About this journal

Dada/Surrealism (ISSN: 0084-9537 (Print) 2372-6725 (Online), ISSN-L 0084-9537) is an interdisciplinary journal publishing critical essays, bibliographies, book reviews, and primary documents on the Dada and Surrealist movements. Submissions are encouraged from scholars in Art History, Literature, Film Studies, Theater Arts, and a variety of other disciplines. We are especially receptive to contributions that use interdisciplinary techniques, reexamine basic concepts, or raise theoretical issues of contemporary interest.

Title History

Dada/Surrealism began publication in 1971 as the journal of the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association. Issued in print from 1971 to 1990, number.1 was published by Texas Tech Press, numbers 2-9 were published by Queens College Press under the editorship of Mary Ann Caws, and numbers 10-18 were published at the University of Iowa under the joint editorship of Mary Ann Caws and Rudolf E. Kuenzli.

Dada/Surrealism is now a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal sponsored by the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism and published by the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries. The first online issue (number 19) was published in 2013.

The complete contents of numbers 1-18 are listed on this website, but for a variety of reasons, only selected articles are available here as full-text documents. Back issues of the print journal are available for purchase.

Indexing Information

The print journal was indexed in:

B.H.A. Bibliography of the History of Art
M.L.A. International Bibliography (Online)
Periodicals Index Online

Complete metadata for all articles in Dada/Surrealism, including DOIs, is available via OAI. See our policy regarding use and reuse of our metadata.

Open Access Policy

The full text from v.19 and later is freely available immediately; there is no embargo period. There are no article submission charges nor article processing charges (APC) to publish. Download counts are displayed for each article. COUNTER usage statistics are not available.

Copyright and Licenses

The authors retain copyright to their work and give non-exclusive rights to the journal for first publication of the content. The author may include the officially published version of the article (version of record) in an institutional or disciplinary repository, provided the posting includes a prominent statement of the full bibliographical details, and a link to the online edition of the journal.

Author Charges

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Usage Information

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Preservation Status

Dada/Surrealism is preserved in Portico and the LOCKSS Archive.

Prior to September 2021, this title was hosted in Digital Commons software. That site is available in the Internet Archive.

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