Cultural Perspectives - Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania is a peer-reviewed annual journal, issued by the FACULTY OF LETTERS, UNIVERSITY OF BACÃU, ROMANIA.

CP invites submissions on all aspects of cultural studies related to Britishness in all countries. Its main aim is to include different perspectives on cultural studies, coming from different fields, such as literature, linguistics, semiotics, political and sociological studies, communication, public relations, anthropology, translation studies, etc.

The empirical background can be provided from different cultures, but it should underline the link between the respective culture and the British one.

Each issue focuses on a specific topic:

• 2024: Literary representations of endurance, solidarity and empathy
• 2023: Bridging cultural gaps and adapting to change (Issue 28/2023 articles can be accessed online only on the journal website - http://cpjournal.ub.ro/issues-list/
• 2022: Modes of cultural resistance
• 2021: Culture in crisis
• 2020: Urban culture
• 2019: Cultural branding
• 2018: Cultural identity in the European space
• 2017: Cultural heritage
• 2016: Urban scapes
• 2015: Nature and culture: a semiotic perspective
• 2014: Semiotics of culture or cultural semiotics?
• 2013:Location of cultural identities
• 2012:Cultural changes and exchanges
• 2011:Representing the 21st century’s realities in cultural discourse and the crisis of representation
• 2010: Modes of Signification in Cultural Discourse
• 2009: Diversity of Identities
• 2008: Text and discourse
• 2007: Words (or, managing the whole lot of them)
• 2006: (Paper)beings
• 2005: Cultural Spaces and Types
• 2004: Gift-giving Acts
• 2003: (Ulysses)or, The Sense of Adventure
• 2002: -Isms (Victorianism)
• 2001 & 2000: Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
• 1999: (under construction)
• 1998: (under construction)
• 1997: (under construction)
• 1996: Cultural Studies, (British) Identity

OBJECTIVES:

• to promote inter/ transdisciplinarity;
• to raise awareness about the interweaving of disciplines;
• to promote intercultural dialogue;
• to create the equilibrium between theoretical basis and textual/ case studies.

Cultural Perspectives is indexed in:

• ERIH PLUS
• SCOPUS
• DOAJ
• MIAR
• CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library)
• BHI (British Humanities Index)
• INDEX COPERNICUS
• WorldCat
• KVK
• COPAC
• SCIPIO
• Fabula
• EBSCO
• ROAD
• JISC
• PUBD DESY PUBLICATION DATABASE
• TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

Journal Policy

Cultural Perspectives (CP) accepts for publication reviewed original papers, interviews and book reviews on a broad range of topics of interest in literary, language and cultural studies. There are no article submission, processing and publication charges (APC).

Open Access Policy:

Starting with issue 22/2017, CP Journal offers “open access” to published literature. It assures that CP has free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The CP articles from issue 22/2017 onwards are available online for free, without any charge to download or print each article.

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ISSN	ISSN:1224-239X ISSN (Online):2559-3439 ISSN-L:1224-239X
Chief Editor	Nadia-Nicoleta Morãraşu - Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, CETAL Research Centre, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5308-8438 Luminița Drugă - Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Communication Sciences, CETAL Research Centre, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0009-0002-9985-2811
Editorial Board	Editorial advisors: Elena Bonta - Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6763-1718 Vasile Spiridon - Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Communication Sciences, CETAL Research Centre, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0009-0001-3322-4065 Brîndușa-Mariana Amălăncei - Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6871-8196 Cristina Cîrtiță-Buzoianu - Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0286-4537 Mihaela Culea - Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, CETAL Research Centre, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1517-5028 Language editor: Sharmain van Blommestein - Department of English & Communication State University of New York Potsdam, New York, US: Potsdam, New York, US ORCID ID: 0009-0002-9679-7247 Technical editor: Raluca-Andreea Nechifor - School of Doctoral Studies, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0009-0003-0704-9093 List of reviewers: Sarka Bubikova - Department of English and American Studies, University of Pardubice, The Czech Republic ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6519-3734 Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva - Department of English Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Bulgaria ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0433-8087 Edyta Lorek-Jezińska - Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5492-4255 Katarzyna Więckowska - Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3408-3695 Alejandra Moreno Alvarez - Department of English, French and German Philology, University of Oviedo ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2673-9025 Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević - Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Montenegro, Montenegro ORCID ID: 0009-0008-6984-4961 Raluca Sinu - Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Transylvania University of Braṣov, Romania ORCID ID: 0009-0000-3727-6770 Nina Sirkovic - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia ORCID ID: 0000-0003- 1381-9317 Nelly Strehlau - Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7670-7860 Raluca Galița - Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2470-7700 Marta Lucari - University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5264-595X Sebastian Gadomski - Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6718-8242
Editorial Office	ALMA MATER Publishing House, "Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, 8 Spiru Haret, Bacău (600114), Romania. Website: http://cpjournal.ub.ro/ E-mail: cpjournal@ub.ro, morarasu.nadia@ub.ro
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