The Journal of European Periodical Studies invites submissions for its Open Issue 10.2 (Winter 2025). JEPS is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal published by Ghent University and the flagship journal of ESPRit, the European Society for Periodical Research. JEPS publishes articles on any aspect of the study of periodicals (magazines, newspapers, and other periodical publications) in Europe — in its broadest sense — from the seventeenth century to the present. 
 
For the Open Issue, JEPS welcomes a wide range of critical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the periodical press, including, but not limited to, history, literary studies, art history, visual culture, gender studies, media studies, history of science, and digital humanities. We particularly welcome submissions that consider European periodicals in a broader transnational, cross-language, cross-period, or interdisciplinary context. 
 
Papers should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, prepared according to the JEPS author guidelines, and submitted through the online submission portal at https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/.
 
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2025
 
JEPS articles: some highlights

1. Céline Mansanti, “Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Life Magazine (New York, 1883–1936).” Journal of European Periodical Studies, 1.2 (Winter 2016). https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71535/
 
2. Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, “Fourfold Female: Birgithe Kühle’s Pioneer Norwegian Journal Provincial-Lecture (1794) and Her European Book Collection”, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 6.1 (Summer 2021) . https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71467/
 
3. Fabio Guidali, “Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli’s Illustrated Magazines” Journal of European Periodical Studies, 4.2 (Winter 2019). https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71485/
 
4. Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, “Newspaper Debates in Late Eighteenth-Century England: ‘Letters to the Editor’ versus the Political Pamphlet.” Journal of European Periodical Studies, 6.1 (Summer 2021). https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71481/
 
5. Jeroen Vanheste, “The Reconstruction of the European Mind: T. S. Eliot’s Criterion and the Idea of Europe.” Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3.2 (Winter 2018). https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71499/

Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market

Special Issue

Ramtke | Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space and Time, Competition and Transfer | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Nora Ramtke, Mirela Husić and Christian A. Bachmann

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 1–7

Norrick-Rühl | Periodicity, Subscription, and Mass Circulation: Mail-Order Book Culture Reconsidered | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Corinna Norrick-Rühl

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 8–25

Fröhlich | Logics of Re-Using Photographs: Negotiating the Mediality of the Magazine | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Vincent Fröhlich, Alice Morin and Jens Ruchatz

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 26–51

Mayer | Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls: The Trans-Atlantic Mass Magazine Culture of the 1920s as a Gendered Affair | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Ruth Mayer

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 52–73

Gretz | From Pure Art to Sheer Luxury: Magazines as Ornamental Constellations and the Emergence of Aesthetic Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Daniela Gretz and Marcus Krause

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 74–96

Ernst | Outside the Mainstream Press: Language, Materiality, and Temporality in Microzines | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Jutta Ernst, Sabina Fazli and Oliver Scheiding

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 97–114

Neuffer | In Time: Periodical Theories and Philosophies of History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Moritz Neuffer

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 115–129

Articles

Vanacker | Fashioning ‘Belgian’ Literature and Cultural Mediatorship in the Journal littéraire et politique des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1786) | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Beatrijs Vanacker, Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Vanessa Van Puyvelde and Tom Verschaffel

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 130–146

Field Notes

Stead | European Periodical Research 2020–30: Voices and Visions from the ESPRit 2021 Roundtable | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Evanghelia Stead, Fionnuala Dillane, Jutta Ernst, Fabio Guidali, Mara Logaldo and Jens Ruchatz

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 147–163

Reviews

Stoeger | Review of Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham, eds, Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities (2020) | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

Alexander Stoeger

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 164–166

Mussell | Review of Clare Pettitt, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (2020) | Journal of European Periodical Studies (ugent.be)

James Mussell

 2023-02-08  Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Periodical Formats in the Market • 167–170

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Special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies Vol 6 No 2 (2021): Modernity and National Identity in Popular Magazines

Table of Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

Tim Satterthwaite, Online Conferences: A New Paradigm for Periodical Studies?

Carey Snyder, The Global Dialogics of the New Age

Phaedra Claeys, Individual Responsibility for the Common Cause? Everyday Preservationism in the Interwar Russian Émigré Newsmagazine Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya

Elena Ogliari, The Past Contains a Promise of Regeneration: Narratives of Ireland’s Future in Early-Twentieth-Century Juvenile Periodicals

 

Chara Kolokytha, Le Génie du Nord: Sélection and the Advocacy of a Cosmopolitan Northern Culture

Anne Reynes-Delobel, An Impossible Task? Reconciling Europeanism and National Popular Culture in Caliban (1947–51)

ARTICLES

Tijl Nuyts, Veerle Fraeters, Mediating Medieval Mystical Literature in Interwar Belgium: The Histoire Croisée of Hadewijch’s ‘First Vision’ in the Periodical Hermès (1933–39)

Christian A. Bachmann, Nora Ramtke, Planning Virtual Conferences in the Humanities: A Detailed Look at the 9th International ESPRit Conference

REVIEWS

Sofia Prado Huggins, Review of David Finkelstein, ed., The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 (2020)

Sze Wah Sarah Lee, Review of Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, eds, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s–1920s: The Modernist Period (2019)

 

Alison E. Martin, Review of Andreas Beck, Nicola Kaminski, Volker Mergenthaler, and Jens Ruchatz, eds, Visuelles Design: Die Journalseite als gestaltete Fläche / Visual Design: The Periodical Page as a Designed Surface (2019)

John Morton, Review of Joanne Shattock, ed., Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2017/2019)

 

Maaike Koffeman, Review of Evanghelia Stead, Sisyphe heureux. Les revues artistiques et littéraires, Approches et figures (2020)