SOFIA offers a new, online forum for innovations in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Sofia is also a place where educators can share advances in the study and of the study, teaching and implications of visual literacy. Since its inception as a discipline in the late 1960s, visual literacy has expanded as a pedagogical approach and has been embraced by educators in a wide variety of academic fields (including art history, computer science, law, linguistics, medicine, and psychology.) The peer-reviewed journal welcomes theoretical and historical writings, interviews with educators, case studies, book reviews and explorations in new classroom practices.

Guidelines for Submissions

SOFIA: Journal of Teaching, Learning and Literacy welcomes submissions about any aspect of higher education, literacy and new media practices in the classroom.

Essays should be double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface. Essays should not exceed 5,000 words. Preferred style formats include Chicago and MLA.
Interviews should be double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface and limited to 2,500 words. Preferred style formats include Chicago and MLA.
Book Reviews should be double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface and from 500 to a maximum of 1,000 words. Preferred style formats include Chicago and MLA.

All submissions should be accompanied by a brief (50-word or less) biographical statement, and e-mail address. All preliminary submissions should be electronic via e-mail. Upon acceptance, submissions should be burned onto a CD and sent by mail to the editor. The writers are solely responsible for securing reproduction rights to images.

SOFIA assumes no responsibility for submissions received without adequate return postage, packaging, or proper identification labels.

Every effort is made to respond to submissions in a timely manner.

Please send all correspondence via e-mail to anovakov@smarys-ca.edu

And by post to the editor:
Professor Anna Novakov, Associate Professor of Art History
St. Mary’s College of California, 1928 St. Mary’s Rd. Moraga, CA 94575