Special Issues
Overview
Forum for Modern Language Studies produces two regular issues plus two special issues per annum. These special issues address topical themes and debates across the journal's portfolio of languages, literatures and cultures.
Guest Editors for each special issue are normally approached by the General Editors, but we are open to proposals from suitably qualified scholars wishing to propose future special issues. Potential Editors should contact the Editor at the address below:
Professor Lorna Milne
Department of French
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9AL
Forthcoming Special Issues
The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode (October 2008)
Global Francophone Africa (2009)
Submissions for the following special issues are invited. Click on the special issue titles to download a PDF with instructions on submitting your work.
Perspectives on Africa (2009)
Shakespeare and... (2010)
Evaluating Dance: Discursive Parameters (2010)
Backlist of the Special Issues: 1994 - 2007
Click on the title of the special issue to see the table of contents.
Oct 2007: Stagecraft and Witchcraft edited by Amy Wygant
Apr 2007: New Paradigms of Influence and Intertextuality edited by Susan Bassnett
Oct 2006: Conjectural Histories from the Renaissance to Romaniticism edited by Tom Jones
Apr 2006: The Writer and Responsibility edited by Ian Maclachlan
Oct 2005: Autothanatographies edited by Susan Bainbrigge
Jul 2005: 40th Anniversary Issue
Apr 2005: Literary Reflections of Modern War edited by Nicholas Martin
Oct 2004: Caribbean Connections edited by by Lorna Milne
Apr 2004: Rethinking The United States South edited by Jon Smith
Oct 2003: Aspects of Linguistic Change edited by R. Anthony Lodge
Apr 2003: Anglo-American and Irish Expatriate Communities in Italy edited by Alison Chapman & Jane Stabler
Oct 2002: Scottish Texts - European Contexts edited by Ian Johnson and Nicola Royan
Apr 2002: Italian Identities edited by Ronnie Ferguson
Oct 2001: Modern Languages in the US: Reception and Reappraisal, edited by Philip Stewart
Apr 2001: Literature and Technology, edited by Tim Armstrong
Oct 2000: Contacts and Affinities: Russian-Western Literary Relations in the Twentieth Century, edited by Roger John Keys
Jul 2000: Assertive Hispanisms: Tensions and Affirmations in Cultural Identity, edited by Gustavo San Román
Apr 2000: France-Romania: Twentieth Century Cultural Exchanges, edited by Gavin Boyd
Oct 1999: Medieval Translation, edited by Clive R. Sneddon
Jul 1999: Women and the Performance Arts, edited by Nichola Anne Haxell
Apr 1998: Language Teaching and Learning: Current Trends in Higher Education, edited by Sabine Hotho
Jan 1997: Translation by Ian Higgins
Apr 1996: The International Avant-Garde 1905-1924, edited by Peter Reid
Jan 1995: The Film as Text, edited by Bernard P.E. Bentley
Oct 1994: Satire, edited by Phillip Mallett
Placing Orders
Click here for purchasing information. Older special issues may be obtained (subject to availability) through the Periodicals Service Company (PSC), contact details given below.
PSC
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Further information on Special Issues
Pioneering a model that has now been adopted by a number of Humanities publications, FMLS first introduced themed issues in 1985, gradually including one or two per year until the current rhythm of two Special and two General issues per volume was established in 1997. The pattern has since become a distinctive feature of the journal. Each Special Issue is edited by a Guest Editor whose expertise in the chosen field of enquiry determines the overall shape and coherence of the volume.
Articles are commissioned, or selected from the disciplines covered by FMLS and all work is peer-reviewed. In keeping with its ethos of openness to diversity, FMLS ensures that Special Issues now encompass an increasing variety of contemporary scholarly concerns, combining the latest critical innovations with reassessments of canonical texts and ideas. They regularly include minority or marginal material as well as unusual perspectives on traditional topics. Special Issues frequently enhance the chronological breadth and cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural element, complementing the equally wide disciplinary and chronological scope of the General issues.