The Mechademia series continues twice a year from the University of Minnesota Press, edited by Frenchy Lunning and Sandra Annett. Mechademia: Second Arc is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of East Asian popular cultures, broadly conceived. Future issues and current calls for papers (CFPs) are as follows. All issues are dated in Minneapolis, i.e. the northern hemisphere.
Calls for Papers
All submissions should be sent to the Mechademia submissions editor. Please indicate the title of the volume you are submitting to as follows: “Submission–[volume name]” in the subject line. Submit two copies of your article as a Word document. One of these copies should be anonymized: do not include your name anywhere in the article, and remove the author’s name from the document properties (look under “Info” in Word). Named citations of your own work are acceptable, provided you do not use first-person language to discuss the work in question. Submissions should be 5,000-7,000 words and follow the Mechademia Style Guide, which is based on the Chicago Manual of Style. Figures are limited to eight per essay; image permissions are the responsibility of authors upon acceptance. Figures should be at least 300DPI and in either TIFF or JPG formats submitted in a separate, collated file (NOT individual images) and not embedded in the text, with captions, submitted in a separate Word document.
Future Issues
Vol. 21.1: Urban Architectures & Fan Spaces
- Coming winter 2028
Vol. 21.2: Isekai: Other Worlds
- Coming summer 2029
Vol. 22.1: Race, Class, and Asian Hip Hop, guest ed. Arthur Mitchell
- Coming winter 2029
Vol. 22.2: Indigeneity, guest ed. Christina Spiker
- Coming summer 2030
Vol. 23.1: Subjectivities
- Coming winter 2030
Vol. 23.2: Moving Images Across Asia
- Coming summer 2031