College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (CL)

College Literature publishes original and innovative scholarly research across the various periods, intellectual fields, and geographical locations that comprise the changing discipline of Anglophone and comparative literary studies. The journal is committed to the renewal of critique, and seeks to question both inherited disciplinary frameworks and new critical orthodoxies. College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies is dedicated to publishing original and innovative scholarly research across the various periods, intellectual fields, and geographical locations that comprise the changing discipline of Anglophone and comparative literary studies. The journal is committed to the renewal of critique as a historically determinate, self-reflexive, and socially substantive practice, which in resisting “empathy with the victor” (Benjamin) remains perpetually dissatisfied with each new consensus. We are convinced that literature remains a significant locus for such a renewal, since in seeking to establish a space “outside” normative social values, literary (and other) texts continually stage and restage the discursive, disciplinary, and institutional limits that enable such norms, and so work to reveal critique’s complicity with them. In interrogating critical practice, the journal aims to investigate its involvement in broader parameters of public debate organized by such enduring (though mutating) political demarcations as that between private and public, the national and the global, or indeed between the cultural and the political itself. Since its foundation in 1974, College Literature has been one of the premier literary studies journals in North America. Consistently innovative, it pioneered the uptake of theoretical approaches to literature in the 1980s, and led debates around the corporatization of the university in the 1990s and the 2000s.

College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (CL) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Education, Literature & Language Arts, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Anglophone Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Multidisciplinary Humanities , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0093-3139, E-ISSN: 1542-4286, Established: 1974,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Indexed in: Scopus, WoS

• Not indexed in DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE