Postmodern Culture

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Addresses

Critical essays, reviews, popular-culture columns, and notices may be submitted by electronic mail (as an attached word processing document, if possible) or by snail-mail. PMC is no longer accepting unsolicited works of fiction or poetry.

Editors’ Address

Send correspondence or submissions to pomoculture@gmail.com
Snail Mail: PMC c/o Eyal Amiran
243 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-2651

Author’s Guide

Electronic submissions may be in Microsoft Word or Wordperfect. We can, however, handle other formats; if you submit a PDF, please make sure that the document’s text and properties do not identify you as the author.

The current MLA format is recommended for documentation in essays. We can read essays in any format, but will ask for MLA format for publication.

PMC does not have a specific word length requirement and can publish long pieces. Essays appearing in the journal tend to be between 6,000 and 11,000 words. Please include an abstract of up to 100 words in length with your submission.

Multi-Media Elements

• Postmodern Culture can publish still images, sound, animations, and full-motion video as well as text. For the time being, the following formatting parameters should be observed.
• In-line images (on the page) must be in .jpg or .gif formats, and must be the size at which you want them to display, with the maximum allowable width being 420 pixels. In special situations, PMC may be able to display wider images or other image formats such as the dejavu plugin.
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Peer Review Policy

Work submitted to Postmodern Culture (PMC) should be original, advance its fields of inquiry, have a clear focus and argument, and situate its claims in its relevant fields. PMC mostly publishes argumentative essays of 6,000-9,000 words but also supports experimental work when it is warranted. The journal may also consider English translations of theory or work suitable to our popular-culture column, but not fiction or poetry.

In the interest of authors, the journal considers simultaneous submission, but not work that is already published elsewhere. All submissions are screened by the editors in-house. Work that is suitable or the journal is sent to two reviewers from the journal's editorial board for double-anonymous review. Authors may be asked to revise their work, depending on the reviewers' comments, at which point work will return to the reviewers who requested revisions. Initial consideration can take 1-4 weeks; outside review varies, depending on availability of expert reviewers, but usually takes 8-10 weeks. 

Editors

Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine 
Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier University

Review Editors

Ellen McCallum, Michigan State University 
Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick

Feature Poetry Editor

Judith Goldman, The University at Buffalo

Managing Editor

Annie Moore

Advisory Board

Lisa Brawley, Vassar College 
James F. English, University of Pennsylvania 
Paula Geyh, Yeshiva University 
Stuart Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
John Unsworth, University of Virginia

Editorial Staff

Abram Foley

Editorial Board

James Berger
Marcus Boon
Ron Broglio
Ericka Beckman
Eric Cazdyn
Heesok Chang
Wendy Chun
Melinda Cooper
Ashley Dawson
Johanna Drucker
Graham Hammill
Terry Harpold
Steven Helmling
Eleanor Kaufman
Neil Larsen
Jacques Lezra
Colleen Lye
Jan Mieszkowski
Jim Morrison
Susanna Paasonen
Bob Perelman
Peggy Phelan
Arkady Plotnitsky
Tilottama Rajan
Judith Roof
Susan Schultz
Steven Shaviro
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Rachel Greenwald Smith
Jordan Stein
Rei Terada
Darren Tofts
Paul Trembath
Jeffrey Williams

Books for review should be sent directly to the Book Review Editors:

Ellen McCallum, Book Review Editor 
Email: emc@msu.edu

Rashmi Varma, Book Review Editor 
Email: Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk

Please send book review copies to the contact above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Clarivate Analytics
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Current Contents
  • Web of Science
• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/2005-5/31/2015
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  • Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Jan.2000-
  • Current Abstracts, 1/1/2005-
  • Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), 1/1/2000-5/31/2015
  • Humanities Index (Online), 2000/01-
  • Humanities International Complete, 1/1/2005-5/31/2015
  • Humanities International Index, 1/1/2005-5/31/2015
  • Humanities Source, 1/1/2000-5/31/2015
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 1/1/2000-5/31/2015
  • Left Index (Online), 1/1/1990-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), 1/1/2000-
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/2005-
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/2005-
• Elsevier BV
  • Scopus, 2002-
• Gale
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• OCLC
  • ArticleFirst, vol.1, no.1, 1990-vol.21, no.2, 2011
  • Electronic Collections Online, vol.1, no.1, 1990-vol.21, no.2, 2011
  • Humanities Index (Online), 2000/01-
• ProQuest
  • International Bibliography of Art
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • ProQuest Central
  • Research Library
  • Social Science Database, 9/1/1990-
  • Social Science Premium Collection
  • The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)

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0.3 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00018 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

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