The aim of the Press is to publish, within a very short lead time high-quality refereed academic work within the broad area of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies.
The Press will be able to publish work within the following categories:
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Monographs
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Edited or co-edited volumes of essays
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Edited or co-edited conference proceedings, including those from postgraduate conferences
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Edited texts
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Academic articles, which will be grouped in a series of discipline-specific e-journals
In particular, the Press will specialise in the following areas:
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French and Francophone Studies
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German Studies
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Hispanic and Latin American Studies
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Russian and Slavonic Studies
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Cultural and Media Studies
Submissions are welcome from academic staff and postgraduate students from within the UK and from outside and are rigorously refereed.
Management Board
Editorial Board
Professor Nicholas Hewitt (Department of Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham)
Dr Jeremy Lane (Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham)
Professor Jeremy Lawrance (Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham)
Dr Nicholas Luker (Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham)
Dr Maike Oergel (Department of German, University of Nottingham)
International Advisory Board
Dr Birgit Dahlke (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Professor David Gies (Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia)
Professor Richard Stites (Georgetown University)
Go to the Nottingham Modern Languages Press website.
Please note: This is not a general research archive of the School: for more specific research material, see the University of Nottingham's eprint repository.
Notes for Contributors
Presentation and Style
Submitted contributions may be in English or in the language of the subject under study.
Monographs and edited volumes should not normally exceed 100,000 words and articles should normally not exceed 5000 words. Submissions may be made electronically (by email to: louise.botterill@nottingham.ac.uk) and in hard copy, in double spaced format. If submitting in hard copy, contributors are asked to supply two unmarked printed copies on A4 paper and printed on one side of the paper only.
Manuscripts should conform to the MHRA or MLA style sheets and should be accompanied by a statement that they are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. In the initial submission, the contributor’s name and affiliation should not appear in the body of the article.
Submission of final version
On notification by the Editor that a contribution has been accepted, a fair version of the paper should be submitted either in Word or in rtf, either electronically or on disk. If contributors are submitting on disk, they are asked to supply two unmarked printed copies on A4 paper, in double spaced format, and printed on one side of the paper only and to use a clean, newly formatted disk. Please provide written details of your computer model and of the software program used.
Use Times Roman for the text font. Please type unjustified and without hyphenation (except for compound words). Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents. Do NOT indent the first line of your article or of any new section. Do not use the hard return key to add extra line space before and after displayed quotations or between paragraphs. Indicate in pencil, in the margins of the hard copy, where spaces should be inserted. Please use single spaces after all punctuation marks - never double. Do not use the automatic page numbering, running head, endnote or footnote features of your word-processing package. Number pages of hard copy by hand at the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
Notes, quotations and references
Please number notes consecutively throughout your article and print them as footnotes at the bottom of each page. In the main text, numbering of notes should be indicated by superscript numbers. Include bibliographical information in endnotes, rather than listing works referred to at the end of your article. References should include publisher as well as place of publication and should be styled as in the following examples:
Annette Lavers, Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After (London: Methuen, 1982), pp. 16-¬17.
Antoine Compagnon, ‘The Two Barthes’, translated by James McGuire and Didier Bertrand, in Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today, edited by Stephen Ungar and Betty R. McGraw (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989), pp. 63-75 (p.67).
Claire Oboussier, ‘Barthes and Femininity: A Synaesthetic Writing’, Nottingham French Studies, 33:2 (1994), 78-93 (pp.82-3).
Page references for frequently quoted texts may appear in the body of your article. Quotation marks should be single. Double quotations should only be used if they indicate a quotation within a quotation. Longer quotations only should be ‘displayed’, i.e. indented, single space, with no quotation marks.
Tables and Illustrations
Any tables, diagrams, illustrations etc. should be saved as separate files, not included in the text file, repeating on the back the title of the paper, and numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals for Figures (illustrations, i.e. photographs, diagrams and graphs) and Roman numerals for Tables. Each must have a caption, source and where appropriate, key. The position in the text must be clearly shown (e.g. Figure l, Table IV). Black and white prints of photographs should be supplied. Captions should be submitted on a separate sheet. Tables should be keyed horizontally from left to right using a tab between columns, not the space bar (or keyed in Table mode in Word). Contributors are responsible for securing the relevant copyright agreements before publication.
For all other points of style please observe, if possible, the conventions of the MHRA or MLA style sheet.