The South Central Review is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 established in 1984 and the official publication of the South Central Modern Language Association. It is an eclectic, interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

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 journal, publishing a wide range of material including literary criticism

Literary criticism

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, philosophy

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, history

History

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, politics

Politics

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, film studies

Film studies

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, and debates on cultural topics. The journal often prints special issues focusing on narrower themes. The current editor is Richard J. Golsan (Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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).

The journal is published three times a year in March, July, and November by the Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

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. Circulation is 1,000 and the average length of an issue is 160 pages.

External links

• South Central Review at 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...