Submissions

Please direct all editorial correspondence to:

socialtext@columbia.edu (print) or the Social Text Web Manager (website).

SOCIAL TEXT WEBSITE

Social Text welcomes proposals for website projects in the following categories: guest-edited collections for Periscope; reviews of books, films, art exhibits, etc., for our Reviews section; multimedia projects for online publication. Please send an initial email to the Social Text Web Manager.


SOCIAL TEXT PRINT JOURNAL

Social Text welcomes submissions to the print journal of individual articles and essays, and proposals for special issues. Please direct all editorial inquiries to socialtext@columbia.edu.

Length & Format 

Articles submitted to the print journal should be no longer than 8,000 words, including endnotes. Text should be double-spaced. Please follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, using the humanities style of documentation. The author's name, affiliation, address, email, and phone number should be listed on the front page of the manuscript.

Short-format pieces including essays, translations, and experimental writing will sometimes be considered.

Transmitting Your Submission 

Please submit manuscripts electronically as email attachments in either Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Electronic submissions may be sent to the managing editor at socialtext@columbia.edu.

Mailed submissions must be sent in triplicate and are not returnable. Please direct submissions to Social Text, Columbia University, Heyman HB1-5, 2960 Broadway (MC 5700), New York, NY 10027.

Including Art

If your submission includes image files, please submit images as low-resolution jpegs for ease of transmission and circulation to readers. If your work is accepted for publication, images for print reproduction must be provided as either 1) camera-ready hard copies, or 2) tiff files with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. 

 

Social Text is indexed/abstracted in the following:

Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Alternative Press Index, Contemporary Culture Index, Current Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, Humanities Index, Humanities International Index, Iowa Guide, Literature Online, Magazines for Libraries, MLA Bibliography, OmniFile Full Text V, OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition, SocINDEX, SocINFO, Sociological Abstracts.

Frequency of print publication: Quarterly