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Academic Journals Edited by Liberal Arts Faculty at WSU

Western Journal of Black Studies
E. Lincoln James (Communication), editor
Since 1977, the Western Journal of Black Studies has been a leading interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing scholarly articles from a broad range of disciplines that focus mainly on the experience of African Americans in the United States.

American Antiquity
Tim Kohler (Anthropology), editor
American Antiquity, one of the principal journals of the Society for American Archaeology, is the highest-circulation and most widely cited professional journal specializing in archaeology in the world. The journal publishes on archaeological method and theory, with a special emphasis on the pre-Columbian archaeology of North America.

ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance
Albert von Frank (English), editor
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (formerly Emerson Society Quarterly) is devoted to the study of 19th-century American literature. A special issue of ESQ will be published this summer in conjunction with the fall 2003 “American Literary Globalism” symposium sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center, ESQ, Yale Americanist Colloquium, Yale Department of English, and the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University.

International Review of Modernism
Leonard Orr (English), editor
The International Review of Modernism is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes critical and historical essays, book reviews, and extended review-essays on new scholarly and critical books on modernist literature and culture situated in historical and national contexts.

Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism
Alex Hammond (English), editor
Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism provides a forum for interpretive, cumulative dialogue about Poe’s life and writings; the cultural and material contexts that conditioned the production and reception of his work; and his interrelationships with other writers, especially those who work in traditions of dark romanticism.

The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
Michael Delahoyde (English), Sabine Davis (Foreign Languages and Cultures), co-editors
The Rocky Mountain Review publishes articles and reviews, written in English, that are chosen for their relevance to instructors, students, and researchers in languages, literature, film, culture, writing, second language acquisition, and educational technology, among other areas.

World History Connected: The E Journal of Learning and Teaching
Heather Streets (History), co-editor
In addition to peer-reviewed articles, World History Connected: The E Journal of Learning and Teaching features book and textbook reviews and regular columns addressing what world history scholars are talking about. The first edition (posted November 2003) includes articles by the noted world historians William McNeill and Patrick Manning. The second edition will include articles by the equally noted Jerry Bentley and Peter Stearns.

French Politics
Andrew Appleton (Political Science), editor
French Politics is a significant and distinctive addition to the top rank of international, peer-reviewed journals in French and European political science.