CfP: Seeking Asian Studies Scholars for Bloomsbury’s Trans Studies Book Series5.12.2025 {en}
Seeking Asian Studies scholars to write and edit books for Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic. We welcome books on transgender and nonbinary topics throughout South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Proposals are welcome from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences.
High priorities for the series include books that provide intersectional perspectives, as well as works that examine transgender and nonbinary topics with reference to specific Asian linguistic, national, and regional groups. We encourage authors from around the world to contribute to the series, incorporating culture-specific insights as feasible.
Bloomsbury’s Gender & Sexuality Studies list pioneers the publishing of innovative scholarly research from marginalized gender identities and sexualities across global and transnational contexts, and they have a robust list in Asia Studies. Bloomsbury has a longstanding commitment to publishing insightful books on LGBTQIA+ topics.
To propose a book for Trans Studies, please complete this form and submit it to General Editor Douglas Vakoch (dvakoch[at]meti.org) and Senior Acquisitions Editor Courtney Morales (Courtney.Morales[at]bloomsbury.com). Please include your CV, a list of five to seven potential reviewers you do not know personally, and a sample chapter. If you do not have a sample chapter for the book, please include a previous writing sample written in the same style that you envision for the book.
On the form, list the highest degree for each author, editor, and chapter author. For edited volumes, all chapters should have at least one author who has already completed their PhD.
Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate. Books in this series include monographs and edited volumes that target academic audiences. We value books that explore socially relevant issues and that both clarify and question the premises of fields outside of trans studies.
All books in the Trans Studies series—whether they are grounded in the humanities, social sciences, or biological sciences—reflect on the assumptions that guide the book’s specific version of trans scholarship. We especially seek works that provide innovative reformulations of the scope and practice of trans studies, including novel methodologies and theoretical concepts that challenge the status quo. We welcome books from disciplines that are underrepresented in trans studies.
All books follow the most recent guidelines for best practices in using accurate and respectful language when discussing transgender and nonbinary people and topics. Key resources to these best practices include GLAAD’s overviews of Transgender People and Nonbinary People, as well as this Glossary of Terms.
Contributors to this series come from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, architecture, area studies, art, biology, cinema studies, classics, communication studies, cultural studies, disability studies, ecology, economics, education, environmental studies, ethics, ethnic studies, gender studies, geography, history, law, literary studies, masculinity studies, media studies, medicine, medieval studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy, queer studies, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, science fiction studies, sociology, theology, trans studies, and women’s studies. Proposals grounded in other disciplines are equally welcome.
Bloomsbury Academic’s Trans Studies book series is based on a three-fold commitment to:
- Provide inclusive, global representation of transgender and nonbinary topics and authors
- Challenge assumptions of trans studies and other fields
Engage diverse disciplines from the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences
Source: CFP: Seeking Asian Studies Scholars for Bloomsbury’s Trans Studies Book Series, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US.
