Journals and Periodicals Published at The Graduate Center

The Graduate Center's academic program and research centers produce a variety of scholary publications, including:

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction was founded in 1970, the centennial anniversary of Dickens's death, and has been published since 1980 by AMS Press in cooperation with the Ph.D Program in English of the City University of New York, and in association with the Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY. Besides presenting articles exploring the wide range of Dickens's interests and talents, DSA also includes essays on other mid- and late-nineteenth century novelists and on the history and aesthetics of the period's fiction. In addition, each volume contains a substantial review article examining recent scholarship on Dickens, and DSA occasionally publishes surveys of work on other authors, such as the Brontës, Thackeray, Trollope, George Eliot, Carroll, Hardy, Gaskell, and Collins, as well as review essays considering specialized studies of subjects in Victorian fiction. DSA is currently edited by Professor Stanley Friedman (Queens College), President Edward Guiliano (New York Institute of Technology), Professor Anne Humpherys (The Graduate Center and Lehman College), Professor Talia Schaffer (The Graduate Center and Queens College), and Professor Michael Timko (The Graduate Center and Queens College).

Global Governance Journal
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations is published four times a year (February, May, August, and November) by Lynne Rienner Publishers. A project of the Academic Council on the United Nations System and the United Nations University, this academic refereed journal is distributed to all ACUNS members as part of their membership. Launched in February 1995, Global Governance provides a much-needed forum for practitioners and academics to discuss the impact of international institutions and multilateral processes on: economic development, peace and security, human rights and preservation of the environment.

Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Journal of American Drama and Theatre is a widely acclaimed journal devoted solely to drama and theatre in the USA, past and present. Provocative, thoughtful articles by the leading scholars of our time provide valuable insight and information on the heritage of American theatre, as well as its continuing contribution to world literature and the performing arts. Journal of American Drama and Theatre is a member of CLEJ and is published three times a year, in the Winter, Spring and Fall.

The Journal of Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics is an international journal that publishes scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and behavior, and communicates new ideas and research findings to social scientists, scholars, and students. The journal is indispensable to experts, in research organizations, foundations, consulates, and embassies throughout the world. Comparative Politics is sponsored, edited, and published by the Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York.

Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography
Music in Art is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of visual sources of music from antiquity to the present. It fosters communication between historians of art, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists engaged in the research of pictorial representations of musical instruments and their decorations, occasions for music-making and dance, the history of performance practice, and the relationship between music and visual art in the 20th century. Founded in 1998, the journal is edited and published annually by the Research Center for Music Iconography.

Papers of the International Concertina Association
Established in 2004, Papers of the International Concertina Association is a joint publication of The Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments (CSFRI) and the International Concertina Association (ICA, headquartered in England). A peer-reviewed annual, it is devoted to all aspects of the various kinds of concertinas. The journal is published each Fall in two formats—in print, which goes to all members of the ICA, and electronically. The latter can be found on the websites of both the ICA and the CSFRI: http://www.concertina.org and
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/freereed, respectively.

PART: The Journal of the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Art History
PART is produced and edited by students in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. It was established in 1997 by two students, John Angeline and Alan Moore, as an independent student venture, to promote the scholarship of CUNY students in the democratic form of on-line publishing. The title refers to the "aspiration of students to add their fragments of scholarship to an increasingly diverse and far-reaching discourse." Today PART also includes the work of outside scholars, art historians, art professionals and artists, and we welcome submissions from scholars and professionals from outside of the City University. PART is produced twice annually.

Renaissance Quarterly
Since its foundation in 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance and the publisher of Renaissance Quarterly, which is published four times a year. Membership, which includes a subscription to RQ, offers many benefits for scholars. The interdisciplinary articles (15 to 20 per year) and some 400 book reviews per year provide coverage of the most important recent scholarly developments in Renaissance studies. The journal's reviews and articles are written by authorities in history, literature, art, philosophy, music, and other areas of study.
See: http://www.rsa.org/rq.htm.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Abstracts of Music Literature
First published in 1967 as a useful tool for music researchers, RILM Abstracts covers a wide range of topics from Mozart to Motown, from liturgy to music therapy, from elementary music education to advanced music theory. Available online, in print, and on CD-ROM, this database contains hundreds of thousands of records in more than 100 languages, with over 30,000 new verified bibliographic data—fully cited, abstracted, and indexed—entering the database each year. The online version is updated monthly. The publication of RILM Abstracts is made possible by the efforts of some 60 national committees located in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and Oceania.
See http://www.rilm.org/.

Situations
Situations is a twice yearly journal of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, replacing Found Object which published eleven issues during its six-year existence. Subtitled 'A Project of the Radical Imagination,' Situations will devote itself to the critical examination and dissemination of new ideas and critical commentary on the current crisis of democracy. Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, is Co-Managing Editor.
See: http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/issue/current

Slavic and East European Performance
This journal (formerly called Soviet and East European Performance) brings readers lively, authoritative accounts of drama, theatre, and film in Russia and Eastern Europe. The journal includes features on important new plays in performance, archival documents, innovative productions, significant revivals, emerging artists, and the latest in film, with outstanding interviews and overviews. Slavic and East European Performance is a publication of the Institute for Contemporary East European Drama and Theatre under the auspices of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. SEEP is published three times a year.

Western European Stages
An indispensible resource in keeping abreast of the latest theatre developments in Western Europe. Each issue contains a wealth of information about recent European festivals and productions, including reviews, interviews, and reports. Winter issues focus on the theatre in individual countries or on special themes. News of forthcoming events: the latest in changes in artistic directorships, new plays and playwrights, outstanding performances, and directorial interpretations. Western European Stages is published three times a year, in the Winter, Spring and Fall.

Women's Studies Quarterly
Founded in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press, Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ) is the leading journal on teaching in women's studies. Just relaunched, each issue of WSQ is thematic and includes new feminist scholarship as well as resources for teaching women's studies. Issues in 2005 include "Women and Sports" and "Gender and Culture in the 1950s." For more information, see www.feministpress.org.

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