CFP: Special Issue “Affect and Intermediality”

Special Issue “Affect and Intermediality” in the journal Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
(ISSN: 2083-2931) 

Editors: Anne Holm (Associate Professor of English, Linnaeus University) and Niklas Salmose (Professor of English, Linnaeus University). Co-Editors: Anna Ishchenko (PhD student in MIDWorld, Linnaeus) and Beatriz Carlsson-Pecharromán (PhD student in Global Humanities, Linnaeus)

We invite submissions for a special issue dedicated to exploring the dynamic intersections between affect and intermediality. This collection of articles seeks to illuminate how emotional experience is shaped, transmitted, and transformed across different media environments.

The special issue welcomes contributions that investigate how affect is conditioned by the material, aesthetic, and relational properties of media. We are especially interested in scholarship that:

• examines how emotional responses arise from specific media affordances,
• analyzes how interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments produce meaningful affective experiences,
• investigates how intermedial relations—between forms, genres, and modalities—shape or shift affective engagement,
• considers how artistic and cultural practices mobilize affect across different media contexts.

Scholars at all career stages are encouraged to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography of 200 words to niklas.salmose@lnu.se by September 7, 2026. Full submissions for those abstracts that are accepted are expected on April 1, 2027.

Please see our website for more details.