Call for Papers/Submission Guidelines

dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, is now open to submissions for its next issue (No. 42). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature.

The journal would bring out a general issue on English and Cultural Studies. We would accept scholarly papers on any of the following aspects or related issues:

  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Films and Literature
  • Translation
  • Literary Theory
  • Indian Writings in English
  • Bhasha Literature
  • Popular Culture
  • Life-writing
  • Literature and Climate Change
  • Diaspora Literature
  • Gender and Sex
  • Posthumanism
  • Affect Studies
  • New Media

Important points to remember:

  1. Word limit for scholarly article is 4000 to 6000 words i.e. a minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 pages.
  2. The papers must be in 12-point Times New Roman (in accordance with MLA style sheet 8th edition). Kindly refer to the EASYBIB MLA 8 GUIDE (Courtesy : steu.edu> documents > EasyBib_MLA8_Guide) and a MLA Sample paper for the same. (Courtesy: owl.purdue.edu>owl>mla_formatting_ and_style_guide).
  3. The paper writers are to submit their papers to editordialog@pu.ac.in before the deadline, i.e., 15 January, 2024, along with a 50-word biographical note, and an abstract of the paper.
  4. The papers must be original and hitherto unpublished. No simultaneous submissions are allowed.
  5. The paper writers are required to give an undertaking that their paper(s) is/are orignal.

Other guidelines:

  1. Photo Essays must have high-resolution pictures along with text as a compressed or zip file as an attachment in e-mail. The paper-writers must ensure the copyright of all the photos used in their papers.
  2. The author shall have to procure copyrights for image/photo used in the paper.
  3. Word limit for Book Review(s) and Interview(s) is 1,200 and 4000-4500 words respectively.

Website: http://dialog.puchd.ac.in