Anglica Wratislaviensia: 65.2 / 2027 General Issue.
Extended deadline for contributions: 20 April 2027.
Edited by: Marcin Tereszewski
Publication presentation
We invite submissions to Anglica Wratislaviensia (65.2/2027), a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Wrocław. This is an open, general issue welcoming contributions across Anglophone literary and cultural studies. We are particularly interested in comparative and methodologically innovative work that engages diverse critical traditions.
Essays should be 5,000–6,000 words, with an abstract of up to 200 words and 4–8 keywords. All submissions undergo blind peer review (turnaround approx. one month). The journal is indexed in MLA, EBSCO, ERIH Plus, ProQuest, and others.
Submit at 
wuwr.pl/awr 
or send initial queries to 
marcin.tereszewski@uwr.edu.pl.
Timeline (of the publication process)
- Extended deadline: 20 April 2027
- Publication: early December
Website address
https://czasopisma.uwr.edu.pl/awr
Contact details
(Posted 11 June 2026. Updated 9 July 2026)
ELOPE. Vol. 24 No.2 (2027) Graphic Fiction in English Studies.
Deadline for contributions: 30 June 2027.
Edited by: Tomaž Onič and Michelle Gadpaille
Publication presentation
Graphic Novels are the new normal, not only in young adult fiction. Among alternative media, graphic novels (or graphic short fiction) offer a way to reach reluctant readers as well as younger readers in general.
Graphic fiction can be researched from all core disciplines of English Studies. In linguistics, graphic narratives can be seen as multimodal visual–verbal interaction with innovative use of dialogue, typography, and register. As literary texts, they challenge traditional genres, canon, and approaches while blossoming in literary movements such as modernism and postmodernism. From the perspective of translation studies, graphic novels raise both similar and different issues to those of verbal texts, since apart from working with linguistic means, there are also visual ones. Finally, in English didactics, graphic fiction is an effective pedagogical resource that supports literary interpretation, visual literacy, inclusive teaching practices, and learner engagement across educational levels. This special issue aims to bring these perspectives into dialogue, highlighting the graphic novel’s growing significance within contemporary English Studies.
Contributions are invited within these topics (and broader):
- terminology—adapting, updating and/or translating accurate terminology for visual text analysis
- stylistics/semiotics for graphic novels
- diversity and inclusion in graphic fiction
- pedagogical approaches to graphic fiction
- graphic modernism, postmodernism, posthumanism
- graphic memoir, life-writing, biography, autobiography
- narratological issues in graphic fiction
- technical issues—line, colour, font, panel grid
- translations of graphic novels
Timeline (of the publication process)
- deadline for contributions: 30 June 2027,
- publication date: December 2027
Website address
https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope
Contact details
The contributions should follow the guidelines available here, and should be submitted via the ELOPE platform. Any technical inquiries can be sent to Andrej Stopar (andrej.stopar@ff.uni-lj.si).
Submitted articles must contain up-to-date scholarship, be free from AI-generated content, and conform to ELOPE’s publishing guidelines. The language of contributions is English. Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, with an abstract of fewer than 150 words. Since the topic invites more visual material than usual, we kindly remind the authors that, should they choose to include images in their submissions, they are responsible for obtaining any necessary copyright permissions and ensuring that all visual material may be legally reproduced.
(Posted 3 September 2026)