Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) is a quarterly, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to publishing cutting-edge scholarship in modern and contemporary literature. Originally established in 1994 as the Journal of Foreign Languages and later renamed to reflect its current scope, RCWL considers only original and critical articles in English and Farsi that examine literary texts and movements emerging after 1945. Submissions focused on literature preceding this period fall outside the journal’s scope and will not be considered.
RCWL places particular emphasis on contributions that adopt comparative or interdisciplinary approaches and engage substantively with contemporary critical paradigms. These include—but are not limited to—postcolonialism, posthumanism, African literature, feminist theory, disability studies, ecocriticism, migration studies, and inquiries into underrepresented or marginalized voices.
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Publisher:
University of Tehran
Director-in-Charge:
Janolah Karimi Motahhar
Editor-in-Chief:
Ali Salami
International Editorial Board:
Gerald Prince
Christine Raguet
Ali Behdad
Rino Caputo
Marina L. Reysner
Jacques Fontanille
Zuraidah Mohd Don
Editorial Board:
Alireza Anushiravani
Maryam Soltan Beyad
Farideh Porghiv
Behzad Pourgharib
Reza Dashtestani
Hamid Reza Shairi
Hassan Foroughi
Jaleh Kahnamouipour
Behrouz Mahmoudi Bakhtiari
Hadi Nazari Monazam
Shahriyar Mansouri
Marzieh Yahyapour
English Text Editor:
Mehrgan Rezaeian
Executive Director:
Rahman Aramideh
Technical Editor:
Mozhgan Hajatpour
Frequency: Quarterly
Print ISSN: 2588-4131
Online ISSN: 2588-7092
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