Aims & Scope
Aims and Scope
Literary Studies (e-ISSN: 3062-1690) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that hosts leading international research in literary studies. The journal publishes in accordance with the fundamental objectives outlined below and prioritizes original academic work aimed particularly at graduate-level, postdoctoral, and professional researchers:
- To support original research that examines the aesthetic, narrative, and cultural diversity of world literatures through historical, theoretical, and critical perspectives, and to maintain scholarly contributions focused on the universal dynamics of literature on the academic agenda.
- To bring current debates on contemporary literary theory, critical methodologies, and literary historiography to the international academic platform, establishing a critical, dynamic, and productive dialogue with these theoretical approaches.
- To provide a platform for comparative and international studies that trace the historical and contemporary transformations of literary production, narrative forms, representational strategies, and reader reception practices across different national and regional literatures; to develop an interdisciplinary perspective on the global diversity and local specificities of literature.
- To encourage the use of innovative methodologies, digital humanities, and cross-cultural approaches in literary research, thereby expanding the intellectual boundaries of the field.
In accordance with the above fundamental objectives, Literary Studies encourages the following types of scholarship:
- Historical, structural, narratological, and hermeneutic studies on novels, short stories, poetry, theater, and other literary genres
- Interpretive and critical articles contributing to current academic debates on literary theory, critical methodologies, and literary historiography
- Transnational and cross-cultural analyses within the framework of comparative literature, world literature, translation studies, and postcolonial literary debates
- Interdisciplinary research examining the intersections of literature with fields such as philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, cinema, visual arts, and cultural studies; interrogating the relationships literature establishes with these fields on aesthetic, cultural, social, or historical levels
- Innovative approaches to literature in the context of digital humanities, corpus studies, and new media
- Critical studies examining the reflections of issues such as gender, identity, memory, representation, and ideology in literary texts
Literary Studies accepts original research articles, review essays, and book reviews in English and Turkish. The journal maintains high scholarly standards and follows a publication policy that complies with the quality criteria established by international indexes.