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Faculty members in the department play a central role in several publishing efforts and projects, and the Department of English is also home to many useful online resources.

Publishing Efforts

Publishing Projects

Online Resources

Publishing Efforts

James Dickey Newsletter is published twice annually, and contains literary criticism of Dickey's work and comparative studies with works of others, as well as an on-going bibliography. Biographical information, reviews, interviews, lectures, news items, queries, and a few original poems of high quality are also included.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Inc. is dedicated to fostering scholarship on and appreciation of the life and writings of one of America's greatest authors.

Book reviews editor and staff for Language, journal of the Linguistic Society of America, are housed in the Department of English.

The Lettered Olive is USC's undergraduate literary review, which is focused exclusively upon undergraduate creative writing.

The Concord Saunterer is an annual, peer-reviewed journal of Thoreau Scholarship, which contains in-depth essays about Thoreau, his times and his contemporaries, and his influence today.

Early American Literature is a triquarterly journal featuring scholarship that explores the history, aesthetics, cultural significance, and meaning of writings in and about America from European contact to 1820.

Studies in Scottish Literature is the foremost publication in its field. First published as a paper-bound quarterly in 1963, it is now a hardback annual. It features scholarly essays on issues concerning Scottish writings, Scottish authors, Scottish publishing, or any aspect of Scottish literature.

Yemassee is the literary journal of the University of South Carolina, publishing poetry, short fiction, one-act plays, brief essays, and interviews in two issues every year.

Publishing Projects

The Southern Texts Society operates with the profound conviction that inquiry into the history of Southern thinking enables the self-understanding of the region and the appreciation of the complexity of national history.

Founded in 2004 as a joint initiative between the English and Art departments at USC, SABA operates the Book Arts Center and hosts a biennial Book Arts conference.

Online Resources

Scott Fitzgerald Centenary website elevates awareness of a great American writer and celebrates Fitzgerald's writings, his life, and his relationship with other writers of the twentieth century.

LitCheck provides a useful overview of over seven hundred English-language authors whose first book appeared in 1950 or later. It is designed to facilitate and encourage the collecting of contemporary writers.

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