Announcements

Vol. 41.2/2027 [Open]

2026-09-28

Special Issue – Publishing experimental literature: Crossroads, experiences and processes

Submission deadline: 30 April 2027

Guest Editors: Nuno Medeiros (Universidade de Lisboa: FLUL & CEComp) & Sandra Guerreiro Dias (Universidade de Coimbra: CLP | Universidade Politécnica de Beja)

This special issue seeks to bring together contributions that focus on the multiple links between publishing (in a broad sense, not just books) and experimentalism in literature.
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Vol. 41.2/2027 [Open]

2026-09-25

Special issue – Discourses of everyday life

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the “Varia,” “Review,” and “Interview” sections.)

Guest editors: Maria Aldina Marques (ELACH e Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho); Rui Ramos (Instituto de Educação e Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho), José Teixeira (ELACH e Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho) & Conceição Varela (ELACH e Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho)

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Indisponibilidade da plataforma OJS

2026-09-14

Informamos que a plataforma OJS estará em manutenção de 14 a 20 de setembro. Pedimos a todos os utilizadores que não realizem tarefas nestas datas, para evitar constrangimentos futuros. Agradecemos a compreensão.
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Volume 41.1/2027 [open]

2026-04-17

Special issue – The Short Story as a Transnational Literary Genre in Portuguese Language Countries

Submission Deadline: Extended until october 30 [31 September 2026}

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the “Varia,” “Review,” and “Interview” sections.)

Guest Editors: Joana Passos (Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho) & Gonçalo Cordeiro (CRILUS | Université Paris Nanterre)
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Diacrítica: Qualis Capes A1

2026-02-10

The editorial team at Diacrítica is pleased to announce that the journal has achieved an A1 rating in the Qualis Capes classification event for the 2021-2024 quadrennium.
We want to thank everyone who has collaborated with us to ensure the highest scientific quality of the articles published: editors, authors, reviewers, and technical assistants. This is the result of an enormous team effort, so we are counting on everyone for the coming years!

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Volume 40.3/2026 [open]

2025-11-11

Special issue – Censorship of children's and young adult literature during the Franco and Salazar dictatorships and its impact on education

Submission Deadline: April 30^th 2026

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the “Varia,” “Review,” and “Interview” sections.)

Guest Editors: Ângela Balça (Universidade de Évora & Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança da Universidade do Minho) & Ramón Tena Fernández (Universidade da Extremadura, Espanha)
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Diacrítica on Diamond Discovery Hub

2025-10-08

Diacrítica, one of CEHUM's journals, is now part of the Diamond Discovery Hub (https://ddh.diamas.org/en), a platform that brings together and makes visible Diamond Open Access scientific journals. We are proudly part of this much needed effort to work towards truly open Access academic publishing by fulfilling all the criteria to integrate this platform:

- Persistent identification
- Scholarly journal
- Open Access with open licences
- No fees
- Open to all authors
- Community-owned

The Diamond Discovery Hub was developed within the European Diamond Collections Hub (EDCH) and the DIAMAS project.
You can explore the Journals here: https://ddh.diamas.org/en.
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Style Manual and new template

2025-09-05

Diacrítica would like to inform all its users that a new and detailed Style Manual for the Journal is now available on our website, as well as a new template for submitting articles (in Portuguese and English).

We have been working continuously to improve the Journal's procedures and the experience of all those who publish with us, providing tools that help to facilitate the editorial process.

The new materials can be found under the tab Submissions | Diacrítica.

The Editorial Team
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Volume 40.2/2026 [open]

2025-07-31

Special issue – Humanities and Digital Transformation: Opportunities, Dialogues, and Challenges

Submission Deadline: 31 December, 2025

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the “Varia,” “Review,” and “Interview” sections.)

Guest Editors:

Adelina Castelo (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning & Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa), Antonio Chenoll (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning), Margarida Martins (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning & Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa).
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Volume 40.1/2026 [Open]

2025-07-02

Volume 40.1/2026

Special issue - Lexical Availability: New Methodologies for the Challenges of the 21st Century

Submission deadline: 30 September, 2025 [Closed]

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Review and Interview sections)

Guest editors: Pedro Dono López (CEHUM/UMinho), M. Dolores Lerma Sanchis (CEHUM/UMinho), Teresa Jesús Ángeles Galiano (University of Minho), Isabel Virginia Fernández Gómez (University of Minho).
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Volume 39.3/2025

2024-12-13

Special issue – Portuguese language in China: teaching, literature, culture, and translation

Submission deadline: March 30, 2025 [Closed]

(The journal welcomes submissions in a continuous flow for the Varia, Review and Interview sections)

Guest editors: Sun Lam (Universidade do Minho); Anabela Leal de Barros (Universidade do Minho); João Marcelo Mesquita (Universidade do Minho); Hu Jing (Universidade Nankai); Davi Albuquerque (Universidade Nankai)
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Volume 39.2/2025

2024-06-20

Special Issue – Galiza and the world in Portuguese. Cultural relations

Deadline (extended): February 16, 2025 [closed]

(The journal receives submissions in a continuous flow for the Varia, Review and Interview sections)

Guest editors: Carlos Pazos-Justo (CEHUM/UMinho) and María Jesús Botana Vilar (CIAC/UAlg)
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Volume 39.1/2025

2024-01-17

Special Issue – Films about Films

Submission deadline: 15 September, 2024 [Closed]

(The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Book Review, and Interview sections)

Guest Editors: Margarida E. Pereira (CEHUM/ELACH), Sérgio Guimarães de Sousa (CEHUM/ELACH) and Vítor Moura (CEHUM/ELACH)
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Volume 38.3/2024

2024-01-17

Special issue – Divine – masculine/feminine/other: engendering religious theories, practices, and expressions

Submission deadline (extended): 15 julho, 2024 [Closed]

(The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Book Review, and Interview sections)

Guest editors:Guilherme Borges Pires, Isabel Gomes de Almeida e Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM-Centro de Humanidades/FCSH-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
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Volume 38.2/2024

2023-11-20

Special issue – Contexts, Practices, and Repertoire(s) for Classic Guitar: Perspectives and Current Research Topics

Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 (c

(The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Book Review, and Interview sections)

Guest editors: Ricardo Barceló (UMinho−CEHUM), Pedro Moreira (Universidade de Évora; INET-md)
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Volume 38.1/2024

2023-10-25

Special issue– Textual Heritage: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Submission deadline (extended): January 22, 2024 [Closed]

(The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Book Review, and Interview sections)

Guest Editors: Gonçalo Fernandes (UTAD−CEL), Márcia Oliveira (UMINHO−CEHUM)
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Volume 37.3 / 2023

2023-04-03

Transtextual and cultural circumnavigations

Restricted call for papers for participants of the 10th International AIETI Conference

Deadline for submission (extended): 30 June 2023

Editors: Andréia Guerini (PGET/Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brasil), Fernando Ferreira Alves (CEHUM/UMinho (Braga, Portugal) and Orlando Grossegesse (CEHUM/UMinho (Braga, Portugal)

Communications presented at the 10th International AIETI Conference focused on the following topics: Literary Translation / History of Translation / Translation and Society / Theory of Translation and Translation and the Publishing Market can be submitted to this thematic volume to be published as Diacrítica 37/3 (2023).
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