Call for New WSQ Editors
WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly) invites proposals for new general editors for a three-year term beginning May 1, 2026.
Proposals due November 3, 2025.
Since 1972, WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Its peer-reviewed interdisciplinary thematic special issues combine legal, economic, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work. The journal showcases innovative scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and visual arts that engage popular and academic readers alike. Recent issues include Nonbinary (Fall 2023); Pandemonium (Spring 2024); Unbearable Being(s) (Fall 2024); No estamos a la intemperie: An Open Call (Spring 2025); and Body Matters (Fall 2025).
In 2007, WSQ earned the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Since then, WSQ has continued to feature groundbreaking research and creative work by emerging scholars alongside new contributions by leaders in the field such as Angela Davis, Donna Haraway, Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Jennifer Morgan, Judith Butler, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Juana María Rodríguez, and Djamila Ribeiro.
The Feminist Press at CUNY publishes WSQ twice a year; each guest-edited special issue is a double volume. The journal is currently overseen by general coeditors Shereen Inayatulla and Andie Silva, with support from editorial directors Dána-Ain Davis, and Kendra Sullivan as well as managing editors Maya von Ziegesar and Googie Karrass. WSQ operates in a collaborative partnership with Feminist Press, The Center for the Humanities, and The Center for the Study of Women and Society, all housed within the CUNY Graduate Center. The Center for the Study of Women in Society and The Center for the Humanities provide support for the production of the journal through graduate student fellowships, public programming, web hosting, and promotion. The Feminist Press handles all production work and costs, including copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, printing, web hosting, and online subscriptions.
The journal’s editorial board is comprised of scholars, artists, and activists working in the field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, who provide guidance, peer review labor, and editorial feedback to the general editors. The general editors and editorial board solicit and select guest editor proposals for each issue. The general editors and managing editors work with guest editors to produce each issue.
We invite proposals from prospective coeditors who will work with editorial board members to build on and expand WSQ’s intellectual scope and audience reach within and beyond the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. The incoming editorial team is encouraged to think of their work in terms of field-building and field-expanding, ensuring that WSQ accommodates increased diversity and interdisciplinarity in its governance, operations, content, and distribution. It is also an opportunity to develop strategic institutional alliances.
Eligibility
WSQ seeks a team of two full-time faculty from a campus or campuses at the City University of New York to serve as general editors of the journal for a three-year term. The proposed editorial team must demonstrate a commitment to feminist scholarship and politics together with strong operational management skills.
This editorship is unremunerated; however, previous editors in this role have successfully sought course release time from their home institutions. Securing institutional support is paramount to thriving in this role, as it requires sustained labor throughout the calendar year as well as continuous collaboration with WSQ’s various stakeholders.
Key Dates
November 3, 2025: Full proposals are due. Proposals should be submitted electronically in PDF format. The Feminist Press and WSQ general editors will review proposals.
December 2025: Applicants are notified of the final decision.
January 15, 2026: New general editors are publicly announced.
February 2, 2026: New general editors and current general editors begin work on transition during the spring semester.
May 1, 2026: New general editors assume editorship and begin work on the next special issue in process.
December 2026: The first special issue of WSQ under new editorship is published by the Feminist Press.
Contact WSQ and the Feminist Press
Please send all queries and proposals to WSQEditors@gmail.com and info@feministpress.org.
Proposal Guidelines
Proposals to serve as general editors of WSQ should include:
Editorial Mission Statement:
● An explanation of the prospective coeditors’ vision for the journal and its editorial board, including an analysis of the place of the journal in feminist scholarship.
Coeditors’ Background Information and Qualifications:
● A statement on prospective coeditors’ prior experience that demonstrates preparation to successfully guide WSQ intellectually and administratively.
● CVs for each proposed editorial team member.
Selection Process
The current WSQ general editors will collaborate with the Feminist Press to review and evaluate all proposals. WSQ and the Feminist Press welcome questions and requests for feedback as prospective coeditors develop proposals.