A Journal of Anglo-American Studies
Op. Cit. offers a selection of high-quality research articles in Literatures in English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, as well as in more recent but well-established areas such as Discourse Studies, Translation Studies and Performance Studies, from a multidisciplinary point of view. It aims at providing a solid academic forum for debate of various fields and disciplines in an ever-changing scholarly arena.
All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed.
Twelve volumes of Op. Cit. were print editions, but the Journal became an online publication in 2012, free of charge, in accordance with the policy of Open Access to scholarly production to which APEAA proudly commits itself. The Journal opens a Call for Papers every year and accepts proposals in English and Portuguese from various disciplinary perspectives and research angles, as listed below.
1. We accept original specialised articles in the following fields:
- Literatures in English in both contemporary and historical perspectives;
- Literary Theory;
- Cultural Studies, including Film and Media Studies;
- Art and performance
- Linguistics, including theoretical, empirical, historical and applied;
- Sociolinguistics;
- Multimodal Discourse Analysis.
2. We also welcome interdisciplinary approaches, such as:
- Literature and art; literature and film; literature and the media;
- Linguistics and literature;
- Literature, language and gender theories; gender and literature.
3. We also accept submissions in the form of book reviews, review-articles, notes on academic journals or electronic pages.