Editing
On this page, you can find my information about my journal and book editing projects as well as the editorials I’ve written.
Journal Editing
The International Journal of Disney Studies: Founding Editor
The International Journal of Disney Studies examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This international, peer-reviewed journal draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities.
Hunter, Madeleine and Rebecca Rowe, guest editors. Adaptation and Childhood, special issue of Adaptation, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
This Special Issue on Adaptation and Childhood invites researchers to consider the critical opportunities that thinking with and about childhood can offer the field of adaptation studies. Rather than marking the limits of what is possible, this special issue invites scholars to approach the real and conceptualized child and the challenges they pose to adaptation studies theory and criticism as a site of theoretical and methodological possibility.
Book Editing
Muir, Robyn, Rebecca Rowe, Hannah Helm, and Emily Aguiló-Pérez, eds. The Cultural Legacy of Disney: A Century of Magic. Lexington Books, 2024.
This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. It reflects on and looks forward to the past, present and future of the company and the scholarly engagement surrounding it through three key areas: Disney as a Company, Disney’s Representations, and Relating to Disney. ‘Disney as a Company’ identifies the corporate and management cultural changes over Disney’s 100-year history, with contributors examining Disney’s transnational media influence, changes in management strategy, and Disney’s recent transmedia venture: Disney+. ‘Disney’s Representations’ features chapters critically engaging with gender, disability, and iconic characters that imply cultural change. ‘Relating to Disney’ embodies the crucial work examining how audiences engage with Disney, with contributors exploring fashion, Disney Fandom and identity, and how people engage with the space of the Parks. This edited collection explores the newer additions to the company, but also reflects on the company’s past over its 100 years. The chapters provide a diverse examination of the many facets of one of the most successful global media conglomerates, providing scholars, students, and interested audiences a global and interdisciplinary snapshot of the Walt Disney Company at 100 years.
Editorials
Muir, Robyn, and Rebecca Rowe. “Welcome to the International Journal of Disney Studies.” International Journal of Disney Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2025, pp. 3-13, https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00001_2.
Rowe, Rebecca, and Madeleine Hunter. “‘Growing Up Means Adapting’: Childhood and Adaptation.” Adaptation and Childhood, special issue of Adaptation, edited by Madeleine Hunter and Rebecca Rowe, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024, pp. 341-348, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae024.
Rowe, Rebecca, and Hannah Helm. “Conclusion: The Power of a Mickey Mouse Topic.” The Cultural Legacy of Disney: A Century of Magic, edited by Robyn Muir, Rebecca Rowe, Hannah Helm, and Emily Aguiló-Pérez, 2024, pp. 203-219.
Muir, Robyn, Rebecca Rowe, Hannah Helm, and Emily Aguiló-Pérez. “Introduction: The Wonderful(?) World of Disney.” The Cultural Legacy of Disney: A Century of Magic, edited by Robyn Muir, Rebecca Rowe, Hannah Helm, and Emily Aguiló-Pérez, 2024, pp. 1-21.