New peer reviewers and editorial staff from multiple universities worldwide are sought for Issue 4Perspectives on the Oceans
Academics, post-docs. and PhD researchers may apply to join the peer-review panel. Academic staff, postgraduate students of MA level and above including post-docs. may apply for a position in the editorial team.
Email the General Editor to apply.
Peer-Review Process

The Dovetail peer-review panel members are at the forefront of creative and critical practice research and teaching across fields within the Arts & Humanities, expanding the scope of the journal to include all periods, genres and areas of expertise within literature, film, music, visual art, theatre, culture, performance based industries and new media. Multiple universities from the UK, Europe and at an international level, are currently supporting the exciting cross-disciplinary research at The Dovetail.
All submitted papers or work to The
Dovetail are
reviewed by qualified academic staff from
the peer-review panel list. All reviews are blind: the name and details
of
the reviewer and potential contributor are unknown to either. If a
guest peer-reviewer or editor is invited to report on a paper or created
work, this will
be acknowledged in the published issue. If editorial staff or panel
members submit
work, the process of submission will be anonymous, the same as the blind
review, to ensure objectivity during the peer-review process. Wherever
possible
papers and work will be viewed by two peer-reviewers or more from the
panel. If under exceptional circumstances a blind review is impossible
for a particular paper this will be stated in the final publication.
The Dovetail guide for peer-review can be found here.
The publishing structure for The Dovetail can be viewed here.
In addition please read and be acquainted with the COPE peer-review
upheld by peer-reviewers.
Thanks to the growing number of academic staff from multiple universities and different departments, advisers, support staff and postgraduate students who have offered to work on and continue the publication of The Dovetail for future issues.
Peer-Reviewers - Creative Arts & Media
Professor Kerstin Stutterheim. Bournemouth University, UK, Dep. of Media and Cultural Studies, and University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Dep. of Game Design.
Film, media, theatre, television
Film practice
Documentary
Cross-media storytelling
Narration for games
Aesthetics, narration, dramaturgy
Dr. Craig Batty. RMIT University. Australia. Dep. of Media and Communication.
Screenwriting practice
Screenwriting theory
Screenwriting pedagogy
Narrative structure;
Storytelling;
Screen characters
Film and emotional experience
Fact and fiction in film and TV
TV drama
Creative writing, media writing, professional writing
Professor Edward A. Ortiz. Sacramento State University. USA. Department of Communication Studies, Journalism & Film.
Short film and feature film screenwriting practice
Television screenwriting practice
Documentary and non-narrative screenwriting
practice
Dr. Cristina Formenti. The University of Milan. Italy. Dep. of Culture and Environment, Film Studies.Mockumentary
Documentary
Transmedia
Animation
Dr. Stefano Baschiera. Queen's University Belfast. School of Creative Arts – Film. Journal Advisery Board.
Screenwriting practice and theory
Film studies
World cinema
Italian cinema
Alexandra Kapka. Queen's University Belfast.School of Creative Arts – Film. (PhD candidate).
East European body horror
Distribution and UK film audiences
Dr. Declan Keeney. Queen's University Belfast.
School of Creative Arts – Film.
Cinematography
Camera
Film Studies
Professor Cahal McLaughlin. Queen’s University Belfast. School of Creative Arts – Film.
Documentary practice
Art documentary
Northern Ireland Prison Memory Political Archives
David Grant. Queen's University Belfast. School of Creative Arts - Theatre.
Image Theatre and Augusto Boal
Applied drama
Irish theatre
Acting and directing
Theory and practice of theatre
Dr. Kurt Taroff. Queen's University Belfast. School of Creative Arts – Theatre.
Community theatre and First World War
Adaptation and translation in theatre
Monodrama
American theatre
Political theatre
Theatre and cognition
Virtual reality theatre
Dr. Aoife McGrath. Queen's University Belfast. School of Creative Arts - Theatre.
Dance and movement
Theatre Studies and practice
Devising and collaborative practice
Direction
Choreography
Kate Lawrence. Bangor University. School of Creative Studies and Media - Theatre (PhD candidate).
Dance and choreography
Performance
Theatre
Dr. Branwen Davies. Aberystwyth University. Wales. Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies - Theatre.
