ROSSICA: Literary Contacts & Connections is an open access peer-reviewed semiannual scholarly journal. It is targeted at both the professional audience and all readers interested in literary history and theory. It accepts articles in Russian, English, French, and German.
ROSSICA: Literary Contacts & Connections is a print journal. A full-text version is available for free on the website of the journal.
Periodical frequency of the journal is 2 issues a year.
Year of foundation – 2021.
All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer reviewed by experts in the field, both members of the Editorial Board and external reviewers.
Aims and Scope
ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections is focusing on the study of Russian-foreign literary connections, contacts, transnational literary influence and exchange. The journal’s priority is classical academic research in literary history: reconstruction of personal and institutional literary contacts, publishing policy, translation studies, comparative literary studies, reception of Russian literature abroad and world literature in Russia / USSR, etc. The journal aims to publish new materials: archival documents, literary texts, epistolary, diaries, documents as addenda to academic articles. We also welcome contextual studies that combine history and theory of literature with biography studies, imagology, sociology, cultural studies, history of art, social and political history, etc. thus providing a wider theoretical framework and enhancing our conceptual tool kit.
The structure of the journal implies both permanent and optional sections that correspond to the main areas of research.
The Editorial Board strives to consolidate the professional community providing scholars whose interests are connected with intercultural literary dialogue with a specialized academic periodical and advance this branch of study in Russia and throughout the world.
Archiving
The archive of the journal ROSSICA: Literary Contacts & Connections is available after its publication in
the national Academic digital library eLIBRARY.RU within the framework of the bibliographic database “Russian Science Citation Index” (RSCI): all readers have free access to the full-text version;
the national electronic library “CyberLeninka” that is based on the Open Science paradigm: all readers have free access to the full-text version;
on this site in the Issues section.
Legal notice
The Founder and the Publisher of the Journal ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections is Limited Liability Society “Litfakt”.
Registration in the International Standard Serial Number:
Mass media registration certificate:
Registration Certificate ПИ № ФС 77 – 81839, September 16, 2021.
All publications in ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections are free of charge. Authors don’t pay for reviewing, editing, translating, proof-reading, layout design. ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections doesn’t pay author’s fee / royalties. The Agreement for the free-of-charge publication is signed between the author and the publisher.