James Joyce Quarterly
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The James Joyce Quarterly (JJQ) is a peer-reviewed
Peer review
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 academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 that was established in 1963 that covers critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

. The journal publishes essays, notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor's "Raising the Wind".

To supplement the print journal, JJQ also has an online version. The site provides an archive of past issues, a resources page, links to full-text options available on JSTOR
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

 and Project MUSE
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...

, a calendar of Joyce events, and an on-line checklist.

History

The James Joyce Quarterly was established in 1963 at the University of Tulsa
University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...

 by Thomas F. Staley, who was the journal's editor-in-chief for its first twenty-five years. From 1989 to 2001 Robert Spoo edited the journal and in 2001 Sean Latham succeeded Spoo.

Notable contributors to the JJQ include Fritz Senn, Gregory Castle, Hans Walter Gabler, Morris Beja, John McCourt
John McCourt
John McCourt was an American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as the 51st Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to joinng the court, McCourt had worked as United States District Attorney for the District of Oregon...

, Vicki Mahaffey, Margot Norris, and Michael Groden
Michael Groden
Michael Groden is Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario.Groden received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1969 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He is known for his involvement in the envisioning and development of James Joyce's Ulysses as hypertext and...

.

Awards

JJQ received an "Honorable Mention" for "Best Design" from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

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