About this journal

Aims and scope

Symposium is a quarterly journal of criticism in modern literatures originating in languages other than English. Founded in 1946, the journal is housed in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. Scholars of literature will find research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative or interdisciplinary studies. The journal publishes unsolicited essays as well as periodic special issues. Most issues include reviews of recent critical monographs in modern literatures. Although primarily in English, issues can include discussions of works in the original language.

Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two to three anonymous referees.

Symposium is a member journal of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals .

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 14K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.158 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.114 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 0 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 75 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 47% acceptance rate

Editorial board

EDITORIAL BOARD

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Syracuse University

Founded in 1946




Kathryn A. Everly

Executive Editor

Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Film


Alicia Ríos

Book Review Editor

19th-c Latin American Literature and Cultural Theory


Gail A. Bulman
Latin American Literature and Culture

Ken Frieden
Hebrew and Yiddish Literature

Myrna García-Calderón
Hispanic Caribbean and Latin-American Literature

Stefano Giannini
Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

Erika Haber
20th-c. Russian Literature and Culture


Anne C. Leone

Medieval Italian Literature


Karina von Tippelskirch
German Studies and German-Jewish Literature

Amy S. Wyngaard
17th and 18-c. French Literature and Culture

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Anadeli Bencomo
20th and 21st-c Latin American Narrative
University of Houston

Laura Benedetti
Renaissance and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
Georgetown University

Emilie L. Bergmann
16th- and 17th-c. Spanish and Spanish-American Literature and Culture
University of California-Berkeley

Ari Blatt
20th and 21st-c French Literature and Film, History, and Theory of Photography
University of Virginia

Catherine Boyle
Latin American Cultural Studies
King's College, London

Elena Castro

20 th- and 21 st-c. Spanish Poetry, Gender and Sexualities, Cultural Studies

Louisiana State University


James Courtad
Spanish Literature and Culture from 1800, Realist Fiction, Travel Narrative
Bradley University

Greg Dawes
20th- and 21st-c. Latin American Literature
North Carolina State University

Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Late 18th- to early 20th-c. Spanish Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
Penn State University

Alejandro García-Reidy
16th- and 17th-c. Spanish Literature and Culture
IEMYRhd, Universidad de Salamanca

John Givens
19th- and 20th-c.Russian Literature and Film
University of Rochester

Amalia Gladhart
Contemporary Latin American Theater and Narrative, Performance, Translation Studies
University of Oregon

Ilka Kressner
20th- and 21st- c. Spanish American Literature, Film and Visual Arts
State University of New York at Albany

Philippe Met
Modern and Contemporary French Poetry, Fantastic and Horror Literature, Visual Culture/Film Studies, Graphic Novels
University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Miller
Theater in German-speaking Europe, European Literature and Film
Colgate University

Letizia Modena
20th- and 21st-c. Italian Literature and Film, Architecture, Urban Studies
Vanderbilt University

Lydie Moudileno
Francophone Caribbean
University of Southern California

N. Michelle Murray
Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, Immigration, Gender Studies
Vanderbilt University

Valerie Orlando
Francophone African Literature
University of Maryland

Daniel Purdy
Asian-German Cultural History, Enlightenment, Romanticism
Penn State University

Cecilia Rodríguez Lehmann
19th -21st-c. Latin American Culture and Image
University Austral de Chile

María Pilar Rodríguez
Basque Literature, Contemporary Novel and Film
University of Deusto, Basque Country, Spain

Ana del Sarto
Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
Ohio State University

Jane Tylus
Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature
Yale University

Nicholas White
19th-c. French Literature and Culture
University of Cambridge



Abstracting and indexing

Symposium is abstracted/indexed in: EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier: Scopus; Gale: Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, General OneFile, InfoTrac Custom, InfoTrac Student Edition, Student Resource Center: College Edition; H.W. Wilson: Biography Index, Book Review Digest Plus, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, Humanities Index, Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ); MLA International Bibliography; OCLC: ArticleFirst, Arts and Humanities Search, Periodicals Abstracts, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies; ProQuest: Humanities Module, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library; Research Alert; Thomson Reuters: Arts & Humanities Citation Index® and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities®.

Open access

Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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