Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST): 2026 Fall Issue: Science Fiction and the American Imagination.
Deadline for full-text submissions: 15 July 2026.
Edited by: Dr. Firuze Güzel
Publication presentation
The guest editor of this themed issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey seeks original, previously unpublished manuscripts that examine science fiction novels, short stories, collections, films, TV series, as well as games, comics, and graphic novels, within the American context. Aside from the keywords given below, interdisciplinary and comparative studies of SF literature and media alongside analyses by sub-genre, era, or author are also welcome to be included in this issue.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical and Critical Discussions of the SF Genre
- Posthumanist, Transhumanist, Metahumanist, and Antihumanist Discourses
- Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interactions
- Techno-Scientific Dystopias/Utopias
- Gender and Body Politics
- Representations of Race and Ethnicity
- Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurisms, and Latinx Futurism
- Constructions of Religion and Belief Systems
- Philosophical Dimensions / Thought Experiments
- Moral and Ethical Quandaries
- Envisioning the Other: Robots, Aliens, Monsters, etc.
- Ideology, Politics, and Governmental Control
- Postapocalyptic Narrations and Precarity
- Cyberpunk and Its Offshoots
- Space Opera, Space as Frontier, and Space Colonization
- Climate Fiction and Environmental Concerns
- Space, Architecture, and Urbanism
- History as Future / Future as Present
Contact details
Correspondence should be directed to: Dr. Firuze Güzel, Guest Editor
firuzeguzel@yahoo.com iruze.guzel@ege.edu.tr
For general questions or problems about JAST, please contact Dr. Nisa Harika Güzel Köşker, Editor-in-Chief nkosker@ankara.edu.tr
(Posted 22 January 2026)