New Year, New Journals: UNC Press Journals Adds Two New Titles

The UNC Press journals program is pleased to announce two new additions from the Department of Romance Studies at UNC Chapel Hill in 2026: Hispanófila and Romance Notes. 

For decades, the Press’s Office of Scholarly Publishing Services has distributed the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures (NCSRLL) book series for the Department. We are delighted to expand our partnership to include the program’s journals as well. Starting this year, the Press will support subscription fulfillment, submissions, and editorial management, as well as oversee production and distribution of the journals both in print and online. Later this winter, we will announce completion of the journals’ migration to the Press’s submission platform, Janeway. In the meantime, interested prospective contributors to either journal can continue to make submissions according to the guidance posted at the Department website.

From the Editors:

“I am very excited to leverage the support, infrastructure, and presence of the University of North Carolina Press to further the standing of Hispanófila in the field of Hispanic Studies. UNCP is one of very few university presses in the United States that also publishes scholarly works in Spanish, so our addition to the journals program will be mutually beneficial for our readership. As editor, I am keen on broadening the scope of scholarship that we publish.”

—María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech and Editor of Hispanófila.

“Our new partnership with UNC Press represents an exciting turning point for Romance Notes. It simplifies the publication process, lightens the editorial workload, and allows me to dedicate more time to curating compelling themes and high-quality content. I’m especially looking forward to collaborating on innovative promotion strategies that will connect the journal with different academic communities, other departments and institutions, and diverse social media audiences.”

—Paulo Rodrigues Ferreira, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Editor of Romance Notes