Angelaki

Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities is a British-based international academic journal founded in 1993 that "represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies."[1] Since 1998, it has been published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. In 1996, while it was still an independent publication, the journal was named "Best New Journal" in the annual awards of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.[2] The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[3] Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index,[4] amongst others.[5]

Angelaki

Discipline	Humanities, including: Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Art Theory, Social Theory, Political Theory
Language	English
Edited by	Lead editors: Charlie Blake (Theme Commissioning Editor), Pelagia Goulimari (General Editor), Gerard Greenway (Editor), Salah el Moncef bin Khalifa (General Issue Editor)
Publication details
History	1993 to present
Publisher	Routledge (United Kingdom)
Frequency	6/year (4 themed issues, 2 general issues)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Angelaki
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0969-725X (print) 1469-2899 (web)
Links
Journal homepage

From 1993 until 2010 the journal published three issues a year. This was increased to four issues a year in 2011. In 2018, the journal's 25th-anniversary year, the frequency was further increased to six issues per volume, a volume normally comprising four special issues and two general (nontheme) issues.[6] Special issues of the journal are frequently republished by Routledge as books. In 1996 editors of the journal established an associated book series, Angelaki Humanities, with Manchester University Press.

"Angelaki" (/ænɡɛlˈɑːkiː/) is a Greek word meaning "little angel." "Angelos" in Greek means "messenger, envoy, one that announces."[7] The logo of the journal is a cherub; the cherubim being the order of angels associated with knowledge.[8]

Angelaki arose out of a Gilles Deleuze reading and discussion group, conducted at Oxford University at the beginning of the 1990s. Members of the discussion group, who were at the time largely postgraduate students of the University, formed the original editorial board. A number of founding editors remain involved with the journal. For five years the journal was entirely independent, selling by mail and through bookshops in the UK, Europe and the USA. Independence proved unsustainable, and in 1998 Angelaki signed with its current publisher.[9]

One of the strengths of the journal has always been its book-length special issues, currently in the region of 180,000 words (a substantial double issue by ordinary standards). The collections are, in the great majority of cases, also sold as hardback books for library purchase.[10]

The journal has witnessed a revolution in publishing with the coming of the Internet in the 1990s. In 2019 there were in excess of 60,000 full-text downloads of Angelaki articles by researchers throughout the world.