Journals and Online Resources
Faculty, if you have a journal or project you'd like to see linked here, please contact rebecca.gibson@duke.edu.
Prof. Priscilla Wald is the editor of this Duke University Press journal.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies publishes work across the disciplines on topics ranging from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. We aim to foster the rigorous investigation of past cultural forms and their historicographical prepresentations, representations whose political dimensions will be of special interest. The particular pasts on which we focus are those of medieval and early modern Europe and western Asia. They are the pasts of material objects as well as texts; of women as well as men; of merchants, workers and audiences as well as patrons; of Jews and Muslims as well as Christians. Prof. David Aers is a co-editor of this journal.
NOVEL is a journal with a mission: So long as there have been novels, there have been essays to explain how novels should and do make and evaluate the foundational categories of modern life. So long as novels continue to be written, literate populations will continue to dwell within novel-made categories, and it will be the responsibility of a forum on fiction to explain how those categories congealed and emerged, out of which materials, how they were naturalized and remade over time, what they found it necessary to include and exclude, and how in so doing they limited the definition of the human. Prof. Nancy Armstrong is the editor of this journal.
Modernist Cultures is a free e-journal, published twice a year, that seeks to use the resources of the internet to foster debate between scholars working within different intellectual traditions and fields of inquiry, such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, ethnography, film studies, history, literature, musicology, philosophy, sociology, urban studies, and visual culture. Articles focus on the multiple contexts of modernity (aesthetic, cultural, historical, philosophical, political, social, technological, and visual etc.), and consider issues of cultural production and circulation in order to rethink existing scholarly paradigms, the work of established figures, and received conceptions of what matters in modernism's diverse cultures. Prof. Michael Valdez Moses is a co-editor of this e-journal.
Prof. Thomas Pfau and English majors Aileen Liu and Percy Xu developed this website of resources for the course "Secularization & Modernity:" a beautifully assembled collection of biographies, bibliographies, primary texts, and images, as well as course materials.
Prof. Fiona Somerset is a co-editor of the Yearbook of Langland Studies, published by Brepols for the International Piers Plowman Society. YLS is the sole journal devoted to Piers Plowman studies, and has significantly shaped the expanding critical attention to the poem and its contexts since 1987. The journal publishes work on Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing, together with the historical, religious, intellectual, codicological, and critical contexts of these works.