Contemporary Literature (journal)

This article is about the journal. For the field of study, see Contemporary literature.

Contemporary Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the contemporary literature field. Genre coverage includes poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, and new media (including digital literature and the graphic narrative). The editor-in-chief is Thomas Schaub (University of Wisconsin–Madison). It was established in 1960 as the Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, obtaining its current title in 1968.

Contemporary Literature

Discipline	Contemporary literature
Language	English
Edited by	Thomas Schaub
Publication details
Former name(s)	Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature
History	1960–present
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Contemp. Lit.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0010-7484 (print) 1548-9949 (web)
LCCN	64006922
JSTOR	00107484
OCLC no.	2244753
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:^[1]

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
• Abstracts of English Studies
• Academic Search
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
• Humanities Index
• Expanded Academic
• Humanities International index
• Scopus