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Current Volume: 44

Frequency: Quarterly

Social Text is a peer-reviewed journal that covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena, applying the latest interpretive methods to the world at large. A daring and controversial leader in the field of cultural studies, the journal consistently focuses attention on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment, publishing key works by the most influential social and cultural theorists. As a journal at the forefront of cultural theory, Social Text seeks provocative interviews and challenging articles from emerging critical voices. Each issue breaks new ground in the debates about postcolonialism, postmodernism, and popular culture.
 

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Editorial Office:
Social Text
managingeditor.socialtext@gmail.com

Editors for the Social Text Collective:
Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute
Amber Jamilla Musser, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Editor-at-Large:
Tavia Nyong'o, Yale University

Managing Editor:
Marie Buck

Arts Editor:
Susette Min, University of California, Davis

Web Editor:
Anna McCarthy, New York University

Collective:
John Andrews, Vassar College
Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute
Herman Bennett, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Jayna Brown, Brown University
Filipa Calado, Pratt Institute
Paula Chakravartty, New York University
Ed Cohen, Rutgers University
Gabriella Coleman, Harvard University
Aimee Meredith Cox, New York University
Ashley Dawson, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Patrick Deer, New York University
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Columbia University
Ángeles Donoso Macaya, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Ana María Dopico, New York University
Mark Driscoll, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
Allen Feldman, New York University
Michael Boyce Gillespie, New York University
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Princeton University
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Brown University
Sarah Haley, Columbia University
Laura Harris, New York University
Leon Hilton, Brown University
Tariq Jazeel, University College London
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
Eng-Beng Lim, Dartmouth College
Michael Mandiberg, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Anna McCarthy, New York University
Micki McGee, Fordham University
Maya Mikdashi, Rutgers University
Susette Min, University of California at Davis
Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University
Roopali Mukherjee, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amber Jamilla Musser, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Tavia Nyong'o, Yale University
Shireen R. K. Patell, independent scholar
Alex Pittman, Barnard College
Jasbir K. Puar, The University of British Columbia
Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University
Marí­a Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University
David Sartorius, University of Maryland
Ella Shohat, New York University
Lok Siu, University of California at Berkeley
Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College
Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University
Dennis Tyler, Fordham University
Simón Ventura Trujillo, New York University
Hentyle Yapp, University of California at San Diego

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Social Text primarily publishes interdisciplinary scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences, broadly understood. The journal also publishes work that falls outside of conventional academic frameworks (interviews, auto-ethnographies, and experimental work) in the journal’s Denkbild section.

For scholarly articles, the journal employs single-blind peer review by the editorial collective and occasional outside readers; submissions to the Denkbild section are considered by the editorial collective.

If you are interested in editing a special issue of the journal, please send an initial email giving a brief conceptual overview. If there is a potential fit, you’ll be asked to submit a full proposal with a prospectus, abstracts, and author information.

Direct all editorial correspondence to managingeditor.socialtext@gmail.com. Please submit manuscripts electronically in Microsoft Word format as email attachments. Manuscripts must be no longer than 8,000 words and double-spaced, with both numbered endnotes and a reference list. Please follow bibliography plus short note style in The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., chaps. 13–14. If you prefer, you may convert the article’s formatting to fit the style guide later in the process, should the article be accepted.

Please embed any images into the Word document for initial submission. For publication, images must be at 300 DPI at about 6 inches across. Guidelines for permissions and alt-text will be supplied by the managing editor once an article is accepted for publication. 
 

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ISSN: 0164-2472

e-ISSN: 1527-1951