African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison. The official publication of LLC African American of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Nathan L. Grant, Editor
Aileen M. Keenan, Managing Editor
Paul Devlin, Book Review Editor
William L. Andrews | Manthia Diawara | Abdul JanMohamed | Sw. Anand Prahlad |
Michael Awkward | Michele Elam | Ketu Katrak | Arnold Rampersad |
Herman Beavers | Frances Smith Foster | David Krasner | Sandra Richards |
Bernard W. Bell | Robert E. Fox | Missy D. Kubitschek | Terry Rowden |
Joanne M. Braxton | William Gleason | Deborah E. McDowell | Valerie A. Smith |
Robert James Butler | Farah Jasmine Griffin | Reginald McKnight | Miriam Thaggert |
John F. Callahan | William J. Harris | E. Ethelbert Miller | Joe Weixlmann |
Daryl Dance | Karla F. C. Holloway | R. Baxter Miller | Richard Yarborough |
Thadious M. Davis | Dolan Hubbard | Joycelyn Moody | |
Alice Deck | Sterling Plumpp |
African American Review is published each Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by Johns Hopkins University Press. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available.
Authors must submit all manuscripts electronically via Manuscript FastTrack. AAR is open for submissions from
September 15 to May 1.
Please review our guidelines carefully.
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