In November 2025, I became a Series Editor for Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, a University of Nebraska Press book series that aims to promote rigorous interdisciplinary research that critically expands the field and purview of Feminist Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS).
Building on Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies and its commitment to publications that are “diverse and decisively interdisciplinary,” we seek single-authored monographs and collaborative projects by and about BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ peoples and communities that center negotiations of multiple and intersecting sites of affiliation, identity, and politics. More specifically, we seek projects that formulate uniquely critical and intersectional perspectives on settler colonialism, carceral regimes, comparative ethnic and Indigenous studies, cultural studies, disability studies, cultural geographies, and transnational feminisms. We are also interested in various subjects and investigative methodologies like public policy, social movements, media, and expressive cultures.
While “Expanding Frontiers” evokes the founding and expansion of knowledge in feminism and WGS, the concept of “frontiers” also evokes dominant, anti-Indigenous ideologies and the amplification of white supremacy in political, academic, and intellectual structures. The series aims to highlight how these historical realities have been deployed to reproduce hegemonic structures of inequality. Thus, we invite submissions that critique these foundations and forward nuanced, intersectional analyses to demonstrate how contingently constructed categories have material consequences for individuals based on their social locations.
To encourage, support, and mentor first-time BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ scholars, Series Editors are especially responsible for demystifying the publishing process by helping authors develop proposals and set manageable writing and publishing goals, reading manuscripts before peer review, and supporting authors through the peer review and contract stages of publication. If you are interested in discussing the possibility of publishing your work in Expanding Frontiers, click here to schedule a 30M meeting with me. In advance of the meeting, please review the press guidelines for submitting proposals and preparing manuscripts. To aid your thinking and proposal drafting, I invite you to review the proposal I submitted for Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis,” the book I recently published in the Oxford University Press Theorizing African American Music Series.
Dr. Heidi R. Lewis 