Press Releases

The redesign of the German Studies Review recently received the 2012 Best Journal Design award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The award honors a journal that launched a new design between 2010 and 2012. The Johns Hopkins University Press, which began publishing the journal with the 2012 volume, worked collaboratively with Editor Sabine Hake on the new design. The journal is the official publication of the German Studies Association (GSA).

The Wallace Stevens Society recently honored the first-ever winner of the John N. Serio Award for the Best Article at the 2013 Modern Language Association Convention in Boston. The award will honor the best article from the society’s official publication, The Wallace Stevens Journal, for a given year. Natalie Gerber, Associate Professor of English at Fredonia University, received the first-ever Serio Award at MLA in early January.

The Johns Hopkins University Press will add African American Review to its journals collection in 2013. The journal, which will publish its 45th volume in 2013, is edited by St. Louis University professor Nathan Grant. Aileen M. Keenan serves as managing editor. AAR is the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. The journal publishes literary and cultural criticism, poetry, interviews, short fiction and book reviews.