Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
We give you the scuttlebutt on academic journals—aiding you in selecting the right journal for publication—in reviews that are sometimes snarky, sometimes lengthy, always helpful. Written by Princeton University graduate students and Wendy Laura Belcher.
Music and the Moving Image
For those interested in publishing articles that explore the relationship between music and visual media (film, TV, computer, mobile phone, multimedia). Summary: Music and the … Continue reading
L’Esprit Createur
For those interested in publishing articles in a prestigious international journal (and whose work aligns with the journal’s specific topic-based issues!). In order to be … Continue reading
Latino Studies
For those interested in publishing articles about Latino/a/x experience, culture, history, and theory within a national, transnational, hemispheric context. Latino Studies is an interdisciplinary journal … Continue reading
Modern & Contemporary France
For those interested in publishing articles about the politics, culture (books, film, cuisine…), and history of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century France This international journal claims … Continue reading
Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature
For those interested in publishing articles that offer innovative interpretations or analyses of ancient Greek or Roman literature, especially if defined by a theoretical approach. … Continue reading
The Black Scholar
For those interested in publishing articles in Black Studies that are also in conversation with modern topics such as new media studies, popular culture, and … Continue reading
Journal of Popular Music Studies
For those interested in publishing articles that deal very broadly with popular music. The Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS), which is published by the … Continue reading
Music and the Moving Image
For those interested in publishing articles that explore the relationship between music and visual media (i.e., film, TV, computer, mobile phone, multimedia). Music and the … Continue reading
The French Review
For those interested in publishing articles on French and Francophone literature, cinema, culture, linguistics, and pedagogy (e.g., original lesson plan ideas). The official journal of … Continue reading
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
For those interested in publishing articles about Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x, and Indigenous communities, culture, art, history, and experience in the US and transnationally. Aztlán: A Journal … Continue reading
The Journal of American History (JAH)
For those interested in publishing articles that contribute to current debates within American historiography. The Journal of American History (JAH) is published four times a … Continue reading
American Journal of Philology
For those interested in publishing articles that offer philological interpretations of texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, in fields ranging from literature to history to philosophy, and … Continue reading
MLN (Modern Language Notes)
For those interested in publishing articles that explore French, German, Hispanic, or Italian literature, film, theory and pedagogy. MLN may not be quite as well-known … Continue reading
PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association)
For those interested publishing articles that discuss timely and culturally relevant literature and archival materials. For those looking to make broad connections (not close reading) … Continue reading
Western History Quarterly
For those interested in publishing articles about Western US history, especially colonialism, race, gender, and indigeneity. Western Historical Quarterly (WHQ) publishes articles on such topics … Continue reading
Mindfulness
For those interested in publishing articles that advance research in the theory and clinical practice of mindfulness. Founded in 2010, Mindfulness is a monthly journal … Continue reading
International Journal of Science Education (A)
For those interested in publishing articles on science education from early childhood to university, with a focus on applying research to practice in various educational … Continue reading
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
For those interested in publishing multidisciplinary articles on early childhood education in Europe, where “early childhood” refers to the period between birth and eight years … Continue reading
Applied Linguistics
For those interested in publishing articles about applied linguistics, including from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Founded in 1980, Applied Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic … Continue reading
Psychological Bulletin
For those interested in publishing synthetic research and meta-analysis on psychological issues in the discipline’s top journal. Psychological Bulletin is a disciplinary journal that specializes … Continue reading
Linguistic Typology
For those interested in publishing articles that discuss variation in a linguistic subfield across spoken or signed languages from either a theoretical or descriptive perspective. … Continue reading
Online Social Networks and Media
For those interested in publishing data-driven articles or theoretical surveys investigating the complexities of social media and network content. Online Social Networks and Media (ONSEM) … Continue reading
Journal of Moral Theology
For those interested in publishing articles that address a wide range of contemporary issues from the standpoint of Catholic moral theology, be it in a … Continue reading
American Sociological Review
