Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics (BaRCA) (ISSN 2002-6463) is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press. BaRCA provides a publishing platform for academic textbooks built on high-quality research mainly within the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies. It is the ambition of BaRCA to place equally high demands on the academic quality of the manuscripts it accepts as those applied by international academic publishers of a similar orientation. BaRCA accepts manuscripts in English and Swedish.

Critical Editions in Culture and Aesthetics (CEiCA) (ISSN XXXX-XXXX) is a peer-reviewed series of scholarly editions of source texts published by Stockholm University Press. CEiCA aims to provide a publishing forum for translated, annotated, and introduced texts within the broad domain of culture and aesthetics, including, but not limited to, the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies.

The ambition of CEiCA includes both to provide open access to manuscripts and out of print texts, and to introduce them with a contextualizing and critical apparatus. The series thus promotes the values of 1) making source texts available through digital means of access, and 2) recognizing critical editing as a scholarly achievement in its own right. English translations that make Swedish texts accessible to international scholarly communities are encouraged.   

As the CEiCA publications are required to be the products of scholarly achievements, the series does not include facsimiles, reprints, or other editions without a critical apparatus that contextualizes, explains, problematizes, and evaluates the source texts through introductions, annotations, footnotes, further references, bibliography, indexing, etc.

Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics (SiCA) (ISSN 2002-3227) is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press. SiCA strives to provide a broad forum for research on culture and aesthetics, including the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies. In terms of subjects and methods, the orientation is wide: critical theory, cultural studies and historiography, modernism and modernity, materiality and mediality, performativity and visual culture, children’s literature and children’s theatre, queer and gender studies.

It is the ambition of SiCA to place equally high demands on the academic quality of the manuscripts it accepts as those applied by refereed international journals and academic publishers of a similar orientation. SiCA accepts manuscripts in English, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.

Editorial Board

Magdalena Holdar: Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things The Agency of Chance Collaborations, Brill Publishing

Per Stam, Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Gunnel Engwall (eds.) August Strindberg’s The Occult Diary in its entirety in English translation, Stockholm University Press

Anders Hallengren: Ocean Bound Women. Sisters Sailing Around the World in the 1880s–The Adventures–The Ship–The People, World Scientific Publishing

Mårten Snickare: Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond. From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis, Amsterdam University Press

Emma Kummerfeldt Quiroa (née Jansson): Making in Context: Reconsidering Anders Zorn's Oil Painting Practice

Frida Beckman: The Paranoid Chronotope Power, Truth, Identity, Stanford University Press

Ingemar Haag, Vanishing Selves: Negotiating Selfhood in Self-Representational Works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche

Helena Bodin, Stefan Helgesson och Annika Mörte Alling (eds.), Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices

Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art

Magnus Tessing Schneider, The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni

Magnus Tessing Schneider (ed.), Felicity Baker, Don Giovanni’s Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece

Anna Källén, The Archaeologist In-Between: Olov Janse 1892-1985

Elina Druker, Björn Sundmark, Åsa Warnqvist & Mia Österlund (ed.), Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature

Tiina Rosenberg, Sandra D'Urso & Anna Renée Winget (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance

Tanja Schult & Diana I. Popescu (ed.), Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century

Axel Englund & Walter Bernhart (ed.), Arts of Incompletion: Fragments, Drafts, Revisions in Words and Music

Willmar Sauter, Aesthetics of Presence: Philosophical and Practical Reconsiderations

Sonya Petersson (ed.), Digital Human Sciences: New Objects – New Approaches

Linn Holmberg & Maria Simonsen (red.), Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000

Anna Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural drawings from the Cronstedt Collection Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Anna Dahlgren, Fashioned in the North: Nordic histories, Agents, and Images of Fashion Photography

Victoria Fareld & Hannes Kuch (red.), From Marx to Hegel and Back: Capitalism, Critique and Utopia

Anna Källén (red.), Heritage and Borders

Anders Hallengren, The Moment Is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström’s Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

Petra Dotlacilová, Dance Body Costume

Frida Beckman (red.), New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

Dirk Gindt: ‘Viral Networks: HIV and AIDS, Performance, and the Sexual Politics of the Swedish Welfare State in the 1980s’, in Theatre Journal vol. 74, no. 4

Sofia Iaffa: ”On Not Crossing Borders: Still-Standing Female Characters in Luisa Valenzuela’s prose”, in Feminism as World Literature (Bloomsbury Academic)

Anna Jörngården: “Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature”, in Literary Landscapes of Time: Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures (De Gruyter)

Victoria Fareld: ”Framing the polychronic present”, in Historical understanding: Past, present, and future (Bloomsbury)

