Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in France by the Société des Études Postcoloniales – SEPC.

The journal showcases research on Commonwealth and English-speaking postcolonial societies. Using an interdisciplinary approach (sociology, political science, cultural studies, economics, cultural history), the journal publishes articles on contemporary issues affecting Commonwealth societies (19th-21st c.), and all regions having a historical link with the British Empire as well as postcolonial cultural studies and theory. 

Submissions of articles, interviews, and reviews should be sent electronically to the editors. They should be around 6,000 words or 36,000 signs (including explanatory notes and works cited), and should follow the Chicago manual of style 18th edition. Translations are to be provided for citations in languages other than English. Submissions should also provide a brief biographical note (50-70 words along with name, affiliation, student standing (if applicable) as well as a postal address, and e-mail address. Submissions should be sent as email attachments jointly to deirdre.gilfedder@dauphine.psl.eu and bernardjcros@gmail.com

Publication managing editor: Christine Lorre

Chief Editor: Deirdre Gilfedder

Associate Editor: Bernard Cros

Editorial assistant: Ondine Aza

Advisory Board 

Dr. Prudence BLACK, University of Adelaide, Australia 

Pr. David CARTER, University of Queensland, Australia 

Kim CHAKANESTA journalist, BBC Africa, United Kingdom

Dr. Sophie CROISY, Université Versailles–Saint-Quentin

Davina DOUGHAN, journalist, Royal Holloway University, United Kingdom

Pr. Waddick DOYLE, American University of Paris

Pr. Matthew GRAVES, Aix-Marseille Université 

Dr. Marianne HILLION, Université de Strasbourg

Dr. Paul HUSBANDS, historian, Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, New Zealand

Pr. Emeritus. Raj ISAR, International Council of Museums (ICOM); INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage), India

Dr. Ronald LEASK, Université de Strasbourg

Pr Greg NEWBOLD, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 

Pr. Martine PIQUET, Université Paris-Dauphine PSL

Pr. Em. Xavier PONS, Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès 

Pr. Robert SCHRIRE, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Pr. Gilles TEULIÉ, Aix-Marseille Université

Orders & Subscriptions

Subscription for Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays (one issue per year) is 15 euros (18 for institutions).

Orders and payment as well as subscription enquiries are to be addressed to Marianne Hillion at 6, rue des Lilas, 75019 Paris or by email to mhillion@unistra.fr.

Cheques in euros drawn on a French bank should be made out to SEPC.

Back Issues

Issues 3-18 10€ + shipping

Issues 19-22 15€ + shipping

Cultures of the Commonwealth

• No.1 Winter 1995-1996 ‘National Identities’     (OUT OF PRINT)
• No.2 Winter 1996-1997 ‘Cultures, Rights/Rites and Voices’    (OUT OF PRINT)
• No.3 Autumn 1997 Special Agrégation Issue, ‘The Republican Debate in Australia, 1788-1997’
• No.4 Spring 1998 ‘Post-postcolonialism?’
• No.5 Winter 1998-1999: ‘Rewriting History’
• No.6 Spring 2000 ‘Games’
• No.7 Winter 2000-2001 ‘Reconciliation’
• No.8 Spring 2002 ‘Units, Unity’
• No.9 Spring 2003 ‘The Urban and the Rural’
• No.10 Spring 2004 ‘Genre / Gender’
• No.11 Winter 2004-2005 ‘Heritage’
• No.12 Winter 2005-2006 ‘Textual, Contextual, Extra-Textual’
• No.13 Winter 2006-2007 ‘Strange, Stranger’
• No.14 Winter 2007-2008 ‘Behind the Scenes’
• No.15-16 Spring 2010 ‘Resurgences’ / ‘Tries and Essays’
• No.17 Winter 2010-2011 ‘Horizons’
• No.18 Autumn 2012 ‘The Local and the Global’
• No.19-20-21 Autumn 2016 ‘Transparency to Crossings’
• No.22 Spring 2019 ‘Confluence, Divergence and Diversity’
• No.23 Autumn 2020, ‘Oceania and the Pacific Rim’

Postcolonial Cultures, Studies and Essays

• No.1 2022, ‘Australia and Beyond’
• No.2 2023, ‘Fault Lines’
• No.3 2024, ‘Transmissions/Borders’