University, China Helena Buescu,
University of Lisbon, Portugal Jérôme David,
University of Geneva, Switzerland Wiebke Denecke,
Boston University, Massachusetts, USA César Domínguez,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Amal Eqeiq,
Williams College, Massachusetts, USA Satoru Hashimoto,
University of Maryland, Maryland, USA May Hawas,
The American University in Cairo, Egypt Stefan Helgesson,
Stockholm University, Sweden Kader Konuk,
Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Haiyan Lee,
Stanford University, California, USA Pieter Vermeulen,
University of Leuven, Belgium Amy Motlagh,
American University in Cairo, Egypt Laetitia Nanquette,
University of New South Wales, Australia Marta Pacheco Pinto,
University of Lisbon, Portugal Jale Parla,
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,
Aarhus University, Denmark Franca Sinopoli,
University of Rome I, La Sapienza, Italy Bhavya Tiwari,
University of Houston, Texas, USA Adam Talib,
Durham University, UK Karen Thornber,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA Delia Ungureanu,
University of Bucharest, Romania
International Advisory Board Elleke Boehmer,
University of Oxford, UK Hélène Buzelin,
University of Montréal, Canada Andrew Chesterman,
University of Helsinki, Finland Ferial Ghazoul,
American University in Cairo, Egypt Assaad Khairallah,
American University in Beirut, Lebanon Sheldon Pollock,
Columbia University, NY, USA Bruce Robbins,
Columbia University, NY, USA Haun Saussy,
University of Chicago, Illinois, USA Ken Seigneurie,
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Every one interested in literature and literary studies, literary criticism, world literature, comparative literature, translation, fiction, poetry