Editorial policy and ethics

Peer Review Policy
Atlantis publishes two themed issues per year and one "open" or unthemed issue. We consider only previously unpublished submissions (with the exception preprints). We consider scholarly research, interviews, commentary, and literary work. Original research undergoes anonymized peer review by at least two external referees. The publication decision is based on the referees’ reports. See further details about the submission and review process under Submissions.

Open Access Policy
Atlantis is a Diamond Open Access journal. We provide immediate open access to all content on the principle that freely available research supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no fee to publish an article in Atlantis.

Archiving
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Atlantis is available through several academic search tools and platforms, including Erudit, EBSCO databases, DOAJ, and Google Scholar.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are aware that articles published in Atlantis are indexed and made available through various scholarly and professional search tools, including but not limited to Erudit.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to preprint their work, that is, post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Read more on preprints here.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Editorial board

Journal Editor

Tegan Zimmerman is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender and Social Justice at Mount Saint Vincent University. She also teaches at Saint Mary's University and is President of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Comparative Gender Studies Research Committee. She specializes in contemporary gender theory and women’s writing, with a concentration on Caribbean literature and historical fiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as Feminist Theory, MELUS, and Women’s Studies. She is the author of Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past (Mississippi University Press, 2023) and, with Odile Ferly, the co-editor of Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime (Springer, 2023).

Editorial Board

Atlantis Editorial Board members are selected by the current Board, in collaboration with the University Liaison and Managing Editor. An annual call for Board members is circulated online in the first quarter of each year. We also invite interested scholars to submit their CV to the Board at any time (via atlantis.journal@msvu.ca). Board members are appointed for a three-year term with the option to renew.

Atlantis acknowledges the historical and ongoing inequity at all stages of academic publishing. We are committed to addressing this issue through our editorial practices and the scholarship published in the journal. We invite applications and inquiries from all scholars in Women's and Gender Studies and related fields. In particular, we welcome applications from scholars working in Critical Race Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Critical Disability Studies or, more generally, whose research focuses on dismantling hierarchies and exclusions based on racism, sexism, colonialism and/or ableism.

Recognising the potential for conflict of interest and to maintain high standards of scholarly publication, Board members do not publish in Atlantis during their tenure on the Board (with the exception of Editorials for guest-edited issues).

The criteria for Editorial Board membership are:

• • Experience in scholarly intersectional and feminist studies with a post-graduate academic degree, or a graduate degree in progress combined with community-based work;
  • A publication record of research articles, books, or other types of scholarly work (including exhibits and performance pieces) related to the themes of intersectionality and feminism;
  • Familiarity with the editorial and publication processes of academic journals. Ideally, previous experience on an Editorial Board;
  • Current academic appointment at a university or an Independent Scholar with recent publications and/or work in progress.

Current Editorial Board members:

Christiana Abraham is Scholar in-residence, Critical Race Pedagogies at Concordia University. Her teaching and research specialities are in critical race studies, media, visual representations and culture; de/post-coloniality and gender; race, ethnicity and media and transnational and global-South media practices. A scholar, media practitioner, and independent curator, her scholarship is interested in the destabilization and re-visualization of visualities in anti-racist and de-colonial pedagogies. Her writings have been featured in the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Atlantis, and TOPIA. She is the curator of Protests and Pedagogy: Representations, Memories, and Meanings, an archival exhibition that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Sir George Williams Student protest. Prior to this, she curated From the Archives to the Everyday: Caribbean Visualities and Meanings, a collection of vintage family photographs of Caribbean life.

Ayesha Mian Akram is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. She holds a PhD in Sociology/Social Justice from the Department of Sociology at the University of Windsor and an MEd in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching is rooted in the intersections of critical Muslim studies, sociology of racialization and gender, and community-engaged qualitative methodologies. Her research has been published in Religions, Journal of International Migration and Integration, and International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Diana M. Barrero-Jaramillo (she/her) is a feminist researcher, educator, and organizer. She was born in Colombia and grew up in Tkaronto, the Dish with One Spoon Territory, on the traditional lands of the Wendat and Tionontati (Petun) First Nations, the Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in Women and Gender Studies. Her scholarship brings an interdisciplinary lens to the understanding of the role of cultural production in social and educational interventions and the implications of these interventions for the production and justification of social (in)justice and (in)equality. In particular, her doctoral dissertation, Weaving Women's Stories: Colombian Women's Use of Textile-based Narratives as Public Memory Pedagogies, draws on multi-sited ethnography to explore the use of textiles by women-led, community-based initiatives in Colombia as mechanisms for political engagement within broader social and environmental justice movements. Her most recent publications, including scholarly publications and creative accomplishments, can be found on her website: dianabarrero.com

Emily M. Colpitts recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University. Her research and teaching focus on gendered and sexualized violence, intersectionality, activism, justice, and anti-feminist backlash. She is currently working on a book that critically examines contemporary anti-violence efforts at Canadian universities and mechanisms of institutional change. Emily’s scholarship is grounded in her advocacy and work as a board member of Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape. Her most recent work can be found in Gender and Education, Atlantis, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and Engaged Scholar Journal (forthcoming).

Sarah Jensen (Literary Editor) is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her broad research interests are in the effects of mixing media in and around social justice movements, and her current research takes up accessibility, audiotization, queer adaptations, and cross-media production. Sarah is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled Uncontainable Mediation: Resistance Movements Across Media and Other Borders. Her work has appeared in academic and popular publications, including the co-authored and audio recorded article, “Ability, Academia, and Audiobooks: In Conversation” (2022). She is in the process of co-editing a collection of essays on The Politics of Intermedial Modernism(s). She is also a writer and multimedia poet.

