Announcements

12th Open Access Week Seminar

"The Problems of Literary Genres" ("Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich") has assumed patronage over the event organized by the Library of the University of Łódź as a part of annual celebration of the Open Access Week. As a journal published in the open access model we fully support all initiatives promoting the idea of open science. Detailed information about the 12th Open Access Week seminar at the University of Lodz Library can be found on the organizer's website. 

Open Access Week this year (25-31 October 2021) is held under the motto: It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.

  • CALL FOR PAPERS 2024

    2023-10-30

    “Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. Formy kultury i teorii”/ “The Problems of Literary Genres. Forms of Culture and Theory” announces a call for papers for 2024. The journal is published as a biannual, starting in 2023 in a refreshed format.

    1) Main Section - on a rolling basis

    2) Issue Theme 1/2024 -
    Gender and queer culture in and on the fringes of Polish literature (2024, February 29)

    3) Issue Theme 2/2024 - Gender non-fiction (2024, 31 May)

    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS 2024

  • CALL FOR PAPERS 2023 - ENDED

    2022-10-21

    Thank you for your interest in submitting an article to the Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. Submissions: zrl@uni.lodz.pl.

    We now welcome article submissions for 2023 issues related to the following research themes:

    The New Trends in Comparative and Genre Studies 

    Volume Editor: Professor Ivo Pospíšil (Masaryk University)

    Submissions: February 28, 2023

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    “Free” – no specific theme 

    Volume Editor: Anna Zatora, PhD (University of Lodz)

    Submissions: March 31, 2023

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    Celebrity Culture: Forms, Styles and Genres 

    Volume Editor: Professor Jarosław Płuciennik (University of Lodz)

    Submissions: June 30, 2023

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    Space as a Category of Culture 

    Volume Editors: Associate Professor Agnieszka Izdebska (University of Lodz), Associate Professor Elżbieta Konończuk (University of Bialystok)

    Submissions: July 31, 2023

    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS 2023 - ENDED

  • CALL FOR PAPERS 2022 - ENDED

    2021-11-09

    Thank you for your interest in submitting an article to the Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich.

    We now welcome article submissions for 2021 issues related to the following research themes:

    1/2022 - Exile, emigration, and Abdulrazak Gurnah`s novels
    editors: professor Donna Landry & post-doctoral, professor UŁ Natalia Lemann
    submissions: CLOSED

    2/2022 - Culture-forming potential of the discourse about the family
    editors: professor Ewa Kraskowska & Anna Zatora, Ph.D.
    submissions: CLOSED

    3/2022 - no specific theme
    editor: professor Jarosław Płuciennik
    submissions: CLOSED

    4/2022 - Transmedial second-person narratives 

    editors: post-doctoral, professor IBL Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik & Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj, Ph.D.
    submissions: CLOSED

    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS 2022 - ENDED

  • CALL FOR PAPERS IN 2021 - ENDED

    2020-12-29

    Call for Papers for 2022 coming soon!

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    Thank you for your interest in submitting an article to the Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich.

    We now welcome article submissions for 2021 issues related to the following research themes:

    1. Issue 1/2021 - Catastrophe and crises: climate, plague, "crash" - Submissions to: 2021-02-28

    2. Issue 2/2021 - Biography as a "blurry" genre - Submissions to: 2021-03-31

    2. Issue 3/2021 - Epistolography as a challenge - Submissions to: 2021-04-30

    4. Issue 4/2021 - No specific theme - Submissions to: 2021-05-31

    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS IN 2021 - ENDED