Dutch Crossing
A Journal of Low Countries Studies

Scope

Dutch Crossing published since 1977, is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, devoted to all aspects of Low Countries Studies: Dutch language and literature, history and art history of the Low Countries, the social sciences and cultural studies, and Dutch as a foreign language. It also publishes conference papers, research reports, book reviews and occasionally, English translations of Dutch literary works. Coverage includes both the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as other places where Dutch historically had or continues to have an impact, including parts of the Americas, Southern Africa and South-East Asia. A special focus concerns relations between the Low Countries and the English-speaking world in all periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Aims

Dutch Crossing aims to encourage research and intellectual exchange, to disseminate scholarly work by younger as well as established researchers, and to enhance the profile of Low Countries Studies and of Dutch and Flemish culture in the English-speaking world. All articles are in English and blindly peer-reviewed by at least one referee.

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Award

In 2009 Dutch Crossing has achieved an honourable mention from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) in the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement.

The award was established in 1987 to recognise the most improved journal. Dutch Crossing moved to Maney Publishing in 2009 and underwent a cover redesign, and also increased to 3 issues per year from 2010. The journal has been included in The British Humanities Index, Current Abstracts, Modern Language Association, Periodicals Index Online, and TOC Premier abstracting and indexing services for the first time in 2009.

Also read the article on the MLA conference during which the award was received on The Low Countries Blog.

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Content

Dutch Crossing consists primarily of scholarly articles on Dutch language and literature, history and art history of the Low Countries, the social sciences and cultural studies, and Dutch as a foreign language. We also publish conference papers, research reports, English translations of Dutch literary works, and book reviews.

Thematic issues have been produced on such topics as Anglo-Dutch relations in the 17th Century; Williamite Scotland and the Dutch Republic; contemporary Dutch women writers; Frisian culture; Landscape Painting; Literary Translation and Medieval Drama.

A cumulative index of the years 1977-2008 is available here.

For information about the editor and the editorial board, notes for contributors, examples of content please consult the publisher’s webpages: Maney Publishing.

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Subscription

Since 2010 subscription of Dutch Crossing is part of ALCS membership. We have negotiated very preferential rates with our new publisher Maney Publishing.

Apart from being sent three issues per year with the latest research on Low Countries Studies, you will have access to the complete online archive of Dutch Crossing as the new publisher will digitise all articles and reviews from 1977 onwards in the course of 2010.

For information on membership rates and becoming a member, please go to our membership page.

New institutional subscribers please contact Maney directly by clicking here.

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