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.
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: History, Theory, Interpretation provides a forum for dialogue about Edgar Allan Poe's life and writings, and about the cultural and material contexts that shaped the production and reception of his work. The editors wish to define "Poe studies" broadly-to include articles that engage the period in which Poe wrote, writers with whom he was affiliated or whom he inspired, theoretical and philosophical issues raised by his work, and artistic movements associated with him, such as gothicism, detective fiction, symbolism, and metafiction. The journal invites submissions of original articles and notes, welcomes work grounded in a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives, and encourages inquiries proposing submissions and projects
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.