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Book Review Commissions for Visual Studies Journal

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Posted by: Visual Studies for International Visual Sociology Association
Deadline: Sun, December 31st, 2023

 

The Visual Studies Editorial Board invites book review submissions on an ongoing basis. Please see the details below regarding the two types of reviews we publish, and feel free to circulate this list among your suitably qualified colleagues and doctoral students.

Traditional Reviews:

Individual book review lengths (aprox. 750 words) will be assigned when a reviewer is accepted for an assignment. 

Thematic Reviews:

The word limit would be 2,500-3,000. Like all reviews, the format varies, however, the expectation with a longer, thematic submission is that the author situates their knowledge and expertise at the center of the submission and weaves an authoritative narrative between the texts, often around/in reference to their work and ideas, while also remembering that it is a review and highlighting key aspects and themes or similarities. We are open to you including materials such as art exhibitions and films to enrich the submission. 

Some examples of what this could be:

Review of multiple academic texts that deeply engage with a common artwork or key event

Review of recent texts that bring new perspectives to and are deeply influenced by less recent seminal texts

Reviews of reissued or newly translated texts, offering a deep contextualization of their significance to the discipline.

 

To Submit

Please send proposals, including the information below, to Kate Korroch at  kkorroch@ucsc.edu:

- name and affiliation;

- your best book-mailing address and e-book emailing address;

- your preferred book format (e-book or hardcopy);

- the book(s) you wish to review in order of preference;

- 2-3 sentences describing your qualifications and/or reasons for wanting to review the selected title (e.g. your previous scholarship, current interests, publications and the like). 

Here is a list of books but we are also open to publishing reviews of texts that are not on this list. 

Best wishes,
Kate Korroch

Co-Editor, Visual Studies 

 

Posted on Tue, January 17th, 2023
Expires on Sun, December 31st, 2023

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