Recommended Journals
Recommended Journals
This list was conceived in response to questions at a Professional Skills panel about how to select journals for publication. Students were interested to know which journals are the most recognized in their fields, and how to choose among journals that have a more general audience and those that are more specialized.
The Professional Skills committee asked faculty members in each interest group to name the most important journals in their field. The resulting lists are not ranked nor are they exhaustive, but we hope they will serve as a guide to help you identify possible publication venues. They can provide a starting point for your own research into the field as you decide where to submit your work.
Generalist
PMLA: Papers of the Modern Language Association of America
ELH: English Literary History
Representations
MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History
Modern Philology
College Literature
Critical Inquiry
Medieval/Renaissance
Renaissance Quarterly
JEGP, A Medieval Studies Journal
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Speculum
Chaucer Review
Studies in Philology
Philological Quarterly
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
New Medieval Literatures
18th Century Studies
Eighteenth Century Studies
The Age of Johnson
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Restoration
Scriblerian
Eighteenth-Century Life
Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies (formerly British Journal…)
19th Century Studies
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Review of English Studies
Studies in Romanticism
Victorian Studies
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Modern Fiction Studies
Journal of Modern Literature
Twentieth Century Literature
Modernism/Modernity
American Literature
American Literature
American Literary History
American Quarterly
Early American Literature
Arizona Quarterly
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance
American Transcendental Quarterly
American Literary Realism
Studies in American Fiction
MELUS
Bibliography and Textual Studies
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Studies in Bibliography
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Book History
STS Journal: Textual Cultures (and its predecessor "Text")
Publishing History
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literary Studies
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature
Diacritics
Critical Inquiry
Drama
Theatre Journal**
Shakespeare Quarterly**
Ethnic and Third World
Callaloo: Journal of African American Literary Studies
SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures
Postcolonial Studies
Race & Class
Public Culture
Research in African Literatures
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Eire / Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies
American Indian Quarterly
Law, Literature, and Culture
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
Law and Literature
Law Culture and the Humanities
Linguistics
Language
Rhetorical Studies
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Rhetorica
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Technical Communication
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Technical Communication Quarterly
Technical Communication
Computers and Composition
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Writing Studies
College English
College Composition and Communication
Written Communication
Research in the Teaching of English
JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory
Women and Gender Studies
GLQ
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Feminist Studies
Genders
