JHF

The Journal of Historical Fictions

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About the Journal

international

interdisciplinary

Open Access

peer-reviewed

online

The Journal of Historical Fictions evolved from the first conference of the Historical Fictions Research Network, held at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, in 2016. The Journal is an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published online at historicalfictionsjournal.org. Two issues will be published each year. All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

ISSN 2514-2089

Narrative constructions of the past constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships between societies in different times and lived experience. The licences of fiction, especially in mass culture, define a space in which the pursuit of narrative and meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie beneath all constructions of the past. Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted to know and those we wish to know, interacting between the meaning-making narrative and the narrative-resistant nature of the past.

The Journal of Historical Fictions welcomes proposals from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, literature, film, history, media studies, art history, musicology, reception studies, and museum studies. We encourage ambitious approaches of high quality, using new methodologies to support research into larger trends. The Journal aims to foster more theoretically informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures, media and languages.

Editor: Thomas Kelly, Kings College London

Co-Editors: Dr Natasha Alden, Aberystwyth University; Alison Baker, University of East London; Jacobus Bracker, University of Hamburg, Dr Benjamin Dodds, Florida State University; Isobel Elstob, University of Nottingham; Elizabeth English, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Kristina Fjelkestam, Stockholm University; Dr Dorothea Flothow, University of Salzburg; Dr Juliette Harrisson, Newman University, Birmingham; Prashant Maurya, Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi); Dr Catherine Padmore, La Trobe University; Dr Yasemin Şahin, Karaman University; Dr Helen Young, Deakin University.

Advisory Board
Dr Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester
Nicola Griffith
Professor Farah Mendlesohn
Professor Fiona Price, University of Chichester
Professor Martina Seifert, University of Hamburg
Professor Diana Wallace, University of South Wales

We welcome offers of service on the Advisory Board, and for specialist peer-reviewing. Please send us an email with your details and offer, to mail@historicalfictionsjournal.org.