Here at Fashion Studies, we are always looking for new and innovative ways to look at fashion scholarship and research. While we love publishing our annual Volume and biannual Issues, we also love collaborating with talented academics from around the world to create Special Issues that are meaningful and push the envelope for the field of fashion studies. Fashion Studies advocates and offers a platform for research that is both critical of fashion studies and recognizes fashion’s nuanced history and continued potential as a tool for systemic change. Creating Special Issues that centre on topics that mean the most to our contributors and readers is a priority. We are excited to hear what you have in mind.
To propose a Special Issue, we ask that you submit a 500-word proposal to the Fashion Studies email address, fashionstudies@ryerson.ca (fashion studies [at] ryerson [dot] ca). Your proposal should include a strong focus as well as a description of why your topic is important to the field of fashion scholarship. Should you have any submissions you would like to see published in your Special Issue, please include the title of the work along with one to two sentences summarizing each piece. Please note that at Fashion Studies we accept a wide range of scholarly work, both in the form of traditional papers or creative, mixed-media formats. The work will still need to be formally submitted in order to be considered for inclusion, but it will be helpful for us to understand the types of research you envision being part of the special issue.
Please include the following along with your proposals
Five key words
A 100- to 150-word bio for any proposed Guest Editors of the Special Issue
A Works Cited list and appropriate in-text citations
The secured rights for any images/figures/graphs included
Finally, we ask that you follow the general formatting guidelines listed in our checklist (read it here). Should your proposal be accepted, you will create a 250- to 300-word Call for Submissions. The peer review and publication process will follow the same guidelines as our annual Volume, with the Guest Editor(s) standing in for most of the Co-Editors’ roles.