Journals.
Our diamond open-access journals publish leading scholarship in the humanities.
OLH journals command the respect of the academic communities they serve. Each journal that we publish has been evaluated for the rigour of its content, the international standing of its authors and editorial board, and the value to its disciplinary field. As part of our mission to bring journals back into community ownership, all OLH titles are community-governed.
Journals are arranged alphabetically by title. Journals can also be filtered by keyword and subject area.
ASIANetwork Exchange A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
The ASIANetwork Exchange is the official journal of ASIANetwork, a consortium of around 160 North American colleges that promotes research into Asian Studies within liberal arts education. The journal publishes current research, as well as high-quality pedagogical essays written by specialists and non-specialists alike. The journal's editors are particularly interested in publishing articles, book and media reviews that address the needs of the undergraduate classroom.
Subject areas: Asian studies, liberal arts, cultural studies, politics, Asian history, comparative philosophy, pedagogy, popular culture, Non-Western tradition, cross-cultural encounters.
Architectural Histories
Architectural Histories is the official journal of the European Architectural History Network and publishes leading research on all aspects of architecture and the built environment. The journal is open to historical, historiographic, theoretical, and critical contributions that engage with architecture and the built environment from a historical perspective.
Subject areas: Architecture, architectural history, global history, city planning, landscape studies, monuments, methodology, design history, aesthetics, built environment, photography, cultural studies, Modernisms, homemaking.
Body, Space & Technology
Body, Space & Technology (BST) is a leading journal of contemporary artistic practice and research. Since it launched in 2000, the journal has built a strong reputation for scholarly quality and innovation, as well as fostering a global academic community around its published content. BST publishes research into artistic practice that engages with digital technologies, particularly as these relate to bodily interaction and creativity, and in multi-disciplinary perspectives.
Subject areas: artistic practice, performance studies, digital technologies, digital humanities, embodiment, affect studies, posthumanities, moving image studies, phenomenology, dance, choreography, dramaturgy, theatre studies, participatory performance.
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Founded in 2010, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship publishes original contributions to the field of comics scholarship from multidisciplinary and media-specific perspectives. The journal aims to promote innovative comics scholarship where the writing is energetic and theoretically and interpretively bold, and that presents specialised knowledge in accessible and engaging forms. It also considers submissions that explore the ways in which comics can be used for scholarly purposes.
Subject areas: comics studies, graphic narrative, sequential narrative, graphic novels, bande dessinées, cartoons, popular culture, cultural studies, literary studies, pedagogy, medical humanities, superheroes, biography, graphic memoir.
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. C21 builds on the explosion of interest in 21st-century writings, seen in book groups, university courses, and the development of online publishing.
Subject areas: contemporary literary studies, 21st-century literature, narrative theory, genre theory, postmillennial fiction, transnational literature, contemporary poetry, contemporary drama, contemporary culture, digital poetics, digital humanities.
Digital Medievalist
Digital Medievalist (DM) publishes work of original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, notes on technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, tutorials, and project reports. The journal also commissions reviews of books and major electronic sites and projects. All contributions are reviewed before publication by authorities in humanities computing. Submissions to DM should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus.
Subject areas: medieval studies, Early Modern studies, digital humanities, Middle Ages, history, scholarly editing, pedagogy, textual communities, manuscript studies, medieval scripts, digital scholarly resources, philology, palaeography.
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique is a leading refereed academic journal in the Digital Humanities. It is published for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations under the direction of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN).
Subject areas: digital humanities, visualizing data, stylometry, computational methods, information studies, digital public humanities, archival studies, knowledge infrastructures, distant reading, publishing studies, methodologies, digital pedagogy, data mining, digital museums, corpora, born-digital artefacts.
Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs
Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs was created in 2024 by the former editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs, which was founded in 1971 by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and T.M. Scanlon. Our name, Free & Equal, expresses our two founding commitments: to free inquiry on equal terms about matters of public concern; and to the free dissemination and equal accessibility of the products of this inquiry. We welcome philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as work that investigates abstract questions relevant to these problems—including work that challenges our founding commitments. Free & Equal provides a venue in which philosophically-inclined authors from many disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives can bring their arguments to bear on problems that concern us all.
Subject areas: philosophy, public affairs, politics, political science, ethics, policy, law, sociology, economics, social issues, social problems, public administration.
Genealogy+Critique
Genealogy+Critique publishes innovative scholarship focusing on genealogical research and a broad conception of critical theory. Combining historical and systematic forms of inquiry, it fosters critical analyses of the present written in plain English, German, or French. The interdisciplinary journal also aims at confronting historical-genealogical and critical theory approaches with concepts and methods in more recent fields of knowledge such as media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, as well as postcolonial, gender, and race studies.
Subject areas: critical theory, media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, postcolonial, gender, and race studies, critical posthumanities, critical genealogies, Foucault studies, phenomenology.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
Glossa is a leading journal in the international field of general linguistics. It publishes contributions from all areas of linguistics, provided they contain theoretical implications that shed light on the nature of language and the language faculty. Contributions should be of interest to all linguists, independently of their own specialisation. No specific linguistic theories or trends are given preference. Papers accepted for publication are strictly selected on the basis of scientific quality and scholarly standing.
Subject areas: Linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, phonology, semantics.
[in]Transition
The official video essay journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), [in]Transition is the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies. Practitioners of these forms (which include, inter alia, the ‘video essay’, ‘audiovisual essay’, and ‘visual essay’ formats) explore the ways in which digital technologies afford a new mode of carrying out and presenting film and moving image research. The full range of digital technologies now enables film and media scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study: moving images and sounds.
Subject areas: videographic criticism, film and new media studies, digital humanities.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry publishes scholarship on poetic writings appearing in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s. These varied poetic practices have been described as avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, neo-modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, or experimental and which have been produced in geographic clusters, such as the Cambridge School or the London School or Morden Tower. The journal also seeks to represent uncategorised and independent voices that might fall through the cracks between different schools or clusters.
Subject areas: modern and contemporary poetry, British literature, Irish literature, avant-garde, underground, second-wave Modernist, neo-modernist, British Poetry Revival, experimental poetry, concrete poetry, performance writing, hybrid orality, Black studies, diasporic approaches, translational and translingual experiments.
Journal of Embodied Research
Journal of Embodied Research is the first peer-reviewed, open access, academic journal to focus on the dissemination of embodied knowledge through video. It advances the scholarly video article as an experimental form supporting diverse embodied research projects. Articles are published on a rolling basis and offer the cutting edge of videographic scholarship, innovating relationships between textuality, audiovisuality, and embodiment.
Subject areas: embodiment, performance, performing arts, martial arts, anthropology, videographic criticism, embodied research, education, training, social epistemology, practice research, artistic research, performance as research, research-creation, performance philosophy, cultural studies, video methods, video research, audiovisuality.
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics publishes high-quality papers in the field of Portuguese linguistics, including the comparison between any varieties of Portuguese and any other language(s). The journal is supported by the LingOA network, a European foundation for diamond Open Access journals in linguistics.
Subject areas: linguistics, linguistic theory, phonology, comparative linguistics, experimental linguistics, Portuguese, Portuguese-based Creole languages, Iberian languages, language acquisition, variation, contact and change.
Laboratory Phonology
Laboratory Phonology is the official journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Its focus is the scientific study of the elements of spoken and signed language, their organization, their grammatical functions, and their roles in speech communication. The journal publishes research on phonology and its intersections with all other domains of linguistics (e.g., phonetics, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics) as well as related disciplines such as the many branches of psychology; speech, hearing, and communication sciences and disorders; computer science; and electrical and computer engineering. Readers of Laboratory Phonology are interested in phonological questions approached from various theoretical frameworks, investigated with empirical methods.
Subject areas: linguistics, phonetics, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psychology, communication sciences, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, quantitative analyses, laboratory experiments, speech and signed corpora, fieldwork.
Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies
Lifewriting Annual publishes scholarship in biography and source studies, examining works that deal with the lifespan or periods in the life of a person, institution, object, or other entity. Associated with The International Auto/Biography Association, Lifewriting Annual is recognised for its inventive mix of styles and genres in each volume, providing rigorous scholarship in a rapidly growing academic field.
Subject areas: autobiography, biography, memoir studies, diaries, letters, testimonio, history, life writing, literature, cultural studies.
Marvell Studies
Marvell Studies is the official journal of the Andrew Marvell Society and publishes leading international scholarship on Andrew Marvell, his texts and readers, words and worlds. Once considered a “minor” metaphysical poet, Marvell has come to be regarded as second only to Milton in his time, a writer of great power and of importance to the history of literature and ideas in the seventeenth century. The journal is supported by a growing community of scholars in North America, Great Britain, France, and Australia. It is affiliated with the South Central Renaissance Conference and the Renaissance Society of America.
Subject areas: Andrew Marvell, 17th-century England, Early Modern English literature, Early Modern history, Restoration, Renaissance studies, poetry, theatre studies.
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
19 is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. Based at Birkbeck, University of London, 19 extends the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies by making the high-quality, original scholarship presented at its regular conferences, symposia and other events available to an international audience. The journal publishes two themed issues annually, each consisting of a collection of peer-reviewed articles showcasing the broadest range of new research in nineteenth-century studies, as well as special forums advancing critical debate in the field.
Subject areas: 19th-century studies, Victorian literature, archival studies, beauty, aesthetics, infrastructure studies, environmental humanities, museum studies, art, sculpture, Realism, Impressionism.
Open Library of Humanities
Open Library of Humanities Journal (OLHJ) is the flagship journal of the Open Library of Humanities. It publishes leading scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology. We are now dedicated to publishing Special Collections focused on a particular topic or theme, and so no longer accept general submissions.
Subject areas: environmental humanities, medical humanities, digital humanities, performance studies, curatorship studies, medieval studies, musicology, sound studies, critical posthumanities, graphic narrative, comics studies, critical theory, avant-gardes, science and technology studies, utopian theory, waste studies, water studies, game studies, contemporary literary studies, screen media, film & TV studies, American Literature.
Open Screens
Open Screens is the official journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. The scope of the journal is international and its vision is interdisciplinary. It encourages innovative contributions from scholars of film, television and other screen-based media, publishing research articles, reviews and audio-visual research-by-film-practice.
Subject areas: film studies, TV studies, screen studies, media theory, popular culture, sound studies, critical theory, filmmaking practice, practice-based research, videographic criticism.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
Orbit is a journal of contemporary American fiction from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. We publish special and general issues in a rolling format, which brings together a traditional journal article style with the latest publishing technology to ensure faster, yet prestigious, publication for authors.
Subject areas: literary studies, literary theory, postmodernism, metamodernism, metafiction, American studies, digital literary studies, typography, intermediality, narratology, literary style.
The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies
The Parish Review is the official journal of The International Flann O’Brien Society. Dedicated to the academic study of Brian O'Nolan (pseud. Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen), the journal publishes articles exploring the O’Nolan’s literary influence across genres and media to diverse theoretical, critical, and historical frameworks. Hailed as an ‘incomparable comic genius’ and ‘avant-garde innovator,’ O’Nolan’s work is now recognised as an important influence on figures such as David Foster Wallace, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Italo Calvino.
Subject areas: Modernism, Irish studies, literature.
Political Philosophy
Political Philosophy is a leading journal that explores theoretical aspects of public life—moral, political, social, legal and economic. It is an insistently interdisciplinary site for mutual engagement among practitioners of all those disciplines and more. The journal is methodologically capacious, equally welcoming of work that is formal and abstract or grounded and discursive. It brings liberalism, socialism, feminism, critical theory, critical race theory, game theory and social choice theory into conversation with one another. It is open to historical, exegetical, and comparative work that builds to a larger and more general philosophical point. Political Philosophy's core commitments are to analytical rigour and scholarly excellence.
Subject areas: political theory, political philosophy, philosophy and public affairs, social philosophy, legal philosophy, legal theory, social theory, economic philosophy, applied philosophy, social choice, economic policy, social policy.
Quaker Studies
Quaker Studies is the official journal of the international Quaker Studies Research Association, which was founded in 1992. The journal publishes articles that explore questions of Quaker history, ethics, philosophy, and practice in areas such as aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art, cultural studies, history, literature, peace studies, philosophy, research methodology, sociology, theology, and women’s studies.
Subject areas: digital humanities, art, cultural studies, literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, theology, Quaker studies, Quakerism, Nonconformity, Nonconformist, Friends, peace studies, research methodology, women's studies.
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is a journal of the environmental humanities that brings humanists, activists, artists, and scientists into conversation around environmental matters. Published three times a year, Regeneration prioritises collaborative work that brings different fields, disciplines, ways of knowing, and research archives into conversation with one another, and invites work that challenges the conventional essay form in the humanities. We welcome a wide range of submissions, particularly those that take full advantage of a multi-modal format, that are co-written, that report on collaborative work in progress, and that seek to establish new methods for the evolving study of the environment. Launching at the OLH in 2024.
Subject areas: environmental humanities, ecocriticism, ecologies, critical posthumanities, critical animal studies, indigenous studies, queer theory, Black studies, Anthropocene, apocalyptic studies, new materialisms, cultural geographies, social justice, environmental racism, art, activism.
Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Founded by the late Warren Samuels, one of the most distinguished historians of political economy from the 20th century, Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology publishes leading interdisciplinary scholarship in economic theory. With over 40 years of uninterrupted publication, the journal is one of the longest standing journals dedicated to the history and methodology of economics. Launching at OLH in 2024.
Subject areas: economic history, economics, political economy, epistemology, philosophy of science, history of science, sociology of science, intellectual history, economic methodology, economic sociology, science and technology studies, moral philosophy, behavioural science, political philosophy.
Studies in the Maternal
Studies in the Maternal provides an international forum for contemporary critical debates on the maternal, understood as lived experience, social location, political and scientific practice, economic and ethical challenge, a theoretical question, and a structural dimension in human relations, politics and ethics.
Subject areas: maternal studies, mothering, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, philosophy, critical theory, disability studies, medical humanities, popular culture, art, activism.
