Created by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in cooperation with Duke Libraries, "How Do You Look?" is an initiative to promote visual literacy. Using conceptual "Frameworks," "Medium" or "Periods & Cultures" as a starting vantage point, the guide helps unpack how to ask questions and conduct research to respond.
Journal of Canadian Art History
Founded in 1974, the Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien is the only peer reviewed publication devoted entirely to the history and theory of the visual arts in Canada. The material is published in English or French; articles and essays are accompanied by translated summaries.
C Magazine, established in 1984, is a contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each issue explores a theme that is singularly engaged with emerging and prevailing perspectives through original art writing, criticism, and artist projects. Their content focuses on the activities of contemporary art practitioners residing in Canada and Canadian practitioners living abroad—with an emphasis on those from Black, Indigenous, diasporic, and other equity-deserving communities—as well as on international practices and dialogues. They are committed to facilitating meaningful, pluralistic, interdisciplinary, historically-engaged, and imaginative conversations about art.
Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
TOPIA provides a venue for current research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond. TOPIA publishes original, peer-reviewed research and theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences, along with cultural and political debates, commentaries, interviews, and book reviews. TOPIA builds on critical traditions encompassing space, time, identity, and culture, while encouraging multiple regional, national, and transnational perspectives.
First American Art Magazine, LLC (FAAM), broadens understanding of art by Indigenous peoples of the Americas from tribal communities to the global art world. First American Art Magazine, LLC, strives to foster historical resilience, cross-cultural understanding, and reintegration of humans into the natural world.
The drift is a magazine of culture and politics. Their issues feature longform essays and cultural criticism, short fiction, poetry, interviews, dispatches, and extremely abbreviated reviews.
PUBLIC is an interdisciplinary journal with a core focus on visual art. It strives to be an accessible, smart, and beautiful journal about art with the timeliness and visual interest of a magazine but the longevity of a book. PUBLIC maintains an enduring and esteemed profile in the periodicals market with its demonstrated commitment to publishing works, both written and visual, that are innovative and challenging, forward-thinking and critical, and engage both international and locally-inflected perspectives.
The magazine focuses on commercial creativity, covering design, advertising, photography, branding, digital products, film, and gaming.
Critical Quarterly (peer-reviewed)
Critical Quarterly is a literary reviews journal recognized globally for its unique combination of literary criticism, cultural studies, poetry, and fiction. It examines a variety of cultural works, allowing for conversation and exploration on everything from cinema to the established literary canon. In order to generate a lively discourse of varied voices, the journal welcomes submissions from new researchers and writers as well as more established contributors.
Social Semiotics (peer-reviewed)
Social Semiotics is a peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality papers that deal with the study of semiotic resources and practices including words, images, behaviours, settings, sounds, design, etc., and the way these are connected to the organization of societies and everyday lives.
Articles must focus on a specific semiotic phenomenon and embody, in their argument and conclusion, a critique of the limitations on and variations in the ways in which semiotic resources/practices may perpetuate biases, imbalance or legitimize and maintain kinds of power interests.
Semiotic analysis in articles might draw on linguistic analysis, visual analysis, content analysis, ethnography, interviews, as well as production studies, and can be tied to political economy. The journal especially welcomes papers that analyse everyday phenomena and the sociopolitical significance of representations.
Canadian Literature (peer-reviewed)
Canadian Literature is an academic quarterly that publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles in French or English related to the field of Canadian literature, broadly defined. The journal’s deep commitment to Canadian writing does not stop there. They also publish book reviews of critical and creative works, poems, short notes, writings of importance that have been rediscovered in the archives, interviews with writers, and articles by writers about their craft.
Ariel (peer-reviewed)
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature is a quarterly journal founded in 1970 and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. With readers and subscribers in more than fifty countries, ARIEL focuses on the critical and scholarly study of literatures in English around the world. The journal publishes original articles in postcolonial studies exploring colonial power and resistance as well as innovative scholarship on globalization, new forms and sites of exploitation, colonization, and decolonization in an age of transnational capitalism, displacement and diaspora studies, global ecocriticism, cultural and cross-cultural translation, and related areas. The journal especially encourages articles that do not just offer a close reading of a text or set of texts but that use that close reading to intervene in an existing scholarly conversation.
Gothic Studies (peer-reviewed)
Gothic Studies is the journal of the International Gothic Association, and covers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, providing an international platform for dialogue and cultural criticism in the sphere of Gothic from within every period and media form.