The Journal of the English Association
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Published four times per year by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association, English provides a forum for people who think hard and passionately about literature, and who want to communicate those thoughts to a wide audience.
It includes scholarly essays and reviews on all periods of literary history, alongside new work by contemporary poets. It publishes work that speaks to the discipline as a whole, including reflections on pedagogy and on the place of English Literature in the world beyond academia.
The journal is edited by a team based at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr Will Rossiter.
Call for submissions
English: Journal of the English Association is dedicated to new developments in English Studies. We publish scholarship on a wide range of authors and literary texts in English, and particularly encourage submissions which speak to the discipline as a whole. As the academic journal for the English Association, which represents teachers of English across the education sector, our readership comprises schoolteachers as well as academics, so we provide a platform for scholars and educators to reflect on the key questions facing our discipline today, from debates around methodology and literary history to pedagogical approaches or discussions of the place of English Literature in the world beyond academia.
Recently published work includes a guest-edited special issue on precarity, within and beyond academia, both historical and contemporary, and an issue focussing on the work of Early Career Researchers. Our forthcoming special issues focus on poetry archives and libraries as places of refuge, including testimonies and poetry by displaced people finding and building new communities.
2026 Postgraduate Essay Prize
The English Association is pleased to invite submissions to the English journal’s annual essay competition, which is exclusive to postgraduates. The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches. We are looking for essays that provide new perspectives on canonical and/or non-canonical Anglophone literatures, and therefore welcome submissions that focus on single authors/texts or a range of connected texts, and which develop original arguments beyond simple close reading, while engaging with recent scholarship in relevant fields.
The competition is open to any postgraduate student who is registered on a doctoral programme at any institution anywhere in the world by the submission deadline: 31 January 2026.
All essays are subject to anonymous peer review by a panel of established experts in literary studies and all will be considered for publication in English. The award of £250 and publication in the journal will be made to the winner. There will also be a runner up prize of £100. Each will receive a year’s subscription to English.
Submissions
Submission should be made through the journal’s online submission portal.
Please include EPEP in the submission title to indicate it is to be considered for the prize.
Submissions should meet the journal’s criteria for publication, which are outlined on the journal web page.
Editorial Team
Editors
Professor Will Rossiter (University of East Anglia)
Poetry Editor
Dr Holly Corfield Carr (University of East Anglia)
Reviews Editor
Dr Jessica Honey-Allen (University College Peterborough)
Editorial Board
David Amigoni – Keele University, UK
Katherine Baxter – University of Northumbria, UK
Sourit Bhattacharaya – University of Edinburgh, UK
Will Bowers – Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Lorna Burns – University of St Andrews, UK
Debra Rae Cohen – University of South Carolina, USA
Katherine Cooper – University of East Anglia, UK
Michelle Faubert – University of Manitoba, Canada
Alex Fyfe – University of Edinburgh, UK
Isabelle Hesse – University of Sydney, Australia
Hetta Howes – City, University of London, UK
Elizabeth Jackson – University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Elisabeth Jay – Oxford Brookes University, UK
Tabish Khair -University of Aarhus, Denmark
Julia Kuehn – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Srigowri Kumar – Fordham University, USA
Madhumita Lahiri – University of Michigan, USA
Wendy Lennon – Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy, UK
Douglas Mao – Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ruth Maxey – University of Nottingham, UK
Gordon McMullan – King’s College London, UK
Rehnuma Sazzad – School of Advanced Study, UK
Katy Shaw – Northumbria University, UK
James Ward – Ulster University, UK
Lawrence Warner – King’s College London, UK
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English – Submission of Manuscripts
Instructions for Authors For submissions please consult the journal’s webpage with Oxford University Press: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/english/for_authors/online_submission.html
The English Postgraduate Essay Prize
The editors of English: the Journal of the English Association were very pleased to initiate in 2017 the opening of an annual essay competition exclusive to postgraduates. The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches. We are looking for essays that provide new perspectives on canonical and/or non-canonical Anglophone literatures, and therefore welcome submissions that focus on single authors/texts or a range, and which develop original arguments beyond simple close reading, while engaging with recent scholarship in relevant fields.
