European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
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| description | Scientific journal |
| First edition | 2010 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| editor | Klaus Böldl , Lutz Rühling, Henk van der Liet |
| Web link | www.ejss.uni-kiel.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0342-8427 |
The European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (EJSS) is a scientific journal published since 2010 with a focus on Scandinavian literature, culture and linguistics. The EJSS is a successor to the journal Scandinavistik . The editorial office is in Kiel , the magazine is published by De Gruyter . The magazine is currently being looked after by 3 main editors, 15 co-editors and 4 other members of the editorial team.
History and structure
The Scandinavian was founded in 1970 by the then professor of modern Scandinavian literature at the Nordic Institute of the University of Kiel , Otto Oberholzer, and Wolfgang Butt launched and Bernhard Glienke and appears twice a year since then.
The journal's editors are Klaus Böldl , Lutz Rühling (both University of Kiel) and Henk van der Liet ( University of Amsterdam ). Co-editors are Lars-Gunnar Andersson (Gothenburg), Sylvain Briens (Strasbourg), Jørgen Stender Clausen (Pisa), Heinrich Detering (Göttingen), Jürg Glauser (Zurich), Annegret Heitmann (Munich), Karin Hoff (Göttingen), Ármann Jakobsson ( Reykjavík), Unni Langås (Kristiansand), William Layher (St. Louis), Christer Lindqvist (Greifswald), Anne-Marie Mai (Odense), Edith Marold (Kiel), Stephan Michael Schröder (Cologne) and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen (Edinburgh) . In addition to Rühling, Böldl and van der Liet, Henrike Fürstenberg, Mathias Kruse, Katharina Preißler and Julia Anrecht are other members of the editorial team. Rahel Drüen and Anna-Lena Lange are currently in charge of the editorial office.
profile
The EJSS magazine sees itself as a specialist body for Scandinavian studies in Europe. It comprises the three sub-areas of Older Literature and Language History, Modern Literature and Linguistics . However, essays from other disciplines are also published, provided that they explicitly refer to Scandinavia . Each issue contains at least three specialist articles, as well as reviews of newly published scientific publications and up to and including 2011 in issue 1 of each year the bibliography of German-speaking Scandinavian studies. The total volume of a volume is currently 200 pages (up to and including 2000 160 pages). Contribution languages are German, English and the mainland Scandinavian languages Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. The submitted contributions are subjected to a peer review process for quality assurance .