Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality

Over the past few decades, both world literature and intermediality have become well-established yet hotly debated concepts and fields of academic inquiry. However, they were developed and often treated as separate critical frameworks. With a focus on the modern and contemporary periods, this series aims to publish monographs that address the shared theoretical concerns between these two areas, renegotiating linguistic text-based approaches to world literature with methods developed in studies of other art forms. We welcome projects analysing works published in English and other languages across the globe, and exploring different kinds of border crossings and encounters between languages, media and cultures. These aesthetic explorations fueled by migrations, multilingualism, transcultural interactions and multi-media artistic practices are rapidly reshaping the production, circulation, reception and critical analysis of literary and artistic works on a global scale. Resolutely interdisciplinary, this book series aims to investigate creative code- and mode-switching practices such as photo-literature, the graphic novel, literary adaptations, ekphrasis and word and music combinations. While strongly theorised approaches are welcome, contributions should be anchored in interpretative analysis and critique.

Advisory Board:

• Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis)
• Norman Ajari (University of Edinburgh)
• Jørgen Bruhn (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
• Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow)
• James Hodapp (Northwestern University in Qatar)
• Christin Hoene (Maastricht University) 
• Amy Hubbell (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Fusako Innami (Durham University)
• Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
• Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
• Xiaofan Amy Li (University College London)
• Rong Ou (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
• Andy Stafford (University of Leeds)
• Delia Ungureanu (Harvard’s Institute for World Literature & University of Bucharest, Romania)
• Alex Watson (Meiji University, Tokyo)

Interested in writing for the series? Explore our proposal guidelines and email your proposal to the Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Emily Sharp.

If you would like to discuss your proposal before submission, please email the series editors, Fabien Arribert-Narce and Shuangyi Li.