For those interested in publishing articles that speak to a broad sociological audience and present cutting-edge research. American Sociological Review, which is the flagship journal … Continue reading
Advances in Group Processes
For those interested in developing theories of group processes, particularly theories with a sociological focus. Advances in Group Processes is a peer-reviewed publication that annually … Continue reading
Journal of Marriage and Family
For those interested in publishing articles that are empirically-based and deal with the topics of marriage and family, this is the top journal in the … Continue reading
Art History Journals
Some scholars have created a Google Sheet for art history journals. This site lists over 150 journals, with information on whether they are open access, article length, … Continue reading
Classics Journals
Some scholars have created a Google Sheet for classics journals. This site lists over 75 journals, with information on submission, article length, journal type, issues per year … Continue reading
Medieval Studies Journals
Some scholars have created a Google Sheet for medieval studies journals. This site lists over 100 journals, with information on submission, article length, journal type, … Continue reading
Social Studies of Science
For those interested in publishing articles that investigate core concerns in the field of science and technology studies. Social Studies of Science invites submissions from … Continue reading
Music and Letters
For those interested in publishing musicology articles for an international audience. Music and Letters is published four times a year by Oxford University Press. Though most … Continue reading
Journal of the Society for American Music
For those interested in publishing articles about the music of the Americas. The Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM) is published four times … Continue reading
Essays in French Literature and Culture
For those interested in publishing articles in special issues on French and Francophone keywords. Essays in French Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed journal published … Continue reading
Romance Notes
For those interested in publishing short articles on Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian (and other romance) language literatures. Published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, … Continue reading
Politics and Gender
For those interested in publishing articles that address the relationship between politics and gender, and women and politics. By impact factor, this quarterly journal is … Continue reading
The Journal of Politics
For those interested in publishing articles in a top political science journal that is not staid. A top journal in political science, this journal was … Continue reading
Journal of Black Studies
For those interested in publishing articles on the Black experience. Founded in 1970 by Afrocentric scholar Molefi Kete Asante, the Journal of Black Studies is … Continue reading
Modernist Cultures
For those interested in publishing articles examining modernism, especially from an interdisciplinary or international perspective. Founded in 2005, Modernist Cultures is a relatively new journal, … Continue reading
Women in French Studies
For those interested in publishing articles that concern feminist studies and the study of women in French and Francophone cultures. WIF Studies publishes articles that … Continue reading
Gender and Society
For those interested in publishing feminist social science research. Gender and Society, the journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a prestigious, highly cited … Continue reading
Music Theory Spectrum
For those interested in publishing articles about or relating to music theory and analysis, including aesthetics, critical theory and hermeneutics, history of theory, post-tonal theory, … Continue reading
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
For those interested in publishing articles that address the relationship between politics and issues of race, ethnicity, immigration and indigeneity. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, … Continue reading
SubStance
For those interested in publishing articles that deal with recent and emerging critical theories, particularly those that are material or object oriented and have a … Continue reading
Journal of Modern Literature
For those interested in publishing articles that deal with literature from any language or tradition, 1900-present. Ranked 19 out of all literature journals by Google … Continue reading
Social Forces
For those interested in publishing articles that examine empirically-driven sociological research questions. Social Forces publishes research by established scholars in the field as well as … Continue reading
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
For those interested in publishing articles that comment on, review existing literature about, or empirically investigate elements of clinical perinatal care. Birth is an interdisciplinary … Continue reading
Politics, Groups, and Identities
For those interested in publishing articles that explore the politics of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, class and other dimensions of identity and structural disadvantage. “Politics, … Continue reading
Journal of The American Musicological Society
For those interested in publishing articles on canonical European music. Arguably, most scholars aspire to publish in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), … Continue reading
American Journal of Sociology
For those interested in publishing articles that use novel empirical data or analysis to advance explanatory, frequently causal arguments addressed at macro-level disciplinary questions in … Continue reading
American Political Science Review
