Appalachian Heritage is a leading literary magazine of the Southern Appalachia Region. Founded in 1973, Appalachian Heritage keeps readers abreast of the visual and literary arts in the region. The mix of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by both well-established writers and new writers keeps each issue fresh and entertaining for readers.

The Comparatist is a sponsored journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. It has appeared in print annually since 1977 and is currently sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center for the Humanitites and the University of Georgia. The Comparatist has traditionally published comparative work involving literary and cultural movements, literature and the arts, relations between European and non-European literatures, and inter-American literary exchanges. More recently the journal has also focused on the third world, Afro-Caribbean, and Central European literary phenomena. Each issue features eight to ten articles clustered around major comparative-thematic topics, such as "Theoretical Dialogues," "Post-Colonial Perspectives," "Comparative Poetics," or "Eastern-Western Relationships." A substantial review section evaluates important theoretical and practical concerns involving cross-cultural study. As a forum for literary comparatists, the journal encourages a stimulating interplay or intertextual and comparative methods, of theoretical-historical analysis, and of critical interpretation.

The journal of the Modem Language Association's American Literature Division 1, Early American Literature publishes the finest work of scholars examining American literature from its inception through the early national period, about 1830. Founded in 1965, EAL invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US. http://earlyamlit.nd.edu/index.html

The High School Journal is published four times a year by UNC's School of Education as a service to the education profession. Concerned with teaching, learning, and administration, it seeks to further the reflective examination of the broad field of secondary education by reporting research, informed Opinion, and occasionally, successful practices dealing with adolescent growth and development and the secondary school. Founded in 1918, it is one of the oldest journals in education and the only nationally circulated journal of its kind.

The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to add a new journal to its distinguished list in southern studies: The Journal of the Civil War Era. Published in association with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, it is the official publication of the Society of Civil War Historians.

William Blair, professor of American History at Penn State University, serves as Editor.

With fresh perspectives on the military, political and legal history of the era, as well as content covering slavery and antislavery, labor and capitalism, popular culture and intellectual history, the journal will include:

• Review essays
• Book reviews
• Reviews of films, digital archive collections, websites, museum exhibitions, and interventions in other media
• Columns on the profession

More information--including the full Table of Contents--is available from the journal's website at: http://www.journalofthecivilwarera.com/

The Southeastern Geographer is a quarterly publication of the Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers. The journal has published the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists since 1961. Peer-reviewed articles and essays are published along with book reviews, organization and conference reports, and commentaries. The journal welcomes manuscripts on any geographical subject as long as it reflects sound scholarship and contains significant contributions to geographical understanding.

Published quarterly by UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, Southern Cultures assembles a rich forum of animated, voices discussing all aspects of southern life. Compiling the best of academic and general interest writing, each issue features insightful articles, entertaining columns, and captivating photographs--all bound in an award-winning design. Regular features survey southern foods, personal reminiscences, and contemporary trends.

Published semiannually since 1967, The Southern Literary Journal is concerned with the literary and intellectual life of the American South. It features essays dealing with southern writing from colonial times to the present, and its eclectic approach includes literary criticism, historical studies, and thematic and interpretative analysis.

Founded in 1903, Studies in Philology addresses scholars in a wide range of disciplines, though traditionally its strength has been English Medieval and Renaissance studies. SIP publishes articles on British literature before 1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the Classical, Romance, and Germanic Languages.