FORMA is an annual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to rethinking contemporary Latin American culture and theory.

During the past 40 years, criticism has moved from interpreting the meaning of works to describing the experiences of viewers and readers. In political and cultural theory, a focus on exclusion and marginalization has replaced concerns about exploitation and inequality. And in efforts to define the relationship between aesthetics and politics, questions of belief and conviction have been sidelined in favor of an account of affective intensities and flows.

FORMA questions these turns in the field. In opposition to the dominant modes of critical practice in the field today, we imagine the journal as a space for argument-driven debate and disagreement. We seek not only to clarify the stakes of Latin Americanist discussions of literature, art, and politics but also to help make those discussions matter to scholarship throughout the humanities today.

Editorial Board

Abraham Acosta
University of Arizona

Ericka Beckman
University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Brown
University of Illinois at Chicago

Stephen Buttes
Purdue University Fort Wayne

Eugenio Di Stefano
University of Nebraska Omaha

Susana Domingo Amestoy
University of Massachusetts Boston

Irmgard Emmelhainz
Mexico City

Charles Hatfield
University of Texas at Dallas

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Washington University in St. Louis

Emilio Sauri
University of Massachusetts Boston

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
University of Chicago

Funding for the re-design of the FORMA website has been generously provided by the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Submissions

​To submit a manuscript, or to review our guidelines for authors, please visit FORMA's Scholastica portal: forma.scholasticahq.com.

Queries and other correspondence related to submissions should be directed to editors@formajournal.org. Please note, however, that all manuscripts must be submitted via Scholastica before the review process can begin.