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A biannual international publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double blind peer review system. It publishes transdisciplinary work in English by scholars of any nationality on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography, and related subjects. Contributors need not be members of the American Studies Association of Turkey.
Articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines are particularly welcome, as are comparative studies of American and other cultures. The journal also publishes notes, comments, interviews, personal essays and book reviews.
An international biannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work in English by scholars of any nationality on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects. The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of America and other cultures. The journal also publishes interviews and and book reviews.
Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the American Humanities Index, and the ULAKBIM index. It appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online (see the sidebar), in print, and through the EBSCO database.
All manuscripts should follow MLA Style and be double-spaced (including notes and Works Cited) in Calibri 11 point font. Articles should be approximately 6,000 to 8,000 words in length. Submissions should be sent as a Word attachment to the e-mail addresses below. No material will be considered for publication if it is currently under consideration by another journal or press or if it has been published, or is soon to be published, elsewhere.
The copyright of all material published will be vested in the Journal of American Studies of Turkeyunless otherwise specifically agreed. This copyright covers exclusive rights of publication of printed or electronic media, including the World Wide Web. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material to which they do not own copyright.
Author Guidelines
Submission Guidelines:
The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of articles, interviews, and book reviews for publication in JAST. Articles should be approximately 6000-8000 words in length, and book reviews should not exceed 800 words. Articles should be consistent with the objectives and scope of the journal. All accepted submissions are subject to stylistic editing prior to publication.
Article manuscripts should be submitted as 2 separate documents: the first should be a title page with the submission’s title, subtitle (if any), the author’s name, affiliation, full postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, and acknowledgements (if any). The second, the anonymous manuscript, should be arranged in the following order of presentation: title, an abstract (of approximately 150 words), keywords (4 to 6 words), the main body of the text, endnotes (if any), works cited, and appendices (if any). The text should be organized under appropriate subheadings whenever possible.
The most recent MLA manual style should be strictly observed.
Book reviews should include a brief description of the subjects covered in the book; an evaluation of the book’s strength and weaknesses; and the kind(s) of audience(s) to whom the book might appeal. The heading of the review should include: the book’s title, author(s) or editor(s), publication city, publisher, publication date, and number of pages.
Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word, in Calibri 11-point font, and be double-spaced (including any notes and the works cited).
They can be e-mailed directly to editors Nisa Harika Güzel Köşker (nisahguzel@gmail.com) and Tarik Tansu Yiğit (ttyigit@gmail.com).
In case of technical issues concerning submission, please send a message to the managing director Cem Kılıçarslan (cemkilicarslan@yahoo.com).
JAST - DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT FORM TO BE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR(S)
Ethical Conduct in Publication:
1. All submissions should be original and should contribute in a tangible way to their field(s) of study.
2. Authors who borrow from the works and ideas of others must document the source, in accordance with the latest MLA style, even when paraphrasing. All forms of plagiarism are unacceptable and any violation will result in the automatic rejection of the manuscript.
3. Authors are responsible for obtaining the copyrights for any copyrighted material included in their article.
4. No manuscript will be considered for publication if it is currently under consideration by another journal or press, or if it has been published, or is soon to be published, elsewhere. If the manuscript is accepted, the Editorial Board expects that its appearance in JAST will precede publication of the article, or any significant part thereof, in another work.
5. Authors are required to comply with our double-blind peer review process and all referee/editor evaluations.
6. Referees are expected to judge the work of others fully, fairly, and in an unbiased and informed way. A referee who has a conflict of interest or personal/professional issue with the author, topic, or critical stance of a work so as to be unable to judge its merits without prejudice must decline to serve as a reviewer.
7. A referee should discharge his/her tasks in a timely manner and should decline an invitation to review if s/he cannot meet the deadline. Undue delay in submitting a review or a revised manuscript will prompt editorial action ranging from the reassignment of the manuscript to another reviewer to its outright rejection.
8. Referees are expected to maintain confidentiality throughout the entire peer review process.
For more information on ethical standards, please see: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Research/Surveys-Reports-and-Other-Documents/Staffing-Salaries-and-Other-Professional-Issues/Statement-of-Professional-Ethics/Read-the-Statement-Online
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
1. All submissions should be original and should contribute in a tangible way to their field(s) of study.
2. Authors who borrow from the works and ideas of others must document the source, in accordance with the latest MLA style, even when paraphrasing. All forms of plagiarism are unacceptable and any violation will result in the automatic rejection of the manuscript.
3. Authors are responsible for obtaining the copyrights for any copyrighted material included in their article.
JAST - DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT FORM TO BE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR(S)
4. No manuscript will be considered for publication if it is currently under consideration by another journal or press, or if it has been published, or is soon to be published, elsewhere. If the manuscript is accepted, the Editorial Board expects that its appearance in JAST will precede publication of the article, or any significant part thereof, in another work.
5. Authors are required to comply with our double-blind peer review process and all referee/editor evaluations.
6. Referees are expected to judge the work of others fully, fairly, and in an unbiased and informed way. A referee who has a conflict of interest or personal/professional issue with the author, topic, or critical stance of a work so as to be unable to judge its merits without prejudice must decline to serve as a reviewer.
7. A referee should discharge his/her tasks in a timely manner and should decline an invitation to review if s/he cannot meet the deadline. Undue delay in submitting a review or a revised manuscript will prompt editorial action ranging from the reassignment of the manuscript to another reviewer to its outright rejection.
8. Referees are expected to maintain confidentiality throughout the entire peer review process.
For more information on ethical standards, please see:
Price Policy
JAST does not charge any publication, document handling or referee services fee from the authors for the papers to be published.
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Chris Walsh is Associate Professor of English at Boston University. He was Fulbright Lecturer in the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University in 2023, and also served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Burkina Faso from 2000 to 2002. Walsh’s book Cowardice: A Brief History was published in by Princeton University Press and his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Irish Times, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Yale Review, among other places.
Ann M. Fox is a Professor of English at Davidson College, where she specializes modern and contemporary dramatic literature, graphic medicine, and disability studies in drama, literature, and visual culture. She has published extensively, with over two dozen scholarly articles on disability and representation. Her honors include selection as an American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow (twice), and Davidson College Boswell Family Faculty Fellow.
In 2009, she co-curated one of the first exhibitions on disability arts in the United States: RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture. She has also co-curated other exhibitions including STARING, Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS, and exhibitions with the Ford Foundation Gallery, Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA and Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning.
She received her MA and PhD from Indiana University Bloomington, and her undergraduate degrees in English and Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics in 1993. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Hertfordshire in England in 1997. He got his PhD with a thesis entitled “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy” at Liverpool University in England in 2001. He has published two academic books in Turkish on post-colonial novel, entitled as Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity in Postcolonial English Novel] in 2011 and Çağdaş İngiliz Romanında Küreselleşme, Göç ve Kültür [Globalisation, Migration and Culture in Contemporary British Novel]. He currently works as a Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Marmara University, Turkey. mehmet.celikel@marmara.edu.tr
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-9858
Dr. Aleksandra Izgarjan is Full professor at the English Department, University of Novi Sad. She teaches courses in American literature, culture and history on BA, MA and PhD level of studies. She is the president of the Association for American Studies in South East Europe and vice-president of European Association for American Studies. As a Fulbright scholar, she was a guest lecturer at New York University and Howard University, USA. She has authored three books and published more than fifty articles in the field of literature and gender studies in national and international journals.
JAST - Journal of American Studies of Turkey