Modern Languages Open (MLO) is pleased to welcome two new section editors, Professor Helena Buffery (University College Cork, Ireland) and Dr Marina Popea (University College Cork, Ireland), who will lead the Hispanic Studies section of the platform going forward.
Both bring extensive experience as researchers, authors and editors, with research interests across a range of disciplines and areas including Translation Studies, Hispanic/Spanish-language cultures, literary translation and the circulation of literature across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
Professor Helena Buffery, University College Cork, Ireland
Professor Helena Buffery is Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Professor in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork (UCC).
Helena said,
“I am very much looking forward to working with the team to bring research in Iberian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies to wider audiences across.”
Dr Marina Popea, University College Cork, Ireland
Dr. Marina Popea is a Postdoctoral Researcher associated with the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS) at at University College Cork (UCC).
Marina said,
“I’m delighted to be taking on this role and excited by the possibilities offered by open scholarship to bring academic communities across languages, countries, and disciplines into closer conversation. I’m particularly keen to help create space for innovative work by early-career researchers and to foster new connections and collaborations across these boundaries.”
Call for papers
MLO invites submissions of articles and special issue proposals for forthcoming issues and special collections. Modern Languages Open is a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience.
It provides:
- Interdisciplinarity across the modern languages and engagement with other fields from a modern languages perspective
- Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence*
- Rigorous peer review
- Flexibility on article length from 3,000-15,000 words
- International dissemination under the imprimatur of a university press
Read past articles and special collections from MLO open access online >
The journal promotes innovative critical work in the areas of Comparative Literature, Digital Modern Languages, Film, French & Francophone, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese & Lusophone, and Russian & Eastern European Languages.
MLO is published by Liverpool University Press.
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