How to Submit an Essay to Pacific Coast Philology
Pacific Coast Philology publishes peer-reviewed essays of interest to scholars in the classical and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.
We are open to papers on a variety of topics. We desire:
- essays written for a broad scholarly audience
- essays with a clear, highly developed main thesis
- essays that contextualize analysis within the relevant theoretical framework
- essays that further the discourse on the topic in an interesting and thought-provoking way
- essays between 4,000 to 8,000 words
Our journal is sent in paper-form to a thousand of PAMLA members and numerous university libraries a year, as well as virtually through Project Muse and JSTOR.
Before submitting, please edit carefully with attention to style, grammar, and bibliographical citations using the latest MLA handbook rules.
Please submit essays electronically to General Editors Richard Hishmeh and Martin Japtok. For general questions, you can contact Richard Hishmeh ([email protected]) and Martin Japtok ([email protected]).
When submitting a manuscript to http://www.editorialmanager.com/pcp you will first need to create an author profile. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article for submission to the editorial office.
Special Issue Call
Call for Submissions to “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian”: Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology
For this special issue, we seek essays that engage the theme of “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian.” Particularly fascinating might be explorations of the extraordinary, the exemplary, the “out of this world” sorts of places, real and figurative: the spaces of the fantastic and the bizarre. Anything pertaining to the surreal city of Los Angeles would be encouraged. The lived and experienced environments of the banal might spark equally fertile archaeologies of the everyday. Paper proposals of particular interest include explorations of all varieties of heterotopologies; explorations of fictional domains; Borgesian labyrinths; road narratives; enclaves of digital introspection or connection; theme parks; elision, caesura, and other grammatological openings; migration/border crossings; psychedelic “trips” of all sorts; native practices of tending the land; mirrors and projections; choreography and dance; exteriority/interiority; the politics or rhetorics of dispossession; theatrical staging; embodiment and disembodiment; panopticism; the family and/or spaces of domesticity; museums and archives; homelessness and houselessness; communities and cliques; as well as both paroxysmal places and quiet passages.
Please contact Special Issue Editor Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod at [email protected] if you have questions.
Essay proposals should include the following, and should be emailed to Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod at [email protected] by June 5, 2024: cover page with author’s name, affiliation, and a brief biography, plus the title of the essay; also a 4,000 to 7,000 word separate document with a brief abstract, a list of four to seven keywords, and the proposed paper, following the guidelines of the MLA Style Manual, 9th edition. Important: Please include Geographies of the Fantastic and Quotidian Special Issue Proposal in your email subject line to ensure prompt processing.
Call for Submissions to “Shifting Perspectives”: Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology
For this special issue, we seek essays that engage the theme of “Shifting Perspectives.” Interested authors are encouraged to consider how we might apply perspective shifts to our respective fields of study to shine a light on new approaches, thereby engaging in the critical and theoretical processes of shifting our own views and exploring the results. Possible topics might include shifting academia, double-consciousness, hybridity and society, disciplinary divisions, neurodivergence, Borges, and other topics that highlight noteworthy perspective shifts.
Please contact Special Issue Editor Yolanda A. Doub at [email protected] if you have questions.
Essay proposals should include the following, and should be emailed to Yolanda A. Doub at [email protected] by July 1, 2024: cover page with author’s name, affiliation, and a brief biography, plus the title of the essay; also a 4,500 to 7,000 word separate document with a brief abstract, a list of four to seven keywords, and the proposed paper, following the guidelines of the MLA Style Manual, 9th edition. Important: Please include Shifting Perspectives Special Issue Proposal in your email subject line to ensure prompt processing.
Requesting a Book Review from Pacific Coast Philology
Only PAMLA members’ works from the last three years are accepted for review. If you have recently published a book that you would like to have the journal review, please contact PCP Book Review Editor Lina Geriguis ([email protected]) with your publication details.
Reviewers are enlisted from among scholars of note in the book’s area of expertise and may or may not be PAMLA members.