The Old English Newsletter is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 established in 1967. It covers Anglo-Saxon studies and is published by the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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's Department of English for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America

Modern Language Association

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. Its current editor is Roy Liuzza, of the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

.

The journal publishes an annual Bibliography and Year's Work, which are widely relied upon. Many issues include obituaries

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 of relevant scholars.

The online version contains an archive of several years of the journal's publications.

Originally, the Old English Newsletter was published at Binghamton, New York

Binghamton, New York

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, by the State University of New York

State University of New York

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's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It is currently (2011) published at the Department of English, University of Tennessee.