Scholarly journal wins "Best New Journal" award

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Scholarly journal wins “Best New Journal” award

A scholarly journal “Literature in the Early American Republic” which is co-edited by an OSU faculty member and an alum has been named the winner of the 2010 Award for Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Jeffrey Walker, professor of English at OSU and Matthew Wynn Sivils, a 2006 OSU grad who is an as assistant professor of English at Iowa State, co-edit the publication.

“The council’s award is an important coup for our young, peer-reviewed annual,” said Walker. “It’s also added motivation to continue to provide a venue for literature of the early American republic, a period roughly spanning from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the death of James Fenimore Cooper in 1851.” 

The council of editors praised the periodical for “a very significant topic that seems under-represented,” adding, “its contributions are all deserving of the epithet ‘learned’… In sum, this is a journal that will have real staying power...” 

Sivils accepted the award at a recent ceremony during the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles.

To review indices of past articles, go to the printer’s website at http://www.amspressinc.com/lear.html.