Modern Languages Open (MLO)

About this Journal

Modern Languages Open (MLO) 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 CC-BY licence
• Rigorous peer review pre-publication interactivity post-publication
• Rewards for article reviewers
• Flexibility on article length from 3,000-15,000 words
• International dissemination under the imprimatur of a university press

MLO is published by Liverpool University Press, one of the world’s leading publishers in the modern languages, in partnership with the University of Liverpool Library.

Current sections are: Digital Modern Languages, Film, French and Francophone, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Linguistics; Portuguese and Lusophone, Russian and Eastern European Languages and Comparative Literature.

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"MLO will galvanize innovative scholarship and may indeed change the course of publishing"
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages & Literature, Harvard University

"Open access is the necessary and exciting future of academic publishing, and MLO is uniquely well positioned to exercise groundbreaking impact in its field with regard to methods, tools, and economic models that can maximize both access (for prospective authors and readers alike) and the quality of the review process and the resulting scholarly product"
Anna M. Klobucka, Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

ISSN 2052-5397

Comparative Literature: Section Editor

• Emma Bond

  University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Comparative Literature: Editorial Board

• Florian Mussgnug

  University College London, United Kingdom

• Emily Spiers

  Lancaster University , United Kingdom

• Henriette Partzsch

  University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

   

Digital Modern Languages: Section Editors

• Paul Spence

  King's College London, United Kingdom

• Naomi Wells

  School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom

   

Digital Modern Languages: Editorial Board

• Caroline Ardrey

  The University of Birmingham , United Kingdom

• Guyda Armstrong

• Joe Dale

  Independent Consultant, United Kingdom

• Orhan Elmaz

  University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

• Mirjam Hauck

  The Open University, United Kingdom

• Claire Taylor

  University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

   

Film: Section Editor

• Abigail Loxham

  University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Film: Editorial Board

• Owen Evans

  Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

• Jenny Chamarette

  Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom

• Jara Fernández Meneses

  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• Laura Hubner

  University of Winchester, United Kingdom

   

French & Francophone: Section Editors

• Kay Chadwick

  Reader in French Historical Studies, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Siobhán Shilton

  University of Bristol, United Kingdom

   

French & Francophone: Editorial Board

• Janice Carruthers

  Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

• Emma Cayley

  University of Leeds, United Kingdom

• Patrick Crowley

  University College Cork, Ireland

• Mark Darlow

  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Andrea Goulet

  University of Pennsylvania, United States

• Marion Schmid

  University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

   

German Studies: Section Editors

• Benedict Schofield

  King's College London, United Kingdom

• Lyn Marven

  Senior Lecturer in German, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

German Studies: Editorial Board

• Laura Bradley

  University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Owen Evans

  Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

• Daniel Purdy

  Pennsylvania State University, United States

   

Hispanic Studies: Section Editors

• Niamh Thornton

  University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

   

Hispanic Studies: Editorial Board

• Sarah Barrow

  University of Lincoln, United Kingdom

• Helena Buffery

  University College Cork, Ireland

• Jean Franco

  Columbia University

• Christine Henseler

  Union College, United States

• Kirsty Hooper

  University of Warwick, United Kingdom

• Joanna Page

  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Isabel Torres

  Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

   

Italian: Section Editor

• Simona Storchi

  School of Arts, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

   

Italian: Editorial Board

• Clodagh Brook

  University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Philip Cooke

  University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

• Manuele Gragnolati

  Somerville College, Oxford University, United Kingdom

• Elizabeth Leake

  Columbia University, United States

• Eanna O'Ceallachain

  University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Laura Rorato

  University of Hull, United Kingdom

• Helena Sanson

  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Sharon Wood

  Emerita Professor, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

   

Linguistics: Section Editor

• Nicola Bermingham

  University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

   

Linguistics: Editorial Board

• Michelle Harrison

  University of Leicester, United Kingdom

• Adam Ledgeway

  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Leigh Oakes

  Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

   

Portuguese & Lusophone: Section Editor

• Claire Williams

  St. Peter's College, Oxford, United Kingdom

   

Portuguese & Lusophone: Editorial Board

• Ana Ferreira

  University of Minnesota, United States

• Anna Klobucka

  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States

• Victor Mendes

  UMASS Dartmouth, United States

   

Russian & Eastern European Languages: Section Editor

• Polly McMichael

  University of Nottingham

• Philip Bullock

  Wadham College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

   

Russian & Eastern European Languages: Editorial Board

• Tim Beasley-Murray

  University College London, United Kingdom

• Philip Bullock

  Wadham College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Natalia Ermolaev

  Princeton University, United States

• David Norris

  Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Emma Widdis

  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom