CFP Journal of Anime and Manga Studies Volume 6 (4/13/2025)

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 6

deadline for submissions:
April 13, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

contact email:
animestudiesjournal@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/09/journal-of-anime-and-manga-studies-jams-volume-6. 


Volume to be Published in December of 2025

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce the call for papers for our sixth volume, to be published December 2025.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandoms related to them. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.

Because anime and manga studies is such a diverse field, JAMS welcomes papers regarding anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms as analyzed from any relevant scholarly perspective. Works previously published in JAMS have ranged from media industry history, to disability studies, to data analysis, and many more.

All papers published in JAMS are published with a Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Submissions to JAMS average between 6,500 and 8,000 words, including works cited. Please contact the editor-in-chief if you wish to discuss significantly longer or shorter submissions.

Please visit our site: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about, for information about the journal and our policies. We welcome inquiries and are glad to discuss ideas for potential submissions. Scholars interested in supporting anime and manga studies as a discipline as peer reviewers should also reach out to JAMS.

See the linked papers below for examples of the works JAMS has published:

The Dynamism of Anime Images: The Case of the ‘Kanada-style’ Movement - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v4.1195

Embedded Niche Overlap: A Media Industry History of Yaoi Anime’s American Distribution from 1996 to 2009 - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v1.234

The Spectacular Mundane in the Films of Studio Ghibli - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v2.507

A Survey of the Story Elements of Isekai Manga - https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v2.808

Submissions will be accepted until April 13th, 2025. While JAMS accepts submissions on a rolling basis, only papers submitted by the deadline will be guaranteed to be reviewed for this volume.

Note: This CFP is different than the JAMS@AX25 conference at Anime Expo. That will be a separate CFP.

Inquiries can be directed to Billy Tringali animestudiesjournal@gmail.com.

Last updated January 10, 2025

CFP The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) Third Volume (5/2/2022)

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) Third Volume

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/01/07/the-journal-of-anime-and-manga-studies-jams-third-volume

deadline for submissions:
May 2, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

contact email:
animestudiesjournal@gmail.com



Volume to be Published in November of 2022

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is eager to announce a Call for Papers for our third volume.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandom surrounding these areas. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.

Because anime and manga studies is such a diverse field, JAMS welcomes papers regarding anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms as analyzed from any number of scholarly perspectives. Works published in JAMS first volume ranged from media industry history, to the intersections of disability and queer identity.

All papers published in JAMS are published with a Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Submissions to JAMS average between 6,000 and 7,500 words. Please contact the editor-in-chief if you wish to discuss significantly longer or shorter submissions.

Please visit our site: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about, for information about the journal and our policies. We welcome inquiries and are glad to discuss ideas for potential submissions. Scholars interested in supporting anime and manga studies as a discipline as peer reviewers should also reach out to JAMS. Inquiries can be directed to animestudiesjournal@gmail.com.

Submissions will be accepted until May 2nd, 2022. While JAMS accepts submissions on a rolling basis, only papers submitted by the deadline will be guaranteed to be reviewed for this volume.




Last updated April 4, 2022

CFP Journal of Anime and Manga Studies Inaugural Issue (8/31/19)

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies Inaugural Issue
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/06/25/journal-of-anime-and-manga-studies-inaugural-issue

deadline for submissions: August 31, 2019
full name / name of organization: The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS)
contact email: animestudiesjournal@gmail.com


Inaugural Issue to be Published in Early 2020

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce a CFP for its inaugural issue! JAMS is an open-access journal dedicated to providing an ethical, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary space for academics, students, and independent researchers examining the field of anime, manga, cosplay, and fandom studies to share their research with others. JAMS is peer reviewed by scholars with experience in anime and manga studies.

This is an exciting time for anime and manga studies as a discipline, with courses on the subject appearing at universities like Yale and the University of California, Berkeley. The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies hopes the works submitted to and published within our first issue can spark further conversations about the deeper meanings, understandings, and/or cultural significance of anime, manga, cosplay, related media, and their fandoms, what anime and manga studies can be as an area of study, and the types of interdisciplinary work that can come out of analyzing anime, manga, cosplay, related media, and their fandoms from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

Because of this goal, JAMS aims to publish scholarly analysis of anime through any number of theoretical lenses. From the sociocultural/historical context of anti-war arguments in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, to the representation of queer characters in anime like Yuri!!! on Ice and Classmates, to the implications of communal identity and character performance in the cosplay world; JAMS is interested in diverse viewpoints and ideas on what can be explored in this area of study. Included in this interest specifically are works involving qualitative and quantitative, data-driven research surrounding anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms. Pieces published in JAMS will reach an interdisciplinary audience and should be written free of jargon. Scholarly book reviews of texts concerning anime, manga, cosplay, related media, and fandom culture surrounding these areas will also be considered.

All papers published in JAMS are published with a Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Ideal submissions to JAMS are between 4,500 and 7,500 words. Please contact the editor if you wish to discuss longer or shorter submissions.

Please visit our site: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about, for information about the journal and our policies. We welcome inquiries and are glad to discuss ideas for potential submissions. Scholars interested in supporting anime and manga studies as a discipline as peer reviewers should also reach out to JAMS. Inquiries can be directed to animestudiesjournal@gmail.com.

Submissions will be accepted until August 31st, 2019.


Last updated June 26, 2019