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Challenges of Early Modern Women
A recent special issue of L'Esprit Createur honored Régine Reynolds-Cornell, professor emerita of French at Agnes Scott College, whose research focused on women writers in the Renaissance, especially Marguerite de Navarre. Judy Kem, associate professor in the...
Reformation History Comes Alive
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Oct. 31, 2017, the journal Lutheran Quarterly has created a virtual timeline to highlight seminal works from the journal’s pages on significant events in the history of the Lutheran Church...
Journal Celebrates Reformation Anniversary
At the end of October, Lutherans around the world will mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Lutheran Quarterly will commemorate this milestone with a look back at the importance of Luther's actions and what has followed. First, the journal...
Children's Literature and 'Fitting In'
When the 2017 issue of Children's Literature came out earlier this year, a familiar name appeared at the top of the masthead. Hollins University's Julie Pfeiffer returned as editor after a five-year hiatus. She joined us for apodcast where she talked about the...
Exploring Consequences
Earlier this year, MFS Modern Fiction Studies released a special issue titled “Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Co-edited by Aaron DeRosa (Cal Poly Pamona) and Stacey Peebles (Centre College), the issue featured eight articles “within a...
Jewish History Journal Gets New Leadership
A new editorial team has taken over at American Jewish History, a journal with more than 100 years of history. This time, a trio of editors will lead the quarterly for the next five years. Kirsten Fermaglich (Michigan State University), Adam Mendelsohn...
Mourning the End of an All Around Education
Sara Dreyfuss currently serves as the Managing Editor of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy, but she previously worked as the editorial director of the World Book Encyclopedia. Dreyfuss wrote an essay called "Out of Print" about the disappearance of...
Triumph and Trouble: India at 70
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of India’s independence. The Journal of Democracy included a series of papers on this milestone in its July issue. We are re-printing the editor’s introduction to this cluster of papers, which can be found online at...
To Be Online
Earlier this year, Shakespeare Quarterly took an important step and launched a brand-new website to showcase content from the journal as well as innovative Shakesperean scholarship outside the traditional print product. Journal editor Gail Kern Paster, also...
Examining Jewish Life Through Objects
For a short time, Fisher Price made a set of Little People toys to help celebrate Hannukah. You can only find the set on the collectible market these days, but the figurines served as an easy starting point for Lauren Leibman's introduction to a recent special...