Dirk Gindt: “‘We Already Carry Out a National Assignment’: Indigenous Performance and the Struggle for a Sámi National Theatre in Sweden”, in Theatre Research International

Carin Franzén, “Reading Loops with Boccaccio, Freud and Morton”, in Humanities

Victoria Fareld, “Time”, The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (2021)

Anna Albrektson, 'Horace is dead, but I am alive': Epic Failure and Satiric Authority in Eighteenth-Century Sweden in The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century (2021)

Emma Jansson, “Reconsidering Anders Zorn’s Omnibus Paintings” in RIHA Journal, (2021)

Johanna Ethnersson Pontara, “The Phenomenal Side of the Operatic Performance: Implications of Promotion Strategies on Cinematic Representations of the 21st Century”, in Open Library of Humanities 7(2) (2021)

Richard Hoogland, ”Brecht as a Stranger in a Postdramatic Era: Fatzer at Deutsches Theater 2016", in The Brecht Yearbook 46 (2021)

Boel Hackman, “'I Have Had Myself as Experimental Object': Ulla Bjerne and the Politics of Female Embodied Experience", in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, (November 24, 2021)

Lydia Wistisen, "Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature", in Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021)

Emma Jansson, the first issue of the new journal Materia: Journal of Technical Art History (2021)

Anna Källén, Andreas Nyblom, Daniel Strand & Charlotte Mulcare, Special issue on aDNA in Journal of Social Archaeology (2021)

Anna Källén & Daniel Strand, "I am a Viking! DNA, popular culture and the construction of geneticized identity", in New Genetics and Society: Critical Studies of Contemporary Biosciences (31 januari 2021)

Anna Källén & Daniel Strand, "Viking DNA and the pitfalls of genetic ancestry tests", in The Conversation (9 april 2021)

Victoria Fareld, “Entangled Memories of Violence: Jean Améry and Frantz Fanon”, in Memory Studies (16/2 2021)

Dirk Gindt, "Creativity, Corporeality and Collaboration: Staging Fashion with Giorgio Armani and Robert Wilson", in Staging Fashion: The Fashion Show and Its Spaces (Bloomsbury 2021)

Boel Westin, "Nostalgia", in the second edition of Keywords for children´s literature (2021)

Tiina Rosenberg, "Rising Like the Eurovision Song Contest On Kitsch, Camp, and Queer Culture", in lambda nordica 2020-10-26

Jacob Kimvall, "Keeping it clean: Graffiti and the commodification of a moral panic", in Visual Inquiry

Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen, "The Role of Dystopian Art in the Climate Crisis", in Peripeti, "Det åbne nummer" 2020-09-25

Sonya Petersson, “Reframing the Concept of Illustration: Image, Text, and the Double Difference of Reproductive Media” in Konsthistorisk tidskrift no 4 2020

Hilda Jakobsson, "The Virgin Mother and the Impossible Love", in August Strindberg und die Aufklärung och upplysningen and the Enlightenment

Ulf Olsson, "Drawing up the Account: Administrative Discourse in Strindberg's Works", in August Strindberg und die Aufklärung och upplysningen and the Enlightenment

Tanja Schult, "Reshaping American Identity: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and its Take-Away Twin", in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, no 3 2020

Rikard Hoogland, "Lars Norén and Jon Fosse: Nordic Grey or Theatre Innovators?", in Contemporary European Playwrights

Daria Skjoldager-Nielsen och Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen, “Para-Antropo(s)cene Aesthetics between Despair and Beauty: A Matter of Response-Ability”, in Nordic Theatre Studies Vol. 31, No. 1, 2020

Karin Dirke, "From pest to pet: Liminality, domestication and animal agency in the killing of rats and cats", in Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies, no 6 2020

Elina Druker, editor for the special issue with the theme ”Silence and silencing in children’s literature”, of International Research in Children's Literature, no 13:1

Anna Dahlgren, "Rethinking the Social Photograph in the Age of Digital Interconnectivity", in Connect to collect: approaches to collecting social digital photography in museums and archives

Lydia Wistisen, "Too Much Feeling: S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Conflicting Emotions, Identity, and Socialization", in Children's Literature in Education (21 april 2020)

Dirk Gindt, "Curating and Performing Racism: Scenarios of Afrophobia in Contemporary Sweden" in Scandinavian Studies 92.1

Tanja Schult, "Christoph Mayer's The Invisible Camp – Audio Walk Gusen", in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2020)

Peter Gillgren, "Felix Horb: Notes in the margins of MaxDvořák, Hans Sedlmayr and Erwin Panofsky", in Journal of Art Historiography

Fredrik Krohn Andersson, “Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre”, in Securing Urban Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization