Crossings

Aims & Scope

Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal designed to reflect the increasing interest in English and Cultural Studies, Applied Linguistics, and English Language Teaching and Acquisition, and to interact with the numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Crossings has an inclusive approach towards analyses of literary texts and their relevance to lived and textual cultures, the mass media, language and representation, to studies in Applied Linguistics, and to the conception and implementation of newer modes, methods and strategies of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), or Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Crossings is of interest to Literatures in English from a wide variety of eras and genres, such as Shakespeare studies, Jacobean and Caroline period, Restoration drama, Romantic and Victorian literature, early Modern and Postmodern strains in literature and their interactions with cultural, media, and film studies, as well as diaspora and subaltern studies, and postcolonial criticism. The journal is also of interest to theory or data-based research on SLA, ELT, TESOL/TESL, and Applied Linguistics Contributions are invited from these fields. Crossings transcends international borders in examining theoretical and empirical perspectives in the production, dissemination, and critical acclamation of advanced theoretical lenses and novel application of existing analytical frameworks in the fields of linguistics and literature vis-à-vis cross-disciplinary approaches. As such the journal is a forum for authors around the world. Crossings seeks to provide an innovative and informative platform to identify, discuss, and debate the emergence and resonance of new forms of literary texts, language teaching tools, social, economic, cultural and political representations, discursive strategies of resistance and survival including those in film, newspapers, print and electronic advertisements, television, non-fiction, visual and cyber cultures, and sexuality. Crossings , in fact, challenges its contributors to situate literary texts and language teaching and learning techniques within a wider context of culture that foregrounds transnational focus and open attitude towards hybridity, difference, diversity, and tolerance, maintaining a healthy balance between the global and the local. Crossings is committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as quality education, gender equality, reduced inequality, environmental conservation, peace, justice, and transparency and strong institutions. The journal welcomes contributions that will highlight these issues from scholars and researchers associated with higher education. Crossings offers original insights into the latest published literary works and current debates through book reviews.

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