Celebrity Studies is a peer reviewed journal thatfocuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts.
Celebrity Studies addresses key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts. Alongside the primary articles, the journal includes the Celebrity Forum section devoted to shorter observations, debates or issues in celebrity culture, in conjunction with book reviews and conference reports and occasional Celebrity Report sections.
Types of Article
Celebrity Forum is a section of Celebrity Studies that provides a space for timely responses to contemporary and historical issues in celebrity culture. We encourage submissions of academic 'think pieces' (1,000-1,500 words, including notes and references) in the form of conceptual explorations or case studies, which should be provocative and open-ended, encouraging exchange and debate. Above all, Celebrity Forum is designed to be dialogical and primarily engaged with cutting edge developments in celebrity and its study. Please note that all submissions are subject to double-anonymized peer review by at least two international reviewers with relevant expertise, and that Forum submissions do not require abstracts or key words.
Forum section submissions should be sent to Gaston Franssen.
Editorial Information
Gaston Franssen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ([email protected]).
The Cultural Report section of Celebrity Studies is home to dossiers of original short articles that interrogate cultures of celebrity which have yet to receive adequate critical attention. Each dossier is framed geographically or thematically with the aim of highlighting heterogeneous forms and functions of celebrity in different national contexts and thus expanding the international horizon of celebrity studies as a field. Previous dossiers have focused on Nordic celebrity, Korean celebrity, Australian celebrity, Non-western celebrity politics and diplomacy, and the celebrity of Haruki Murakami.
Editorial Information
The Cultural Report
Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK. He is co-editor of
-First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship, and Cultural Politics
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
-Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
He has journal special issues on the TV show Friends (
Television and New Media
, 2018) and populist celebrity politicians (
Celebrity Studies, 2019).
He has edited the Cultural Report section of Celebrity Studies since 2015
.
All peer review for Celebrity Studies is double anonymized and detailed Instructions for Authors can be found here .
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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