Art History and Visual Culture Studies Journals

Please share your experience of submitting an article to a journal. What was the length of the evaluation process from submission to decision? Did you receive useful feedback? Was the editor responsive to your queries? Etc.

Please add new journals alphabetically. 'Journal of' goes under 'J', while preceding articles A/The are skipped over in favour of the first word of the title.

The Art Bulletin (journal of CAA) 

• Any reflections on or sense of the timeline--from submission, acceptance, and publication?
• Two months for a rejection (wasn't sent to reviewers, no indication as to reason which is unusual in my experience)

Art History (journal of AAH) 

• (Updated) The journal staff is extremely professional and responsive. Waited 9 months for acceptance: second reviewer had bailed, not journal's fault, but a replacement was quickly secured. There seems to be a bit of a backlog, so I imagine it will take 2 years from date of initial manuscript submission to date of publication.
• m/s rejected but in a timely manner -- less than a month, though no feedback
• Great experience. Quick turn-around and good feedback.

British Art Journal 

• Good experience although the editor is a little distracted sometimes.

Critical Inquiry 

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Grey Room

• This journal is going downhill fast. See all the ghastly (and consistent) tales of woe in the entry for this journal under "Film Journals": http://humanitiesjournals.wikia.com/wiki/Film_Journals#Grey_Room
• Agreed. Avoid at all costs.
• Ditto - terrible, do not even provide comments justifying a rejection after six months of waiting and prodding. Avoid indeed.
• Disorganized. Bad communication among members of the editorial board. Avoid.

History of Photography

• Turnaround average. Note of rejection was perhaps more tersely worded than necessary.

Journal of the History of Collections

• Had a very good experience with this journal. Response received three months after submitting. Re-submitted with revisions, received proofs in a matter of days, and the article was available online just five months after initial submission. Communication with the editor was great.
• I had a very positive experience with JHC. The review process took only a month, and the report I received was thoughtful, constructive and overall very helpful. As a result, the final manuscript ended up a much better essay than the original submission. The entire process from initial submission to Advance Access publication online took six months.
• Excellent. Very fast review time, great feedback from the reviewer and very light editing. Highly recommended.

Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Journal of Visual Culture

• JVC are a 2-tier review journal. That is to say they first have your article read by the board to assess suitability then, if it is deemed suitable they pass it on to peer review. Editorial evaluation should take 4 weeks tops according to their website. I submitted an article in October. I got rejected by the editorial board, with no feedback, 4 months later and very suspiciously the very day I asked for an update...

October

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Oxford Art Journal   

• Reasonable turn-around time but absolutely no feedback given with rejections.

Photographies 

• Helpful feedback. Timely turnaround. Overall, a good experience.

RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review (Journal of UAAC-AUUC)

• Fast reviewing. The managing editor was very professional but might not be around anymore. It took 6 months from submission to publication.

Renaissance Quarterly

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals
• A fast turn-around: less than 3 months, resulting in rejection. Though the rejected manuscript came with a detailed review, which was helpful in revising it for submission to another journal.

Representations

• Refer to entry under Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

Sixteenth Century Journal

• About 6 months turn around with very productive, professional, and thoughtful feedback. + 3 months revisions. From there, it took about a year to be published in print. Very satisfied with the process.

Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 

• My review process took 2.5 months, which seemed very fast (especially since it happened around the holidays). Thereafter it took another 1.5 years to appear in print. I think there was some delay because of a change in the managing editor.

Visual Resources

• My experience was very good. The waiting time for review was long but the reviewers were very thorough and helpful and the editor very attentive.

Visual Studies

• I had a good experience with this journal. The review waiting time was long, I think it was 10 month turn-around all together, but the reviews were high quality and the editor was conscientous, professional and responsive to my emails.