Cultural Research Journal Submissions

Any undergraduate university student who has taken at least 1 senior-level course in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or FLED (Foreign Language Education Department) may submit their work to The Kennesaw Tower.

Simultaneous submissions are not permitted. This means that by submitting your manuscript to The Kennesaw Tower, you confirm that this manuscript is not under consideration for publication at any other journal and will not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration by The Kennesaw Tower.

Submissions must be written by a second language or heritage undergraduate student of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, in any standardized dialect. Submissions must also be written in said language that the undergraduate student is studying or has recently studied. Submissions will also be accepted in English if written by a FLED undergraduate student on research related to FLED. If you have already graduated, you may still submit work within one academic semester (not including the summer) following completion of your undergraduate degree. For example, if you graduate in Spring 2023, you would still be eligible to submit your work by December 31, 2024.

To be guaranteed consideration for our annual fall issue, the priority deadline for submissions is by the end of February.

• Priority deadline: end of February (guaranteed consideration for that year’s fall issue)
• Optional deadline: August 1 (submissions by this deadline are not necessarily guaranteed consideration for that year’s fall issue)

The Kennesaw Tower is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Upon submission, your work will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers from the Editorial Board and/or the List of Reviewers in a double-blind review process. These reviewers are college and university faculty members or independent scholars with expertise in fields related to The Kennesaw Tower. Submissions will then receive one of the following outcomes based on reviewer recommendations:

Accepted;

Accepted with Revisions (in which case the author will have 30 days to make the reviewers’ suggested revisions and return the manuscript);

Not Accepted (in which case reviewer comments may be made available to the author upon request).

Please note that many submitted manuscripts require revisions. If you are not willing to engage in this process, please do not submit your work.

Please closely follow the guidelines below if you are eligible and would like to submit your world language undergraduate research to The Kennesaw Tower for potential publication.

Submissions must:

Not be written in English if submitted by a second language student (see above)

Represent polished work that the author has revised multiple times

Be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 250 words, written in English, that summarizes the submission’s topic

Include approximately 2,000-3,000 words if composed in a Latin-script alphabet or a minimum of 1,000 characters if composed in the Chinese writing system (this total excludes the abstract but includes notes)

Be composed in Times New Roman 12-point font (either double or single-spacing is acceptable) in a Microsoft Word document with editing enabled

Reflect proper Modern Language Association formatting (please consult the most recent MLA Handbook)

Include proper usage and placement of accent marks and symbols for the language in which they are composed, when applicable

Not include identifying information (e.g. the author’s name, affiliation, etc.) in the Microsoft Word document to comply with the double-blind peer review process

Be accompanied by the author’s official or unofficial undergraduate transcript as an attachment to the email

Please send submissions in an email titled “Submission to The Kennesaw Tower – [language].” Within the brackets in the email title, please identify the language in which this submission was composed. Please send this email to Dr. Robert Simon, Editor-in-Chief, at thetower@kennesaw.edu.

You may consider beginning by choosing an essay you wrote for a world language or FLED course as the piece to modify for submission. This piece may be one of which you are particularly proud or one that an instructor or professor indicated was particularly strong.

We highly recommend that you revise your work multiple times before submission and ask an instructor or professor to help you in this process. It is most helpful to work with an instructor or professor in your chosen language and/or research area to prepare your piece for submission.

Many universities offer undergraduate research presentation and/or funding opportunities to assist undergraduate students in this process. We recommend looking into what may be available to you through your college or university.

Following successful publication, the Editorial Board may invite recent authors to present their work at an international conference.