Global Perspectives on Literacy

Global Perspectives on Literacy is an interdisciplinary series of monographs and edited books focusing on all aspects of literacy comparatively and historically. It celebrates literacy, defined as the reading and writing of abstract codes, often in combination with speech, graphics, and images, as a single global phenomenon with many different origins, forms, histories, and practices.

A special focus of the series is its exploration of reading and writing globally, across multiple scripts and languages, including both logographic (e.g., Chinese; Egyptian hieroglyphic; cuneiform) and phonetic (e.g., Arabic; Roman; Brahmic) writing systems. The series also focuses on technologies of writing, from brushes, styluses, and pens to early printing and typewriting to word processing and the internet, and on the educational, psychological, sociological, economic, and political implications of these technologies for individuals, societies, and the global community.

In the next decades, Global Perspectives on Literacy will create a global source of knowledge about literacy, representing languages and writing systems across the world. Each scholarly volume in the series will consist of research-based, fully referenced content, providing an introduction to new areas of literacy studies and informing new research and publication.

Strands of book topics and titles to be included in the series (examples only, non-exhaustive):

• Writing technologies across history and geographic regions
• Digital literacy practices across regions and languages
• Contemporary uses and adaptations of scripts within and across languages
• Literacy in East Asia historically and cross-nationally
• Literacy in the Middle East cross-linguistically and culturally
• Literacy in multilingual, multiscript regions and countries
• Literacy within and across indigenous communities
• Youth literacy practices across languages and nations
• Adapted literacy systems, e.g., Arabizi and Pinyin
• Comparative mass literacy practices and politics
• Multimodality across languages and cultures
• Artificial Intelligence and its global impact on literacy

Author guidelines

If you are interested in publishing a monograph or an edited book under this series, please contact the series editors Mark Dressman ([email protected]) or Dingxin Rao ([email protected]), and Taylor & Francis Publisher Lian Sun ([email protected]).

Books in this series may be full length (60,000-80,000 words) or Focus length (30,000-50,000 words). Extensive help will be provided to new authors in terms of proposal development and book structuring, replying to reviewers’ comments, timeline planning, submission and proofreading, and so on. Publishing with a series is a good way to present your first or subsequent scholarly work and to get your name known to the field with the benefits of affiliating your book to a renowned publisher and sharing the established reputation of the editorial board and a line of specifically focused works.