Announcements

Online Submission and Review System

The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) has an electronic manuscript submission and review system for Hispania. Submissions are only accepted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system, which can be found at the following URL. Please bookmark it in your browser:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hispan

All articles and book/media reviews must be submitted electronically at the above URL. Peer reviewers and journal staff will also be using the system for peer reviewing, manuscript tracking, and other correspondence. If you have not yet registered in the new system, please visit the URL above and click on "Register here" under "New User?" at the right-hand side of the log-in screen.

Guidelines for Hispania Available Online

Many of Hispania's guidelines have been recently updated. Please download the updated versions by going to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hispan and clicking on "Instructions & Forms" under "Resources" at the right-hand side of the log-in screen. Available documents include:

• • Frequently Asked Questions about Submitting to and Reviewing for Hispania: This comprehensive document covers all the questions most commonly asked by authors and peer reviewers. It is a good place to begin if you are new to the process.

• • Author Guidelines: These guidelines, intended for both article and book/media review authors, contain all the information you need to write, format, submit, and revise your original article or book/media review. One important change is an update and clarification on the style for in-text citations and Works Cited lists for articles in the areas of pedagogy and linguistics.

• • File Formatting Guidelines: These have been updated and revised to clarify which file types work with best with the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.

• • How to Create Figures and Tables for Hispania: These new guidelines give specific information about fonts, sizes, and formatting of figures and tables for articles submitted to Hispania.

• • Peer Reviewer Guidelines: These remain unchanged. They provide helpful criteria for evaluating an author's work as part of the peer review process.

• • Contract for Publication in Hispania and Request for Permissions of Secondary Materials: These forms remain unchanged and are available online for author convenience.

Peer Reviewers

If you would like to become a peer reviewer, please visit the new Hispania online submission and review system and click on "Register here" under "New user?" at the right-hand side of the log-in screen. From there, you will be guided to enter your personal information, create a user ID and password, and choose keywords that best relate to your areas of expertise. Once you have registered in the system, you can be considered for future peer reviewing, based on the keywords you select.

Call for Reviews / Registering to Review

If you are interested in reviewing books and/or media, please contact Domnita Dumitrescu, the incoming Book/Media Review Editor, at ddumitrescu@aatsp.org. In order to review, you must be registered in the new online submission and review system. To do so, go to the website and click on the "Register here" link under "New User?" at the right-hand side of the log-in screen, then follow the steps indicated.

Dissertations

Hispania publishes annually a list of "Dissertations in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures." The form for submitting reports on Completed Dissertations (defended) is available at http://www.xavier.edu/modern-languages/hispania/. The deadline for inclusion in the 2011 list is December 1, 2011. More information is available via email from Professor David Knutson at knutson@xavier.edu.

Upcoming Special Focus Issues for Hispania

Hispania invites literary, linguistic, and pedagogical manuscripts for peer review that relate to the topics found in the two Special Focus Issue descriptions below.

2013: "The Scholarship of Community Engagement" (submission deadline, January 1, 2012) comprises experiential learning linked to the community, service learning, volunteerism related to language learning, languages for special purposes, and related topics.

2015: "The Scholarship of Film and Film Studies" (submission deadline, January 1, 2014) encompasses the teaching of film in the classroom, film as text for language learners of all levels, theory and film, literary works in film, linguistic aspects of film, and related concepts.

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