Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Changing English
For a Special Issue on
Adult and adolescent reading: transitions and change
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Sam Duncan,
UCL Institute of Education, London
[email protected]
Chin Ee Loh,
NIE, NTU, Singapore
[email protected]
Adult and adolescent reading: transitions and change
We are putting together a Changing English Special Issue with a focus on adult and adolescent reading, to gather the important work being done internationally in these areas. The focus will be on understanding adult and adolescent reading practices in relation to sociocultural and technological changes as well as life transitions, including the roles that institutions (educational, work, religious, governmental) play in shaping and developing what is seen as reading, who are seen as readers, and what counts in the politics and discussions of reading.
We would love this special issue to interrogate contemporary reading practices in diverse contexts, including (but not limited to) work, religious, home, family, sports, prisons and educational institutions, and the intersections between these spaces. We are interested in studies that examine the multiple technologies for reading, both in print and on screen, issues of access and divides, changes and how institutions and tools reshape practice.
Submission Instructions
We welcome studies interrogating:
- Forms and functions of adult and adolescent reading across the various life domains/contexts
- Reading and sociocultural and technological change, including access to technologies, digital divides
- How institutions and tools shape practices
- Ecologies of print and digital reading practices, including book cultures and new media literacies
- The breadth of what we might understand by ‘reading’ and ‘readers’
- Reading and life transitions
Contributions should normally be between 4000 and 6000 words.
Deadlines
1 October 2026: abstracts to be emailed to both guest editors
1 November 2026: authors to be invited to submit papers
1 March 2027: submission of completed paper to be sent for reviews
1 May 2027: return of papers for revision
1 August 2027: revision deadline
1 October 2027: submission of final version
March 2028: Publication of Special Issue
For more information and to submit your abstracts, please contact [email protected] and [email protected]