The Journal

SIS_journal_66Italian Studies was founded in 1937 as the annual journal of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), and has established itself nationally and internationally as one of the leading journals in the discipline. The journal has contributed to the development and broadening of Italian Studies as a field of enquiry within the Arts and Humanities, and has itself expanded in 2005 to two issues, in 2010 to three issues, and in 2015 to four issues per year. The editors welcome original scholarly and critical work, in English or Italian, on Italy’s literary culture, and also work on Italy from a range of other disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, including history, politics, linguistics, art history, film, gender and cultural studies. Articles which adopt a comparative or global perspective on Italy are encouraged alongside those whose focus is exclusively the Italian peninsula and islands. Each issue includes a reviews section, and usually a review article, which encompass a similarly broad spectrum of the most recent Italian-related publications. Interviews with scholars, writers and creative practitioners are often featured.

The first (February) and second (May) issues of the journal each year are the general issues, including articles of critical enquiry into Italian literature, film, art, history, language, and critical theory from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. The third (August) is normally a themed issue, and may appear as a guest-edited Special Issue, where a suitably developed topic and body of material have been proposed. The fourth (November) is the Cultural Studies issue, dedicated to articles addressing aspects of Italian culture, again from medieval times to the present day, using materials and modes of enquiry which extend the methodological scope of the discipline.

All submissions to Italian Studies are submitted to a process of rigorous peer review by members of the Editorial Board of the journal and external subject experts. This process normally takes ten to twelve weeks. Both individual article submissions and proposals for Special Issues should be addressed to one of the Senior Editors of the journal, whose respective responsibilities are:

• Clodagh Brook (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): brookc@tcd.ie (Cultural Studies submissions)

• Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork): daragh.oconnell@ucc.ie (pre-1700 submissions)

• Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh): f.pedriali@ed.ac.uk (post-1700 submissions)

• Marina Spunta (University of Leicester): m.spunta@le.ac.uk (post-1700 submissions)

The Journal also contains a reviews section. Authors and publishers who would like volumes to be considered for review should contact the Reviews Editors, by either using the following email address [bookreviewsItalianStudies@gmail.com] or by sending a paper copy of the book to the following postal addresses:

FOR ALL PRE-1700 WORKS: Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė (University College Cork). Items for review should be ideally sent in digital format to the Reviews Editor’s address (ak914@cam.ac.uk). Alternatively, they can be posted to the Reviews Editor at the following address: Radvilenu pl. 5-31, Kaunas 50264, Lithuania

FOR POST-1700 WORKS: Eloisa Morra (University of Toronto). Items for review should be ideally sent in digital format to the Reviews Editor’s address (eloisa.morra@utoronto.ca). Alternatively, they can be posted to the Reviews Editor at the following address: Department of Italian Studies, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J4, Room 218.

FOR CULTURAL STUDIES WORKS: Roberto Binetti (Università di Padova). Items for review should be ideally sent in digital format to the Reviews Editor’s address (roberto.binetti@unipd.it). Alternatively, they can be posted to the Reviews Editor at the following address: Via E. Vendramini 13, 35137, Padova, Italy.

For all further information on the journal, please see the Italian Studies section of the Taylor and Francis website, which includes links to:

  • Subscription information
  • Current and back issues, 1937-present
  • Full list of members of the Editorial Board
  • Instructions to authors.