Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature welcomes the submission of Articles, Notes, Archives, Innovations, and Academy essays on women’s literature in all time periods and places, including foreign-language literatures, and in every genre—poetry, prose, drama, essays, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. While submissions need not be exclusively concerned with female writers, the focus must be on women and writing, explicating the specific links between the woman writer and her work. Tulsa Studies particularly encourages work in feminist critical and literary theory.
Articles must place the writer and her work in some larger literary, historical, political, or social framework and argue a thesis that encompasses more than a reading of a single text or several texts by a single author. Articles should be 6,000-9,000 words, excluding endnotes. Please also send an abstract of no more than 100-200 words. Notes can be up to 4,000 words and need to present 1) new, factual material concerning a writer or her work; or 2) illuminate a problem of textual interpretation based on factual bibliographical or biographical information. Archives essays should be presented as bibliographies, descriptions of particular archives, or narratives of archival research. They should be limited to 1,500-3,000 words (for further information, see p. 144 of Vol. 5, No. 1, and pp. 213-14 of Vol. 25, No. 2). Innovations essays are descriptions of new approaches to the study of women’s writing, such as digital humanities projects, or reflections on the effects of such projects on the field; they are approximately 2,000-5,000 words (see pp. 214-15 of Vol. 25, No. 2). Academy essays discuss challenges in the academy as they impact women scholars or the study of women’s literature and can be up to 2,500 words (see p. 338 of Vol. 35, No. 2). Tulsa Studies also publishes Book Reviews, which are requested by the Book Review Editor, and Review Essays, which are commissioned by the Editor.
All submissions must use endnotes that conform to the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Contributors are responsible for providing complete and accurate bibliographical documentation. All submissions must be in English; foreign-language quotations will be printed with accompanying English-language translations provided by the author. Submissions are given double-anonymous review. Contributors’ names should not appear on manuscripts (but rather on a cover letter and abstract); authors may speak in the first person but should not identify themselves by name in the text of the essay or in the accompanying notes. All submissions to Tulsa Studies that meet the criteria detailed above will receive one or two readings by members of the Editorial Board or specialist readers and a reading by the Editor. Final decisions for publication rest with the Editor.
Tulsa Studies requests that electronic submissions be made as Microsoft Word attachments and sent to tswl@utulsa.edu. Please include contact information in a cover letter or email. An abstract should be sent as a separate document.
As a journal of literary criticism dedicated to the analysis of the written word, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature will not consider submissions produced through generative artificial intelligence. This prohibition includes but is not limited to the use of artificial intelligence to write text, survey preexisting criticism, or generate ideas. AI generated images or translated passages may be included with clear attribution when appropriate, and the author assumes all responsibility for the accuracy of these inclusions. Online tools that correct grammar or spelling are also acceptable, provided that the tool does not substantially rewrite an author’s prose; any changes made to wording by an AI tool must be clearly cited in the article.
Tulsa Studies does not consider submissions that have been published or are under consideration elsewhere. The University of Tulsa holds copyright on all published materials.
Book Reviews
See general guidelines here and translation guidelines here.
Publishers may send review copies to the following address:
Attn: Book Review Editor
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104
Current List of Books Received
Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets. By Amanda Golden. New York: Routledge, 2020.
The Book of Eve. By Carmen Boullosa. Translated by Samantha Schnee. Dallas: Deep Vellum, 2023.
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth Century England. By Anna K. Sagal. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.
A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout. By Katherine Montwieler. Athens: Swallow Press, 2022.
Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought. By Bettina Judd. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2023.
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women. By John T. Maddox, IV. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
The Last Man. By Mary Shelley. Edited by Chris Washington. New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2023.
Latina Leadership Lessons: Fifty Latinas Speak. Edited by Delia García. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2022.
Prize for the Fire. By Rilla Askew. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.
Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts. By Naïma Hachad. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës. By Devoney Looser. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation. By Emek Ergun. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
