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  • Rolling publication
    Vol. 11 (2025)

    The papers in this issue are published on a rolling basis across the 2025 calendar year. If you wish to publish in Persona Studies but your work does not align with a themed issue, it will be considered for publication in the rolling publication issue.

  • The cover of this issue has the words Persona Studies in blue in the top left corner, and the issue details in pink in the bottom left corner. The rest of the space is taken up by a photo of an arm covered in Swiftie-style friendship bracelets that spell out key words from the issue. The two bracelets in the middle say 'Fan Persona' as the theme of the issue.

    Fan Personas
    Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024)

    Editors: Kim Barbour (University of Adelaide) and Mark Stewart (University of Waikato)

    Cover image: Kim Barbour

  • Rolling Publication
    Vol. 9 No. 3 (2023)

    The papers in this issue are published on a rolling basis across the 2023 calendar year. If you wish to publish in Persona Studies but your work does not align with a themed issue, it will be considered for publication in issue 3.

  • Rolling Publication
    Vol. 10 No. 3 (2024)

    The papers in this issue are published on a rolling basis across the 2024 calendar year. If you wish to publish in Persona Studies but your work does not align with a themed issue, it will be considered for publication in issue 3.

  • Personas, Popular Music, and Stardom in Transmedia
    Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024)

    Guest Editors:

    Steffen Just (University of Bonn)

    Pascal Rudolph (University of Cologne, University of Potsdam, Nuremberg University of Music)

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    Persona and Inter(face)
    Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024)

    This special issue explores the intersection between persona, face, and interface as an encounter that is labelled inter(face). The phenomenon of inter(face) is tackled from an interdisciplinary stance as the submissions drawn together in the issue span across the fields of film, image studies, visual culture, digital culture and media, art history, as well as philosophy. Themes included in the issue view persona and inter(face) from empathetic encounters in video games and art installations to deceptive masks worn in film. The notion of inter(face) is also transposed to non-human personas, including our interfacing with dogs and the performances of Victorian gentlemanly personas via casebook photographs. 

    Guest Editor: Amanda du Preez (School of the Arts, University of Pretoria)

  • EMO-CUMULUS - THE WOODEN PERSONA AFFECT - [Bathurst Churches Garden Centre] - 2023

    Emotion and Persona: Situating Emotion in Digital Culture
    Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023)

    This Special Issue explores the interrelation of persona and self as it is formed and reformed by emotion, sentiment, affect and feeling - but perhaps foundationally it is transformed through pancultural digital reconfiguration of life.

    Editors: P. David Marshall, Sally Totman and Janey Umback.

    Cover Image: EMO-CUMULUS: THE WOODEN PERSONA AFFECT [Bathurst Churches Garden Centre] (2023) - Photo: by  P. David Marshall

  • Rolling Publication
    Vol. 8 No. 3 (2022)

    The papers in this issue are published on a rolling basis across the 2022 calendar year. If you wish to publish in Persona Studies but your work does not align with a themed issue, it will be considered for publication in issue 3.

  • Domesticity and Persona
    Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022)

    Editors: Kim Barbour and Michael Humphrey

    Cover image: The Manse, Cults, Fife: The Artist's Old Home (undated), by Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1851, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

  • White 4:3 ratio field, featuring the black text 'Persona Studies 2022, vol. 8, no. 1 Life Writing and Persona'. There is an artwork on the righthand side, which is a feature of a woman facing away, with her head turned partway back. She wears a patterned jacket, fitted pants, and heels. She has wings protruding from her back, one which is pronounced, and the other barely a stub. She carries two similar bags, and appears weighed down. She walks into blackness away from the viewer.

    Life Writing and Persona
    Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022)

    Editor: Dr Katja Lee

    Cover Image: Jane Burn, Self-Portrait As Bad Housewife, 2022

  • Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021)

    Special issue from the 2021 Online International Persona Studies Conference, held July-August via YouTube and Zoom webinars.

  • Persona Studies - Special issue: Games and Persona 6:2

    Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020)

    Special Issue: Games and Persona

    Editors: Dr Christopher Moore and Dr Katja Lee

    Cover Image credit (image modified under creative commons license) 

    Brian Brodeur - https://flic.kr/p/69ZwwX

  • Cover image includes images of the three sculptures of human heads that make up the *Generations* sculpture by Joseph Hillier, along with accompanying text "Persona Studies Vol. 6, no. 1, December 2020, Conference Special Issue: Perspectives on Persona, Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle University 2019"

    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

    Cover Image: Generation, Joseph Hillier, located at Newcastle University.

    Photographer: Dr Bethany Usher, 2020

  • Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018)

    Guest Editor: Associate Professor Lene Nielsen, 
    IT University of Copenhagen

  • Vol. 5 No. 2 (2019)

  • Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019)

    Music and Persona
  • Special issue: Scientific Persona. Vol. 4, no. 1

    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)

    Guest editors:

    • Prof. Kirsti Niskanen, Stockholm University
    • Prof. Mineke Bosch, University of Groningen
    • Prof. Kaat Wils, University of Leuven

  • Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017)

  • Persona Studies Vol. 1, No. 1

    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

  • Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017)

  • Political Persona

    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016)

  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

  • Persona Studies

    Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015)