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  • Call for Papers. Archival Poetics: Fragmentation, Organization, Multimodality (Issue 17, 2027)

    2025-10-28

    Call for Papers

    Archival Poetics: Fragmentation, Organization, Multimodality

     Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (Issue 17, 2027)

    University of Lodz, Poland

    Co-editors of the issue: Wojciech Drąg, PhD (University of Wrocław), Elin Ivansson, PhD (Sheffield Hallam University)

    Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • the use of documents and photographs in literary works,
    • the link between archives and multimodality,
    • the function of archives in digital/electronic literature,
    • conceptual writing and documental poetry,
    • ontological hoaxes,
    • literary works that follow alphabetical structure (a glossary, an encyclopedia, a bibliography, an index),
    • literary uses of lists, inventories, and catalogues,
    • archival artefacts in graphic novels and comics,
    • postmodernist critiques of the archive (historiographic metafiction),
    • reader-oriented analyses of how archives are perceived,
    • archival poetics as a creative writing practice,
    • the archive and the Anthropocene,
    • the digital versus analogue—archive and database aesthetics.

     

    An abstract [300-500 words] should be submitted as an email attachment to: wojciech.drag@uwr.edu.pl , elin.ivansson@mail.com, and text.matters@uni.lodz.pl.

    In your email, please include your name, affiliation, email address, the title of the proposal, abstract, 5 keywords, and a brief bio note.

     

    Important deadlines:

    Deadline for submission of the abstract: 31 January 2026

    Deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: 7 March 2026

    Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 6000 words): 7 September 2026

    Deadline for peer review and final acceptance/rejection of articles: 1 December 2026

    Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: 1 February 2027

     

     

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  • Text Matters No. 15 CFP: "Language Traffic in the City: Translating Urban Space"

    2023-11-04

    Call for Papers

    Language Traffic in the City: Translating Urban Space

    Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

    (Issue 15, 2025)

    University of Lodz, Poland

     

    Co-Editors of the issue:

    Prof. Sherry Simon, PhD

    Dr. Krzysztof Majer

     

    Submissions:

    An abstract in English (max. 250 words) should be submitted as an email attachment to the issue editors:

    Sherry.Simon@concordia.ca and krzysztof.majer@uni.lodz.pl

    In your email, please include your name, affiliation, email address, title of the proposal, abstract, five keywords and a brief bio.

    Important deadlines:

    Deadline for submission of article proposals (max. 250 words): 31 January 2024

    Deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: 28 February 2024

    Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 6000 words): 1 October 2024

    Deadline for peer review and final acceptance/rejection of articles: 1 December 2024

    Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: 1 February 2025

    More details here: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/Current_CFP

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  • Text Matters No. 14 CFP: "Dwelling and Belonging: Reimaginings and Redescriptions"

    2022-08-30

    Call for Papers

    Dwelling and Belonging: Reimaginings and Redescriptions

    Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

    (Issue 14, 2024)

    University of Lodz, Poland

     

    Co-Editors of the issue:

    Prof. Ramsey Eric Ramsey, PhD

    Dr hab. Małgorzata Hołda

     

    Important deadlines:

    Deadline for submission of article proposals (max. 250 words): January 31, 2023

    Deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: February 28, 2023

    Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 6000 words): October 1, 2023

    Deadline for peer review and final acceptance/rejection of articles: December 1, 2023

    Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: February 1, 2024

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  • Text Matters No. 13 CFP extended

    2022-02-12

    At the Dusk of Literature?––literary extremities.

    Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

     (Issue 13, 2023)

    University of Lodz, Poland

    Co-Editors of the issue: Dr. Małgorzata Myk and Mark Tardi, MFA

    Important new deadlines:

    New deadline for submission of article proposals (max. 300 words): April 30, 2022

    New deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: May  31, 2022

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  • The passing of Professor Dorota Filipczak, Editor-in-Chief

    2021-01-11

    We, the editorial team of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, regret to announce that Professor Dorota Filipczak, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, has passed away. She was recognised for her work on Canadian literature, postcolonial literature, and feminist philosophy of religion. She was a noted poet, and published seven volumes of poetry. She was also a translator of literature into Polish. We will seek to continue her legacy, and do our best to ensure the ongoing development of the journal which she founded ten years ago, and which was a key part of her academic work. She will never be forgotten.

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  • Text Matters – Issue 12: CALL FOR PAPERS

    2020-11-16

    Text Matters – Issue 12

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

     

    Ecology as Modernity’s New Horizon:

    Narratives of Progress, Regression and Apocalypse in the Anthropocene

     

     

    Editors: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet & Christian Arnsperger

    University of Lausanne, Switzerland

    agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch         christian.arnsperger@unil.ch

     

    Deadline for submission of article proposal (max. 300 words): January 15, 2021

    Deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: February 15, 2021

    Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 5500 words) : October 1, 2021

    Deadline for peer review and final acceptance/rejection of articles: December 1, 2021

    Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: February 1, 2022

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