Aim, Vision & Mission
- Aim: To encourage innovative and original research in literature, language, culture, translation, and interdisciplinary studies while promoting multilingual scholarship. The Journal seeks to foster critical inquiry, comparative perspectives, and cross-cultural understanding through high-quality scholarly contributions.
- Mission: SJJLR is committed to advancing high-quality, original, and ethical scholarship by providing an inclusive, peer-reviewed platform for researchers, academicians, and students. The journal promotes rigorous research, critical inquiry, and interdisciplinary dialogue across the languages of English, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Through a transparent double-blind peer-review process and adherence to the highest standards of academic integrity, SJJLR seeks to encourage intellectual exchange, support emerging and established scholars, and contribute meaningfully to the growth of knowledge, literary studies, language research, and the humanities.
- Vision: SJLR envisions itself becoming a leading multilingual scholarly journal of national and international repute, recognized for academic excellence, editorial integrity, and intellectual diversity. It aspires to foster innovative research and cross-cultural dialogue by bringing together scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds, while promoting the study, preservation, and appreciation of English, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Through its commitment to excellence in research and publication, SJLR seeks to make a lasting contribution to the advancement of knowledge and the enrichment of global academic discourse.
Scope & Target Readership
- Scope: SJJLR is a multilingual, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing original and high-quality research in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, cultural studies, and the humanities. The journal welcomes scholarly contributions in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit, providing an inclusive platform for interdisciplinary research, critical inquiry, and intellectual exchange across diverse linguistic and cultural traditions. The journal encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, including literary criticism and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, linguistics, folklore, cultural and media studies, language teaching and pedagogy, gender studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous knowledge systems, digital humanities, manuscript studies, textual criticism, and allied interdisciplinary studies. By fostering dialogue among scholars, SJLR seeks to promote innovative research, preserve India’s rich multilingual literary heritage, and contribute to contemporary global scholarship.
- Target Readership: SJJLR is intended for researchers, academics, postgraduate scholars, educators, independent scholars, emerging researchers, translators, and creative practitioners in the humanities, both from India and around the world, who seek a rigorous, peer-reviewed, and internationally accessible platform for high-quality scholarly research.
Call for Papers (Invitation to Contributors)
St. John’s Journal Literary Research warmly invites contributions from scholars, researchers, academics, and creative writers worldwide. Whether your work opens a new methodological window on a canonical text, recovers a neglected literary tradition, brings a marginalized voice into critical visibility, extends theory into unexplored territory, or gives form to an original creative vision—this journal offers a rigorous, open, and internationally visible home for your scholarship and your art.
Manuscripts may be submitted at any time through the journal’s online submission system. The journal is published bi-annually and maintains a transparent, swift, and rigorous editorial process. Full submission guidelines, formatting requirements, and ethical standards are available on the journal website.