James Baldwin Review

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer‐reviewed critical essays and creative non-fiction on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin’s writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.

It is the aim of James Baldwin Review to provide a vibrant and multidisciplinary forum for the international community of Baldwin scholars, students, and enthusiasts. 

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Sponsors

Support for James Baldwin Review has been generously provided by The New School, Emory University, Northwestern University and The University of Manchester.

Open Access Policy

James Baldwin Review is a fully Open Access journal. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles under a CC BY-NC-ND licence:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Abstracting / Indexing

MLA International Bibliography; Scopus; Directory of Open Access Journals.

Ethics

Manchester University Press is committed to upholding high ethical standards across all of its journals and providing guidance in order to meet these standards. See here for a summary of our expectations for authors, reviewers and editors.

Editors

Douglas Field, University of Manchester
Justin A. Joyce, Washington University in St. Louis
Dwight A. McBride, Washington University in St. Louis

Editorial Assistant

Kyle Proehl, Washington University in St. Louis

Associate Editors

Houston A. Baker, Vanderbilt University 
Herb Boyd, City College of New York
Matt Brim, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Robert J. Corber, Trinity College 
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University
Clarence E. Hardy III, Yale University
D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University
Leah Mirakhor, Yale University
Brian Norman, Antioch College
Ed Pavlić, University of Georgia
Hortense Spillers, Vanderbilt University
Eleanor W. Traylor, Howard University
Mikko Tuhkanen, Texas A&M University
Magdalena Zaborowska, University of Michigan

Contributing Editors

Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University
Rich Blint, Dartmouth College
Rashida Braggs, Williams College
Margo Natalie Crawford, University of Pennsylvania
Michele Elam, Stanford University
Roderick Ferguson, Yale University
Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University
Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester
Nigel Hatton, University of California, Merced
Carol E. Henderson,  Emory University
Davis Houck, Florida State University
Jenny James,  Pacific Lutheran University
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech
Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary, University of London
John Keene, Rutgers University
Hayley O'Malley,  Rice University
William Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis
Joshua L. Miller, University of Michigan 
Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University
Aleksander Motturi, Clandestino Festival
Bill Mullen, Purdue University
Charles Nero, Bates College
Claudine Raynaud, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III
Robert Reid-Pharr, New York University
Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire
Marlon Ross, University of Virginia
Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London 
Lynn O. Scott, Michigan State University
Yuri Stulov, Independent Scholar
Courtney Thorsson, University of Oregon 
Joseph Vogel, Utah Valley University
Maurice Wallace, Rutgers University
Dagmawi Woubshet, University of Pennsylvania
Michelle Wright, Emory University 
Gianna Zocco, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)

In Memoriam

Morris Dickstein, CUNY Graduate Center
Randall Kenan, University of North Carolina
Sedat Pakay, Independent Photographer
Cheryl Wall, Rutgers University

Information for Authors

The editors encourage the submission of cross disciplinary articles on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. Possible contributors are welcome to discuss an article proposal or outline with the Managing Editor before committing to a full submission.

Each year the journal also publishes an outstanding essay by a graduate student. Submissions from graduate students should be marked as such, and all submissions must be accompanied by a 250-word abstract and a list of keywords. Please consult our detailed submission instructions on our website:
 

Submission Guidelines
 

–  Submission to and publication in JBR is free. No submission fee or article processing charge will be applied.

–  Articles should be a minimum of 5,000 words and not exceed 10,000 words, including notes. The author is responsible for the word count.

–  Articles must include an article abstract of no more than 300 words and a list of between 3 and 6 key words.

–  Since articles will undergo a blind review process, ensure that your name and institutional address do not appear anywhere in the article itself.

–  Articles must be prepared according to the Submission Guidelines. Final submissions which do not follow JBR‘s style will be returned for revision.

–  Authors must read and prepare their article in accordance with MUP’s Ethics Statement.

–  Permission will need to be gained to use any material owned by a third-party. Evidence of permission should for forwarded to the Managing Editor.

–  Authors will be required to sign a licence to publish, granting MUP the non-exclusive right to publish the Version of Record.

–  Dual/simultaneous submissions will not be accepted.
 

Peer Review Process
 

Submissions to the James Baldwin Review will undergo a blind peer review process by two reviewers. We rely on experts for candid but fair advice in our review process. Referees assess the originality and the literary/scholarly merit of a submission's argument. We operate a 'double-blind' refereeing process whereby author(s) and reviewers never know each other's identities.
 

Copyright and Open Access
 

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. The work may not be remixed, transformed or built upon and any reuse or sharing must be non-commercial. However, alternative Creative Commons licences can be used if required (e.g. by a funding institution or UKRI), in which case the author must inform the Editors when their article is accepted. Authors can also self-archive their Accepted Manuscript on their personal or departmental website, or an institutional or non-commercial subject repository upon acceptance. For more information on Open Access and journals, see here.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.