Aims:
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) welcomes original research articles that have a creative scholarly approach and adopt an interdisciplinary perspective toward subjects in world literatures, literary theory and criticism, Comparative studies, linguistics, and teaching foreign languages. The submitted articles will be assessed according to the following criteria: Literary submissions should adopt new tenets of literary theory and criticism in an educated and novel way in their analysis of literary texts, and submissions pertaining to teaching foreign languages should utilize technological approaches in their scholarly analysis.

Scope:

In literary studies, CLLS investigates literary texts across interdisciplinary fronts. To this end, the following approaches are particulary encouraged and prioritized:

World literatures and,

• Continental contemporary philosophy
• Disability studies
• Digital humanities and game studies
• Medical humanities
• Marginal modernism
• Ecocriticism: in particular Blue ecocriticism
• Comparative studies
• Literature and Cinema
• Narratology
• Diasporic literature and marginal literature

In teaching and learning foreign languages the following topics are of particularly interest, emphasizing the significance of language learning as a technological, cultural prism:

• CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
• RALL: Robot Assisted Language Learning
• MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning
• Proficiency
• Tasked-based learning and teaching

Linguistic explorations are encouraged and warmly welcome as long as they emphasize an interdisciplinary, international, and comparative approach.