Yale French Studies is the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture. Each volume is conceived and organized by a guest editor or editors around a particular theme or author. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as are contributions from scholars and writers from around the world.
Yale French Studies is published twice yearly by Yale University Press and may be accessed on JSTOR.
A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican French author, filmmaker, and journalist Fabienne Kanor
Lesbian Materialism: The Life and Work of Monique Wittig
Edited by Morgane Cadieu and Annabel L. Kim
The French Seventies
Edited by Richard J. Golsan and Lynn A. Higgins
Senegalese Transmediations: Literature, New Media, and Audiovisual Cultures
Edited by Doyle C. Calhoun and Cheikh Thiam
Please note that Yale French Studies does not accept unsolicited individual articles.
If you would like to submit a volume proposal, please contact the managing editor or send an inquiry to yalefrenchstudies@yale.edu.
A formal proposal to the Editorial Board of Yale French Studies should include:
Articles must not have appeared previously in English. Yale French Studies does on occasion publish English translations of important articles and essays that have appeared in other languages if a special editor has received the appropriate permission. A volume should, however, generally contain no more than three translations.
Each volume normally includes an Editor’s Preface of 4,500-6,000 words and is comprised usually of 10-12 articles of approximately 3,750-5,000 words each.
Before submitting a full proposal, editors may consider submitting a synopsis of one or two paragraphs clearly outlining the topic you would like to address in order to receive confirmation of the Board’s interest in seeing a full-length proposal.
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