How to Submit

EJES has moved to online submissions for contributions to special issue topics as well as book reviews at the Taylor & Francis EJES website . No unsolicited manuscripts for essays are accepted.

Current Call for Papers

Volume 30 (to be published in 2026)

Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming. Guest editors: Mark Hutchings (University of Salamanca), Susana Oliveira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), and Veronika Schandl (Pázmány Péter Catholic University).

Accessing Shakespearean Drama through (Re)translation and Audiovisual Adaptation in the 21st Century. Guest editors: Judit Mudriczki (Károli Gáspár University, Hungary) and Irene Ranzato (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).

Topics

The general editors encourage proposals for special issue topics that span divides between critical and cultural theory, literary analysis, and linguistics as well as gender and sexuality studies. Ideally, these topics will also reflect on English and Anglophone Studies within Europe. Guest editing teams should be comprised of two or three persons working in different localities within Europe who have significant editing experience. In some cases, EJES will publish volumes that result out of conferences. These proposals can be considered if the resulting CFP is opened up to scholars who did not participate in the original conference. Suggestions for topics can be made to the editors at any time. A selection of new topics is made at the end of each calendar year.

Procedure

  1. Potential guest editors submit a Call for Papers of 300 to 500 words for their topic to the general editors. This includes a list of leading questions. See the current CFPs or the example here for a suggested form. Brief bios of the guest editors should be included that demonstrate their editing experience.
  2. The general editors select new topics for the issues at the end of each calendar year. The chosen CFPs are edited to cohere with EJES’s aims.
  3. During the following calendar year, the resulting CFPs are distributed widely, and potential submissions are collected by the end of November of that year and are reviewed by the guest and general editors.
  4. Selected authors are then invited to submit full-length essays of between 6,000 and 8,000 words. These essays are peer-reviewed and appear in the EJES issues that are published in the following year. 

Calls for Papers

EJES operates a two-stage review process.

  1. Contributors are invited to submit detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) for essays on the open CFP as well as a short biography (max. 100 words) to the guest editors by 30 November. Please consult the open call.
  2. Following review of the essay proposals by the editorial panel, selected authors are invited to submit full-length essays (between 6,000 and 8,000 words) for review with a spring deadline in May or June.
  3. Full-length essays undergo a second round of review, and a final selection is made. Suggestions for revisions are made to the selected authors, and they resubmit their essays during the same year.

EJES employs Chicago Style (T&F Chicago AD ) and British English conventions for spelling. See a recent example essay .

Volume 30 (to be published in 2026)

 “Medical Objects in Illness Narratives”

Guest editors: Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia), Cristina Hurtado-Botella (University of Murcia), Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (University of the Arts London)

This special issue will explore the depiction of medical objects (speculum, needles, scan machines, surgical instruments, wheelchairs, ventilators, hospital beds, etc.) in pathographies, that is illness narratives from patients’ perspectives. We will consider both life writing and fictional pathographies in this investigation, and will seek to include essays on literature, art and film. The special issue’s main aim will be to investigate the ways in which encounters with medical objects disrupt the narrative, and how they become a useful focal point through which authors negotiate issues such as the self as a subject and/or object, embodied experience in unfamiliar medical environments, or the patient’s confrontation with new technologies. 

We anticipate three major areas of interest within this overarching focus. The first of these is the encounter narrative, in which patients are confronted by, build relationships with, incorporate, or otherwise portray medical objects in their stories. The second will emphasize object theory, looking at the objectification of the patient’s body, as the process of illness and treatment moves it from the category of subject to being a part of the hospital apparatus. The third strand will focus on the disruption of narrative caused by medical objects, thinking through a narratological lens.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • The affective potential of encounters with medical objects 
  • Re-imagined/re-purposed medical objects (e.g. as artefacts)
  • What is gained/lost in the encounter with medical objects
  • The patient’s body as a medical object 
  • Re-imagining the relationship of the doctor to the medical object 
  • Medical objects and femininity/masculinity
  • Medical objects in the European context vs in other environments
  • The historical circumstances medical objects invoke and how they are negotiated/challenged (e.g. the medical object as a symbol of colonialism in (post)colonial spaces)
  • The medical object as a symbol of knowledge/power
  • Material encounters with medical objects focusing on physical contact 
  • Analysis of patients’ attachments or sense of dependency on medical objects 
  • Medical objects as symbols of transience  
  • How futuristic medical objects are imagined in science fiction or narratives focused on AI

Detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) for full essays (7,500 words), as well as a short biography (max.100 words) should be sent to all of the editors by 30 November 2024: 

Polina Mackay: mackay.p@unic.ac.cy; Cristina Hurtado-Botella: cristina.hurtado1@um.es; Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley: b.whalley@arts.ac.uk

EJES operates in a two-stage review process.

  1. Contributors are invited to submit proposals for essays on the topic in question by 30 November 2024.
  2. Following review of the proposals by the editorial board panel, the guest editors invite the authors of short-listed proposals to submit full-length essays for review along with a list of four potential peer reviewers by the late spring of 2025. 
  3. The full-length essays undergo a second round of review, and a final selection for publication is made. Selected essays are revised and then resubmitted to the guest editors in late 2025 for publication in 2026.

EJES employs Chicago Style (T&F Chicago AD ) and British English conventions for spelling. See a recent example essay .

Book Reviews

Inquiries with regard to book reviews can be sent to Nina Engelhardt (nina.engelhardt@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de). Please note that in principle EJES does not consider unsolicited book reviews.