Current Volume:6.1 (2025) | Archive
About the Journal:
The Journal of Historical Fictions is an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal. All articles are published online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (ISSN 2514-2089).
We welcome submissions from all disciplines concerned with the construction of the historical narrative in all its forms. Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted to know and those we wish to know, interacting between the meaning-making narrative and the narrative-resistant nature of the past. The licences of fiction, especially in mass culture, define a space in which the pursuit of narrative and meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie beneath all constructions of the past. Narrative constructions of the past constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships between societies in different times and lived experience. We are interested in articles on local, regional, national, international, supranational, and global fictions and histories.
Editor: Stephanie Russo, Macquarie University
Reviews Editor: Vivian Colbert, University of Mainz
Submissions
We invite spontaneous submissions of articles of about 6,000 to 8,000 words for consideration. Our house style is MLA, but you are welcome to submit manuscripts in your style of choice and adapt it to the journal’s guidelines after acceptance. Please include a short author biography and an abstract (250 words). Do not use endnotes. Please direct all submissions and enquiries to mail@historicalfictionsjournal.org.
We also welcome reviews of books concerned with the study of historical fictions and the historical narrative. Please contact the editor if you are interested in reviewing a book: mail@historicalfictionsjournal.org.
The Journal of Historical Fictions welcomes proposals from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, literature, film, history, media studies, art history, musicology, reception studies, and museum studies. We encourage ambitious approaches of high quality, using new methodologies to support research into larger trends. The Journal aims to foster more theoretically informed understandings of historical fictions and historical narratives across historical periods, cultures, media and languages.
Previous Editions
5.1 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 2.2. | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.1
Co-Editors and Advisory Board
Co-Editors: Dr Natasha Alden, Aberystwyth University; Dr Benjamin Dodds, Florida State University; Dr Isobel Elstob, University of Nottingham; Dr Elizabeth English, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Kristina Fjelkestam, Stockholm University; Dr Dorothea Flothow, University of Salzburg; Dr Juliette Harrisson, Newman University, Birmingham; Dr Alexander Hodgson, University of Manchester; Dr Christine Lehnen, University of Exeter; Dr Prashant Maurya, Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi); Dr Catherine Padmore, La Trobe University; Dr Rehnuma Sazzad, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; Dr Daný van Dam, University of Leiden; Dr Ellie Crookes, University of Wollongong
Advisory Board
Professor Dr Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester
Dr Nicola Griffith
Dr Gregory Hampton, Howard University
Professor Dr Farah Mendlesohn
Professor Dr Fiona Price, University of Chichester
Professor Dr Martina Seifert, University of Hamburg
Professor Dr Diana Wallace, University of South Wales
We welcome offers of service on the Advisory Board, and for specialist peer-reviewing: mail@historicalfictionsjournal.org.
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