Call for Papers
Preternature
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, is currently accepting manuscripts and book review requests/suggestions. Preternature is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal housed at The Pennsylvania State University, and published in Oxford, England.
Formerly known as the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Preternature publishes original scholarship and texts in edition/translation on magics, the occult, spiritualism, demonology, monstrophy, and the “preternatural” in all its cultural, historical, anthropological, artistic, literary, and folkloric iterations. Submissions pertaining to any time period and to any geographic area are welcome, though the language of publication is English.
Contributions should be roughly 8,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing footnotes).
Queries and submissions may be made to the Editors:
Peter Dendle
Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto
Kirsten C. Uszkalo
English and Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard Raiswell
Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles, should be addressed to Richard Raiswell.
Preternature is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses and the Department of Anthropology, College of the Liberal Arts, at The Pennsylvania State University.
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Kirsten C. Uszkalo
Visiting Assistant Professor
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Illinois Informatics Institute
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6
kcu2 (at) sfu.ca / kirsten (at) uszkalo.com
"Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not"