Writing and performance
New writing for theatre
Contemporary British theatre
Theatre studies
Professor Christian Thomas Leitmeir. Oxford University. Magdalen College. Faculty of Music.
Sacred music- liturgy, devotion and theology
Musical notation - theory, composition and theology
Interplay of music, words and images
Philology of editing
Historiography of music
Dr. Andrew Lewis. Bangor University. School of Creative Studies and Media – Music.
Electroacoustic music
Music composition
Music - acoustic, chamber, vocal, orchestra
Music - interactive
media, video, installation,
Music - computers
Dr. John Cunningham. Bangor University. School of Creative Studies and Media – Music
Secular music from 1600 to 1799
Compositional processes
English consort music from 1600 to 1699
Music and cultural history
Music in Ireland
Music and drama in early modern England
Source studies and editing
Dr. Jochen Eisentraut. Bangor University. School of Creative Studies and Media - Music.
Musical accessibility
Cultural reception and consumption
Meaning and transplanted music
Film and cultural change
Brazilian music and culture
Katherine Betteridge. Bangor University, School of Creative Studies and Media - Music (PhD candidate).
Acoustic and electronic music composition
Experimental techniques for acoustic instruments
World music
Nature and ‘supernature’
Peer-Reviewers - Creative Arts & Media
Andrew Smith. Bangor University. School
of Creative Studies and Media – Visual Art.
Painting
Printmaking
Visual art
Colour
Dr. Karen Heald. Bangor University. School
of Creative Studies and Media – Visual Art.
Artists' moving image
Peer-Reviewers - School of Welsh
Dr. Aled Llion Jones. Bangor University. School of Welsh.
Translation
Philosophy
Literacy
Peer-Reviewers - Modern Languages & Cultures
Of Modern Languages and Cultures.
French cinema, language, politics and sport
French culture, society and the limits of humour
Dr. Anna Saunders. Bangor University. School
of Modern Languages and Cultures.
German identity, memory, language, contemporary
society and culture
German society, East Germany and the history of
the GDR
Dr. Emily T. Troscianko. Oxford University. Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Peer-Reviewers - School of English
Dr. Michael Pierse. Queen’s University Belfast. School of
English.
Irish literature &:
Working class writing and cultural production
Multi-disciplinary themes and international contexts
Festivals
Digital methodologies
Public humanities
Theatre as researchDr. Catherine Gander. Queen’s University Belfast. School of
English.
Modern and contemporary American literature
Visual culture
Word and image
Dr. Brendan O’Connell. Trinity College Dublin.
School of English.
Medieval Literature and Renaissance romance
Medieval poetics
Medieval language and culture
Medieval fairy tale
Arthurian literature
Medieval literature
Medieval identity and visual representation
Manuscripts and printed books
Codicology of the book
Dr. DeAnn Bell. Bangor University. School of English Literature.
Creative writing: prose, nonfiction, poetry,
short fiction and the novel
Creating narratives
Gothic literature and film
Transformative writing
Graphic Novel
Superheroes and canonical concerns
Dr. Rebecca Ann Butler. Nottingham Trent University. School of English Literature.
18th-19th c. women’s writing
Marginalised authors
Travel writing
History of the book
Dr. Andrew Webb. Bangor University. School of English Literature.
19th century and contemporary English literature
Welsh and modernist Welsh writing in English
Scottish, Irish. English and Welsh literature
Gender and literature
Environment and literature
Dr. Sam Rogers. Bangor University. School of English Literature.
Ecocriticism and poetry
Contemporary poetry
Andrew Jeffrey. Sheffield Hallam University. Dep. of English, (PhD candidate).
Experimental poetry
Human and animal representations
Animal poetics
Dr. Zoë Skoulding. Bangor University. School of English Literature.
Body, place, identity, experience and poetry
Women poets, the city and built environment
Poetry and language
Journal Advisers
Dr. Anna Saunders
Professor Raluca Radulescu
Dr. Declan Keeney
Editorial Team
General Editor: Alison Stewart
Dr. Siôn Aled Owen
Assistant Editor: Isra’a Khlaif Fadel Alqallab
Editorial Team: Marco Manis
Jamie Alcock
Alys Conran
Matthias Wurz
Logan Labrune
Ewgene Rosario Templonuevo