For Authors

Please verify that all communications come from the editor directly (see “Editorial Board” for contact information) or from Scholastica. There is no cost to submit or publish in the journal unless you have requested open access for your accepted article.

Article types

Interdisciplinary in nature, Diasporic Italy publishes on all aspects of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies, and is particularly interested in comparative studies, pedagogy, and translation. Additionally, the journal encourages submissions on movement to, from, and within Italy conceptualizing all aspects of the diaspora including inter-coloniality and post-colonialism.

Submission requirements

Authors wishing to have an article manuscript considered for publication should submit the following three items in Microsoft Word format as attachments:

a copy of the manuscript without any identification of the author, i.e., no title page, no header
an article abstract
a brief bio (50 words maximum) should accompany the mss. in a separate attachment

Illustrations, figures, tables, and maps should be included, preferably embedded at the end of the manuscript; however, you do not need to obtain permissions or high-quality versions at this point. The manuscript should contain references to the figures (e.g., “insert Figure 1 about here”), and a list of figure captions should be listed as a separate page. Discussion of the placement and inclusion will follow the article’s acceptance.

Articles should generally be no more than twenty pages (6000 words) long, double-spaced with font in 12 point Times New Roman, not including bibliography and endnotes in a Word file. (Original article manuscripts and their subsequent revisions should not exceed 7,500 words, including endnotes, words cited, and any appendix materials.

Diasporic Italy follows the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). The journal uses the Chicago Style author-date system for citations, with authors’ full names included in the Works Cited list.

For example

Armstrong, John A. 1976. “Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas.” American Political Science Review 70 (2): 393–408.
Dones, Elvira. 2001. Sole bruciato. Milan: Feltrinelli.
———. 2010. “In nome delle belle ragazze albanesi. ‘Signor Berlusconi, basta battutacce.’” La Repubblica, February 15, 2010. https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2010/02/15/news/scrittrice_albanese-2292563/.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Tamburri, Anthony Julian. 1991. To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: The Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American? Montreal: Guernica Editions.
———. 2017. “The Coincidence of Italian Cultural Hegemonic Privilege and the Historical Amnesia of Italian Diaspora Articulations.” In Re-Mapping Italian America. Places, Cultures, Identities, edited by Carla Francellini and Sabrina Vellucci, 53–75. New York: Bordighera.

In-text citations: (Armstrong 1976, 395–96; Dones 2001, 2010; Lahiri 2016, 146; Tamburri 1991, 50–60; 2017, 54)

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