Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.

Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.

We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.

We invite interdisciplinary submissions anchored in literary and cultural studies addressing questions related (but not limited) to: 

• representations of Canada and Canadian identities in literature and culture
• Anglophone and Francophone cultural narratives of Canada
• national, regional, and transnational perspectives on Canadian identity
• Canada in global cultural imaginaries
• Indigenous representations and perspectives in Canadian cultural production
• migration, diaspora, and multiculturalism in Canadian literature and media
• historical and contemporary cultural narratives about Canada
• visual, cinematic, and media representations of Canada and Canadians
• memory, space, landscape, and environment in Canadian cultural texts
• negotiations of identity, belonging, and nationhood in Canadian contexts

About the journal 

The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (University of Debrecen, Hungary) is published by Sciendo. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journal. No contributor’s fee will be charged.  

About the editor 

Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the North American Department of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen. The title of her dissertation as well as the topic of her upcoming monograph is Mothers in the Wake of Slavery: The Im/possibility of Motherhood in Post-1980 African American Women’s Prose. Her research on North American representations of embodiment, motherhood, and womanhood has been published in journals such as Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (2022), Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2023), and Canadian Literature (2023). She has contributed chapters to edited collections such as Critical Insights: The Color Purple (Salem Press, 2022), Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh UP, 2023), Normative Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2023), and Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st-Century Black British and American Women’s Fiction (Peter Lang, 2024).    

Submission guidelines 

Submit a structured abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the main arguments and theoretical background of the paper, and a brief bio (up to 150 words) containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address by May 12, 2026. Submissions should be sent to Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka (lenartmuszkazs@arts.unideb.hu).

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 20 May, 2026. Completed papers (5000-7000 words, conforming to MLA in terms of format and citation style) are due by 1 September, 2026. All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Please note that acceptance will depend on the strength and fit of the final piece. Publication of the issue is expected in 2027.