General Call for Papers

Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers the study of African American/Вlack, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and other women of color, genders, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. It welcomes a range of comparative and transnational research as well as analyses of domestic social, cultural, political, and economic policies and practices from new
and established authors.

Topics and subject areas of interest include but are not limited to:

intersectionality and identities gender and sexuality
family dynamics and structures health and well-being
education access and outcomes socioeconomic disparities
incarceration and justice activism, social change, and social movements
media representations and film studies historical studies
literary and cultural studies childhood, adolescence, and aging

Submission Deadline: Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and are peer-reviewed by experts in the field. Every effort is made to provide rapid peer review and prompt editorial decisions.

General information and manuscript submission. Please visit
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id=wgfc.

Editorial Staff
Jennifer Hamer, Co-Editor, jenniferhamer@psu.edu
Ayesha Hardison, Co-Editor, hardison@ku.edu
Suleyman Bolukbas, Assistant Editor, sfb5885@psu.edu

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Global Queer Gothic

Women, Gender, and Families of Color

Women, Gender, and Families of Color is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to exploring the intersections of Global Queer Gothic. This special issue aims to explore gothic aesthetics from global perspectives, and Gothic’s global travel to depict and present construction and representation of queer identities. We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute original research that examines the fusion of queer narratives within gothic frameworks across diverse global contexts.

Submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Queer Representations in Global Gothic Literature, Film, and Media
Intersectional Identities: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Queer Gothic
Haunting Histories: Reimagining the Past through a Queer Gothic Lens
Communal traumas, national and geographical anxieties in Global Queer Gothic
Global Queer Gothic and Transnationalism
Queer Gothic and Postcolonialism/Decolonial Perspectives
Gender Fluidity and Queer Monstrosity in Global Gothic Narratives
Theoretical Explorations of Queer Gothic in Global Cultural Contexts
Global migration of vampires, witches, werewolves, and zombies
Afro-futurism and Black, Latinx, Caribbean, Global Anglophone Gothic
Middle Eastern Gothics and queer representations: Exploring Cultural Specificity

You may visit for general information about the journal, review submission guidelines and submit completed manuscripts, due by March 15, 2024. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id=wgfc.

Editorial Staff
Jennifer Hamer, Co-Editor, jenniferhamer@psu.edu
Ayesha Hardison, Co-Editor, hardison@ku.edu
Suleyman Bolukbas, Assistant Editor, sfb5885@psu.ed