Alan Martino (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His main research interests include critical disability studies, gender and sexualities, feminist and critical disability studies theories, and qualitative and community-based research, particularly participatory and inclusive methodologies. His work has been published in multiple journals, including Disability Studies Quarterly, Sexuality and Disability, and Sexualities, as well as in edited volumes on disability and sexualities studies. He leads the Disability & Sexuality Lab at the University of Calgary. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the 2024 Early Investigator Award by the Canadian Sociological Association and the 2024 Early Career Award by the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association.

Corinne L. Mason is a queer non-binary femme (they/them) and a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University. Their current research program is inspired by two central curiosities: i) the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education and ii) queer kinship and reproductive justice. They are currently writing a book entitled Reproduction in Crisis and are the author of Manufacturing Urgency: Violence Against Women and the Development Industry (University of Regina Press, 2017), the editor of Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies (Routledge, 2018), the co-editor of Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19 (University of Alberta Press, under review), and a special issue of Atlantis (38.2). Corinne lives as an uninvited guest on Treaty 7 territory, Treaty 7 Territory, the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the traditional territories of the Îyârhe Nakoda and Tsuut'ina Nations, and home of the Métis Nation.

Bishop Owis (they/them) is a writer, interdisciplinary scholar, and Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Saint Mary’s University. Bishop’s research critically examines the praxis of care at the intersections of disability, gender, sexuality, race and settler-colonialism in educational institutions. Bishop’s work is interdisciplinary in nature, blending and expanding academic disciplines to explore the nuances of care through art-making and storytelling. Their work is informed by a sense of collective imagination by disabled, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and/or People of Colour (QTBIPoC), one that strives for world-building, futurity, and justice. In their current research, Bishop works alongside disabled QTBIPoC artists to explore care and solidarity as ethical, relational practices. Bishop earned their PhD from the University of Toronto and most recently completed a research post-doctorate at the University of British Columbia where they worked with SOGI UBC. bishopowis.com

Kristin Rodier (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Athabasca University located in Amiskwaciwâskahikan. Her research explores a critical phenomenology of the body, intersecting fatness, gender, ability, and race. Grounded in interdisciplinary feminist philosophy, her work centres problems of changing selfhood in light of time, habit, and gender oppression—especially as it relates to the fat body. She also writes on sexual violence against fat people, fat art and the grotesque, and the scholarship of teaching and learning online. She has a feminist philosophy podcast with Anna Mudde entitled thinking bodies (thinkingbodiespod.com and kristinrodier.com).

Bernadette Russo is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Mount Saint Vincent University. She holds a BS from Northern Arizona University, an MA from Sam Houston State University, and a PhD in English from Texas Tech University with a concentration in Indigenous Literatures and Film. Dr. Russo's current research and teaching focuses on Indigenous literatures and film of North America, social justice issues, women and gender studies, environmental justice, rhetoric and linguistics of survivance, and intergenerational trauma, healing, and resilience.

Andi Schwartz is the Coordinator of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University and Co-Investigator on the SSHRC-funded project, “On Our Own Terms: An Oral History and Archive of Femme Cultural Production in Toronto, 1990-2000.” Her research interests include femme identities, cultures, and histories; digital and popular cultures; affect and “softness”; and intersectional approaches to the study of femininity. Her academic work has been published in Sexualities, Feminist Media Studies, Punk and Post Punk, Social Media and Society, and others. Andi is the creator of the podcast Still Brazen and the zine series Soft Femme. She recently co-edited a special issue of Feral Feminisms with Dr. Shayda Kafai on the intersection of critical femininity studies, Mad studies, and critical disability studies. Andi has been a faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at St. Francis Xavier University and is currently the Treasurer of the Sexuality Studies Association and a Research Associate with the Critical Femininities Research Cluster at York University.

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant (she/her) was born in Montreal (Quebec) to Haitian parents. She is a social worker and doctoral candidate in social work at the University of Ottawa. She has several years of intervention experience in the community and health and social service networks in Quebec. As a lecturer, she taught undergraduate and graduate students in English and French social work, feminist studies, Black studies and criminology. She is in the final stages of a dissertation on the #MeToo movement in Quebec from the perspective of women, survivors, and activists from Black communities. Since 2015, she has presented at more than a hundred conferences in French and English to diverse audiences in Quebec, Canada, and internationally. She is a current affairs columnist for Noovo Info and writes a feminist column for the social and political magazine À Bâbord! Her writings have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Le Délit, Policy Options-Options politiques, La Gazette des femmes, La Presse, La Conversation Canada, Le Devoir, Possibles, and Liberté. She is also the author of the literary essay "Le privilège de dénoncer : Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles," published by Les éditions du remue-ménage in Quebec and Europe (Author of the Year Gala Dynastie 2024; Selection of the Jury of the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2023). In 2020, she completed a fellowship at the United Nations as part of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024). kasouffrant.com

JJ Wright (she/they) earned their Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University before moving to Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton to take up a position as an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University. They teach Sociology and Gender Studies and research for and with communities as a scholar-activist. Her research interests primarily involve sexual health and consent education, gender-based violence prevention, participatory arts-based methodologies, queer and trans joy, and issues impacting 2SLGBTQIA+ communities broadly speaking. Their recent publications, including scholarly publications and community reports, can be found on their website at www.drjjwright.ca

Managing Editor

Katherine Barrett holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of British Columbia and is currently Adjunct Professor in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published scholarly research in both the natural and social sciences, as well as literary work in journals such as The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and The Antigonish Review. Katherine is the founder and editor of Understorey Magazine.