Oxford University Press Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality

As General Co-Editor for Oxford University Press's Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality series (with Jenny L. Davis), I welcome all inquiries from potential contributors. You may submit proposals and manuscripts to us or to Meredith Keffer, the OUP editor who works on the series.

For more information about submitting to the series, series author guidelines are available in PDF format. For more about preparing your proposal, see the proposal guidelines on OUP's website

About the series

Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a broadly interdisciplinary forum for pioneering new scholarship in the field. The mandate of the series is to encourage innovative work on language, gender, and sexuality, which may be achieved through the revisitation of familiar topics from fresh vantage points, through the introduction of new avenues of research, or through new theoretical or methodological frameworks. Volumes may be authored by scholars in such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, literary studies, education, psychology, ethnic studies, and women’s studies, as well as linguistics. In addition, monographs, textbooks, and edited collections that fit the series’ emphasis on innovation will be appropriate for inclusion. 

Books published in the series (most of which precede my tenure as editor) include:

• queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media, Claire Maree (2020) 
• From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures, Rusty Barrett (2017)
• Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics, Erez Levon & Ronaldo Beline Mendes (2015)
• Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality, Lal Zimman, Jenny L. Davis, and Joshua Raclaw (2014)   
• Language, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics, Sally McConnell-Ginet (2011)
• From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care, Lanita Jacobs[-Huey] (2006)
• Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (revised and expanded edition), Robin Tolmach Lakoff & Mary Bucholtz (ed.) (2004)
• Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, Shigeko Okamoto & Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (eds.) (2004)
• Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender, Anna Livia (2000)
• Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang & Laurel A. Sutton (eds.) (1999)