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The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences to the series editor Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek at . Manuscripts sub-mitted to the series are peer reviewed followed by the usual standards of editing, copy editing, marketing, and distribution. Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in a global and intercultural context and work with a plurality of methods and approaches; the theoretical and methodological framework of comparative cultural studies is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature, the field of cultural studies, and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, (radical) constructivism, communication theories, and systems theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method, as well as application; comparative cultural studies favors data-oriented research based on tenets of the contextual (systemic and empirical) approach in the study of culture; in comparative cultural studies metaphorical description and argumentation is discouraged: for more detail about the intellectual trajectory and conceptualization of comparative cultural studies consult the volumes published in the series and the Aims & Scope of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 at . Fields of interest in the series include new work in comparative cultural studies in literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / comparative literature / cultural studies / media studies / communication studies / audience studies / the comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures / the history of ideas / translation studies / diasporic, exile, (im)migrant, and ethnic minority writing / processes of cultural production / gender theory and criticism / feminist theory and criticism / gay and lesbian writing / interculturalism / popular culture / film and other media / lesserknown literatures in a comparative context / interand cross-disciplinary studies where culture incl. literary texts and literary problems are examined with the use of sociological, economic, psychological, historical, etc., frameworks and methods / the history of publishing, the book, and writing / new media and culture / pedagogy and culture incl. literature / studies of new trends in the study of literature and culture / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context. In order to provide a theoretical and methodological background, authors of single-authored books and editor(s) of collected volumes explain briefly why the work is best placed in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies.