Comparative Literary Studies Research Guide

This list of suggested journals is not a complete list. The Directory of Open Access Journals is an additional resource.

• 452ºF 

An online full-text journal of literary theory and comparative literature, published by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona starting in 2009. The journal aims to bring together established academics and postgraduate students to promote the interdisciplinary study of literary theory.

• Across Languages and Cultures: A Multidisciplinary Journal for Translation and Interpreting Studies 
• ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 

Refereed annual with articles in several languages. Available via JSTOR, which does not include the most recent three issues.

• Canadian Modern Language Review / La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes   

Available through Project Muse with emphasis on teaching strategies.

• CLCWeb 

"An e-journal whose primary focus is the publication of work in the study of literature and culture where literature is understood as an artistic expression in an international/global and/or cross-disciplinary context."    Peer reviewed open access journal published by Purdue University Press. 

• The Comparatist.  

The annual sponsored by the Southern Comparative Literature Association.  

• Comparative Critical Studies 

Published for the British Comparative Literature Association by Edinburgh University Press

• Comparative Literature Studies  
• Hikaku Bungaku: Journal of Comparative Literature 

Published in Japanese with summaries in English, German or French.

• Forum for Modern Language Studies  

Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St. Andrews.  Covers all aspects of literary and linguistics studies from the Middle Ages to the present.  

• Komparatistik Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. 

Publication of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL). 

• Literary Research / Recherche littéraire. 

Published by the International Comparative Literature Association.  .  

• Modern Language Quarterly; a Journal of Literary History.  

Published by the Duke University Press for the University of Washington

• Mosaic, a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 

University of Manitoba

• Other Voices: The E-Journal of Cultural Criticism. 

Freely available online, OV is published at the University of Pennsylvania and "publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities."

• Ri.L.Un.E: Rivista delle Letterature dell'Unione Europea / Revue des Littératures de l’Union Européenne (Bologna) is a peer-reviewed open access journal with the aim of aiding the formation of a “European cultural conscience through the exchange of knowledge, the promotion and study of European literature.”
• symplokē: theoretical, cultural, and literary scholarship
• Yearbook of Comparative & General Literature.  

Publishes “theoretically informed research in literary studies with a comparative, intercultural, or interdisciplinary emphasis.”