About ABO
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an online journal that serves as a forum for interactive scholarly discussion on all aspects of women in arts between 1640 and 1830, especially literature, visual arts, music, performance art, film criticism, and production arts. The journal features peer-reviewed articles encompassing subjects on a global range and is intended for scholars and students. The journal is comprised of six departments: Scholarship; Pedagogy; Digital Humanities; Reviews; Conversations; and Notes and Discoveries.
ABO is peer-reviewed journal, indexed by the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, and included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. ABO is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and holds a Creative Commons License.
Like other respected journals, ABO carries excellent and timely scholarly articles and book reviews. Its unique pedagogy section offers fresh ideas and analyses regarding teaching the long eighteenth century at the undergraduate and graduate level. “Digital Humanities” is a section dedicated to better understanding how digital resources can help us approach and understand the work and lives of eighteenth-century women. “Notes and Discoveries” is a unique online research depository to help widely separated scholars share resources, identify areas of similar research interest, and contribute shreds of evidence which might otherwise remain buried. These submissions will take the form of notes, and they will be archived for continued availability over time.
In keeping with the feminist philosophy of the Aphra Behn Society, our editorial policies cultivate responsive, supportive academic work, highlighted by an open review process. In this peer-review, the submissions are blind, but the reviews are signed and intended to offer constructive criticism and feedback. On rare occasions, when a submission’s anonymity is not possible (e.g., when the submission revolves around the author’s personal or professional identity), ABO will make an exception with the author’s permission, and the review process will be conducted in a completely open manner. ABO operates with the assumption that scholarship is best produced in a collaborative environment of generosity and mutual learning. The Journal welcomes submissions that are lucid and appropriately engaged with the best available research. ABO seeks to promote greater understanding of women’s lives and work and related gender issues from the long eighteenth century.
All content for ABO is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. After publication, authors have the right to post pre-print or post-print versions of their article online, including on their personal, departmental, or institutional repository pages. ABO content is archivally preserved in LOCKSS and Portico, as well as being backed up in the bepress Digital Commons system.
