Journals
The English Department at WSU houses four publications: one creative writing/photography journal, two scholarly print journals, and one scholarly electronic review, all of which are produced by faculty, graduate, undergraduate, and administrative staff.
LandEscapes is the undergraduate literary and arts journal which has provided the community with creative voices for nearly a decade. Each step of the publication process from advertising, to reviewing submissions, to layouts, and distribution is run entirely by students from a variety of backgrounds both personally and academically. LandEscapes is also a unique publication because the staff, including editors, is changed annually to provide a new perspective on writing and art. One of the goals of LandEscapes has been to build on the interaction between genres and forms. By connecting individual pages and spaces, it imitates the connection between departments within Washington State University.
Landescapes staff
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance is devoted to the study of nineteenth-century American literature. The journal publishes original articles and notes grounded in a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives, and encourages inquiries proposing submissions and projects. A special feature is the publication of essays reviewing groups of related books on figures and topics in the field, thereby providing a forum for viewing recent scholarship in broad perspectives.
Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism provides a forum for interpretive, cumulative dialogue about Poe's life and writings; about the cultural and material contexts that conditioned the production and reception of his work; and about his interrelationships with other writers, especially those who work in traditions of dark romanticism. Features include review essays, periodic special issues dealing with such topics as "Poe and Gender," and a periodic "International Poe Bibliography."
The International Review of Modernism is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes critical and historical essays, book reviews, and extended review-essays on new scholarly and critical books on modernist literature and culture situated in historical and national contexts. It is hoped in this way we may have modernism "thickly described" with its comprehensive interrelationships as the literature crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders or is influenced by art, film, philosophy, and politics.