About the Journal
Welcome to The Cartograph: An International Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, Sustainability, and Culture
The Cartograph is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed/refereed journal published biannually in January and July as the Winter and Monsoon Editions. The journal is dedicated to promoting literary scholarship, interpretive inquiry, and independent critical thinking in the field of literature with Interdisciplinary concepts.
The journal views literary narratives not as isolated texts, but as dynamic spaces where cultural, historical, social, philosophical, and aesthetic concerns interact. With literary hermeneutics at its core, it encourages meaningful engagement with texts across cultures, traditions, themes, concepts, and genres.
The journal welcomes original contributions from scholars, researchers, academicians, independent thinkers, and creative writers across the globe, aiming to foster rigorous scholarship, reflective interpretation, and a wider academic exchange.
Vision and Mission
The Cartograph: An International Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, Sustainability, and Culture emerge from a shared intellectual vision that seeks to create a thoughtful, inclusive, and globally connected space for literary and humanities scholarship. The initiative is guided by the belief that academic work becomes meaningful when it encourages dialogue, ethical reflection, cultural understanding, and independent critical thought.
At the heart of this vision lies a deep commitment to the humanities as a field that preserves human values, interprets cultural experiences, and strengthens our capacity to think critically about society, history, identity, and imagination. Literary studies, in this sense, are not limited to the study of texts alone; they open ways of understanding human life across languages, traditions, histories, and social realities.
The journal envisions literature as a living field of interpretation where texts interact with culture, philosophy, history, politics, environment, gender, memory, and human experience. It aims to promote scholarship that reads literature not as a closed form, but as a meaningful dialogue between the text, the reader, and the world.
Through interdisciplinary research, interpretive inquiry, and international academic exchange, the journal aspires to encourage fresh perspectives, responsible scholarship, and progressive thinking. Its mission is to provide a platform where scholars, researchers, academicians, and creative thinkers may contribute to the advancement of literary hermeneutics and the broader enrichment of humanities research.
Aim and Objectives of The Cartograph
Aim
The Cartograph aims to serve as a distinguished scholarly platform for advancing original, rigorous, and critically engaged research in English literature, literary theory, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary humanities. The journal seeks to create an intellectual space where literary texts, cultural formations, and theoretical perspectives are examined through reflective, analytical, and interpretive approaches.
It is founded on the belief that literature is not merely a field of textual study, but a powerful medium through which societies imagine, question, remember, and reinterpret human experience. With literary hermeneutics at its core, The Cartograph encourages scholarship that explores the relationship between texts and contexts, language and meaning, culture and identity, tradition and transformation.
Objectives
- To promote critical literary interpretation
To encourage the study of literary texts through diverse theoretical and interpretive frameworks such as hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, historicism, feminism, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and cultural theory. - To encourage interdisciplinary research
To support scholarship that connects literature with philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, media studies, environmental studies, digital humanities, and contemporary cultural debates. - To advance literary hermeneutics
To deepen scholarly understanding of meaning, interpretation, textuality, and the interaction between literary works and their cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts. - To support emerging and established scholars
To provide a credible, inclusive, and academically responsible publishing platform for researchers, academicians, independent scholars, and creative thinkers. - To preserve and enrich literary discourse
To publish high-quality scholarly research that demonstrates originality, conceptual clarity, analytical depth, and critical engagement. - To foster global academic collaboration
To encourage intellectual exchange among scholars from diverse cultural, linguistic, geographical, and academic backgrounds. - To connect literature with contemporary concerns
To promote research that relates literary studies to present-day social, ethical, cultural, ecological, technological, and human questions. - To strengthen humanities research
To contribute to the wider development of humanities scholarship by encouraging reflective inquiry, independent critical thinking, and meaningful academic dialogue.
Scope of Submission
The journal welcomes original and unpublished research articles, review papers, theoretical essays, Authored books, Edited books and critical studies that contribute to the advancement of literary studies, literary hermeneutics, and the broader field of humanities. Submissions may engage with established traditions as well as emerging areas of literary and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Sustainability and Environmental Humanities
- Society, Identity, Diaspora and Global Perspectives
- Language, Discourse, and Interpretation
- Interdisciplinary and Comparative Research
- Literary hermeneutics: theoretical, applied, and comparative approaches
- Classical, modern, and contemporary interpretations of literary texts
- Literature in relation to philosophy, psychology, culture, and society
- Digital humanities, textual analysis, and emerging modes of literary inquiry
- Comparative literature and cross-cultural literary studies
- Postcolonial, decolonial, and global literary perspectives
- Gender, identity, representation, and subjectivity in literature
- Reader-response criticism, reception theory, and interpretive practices
- Historical, political, ideological, and socio-cultural readings of literary works
- Translation studies, literary adaptations, and intertextual engagements
- Narratives of social, cultural, ecological, and political transformation
- Interdisciplinary approaches to literature, language, media, and the humanities
The journal particularly encourages submissions that demonstrate originality of thought, critical depth, conceptual clarity, and methodological innovation. Contributions should seek to enrich literary discourse and offer meaningful insights into the study of texts, contexts, cultures, and human experience.
Our Approach to Publishing
At The Cartograph, every submission is handled with care, integrity, and academic professionalism. The journal follows a structured editorial process designed to maintain scholarly quality while supporting authors throughout their publication journey.
Each manuscript undergoes a careful review process, with emphasis on originality, relevance, methodological soundness, conceptual clarity, and contribution to the field. The journal is committed to providing constructive and meaningful feedback that helps authors strengthen the quality, argument, and presentation of their research.
Through a transparent, responsible, and academically rigorous publishing approach, The Cartograph seeks to promote credible scholarship and encourage meaningful contributions to literary studies and the humanities.
