Since its founding in 1973, Appalachian Heritage has been a leading literary magazine of the southern Appalachian region. In addition to art and photography by regional artists, the quarterly magazine publishes poetry, short stories, literary biography, and criticism by an interesting mix of well-established authors and promising new voices. Appalachian Heritage also includes book reviews and announcements of regional books, news, and literary events. The journal is based in the Appalachian Center of Berea College.

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 North Carolina State University. This is the first year that the University of North Carolina Press has published the journal.

Founded in 1966, Early American Literature is the journal of the Division on American Literature to 1800 of the Modern Language Association. It is the only journal that focuses on the scholarship and criticism of American literature through the early national period. It typically includes six essays, an essay review or forum, and several book reviews.

The High School Journal publishes articles dealing with adolescent growth, development, interests, beliefs, values, learning, and the like, as they affect school practice. In addition, it reports on research dealing with teacher, administrator, and student interaction within the secondary school setting. Successful teaching techniques are reported as is research on secondary school teaching and teaching techniques.

Social Forces is a renowned journal of social research highlighting sociological inquiry but also exploring realms shared with social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Each issue usually includes 11-14 articles, 25-30 book reviews, and 20-30 "take-note" reviews. A survey of the department heads of twenty top graduate programs in sociology ranked Social Forces in the top three among all journals in which they want to see members of their staff publish.

A biannual publication of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org), Southeastern Geographer has published the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists since 1961. The journal features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.

UNC Press joins with the UNC Center for the Study of the American South in publishing Southern Cultures. This journal explores the history, politics, folklore, literature, art, and social structures of the South. Each issue includes articles and essays; reviews of books, museum exhibitions, films, and sound recordings; and regular features, such as "South Polls," which present public opinion polls on topics of regional interest.

As the premier publication devoted to the fiction, poetry, and drama of the American South, The Southern Literary Journal publishes a wealth of scholarly articles and reviews in every issue. A commitment to important early Southern writers--William Byrd, William Gilmore Simms, George Washington Cable--as well as to some of the most important American authors--Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, and others--places SLJ at the center of American literary scholarship.

Grounded in a long history of scholarly excellence as one of the first journals in literary criticism in the United States, Studies in Philology publishes articles on all aspects of British literature from the Middle Ages to 1900, and, also, articles on relations between British literature and works in the classical, Romance, and Germanic languages.