About the Journal

 MATLIT: Materialities of Literature is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by Coimbra University Press and the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra. The journal addresses the material and technological mediations of literary practices, with a particular focus on printness, digitality, aurality, and intermediality. The research fields covered by the journal extend from literary studies to comparative media studies and to digital humanities. MATLIT uses the following working languages: Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Adopting an interdisciplinary and transmedia perspective, the journal is organized into thematic issues. Each issue has its own Call for Papers.

Founded in 2013 by Manuel Portela and Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre, MATLIT provides full open-access to its contents. There are no article processing charges. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: (1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal; (2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal; (3) Authors are free to deposit all versions of their work (submitted, accepted or published version) in an institutional or other repository of their choice without embargo. 

Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for journal content. MATLIT is indexed and archived by Coimbra University Digital Library (UC Digitalis) and is also available here: https://digitalis.uc.pt/matlit

Further information: History of the journal (2013-2019).

This publication is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, under the UIDB/00759/2020 Project (DOI 10.54499/UIDB/00759/2020).