International Journal of Cultural Studies
Revitalizing global cultural studies
The International Journal of Cultural Studies aims to be the flagship outlet for critical cultural scholarship in media, communication and cultural studies. Founded in 1998 by John Hartley and edited by Jonathan Gray from 2017 to 2025, the journal has become widely recognized for advancing globally minded analyses of cultural texts and processes across local, national, and transnational scales of power and action. The journal’s traditional strengths are in critical theories and qualitative methodologies as applied to current and historical debates in media and cultural studies. We especially welcome submissions grounded in critical frameworks such as feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, political economy, queer theory, transnational analysis, intersectionality, planetarity, and posthumanism, among others.
The journal’s current editorial leadership is shared between Laura Guimarães Corrêa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Wen Jin (East China Normal University, China) and Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA). They are especially dedicated to promoting alternative critical perspectives produced in the global South and diverse sites of critical discourses.
The journal publishes six issues annually and receives over 1,000 submissions a year from around the world. Our lead time is approximately four weeks until first notification of desk rejection or activation of the peer review process. Our acceptance rate is 4.5% (as of Fall 2025).
For general inquiries, please contact ijcsmanaginged@umass.edu.
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International Journal of Cultural Studies aims to be the flagship outlet for critical cultural scholarship in media, communication and cultural studies. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. The journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences, and more. Our central interests are in critical theories and qualitative methodologies as applied to debates in media and cultural studies.
International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original full-length research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. We expect submissions to engage with authors and articles published in our journal.
Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field.
International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.
For general inquiries, please contact ijcsmanaginged@umass.edu.
For journal special issue pitches, please send an email to all three co-editors at ijcseditorcorrea@gmail.com, ijcseditorjin@gmail.com and ijcseditorong@umass.edu.
| Laura Guimarães Corrêa | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Wen Jin | East China Normal University, China |
| Jonathan Corpus Ong | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Lucianna Furtado | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Conrad Hamilton | East China Normal University, China |
| John Hartley | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Giorgia Aiello | University of Milan, Italy |
| Donya Alinejad | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Melissa Aronczyk | Rutgers University, USA |
| Shakuntala Banaji | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Burcu Baykurt | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| TJ Billard | Northwestern University, USA |
| Tanja Bosch | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Matt Bui | University of Michigan, USA |
| Jean Burgess | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Earvin Charles Cabalquinto | Monash University, Australia |
| Bronwyn Carlson | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Fernanda Carrera | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Tupur Chatterjee | Tulane University, USA |
| Bertha Chin | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Pei Sze Chow | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Nick Couldry | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| David Craig | University of Southern California, USA |
| Camilo Díaz Pino | West Chester University, USA |
| Hatim El-Hibri | George Mason University, USA |
| Nicky Falkof | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Pablo Moreno Fernandes | Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Paul Frosh | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Anthony Fung | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Myria Georgiou | London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom |
| Gerard Goggin | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Jonathan Gray | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Larissa Hjorth | RMIT, Australia |
| Heather Horst | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Mehita Iqani | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Henry Jenkins | University of Southern California, USA |
| Dal Yong Jin | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Derek Johnson | University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| Sukhmani Khorana | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Kate Lacey | University of Sussex, UK |
| Ramon Lobato | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
| Amanda Lotz | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Susan Luckman | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Jess Maddox | University of Georgia, USA |
| Mirca Madianou | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Alice Marwick | Data and Society, USA |
| Andrea Medrado | University of Exeter, UK |
| Aimée Vega Montiel | Universidade Nacional Autónoma do México, Mexico |
| Yoshitaka Mori | Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan |
| Nii Kotei Nikoi | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Susan Soomin Noh | Oglethorpe University, USA |
| David C. Oh | Syracuse University, USA |
| Luciana de Oliveira | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Susanna Paasonen | University of Turku, Finland |
| Zizi Papacharissi | University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Anna Cristina Pertierra | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Thao Phan | Monash University, Australia |
| Thomas Poell | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Devon Powers | University of Michigan, USA |
| Aswin Punathambekar | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Kane Race | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Cornel Sandvoss | University of Bristol, UK |
| Adrienne Shaw | Temple University, USA |
| Lukasz Szulc | University of Manchester, UK |
| Nancy Thumim | University of Leeds, England, UK |
| Tracy Tinga | University of Maryland, USA |
| Tommy Tse | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Cecilia Uy-Tioco | California State University, USA |
| Daniel Vukovich | University of Hong Kong, China |
| Bilge Yesil | College of Staten Island, USA |
| Yiyi Yin | Beijing Normal University, China |
| Lin Zhang | University of New Hampshire, United States |
| Weiyu Zhang | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
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