Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal

Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the graduate students of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Propelled by an investment in the work of emerging artists and scholars engaged with visuality, culture, history, and theory, the journal hopes to provide a multifaceted space for the production of visionary scholarship.

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Volume 5: Re-dress: Beyond and Between Visual Studies CFP now circulating! click "Future"!

Volume 4: Surface is out and about!

++ Octopus was a recipient of the University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts collaborative grant for 2008.

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