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  • Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2025 

    2026-05-15

    Dear Readers, 

    We are proud to announce that, thanks to the commitment of our Authors, Reviewers, and Readers, the journal Text Matters has once again been classified in the first quartile (Q1) of the prestigious Scimago Journal & Country Rank in the category of Arts and Humanities: Literature and Literary Theory. The journal recorded a higher SJR indicator than last year (an increase from 0.107 to 0.128). The new ranking confirms our journal's steadily growing influence on the discipline. 

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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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