Syntactic Theory and Research
Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) publishes a wide range of articles on the syntax of natural languages and closely related fields. The journal promotes work on formal syntactic theory and theoretically-oriented descriptive work on particular languages and comparative grammar. STAR also publishes research on the interfaces between syntax and related fields such as semantics, morphology, and phonology, as well as theoretical and experimental studies in sentence processing, language acquisition, and other areas of psycholinguistics that bear on syntactic theories. In addition to full length research articles, STAR features short articles which facilitate a fast review process.
Subject areas: syntax, linguistics, language, morphology, acquisition, discourse, phonology, phonetics, semantics, theory, grammar.
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal
The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ) publishes innovative and interdisciplinary research in the field of Roman Archaeology. The journal promotes the use of theoretical approaches to the Roman past and facilitates fresh interpretations of datasets, rather than solely the presentation of archaeological data. The geographical scope of the journal is the whole of the Roman world at its greatest extent, including areas beyond the frontiers where Roman influence was evident. The journal’s temporal scope is from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique period; however, the subject of most contributions will usually range from the third century BC to the fifth century AD.
Subject areas: Roman archaeology, antiquarianism, sensory archaeology, pedagogy, experimental approaches to the past, Roman material culture, disability studies, ancient Rome, sculpture, art, environmental research, cultural appropriation, Roman imperialism.
Theory and Social Inquiry
Theory and Social Inquiry is dedicated to analyzing all facets and dimensions of social life, from micro-level interactions between individuals to the durable institutions that organize societies at a macro level. Our modal article asks big questions, theorizes boldly, and draws on thorough empirical research to arrive at knowledge that often challenges conventional wisdom. We endorse the principle that a critical analysis of existing social structures and social processes is not divorced from – but an important source of – scientific discovery. The journal values rigorous humanistic inquiry as well as historical perspectives on continuity and change. We are open to the full range of social scientific methods, including scholarship that draws on new and innovative approaches under the rubric of problem-solving sociology and engaged research. Theory-inspired, theory-driven, and theory-relevant social science takes many forms. Theory and Social Inquiry is interested in all these modes.
Subject areas: sociology, social sciences, critical theory, critique, history of theory, social structures, social processes.
Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung
Die Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung (ZFF) ist das deutschsprachige Forum für Fantastikforschung. Konsequent interdisziplinär angelegt, erscheint jährlich eine Ausgabe. Mit dem zentralen Ziel, die wissenschaftlichen Debatten rund um die Fantastik als kultureller Formation zugleich abzubilden und aktiv mitzugestalten, startet die ZFF 2018 innerhalb der OLH mit neuen Ideen und technischen Mitteln in eine neue, bunte und spannende Zukunft.
Subject areas: science fiction studies, fantasy, speculative fiction, science and technology studies, cyberpunk, fandom studies, franchises, genre theory, reception studies, German literature, German history, contemporary literary studies.
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Published since 1966, Zygon is dedicated to the manifold interactions between the sciences and human religious and moral convictions. The journal explores the whole range of the sciences, including cosmology and physics, biology and the neurosciences, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Zygon is open to religious and non-religious perspectives, publishing articles that consider science in relation to the great traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, as well as naturalism, secular humanism, and atheism.
Subject areas: religious studies, science and technology studies, moral philosophy, political philosophy, theology, spirituality, computational humanities, humanism, transhumanism, ontology, religion and ecology, cross-cultural studies, quantum theology, anthropology.
Archived journals.
Ethnologia Europaea
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, founded in 1967, focusing on European cultures and societies. In 2015 it was adopted by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) as its flagship journal. Ethnologia Europaea is a membership journal supported by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore and funded by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS). Ethnologia Europaea was published by the Open Library of Humanities from 2019-2023 and is archived here.
Francosphères
Francosphères is a multilingual journal based at the Centre for Postcolonial Studies (CPS) in Paris and London. It seeks to define and question the presence of French language and culture across frontiers and borders, as defined by the Franco postcolonial presence, contact with French culture, and the ‘France of the mind’. To this extent, it is a journal of transcultural and intercultural French Studies - about liminal spaces rather than operating within the hierarchy of ‘French’ or ‘Francophone’ culture. Francosphères was co-published by the Open Library of Humanities and Liverpool University Press from 2018-2023 and is archived here.
International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
First published in 1995 as Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English is the premier journal for current research on Welsh literature in the English language, Welsh drama and performance in English, translation, cultural studies, and related areas. The journal was co-published by the Open Library of Humanities and University of Wales Press from 2018-2023 and is archived here.
Pynchon Notes
Pynchon Notes was a journal devoted to studying the works of Thomas Pynchon. Running from 1979 to 2009, the journal is preserved by the Open Library of Humanities, but does not accept any new submissions. For new articles on the works of Thomas Pynchon, related authors and adjacent fields in 20th- and 21st-century literature, please see the OLH journal Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.