About TRANSIT Journal

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A JOURNAL OF TRAVEL, MIGRATION, AND MULTICULTURALISM IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD

TRANSIT Journal [ISSN 1551-9627] was founded in 2005 at the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley, growing out of the Multicultural Germany Project (MGP). The merger of the two websites consolidates this long standing collaboration. TRANSIT is the first refereed, multidisciplinary online journal dedicated to the critical inquiry of travel, migration, and multiculturalism in the German-speaking world. TRANSIT is a web-based, multimedia production that pushes boundaries, both of traditional scholarship and of print publication.

TRANSIT welcomes new readings of canonical literary works and films, and encourages analysis of non-canonical texts, debates, new media, and material culture. We accept critical scholarship on works such as Wolfram’s Parzival, Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei, or Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World. We especially appreciate comparative studies that frame the German example within larger theoretical and historical concerns. We invite critical work, in English or German, from all areas in which movement and transition are major forces, from translation to travelogs and other forms of cultural transfer. TRANSIT Journal also invites suggestions on special topics from guest editors.

TRANSIT Journal unites the academic rigor of the traditional scholarly review process with the benefits of open-access publication. Timely publication and distribution are ensured by the University of California’s eScholarship Digital Information Repository. As an open access journal, all content is freely available without charge to users and their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 

TRANSIT Journal publishes one issue over the course of a year in several rounds of publication, allowing for new submissions throughout the year. Each issue also contains an open forum for experimental work, translations, and review essays on relevant books. This issue format utilizes the features of electronic publishing to rapidly increase the ability of scholars to respond to one another’s work. We never charge for article submission or publication.