Aims and Scope
Slovo is an academic journal affiliated with the Department of Russian and Slavic Philology at the University of Bucharest. Founded to foster original research and scientific excellence, the journal serves as a platform for emerging scholars – undergraduate, MA, and PhD students – to engage in the complexities of philological and humanities research.
Focus and Scope
The journal publishes original papers, reviews, and literary translations across a broad interdisciplinary spectrum. While primarily centered on the Slavic space and its cultural interactions with other traditions, Slovo maintains an inclusive editorial policy, occasionally accepting exceptional work from the wider humanities.
Our core areas of interest include:
- Philological Studies: Linguistics, Stylistics, Poetics, and Narratology.
- Literary & Cultural Theory: Comparative Literature, Imagology, Reception Studies, and Translation Studies.
- Intellectual History: History of Ideas, Semiotics, Hermeneutics, and Social Anthropology.
- Interdisciplinary Intersections: Research at the crossroads of History, Philosophy, the Arts, and Social Sciences.
Main Values
The journal’s identity is defined by the following principles:
- Academic Mentorship: We provide a rigorous framework of guidance, where students are supported by coordinating professors and the editorial board through every stage of the writing and revision process.
- Pluralism and Dialogue: Slovo encourages a diversity of methodological approaches and seeks to stimulate academic dialogue between different philological schools and traditions.
- International Collaboration: Our peer-review committee unites experts from leading Romanian universities and prestigious international institutions across Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
Open Access and Contributions
The publication is open to students and researchers from the University of Bucharest and all academic centers in Romania and abroad with an interest in Slavic studies, Central and Eastern European cultures, or comparative research.