Can you believe we’re already well into the fall season? Over the past three months, a lot has been going on with our journals. Read on for exciting updates, including a journal’s name change, a new editor, the latest UPside podcast, and much more!
Special Issues
- “Transformative Approaches to Materiality in Appalachian Studies,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, guest edited by Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth and Zada Komara.
- “Periodicals of the Italian Diaspora,” Italian American Review, Volume 15, Issue 1, guest edited by David Aliano and Joseph Sciorra.
- “Czeslaw Milosz, Our Contemporary,” The Polish Review, Volume 70, Issue 3, guest edited by Marek Bernacki and Gerard T. Kapolka.
- “Book of Mormon in Contemporary Scholarship,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 58, Issue 2, edited by Taylor Petrey. *OPEN ACCESS*
- “Reconsidering Pragmatism as a Living Movement: A Special Issue Dedicated to Richard J. Bernstein,” The Pluralist, Volume 20, Issue 2, guest edited by Mark Sanders and Tara Mastrelli.
- “Immigration and Citizenship,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Volume 44, Issue 4, guest edited by Hardeep Dhillon and Maddalena Marinari.
- “The Future of the Olympics in the Face of Climate Change,” Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, guest edited by Julie Brice.
New Editor
Join us in welcoming Alan J. Gravano as the new editor of Italian Americana! His inaugural issue, Volume XLIII, Number 1, is out now online. Check out our blog post announcing the news to read about Dr. Gravano’s background, what he’s looking forward to in his new role as editor, his goals for his tenure, and outgoing editor Dr. Carla Simonini’s legacy. Read it here.
Blogs
We are excited to announce that going into the 2025 volume year with 50 years of history, the Journal of Education Finance is expanding to become the Journal of Education Finance and Law through the Education Law Association. Edited by Jennifer Sughrue, the inaugural issue focuses on trending topics in education finance and law and is now available online on the Scholarly Publishing Collective. Learn more about the change in our blog post introduction.
In celebration of the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, we have a blog post containing free to read articles from the Journal of American Folklore—check them out until November 30, 2025.
You may also want to view our recommended reading for Journal of Film and Video. This blog post features free to read articles scheduled throughout the year, including “Ethics in Documentary Film Production: Asserting and Changing Norms” by Patricia Aufderheide, free to access until December 31, 2025.
Finally, we are proud to share a recap of intern Sloane Ebbay’s experience getting to know the University of Illinois Press. As a graduate student studying Philippine cinema, cinematic time, melodrama and the perception of duration at the turn-of-the-millennia, Sloane mentions a few articles that caught his eye from Journal of Film and Video and Music and the Moving Image. Read his reflection post on our blog.
Featured Top Articles
What’s been a highly read article in these journals for the past three months? Many of our journals have content on several different online platforms, so this feature section is only highlighting one top article from one platform (the Scholarly Publishing Collective, which hosts our current content).
- Italica: “Introducing Immigration and Integration in the Italian Language Curriculum: An Approach Based on ACTFL Standards” by Daniele Biffanti and Daniela Pozzi Pavan (Vol. 101, Iss. 1)
- The Pluralist: “Reconsidering Pragmatism as a Living Movement: A Special Issue Dedicated to Richard J. Bernstein” by Mark Sanders and Tara Mastrelli (Vol. 20, Iss. 2)
- Process Studies: “A Neglected Resource for Process Theology: Bernard Shaw’s The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God” by Donald Wayne Viney (Vol. 54, Iss. 1)
- Jazz and Culture: “Resonant Flight: Marronage Beyond the Jazz Imaginary” by Benjamin Barson (Vol. 8, Iss. 1)
- Illinois Classical Studies: “Dis/ableism in the “Problem of Claudius”: The Reception of Claudius’s Disabilities in the Ancient Sources” by Daniel J. Kershaw (Vol. 47, Iss. 1)
- American Journal of Theology and Philosophy: “Michael L. Raposa Plays with Peirce, Love, and Signs: Review Essay on Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning” by Brandon Daniel-Hughes (Vol. 43, Iss. 2-3)
- Public Affairs Quarterly: “Should Men Vacuum More?” by Bouke de Vries (Vol. 38, Iss. 3) *OPEN ACCESS*
- Italian Americana: “Pater Familias, Papà, Daddy. Changes in Fatherhood and Fathering Across Italian American Generations” by Rosemary Serra (Vol. XLIII, Iss. 1)
- Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology: “Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Rock Art Paintings in Southern Illinois” by Sierra M. Bow, Jan F. Simek, and Mark J. Wagner (Vol. 50, Iss. 2)
- Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association: “Saint-Gaudens’s Standing Lincoln: Social Turmoil, Classical Oratory, and Plaster Casts” by Martha Dunkelman (Vol. 45, Iss. 2) *OPEN ACCESS*
Podcasts
Continuing on our celebration of the 15th anniversary of Journal of Animal Ethics, we released an episode of our podcast, The UPside, on the history, present, and future of the Journal. Dr. Clair Linzey, co-editor of the Journal and deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, joined us for a conversation on animal ethics and the disciplines it interacts with, common themes in the field, the development of academic discourse, an upcoming documentary on co-editor Andrew Linzey’s work entitled The Animal Thing, and much more!
You can listen to the podcast on Spotify or Soundcloud now and read the transcript on our blog.
What’s Next UP?
October is full of reading lists to guide you on themed exploration of relevant journal articles, such as for Italian American Heritage Month and Polish American Heritage Month. Stay up to date on our blog through the year to see the range of topics our journals cover.
Keep an eye on The UPside, especially if you’re interested in philosophy or Italian American studies! We’re hoping to have more journals episodes released by the end of the year.
It’s almost the end of the year, which means it’s also renewal season. Do you have a subscription to one of our journals or a membership with an association that we publish with? If you haven’t renewed and want to maintain your access to a journal, check out our website for more information.