A respected forum since 1962 for peer-reviewed work in English literary studies, English Language Notes - ELN - has undergone an extensive makeover as a semiannual journal devoted exclusively to special topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. ELN is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative work among literary scholarship and fields as disparate as theology, fine arts, history, geography, philosophy, and science. The new journal provides a unique forum for cutting-edge debate and exchange among university-affiliated and independent scholars, artists of all kinds, and academic as well as cultural institutions. As our diverse group of contributors demonstrates, ELN reaches across national and international boundaries.

 

Contact Information

Office
English Language Notes is located in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in Hellems 101.

Mailing Address
Please send manuscripts and subscriptions to the Editor:

English Language Notes
University of Colorado at Boulder
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226 U.S.A.

Telephone
Phone: 303-492-7176
Fax: 303-492-3521

E-mail
For general or subscription information: eln@colorado.edu
For editorial or submission inquiries: eln2@colorado.edu,
eln3@colorado.edu

International Standard Serial Number
ISSN 00138282

 

Board Members and Editorial Staff

Managing Editor
Karen Jacobs

Editorial Staff

John C. Leffel, Editorial Assistant
Nikki McManus, Editorial Assistant
Sara Smilko, Editorial Assistant

Editorial Board
Julie Carr
Katherine Eggert
Jane Garrity
Nan Goodman
Kelly Hurley
Karen Jacobs
William Kuskin
John-Michael Rivera
Jeffrey Robinson
Laura Winkiel
Sue Zemka

Mission Statement

With its inaugural spring/summer 2006 issue, "Literary History and the Religious Turn" (Bruce Holsinger, editor), the University of Colorado's scholarly journal English Language Notes marked a new beginning. Whereas an academic journal of 1963 (the year ELN was founded) could well imagine its readers to agree on such fundamental premises as the nature and scope of the field of literature, since then a proliferation of approaches, justifications, and critical discourses, as well as the fluidity of the very object of study, have made that kind of confidence itself a subject of debate. Over the past two and a half years, therefore, ELN has undergone an extensive makeover as a semiannual journal devoted exclusively to special topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. The editorial collective is particularly determined to revive and re-energize the journal's traditional commitment to featuring shorter "notes," often no more than three or four pages in print, an aspect of ELN that aims to provide a unique forum for cutting-edge scholarly debate and exchange in the humanities.

Since its inaugural issue, ELN has published "Photography and Literature" (Karen Jacobs, fall/winter 2006); "The Specter of the Archive" (John-Michael Rivera, spring/summer 2007); "Queer Space" (Jane Garrity, fall/winter 2007); "Time and the Arts" (Sue Zemka, spring/summer 2008); "Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel" (William Kuskin, fall/winter 2008); "Experimental Literary Education" (Jeffrey Robinson, spring/summer 2009); "Literature and Pseudoscience" (Katherine Eggert, fall/winter 2009); "Genre and Affect" (Kelly Hurley, spring/summer 2010); "Juris-Dictions" (Nan Goodman, fall/winter 2010); "Transnational Exchange" (Laura Winkiel, spring/summer 2011); "The Shape of the I: A Double Issue" (Julie Carr & John-Michael Rivera, [#1], fall/winter 2011).

Forthcoming issues include "The Shape of the I: A Double Issue" (Julie Carr & John-Michael Rivera, [#2], spring/summer 2012); "Scriptural Margins" (Sue Zemka, fall/winter 2012).

ELN is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative work among literary scholarship and fields as disparate as theology, fine arts, history, geography, philosophy, and science. The new journal provides a unique forum for cutting-edge debate and exchange among university-affiliated and independent scholars, artists of all kinds, and academic as well as cultural institutions.