About the Journal

Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture 

Supernatural Studies (print ISSN 2470-203X; online ISSN 2325-4866) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the academic study of representations of the supernatural, the speculative, the uncanny, and the weird across periods and disciplines. Supernatural Studies welcomes submissions on such representations in literature, film, television, video games, and other cultural texts and artifacts.   

Beginning with issue 4.1, publication in Supernatural Studies occurs both in print and by open-access electronic publication under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.  Material from issues prior to 4.1 will be made available online as authorial permissions are secured. The journal is listed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and EBSCO.   

See our latest Calls for Papers here.  Submissions regular issues are accepted on a rolling basis. 

If you are a scholar interested in serving as a peer reviewer for Supernatural Studies, please fill out this form

Editorial Board of Supernatural Studies 

Executive Editors

Leah Richards, LaGuardia Community College,

City University of New York; member, The Council of Editors of Learned Journals

John R. Ziegler, Bronx Community College,

City University of New York

Assistant Executive Editors

Raechel Dumas, San Diego State University

Catherine Siemann, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Reviews Editor

Jennifer Gilchrist

Social Media Editor

Deborah Christie

U.K. Business Manager

Ellen Rawson

Editorial Board

Anastassiya Andrianova, North Dakota State University

Maija Birenbaum, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Christina Carlson, Iona College

Joseph Donica, Bronx Community College, City University of New York

Curt Herr, Kutztown University

Bethany Holmstrom, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

Noah Simon Jampol, Bronx Community College, City University of New York

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University

Stephanie Pietros, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Shannon Proctor, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

David J. Puglia, Bronx Community College, City University of New York

Sigmund Shen, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

Patricia Tarantello, Marist University

Forthcoming

Volume 9, issue 2 [delayed but in latter stages of production]: Proceedings of It Is in Our House Now: Twin Peaks: The Return: The Online Conference, guest edited by Franck Boulègue and Marisa C. Hayes. 

News and Events

9 MAr. 2025: Web-first review of Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural  and The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales are now available.

26 Feb. 2025: Vol. 10, issue 1 is now available in print and electronically. 

The online, open-access reviews section of Supernatural Studies is live and accepting submissions.

Read Paolo Javier and Thomas Fink's "Exchange with Leah Richards and John Ziegler on Their Editorial Stewardship of Supernatural Studies" on Dichtung Yammer (1 Dec. 2019).

Read one participant's reflection on presenting at the inaugural 2018 Supernatural Studies Conference.

Read a review of Supernatural Studies 2.1 by Janet Brennan Croft, editor of the journal Mythlore.

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