The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).

The Apollonian publishes work from across the humanities and allied social sciences and is especially interested in scholarship that is conceptually adventurous, theoretically rigorous. The journal values interdisciplinarity not as a flattening of disciplinary differences, but as a productive crossing that generates new critical vocabularies and unexpected intellectual alignments. We encourage proposals that engage with contemporary theoretical debates, rework inherited frameworks, and open new methodological or conceptual directions.

Guest-edited issues are central to the journal’s vision of sustaining an intellectually dynamic and globally engaged scholarly community. They allow us to address urgent themes, experiment with form and method, and cultivate collaborative thinking across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.

Proposals should include the following: 

• A working title for the special issue;

• A detailed abstract or draft CFP outlining the theme, scope, and intellectual stakes of the issue;

• A brief statement on how the issue will embody the journal’s interdisciplinary ethos, indicating how different fields, methods, or forms of inquiry might converge within the volume;

• A provisional outline of potential contributors and essay topics (this is meant to help the editorial board imagine the shape and balance of the issue, not to impose any restriction on open submissions);

• A brief note on how the proposed issue might connect to other academic initiatives such as conference panels, symposia, workshops, reading groups, or collaborative research projects;

• Two-page CVs of the proposed guest editor(s).

All special issues of The Apollonian will be developed through open Calls for Papers, ensuring wide participation and diversity of perspectives. Proposals that demonstrate intellectual originality, theoretical ambition, and a strong sense of how a special issue can serve as a catalyst for future research conversations will be viewed especially favourably.

The first such guest edited issue (containing our other regular sections such as book reviews, personal essays etc edited by our editorial staff) will be due for publication in Nov-Dec, 2026. For guidelines and details about the journal, please visit theapollonian.in.