About
LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente is a Diamond Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal publishing original research in literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges.
LEA is published once a year in December. The journal welcomes submissions addressing the themes and topics outlined in the annual Call for Papers, as well as contributions to its standing sections.
Journal sections
Scritture
Scritture is a thematic section, usually coordinated by guest editors and connected to a specific Call for Papers.
Studi e saggi
Studi e saggi is a miscellany section welcoming essays on topics in linguistics, literature, and philology.
Osservatorio
Osservatorio contains reviews, conference reports, and discussions of research projects.
Submission deadlines
Proposals and contributions must be submitted online before the following deadlines:
- May 8 of every year: essays for Scritture and Studi e saggi. Submissions to these sections undergo double-blind peer review.
- June 30 of every year: contributions for Osservatorio. These contributions are not subject to peer review.
Make a submission Download the Author Guidelines
Latest and forthcoming volumes
We are pleased to announce the latest and forthcoming volumes in LEA’s monographic sections and in the Quaderni di LEA series.
2026
Italo Cosentino, Magdalena León Gómez, and Inmaculada Solís García, guest eds., La grammatica metaoperazionale: strumenti concettuali e applicazioni. Linguistica ispanica, LEA monographic section, forthcoming.
2027
Ujjwal Jana and Greta Perletti, eds., Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870–1947, Quaderni di LEA, forthcoming.
Romina Vergari, guest ed., “Othering Ourselves”: Conceptualizing and Representing Otherness in Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Polish Cultural Fields, LEA monographic section, forthcoming.
Forthcoming guest-edited sections and volumes
We are also pleased to announce forthcoming guest-edited projects by Elisabetta Lonati and Alessandra Vicentini; Denise Filmer, Kim Grego, and Ilaria Moschini; Irene Zanot; and Elisabetta Cecconi and Massimo Sturiale.
Journal information
ISSN 1824-484X (online)
General Editors:
Ilaria Natali, University of Florence, Italy
Ayşe Saraçgil, University of Florence, Italy
Open Access
LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente is a Diamond Open Access Journal 
Indexing
LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente is indexed in:
Current IssueVol 14 (2025): La casa contesa. Rappresentazioni dello spazio domestico nella letteratura del Novecento
Published December 19, 2025
