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SHAKESPEARE STUDIES JOURNALS
- Journals Solely or Mainly about Shakespeare Studies
- Borrowers and Lenders: … Shakespeare and Appropriation (ACMRS)
- Journal of the Wooden O (Southern Utah UP)
- Multicultural Shakespeare (Lodz UP)
- Shakespeare (Taylor & Francis/British Shakespeare Association)
- Shakespeare Bulletin (Johns Hopkins UP)
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa (African Journals Online)
- Shakespeare Jahrbuch (Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft)
- Shakespeare Newsletter (Iona U)
- Shakespeare Quarterly (Folger)
- Shakespeare Studies (Boston U)
- Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge UP)
- Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Assn.
- The Oxfordian (Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship)
- The Shakespearean International Yearbook – Series (Routledge)
- The Upstart Crow (Clemson U Digital Press)
EARLY MODERN BRITISH, EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
- Early Modern British, European & International Journals (English)
- Cahiers Élisabéthains (Sage Pub.; U. Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
- Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA)
- Comparative Drama (W. Michigan U)
- Early Modern Culture (Clemson UP)
- Early Modern Literary Studies: EMLS (Sheffield Hallam U)
- Early Modern Studies Journal (U Texas Arlington)
- English Literary Renaissance: ELR (U Chicago P)
- Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory (Taylor & Francis)
- Explorations in Renaissance Culture (Brill Academic Pubs.)
- Early Modern Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP)
- Huntington Library Quarterly (Huntington)
- JEMS: Journal of Early Modern Studies (Firenze UP/U Florence)
- Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (U-Penn Press)
- Journal of Classic and English Renaissance Literature (Seoul, S. Korea)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke UP)
- Journal of the Northern Renaissance (Scottish Inst. NRS)
- Medievalia et Humanistica: … Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Rowman & L)
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (Colgate U)
- Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Assoc…. (Parergon)
- Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mtn. … Renaissance Assoc. (Brig. Young U)
- Renaissance Drama (U Chicago P)
- Renaissance Quarterly (Cambridge UP)
- Renaissance Studies (Wiley)
- ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama (W. Michigan U)
- The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (U-Penn Press)
- Seventeenth-Century News (Texas A&M)
- The Seventeenth Century (Taylor & Francis)
- Sixteenth-Century Journal: … Early Modern Studies (U Chicago P)
- Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA)
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JOURNALS
- Medieval Journals (Overlap with Early Modern)
- Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA)
- Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory (Taylor & Francis)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke UP)
- Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies (SUNY P)
- Medievalia et Humanistica: … Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Rowman & L)
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (Colgate U)
- Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Assoc…. (Parergon)
- ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama (W. Michigan U)
- Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (U of Chicago Press)
- Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA)
- Vivarium: … Philosophy and Intellectual Life of the Middle Ages … (Brill)
NON-ENGLISH OR BILINGUAL JOURNALS
- Early Modern Journals Pub. in Language Other Than English
- Lemir: Revista Electrónica sobre Literatura Española … (U de València) Sp.
- Letteratura Cavalleresca Italiana (Fabrizio Serra Editore) It.
- Renaissance and Reformation (Canadian Society for Ren. Studies) Eng. & Fr.
- Rinascimento: Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Olschki) It.
- I Tatti Studies (U Chicago/Nagel, Villa I Tatti Harvard) Eng. & It.
- XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’Études Anglo-Am. … (Société d’Études …) Fr.
- Author-Focused Journals (Other Than Shakespeare)
- Ben Jonson Journal (Edinburgh UP)
- Marvell Studies (Open Library/Marvell Society)
- Milton Quarterly (Wiley/Ed. Jones)
- Moreana (Edinburgh UP/Amici Thomae Mori)
- Sidney Journal (Internat. Sidney Society)
- Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual (U Chicago Press)
JOURNALS THAT SPECIALIZE IN A SPECIFIC TOPIC
- Specialized Journals
- Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (U Chicago P)
- Early Theatre (McMaster U Lib. Press / Becker Assoc.)
- Glasgow Emblem Studies (Centre for Emblem Studies)
- Journal of Literature and Science (U Glamorgan/RCLAS)
- Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research (Brepols/Vatican Film)
- Restoration: Studies in Lit. & Culture, 1660-1700 (U Maryland)
GENERAL, BROAD-BASED LITERARY JOURNALS
- Literary Journals Covering a Variety of Periods and Topics
- Critical Survey – Includes Early Modern (Berghann Journals)
- Culture, Theory & Critique (Taylor & Francis/U Nottingham)
- ELH: English Literary History (ELH/Johns Hopkins UP)
- MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly (Duke UP)
- Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Lit. … (U Chicago P)
- PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Assoc. (Cambridge UP/MLA)
- SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 (Johns Hopkins UP)
- Sewanee Review (U of the South)
- Studies in Philology (U North Carolina P)
OPEN-ACCESS JOURNALS
- Open-Access Journals: No Subscription Required to Access Materials
- DOAJ: Directory of Open-Access Journals (DOAJ)
- JEMS: Journal of Early Modern Studies (Firenze UP/U Florence)
- Lemir: Revista Electrónica sobre Literatura Española … (U de València)
- OpenEdition Journals (OpenEdition)
- Renaissance and Reformation (Canadian Society for Ren. Studies) (1 yr+ open)
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) AND REGIONAL JOURNALS
- Modern Language Association (MLA) Main Journal
- Check submission guidelines for MLA and Regionals: most require paid membership at time of submission or publication.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals (Members only)
- PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Assoc. (Cambridge UP/MLA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA) Regional Journals
- JMMLA: Journal of the Midwest MLA (MMLA)
- Northeast Modern Lang. Association (NEMLA)
- Pacific Coast Philology (PAMLA)
- Rocky Mountain Review (RMMLA)
- SAR: South Atlantic Review (SAMLA)
- South Central Review (SCMLA)
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