For those interested in publishing articles that address political theory, American politics, public policy, public administration, comparative politics, and international relations. American Political Science Review … Continue reading
French Forum
For those interested in publishing articles on French and Francophone Literature and films of all periods but preferably post-1900. Founded by Virginia and Raymond La … Continue reading
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
For those interested in publishing articles that discuss, in its broadest sense, prose “fiction” (covering genres far beyond the novel, including theater, broadsides and satirical … Continue reading
Essays in Romanticism
For those interested in publishing articles that engage some aspect of Romantic literature (mainly British or, in a few instances, German)—often complicating or developing a … Continue reading
Comparative Literature Studies
For those interested in publishing articles of a comparative nature on literary history, the history of ideas, critical theory, studies between authors, and literary relations … Continue reading
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
For scholars interested in publishing social science research and criticism on race, with a special focus on African Americans. Launched in the spring of 2004, … Continue reading
Camera Obscura
For those interested in publishing articles in visual studies with a feminist approach. Camera Obscura is one of the premier journals on visual/media culture and … Continue reading
Journal of Women’s History
For those interested in publishing articles that focus on women’s history and historical constructions of gender. The Journal of Women’s History is published by The … Continue reading
Theology and Sexuality
For those interested in publishing articles that use theological methods to study gender and sexuality. Theology and Sexuality is a leading international journal among theologians … Continue reading
The Journal of Japanese Studies
For those interested in publishing articles especially in pre-modern studies that contribute to the field of Japanese studies (in the humanities and social sciences) in … Continue reading
Modernism/modernity
For those interested in publishing articles that, as the journal’s name suggest, deal with either Modernism or the more broadly defined concept of modernity. As … Continue reading
Anthropology Quarterly
For those interesting in publishing articles that engage with the disciplinary debates and methodological commitments of anthropology, ethnography, and cultural analysis. Anthropology Quarterly is a … Continue reading
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
For those interested in publishing articles that are concerned with the renewal of practices of intellectual and cultural criticism in the Caribbean and in the … Continue reading
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
For social-justice-minded African Americanists and black studies scholars interested in publishing articles that address the intellectual debates of scholars and activists within the modern African … Continue reading
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
For those interested in publishing articles that engage gender at the intersections of race, sexuality, class, nation, and/or culture. Gets hundreds of submissions each year, so … Continue reading
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
For those interested in publishing articles that explore all areas of the history of Christianity in all time periods, locations, and contexts, although it used … Continue reading
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
For those interested in publishing articles on literature of the eighteenth century, mainly British (but articles can have New World or colonial connections), often with … Continue reading
Journal of African American History
For historians (or scholars analyzing primary sources) interested in publishing articles that address African American life, culture, religion, politics and movements against state violence. This is … Continue reading
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
For those who would like to publish scholarly articles on nineteenth-century French literature, culture, and social/political issues. NCFS is independent journal that purports to publish … Continue reading
American Quarterly
For those interested in publishing articles with a broad, humanistic understanding of American culture, particularly if it engages in cross-disciplinary work. American Quarterly is the official … Continue reading
Philosophy and Literature
For those who wish to publish articles in which they address an aesthetic object (usually literature) with an attitude explicitly attuned to formal concerns and … Continue reading
Journal of Africana Religions
For those interested in publishing interdisciplinary articles that address the religious traditions of African and African Diaspora peoples from ancient to contemporary periods. Narrow studies … Continue reading
Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief
For those interested in publishing articles that are interested in writing about the intersection of images, objects, spaces, practice with belief. An innovative, relatively new … Continue reading
The Black Scholar
For those interested in publishing articles that address black life, black culture, black suffering, black death, black sexual politics, black religion, black liberation and all … Continue reading
French Studies
For those interested in publishing articles that concern a broad range of topics in French and Francophone literature, film, culture, and theory from the medieval … Continue reading
Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
For those interested in publishing articles that explore the connections between religion and other spheres of American culture. It is in the discipline of history … Continue reading
Modern Philology
For those interested in publishing articles that speak to an aesthetic problem in a canonical text written before 1900 by a Western author, that deeply … Continue reading
Narrative
For those interested in publishing very formal articles that directly take up narrative theory and narratology and who are ready to subordinate their politics and … Continue reading
Yale French Studies
For those who are senior scholars with Ivy connections, as this is a closed journal that does not publish “unsolicited articles” on French literature and … Continue reading
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
For those interested in publishing articles that speak to other scholars of religion and to the state of the field of religious studies as a … Continue reading
ITYOPIS Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (NEAJ)
For those interested in publishing original research in the humanities and social sciences on the Horn of Africa. This new, annual, peer-reviewed journal is published … Continue reading
PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association)
For those interested publishing articles that discuss timely and culturally relevant literature and archival materials. For those looking to make broad connections (not close reading) … Continue reading
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
For those interested in publishing articles that have a fun, funky, and compelling perspective to add to Queer Theory, especially if you’re interested in the body … Continue reading
American Anthropologist
For those interested in publishing ethnographically based articles and with an interest in the trajectory of the discipline and privileging clarity and creativity. It publishes … Continue reading
Disability Studies Quarterly (stub)
For those interested in publishing articles with interdisciplinary approaches to both theoretical and practical debates in disability studies.
boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture
Ironically, this journal dedicated to analyzing “the tyrannies of thought” doesn’t accept unsolicited submissions. So, for those who know the editorial board and have something … Continue reading
diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism
For those with articles that freewheel through philosophy and history, particularly the uses that we can make of generally accepted precepts in each of those … Continue reading
Representations
For those with articles that engage with cultural studies, reading practices, and debates about interpretation (especially if you have something to say about surface reading … Continue reading
Cultural Critique
For those interested in publishing transnational, transdisciplinary research with a strong theoretical component (especially Marxist) on cultural production as it appears in words, images, and sounds, … Continue reading
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
For those with articles that put multiple texts or authors in conversation with each other or addressing non-canonical texts using cultural studies perspectives. … Continue reading
Critical Inquiry
For those with a presentist article that puts theories in conversation and has a catchy and/or scandalous title (e.g., Ardent Masturbation, Big Criticism). 2015 review: It is best … Continue reading
Oxford Literary Review
For those interested in publishing articles on Derrida and deconstruction. Don’t submit your work here if you are writing about anything else.
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)
For those with articles that provincialize or problematize the idea of the U.S. and its literary output. MELUS is a quarterly journal, and one of … Continue reading
African American Review
For those with articles that have something substantial and innovative to say about canonical and non-canonical African American Literary texts; this journal is an especially … Continue reading
Race and Class
For those interested in publishing critical interventions on race, racism, and imperialism with a particular disciplinary focus in anthropology, social science, and the humanities. This … Continue reading
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
For those interested in publishing articles that creatively and/or critically engage with the work of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora. … Continue reading
Identities
For those interested in publishing philosophically, theoretically, and critically rich articles with an attention to unpacking aspects of identity formation as being central to understanding … Continue reading
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
For those interested in publishing articles on the problematic of difference in literary, social, political, and social texts from a combined Continental philosophy and American … Continue reading
Social Text
For those interested in publishing theoretically and critically rigorous articles with an attention to creativity and poetics while pushing the boundaries of work on race, … Continue reading
Public Culture
For those interested in publishing theoretically rigorous articles with an attention to critically engaging inequality and difference (social, cultural) as it manifests in various ways … Continue reading
Political & Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
For those interested in publishing ethnographically based articles with an attention to critically engaging politics/the political and law/legality as it relates issues of public/civil society, citizenship, … Continue reading