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About Religion and Literature

R&L is a scholarly journal providing a forum for discussion of the relations between two crucial human concerns, the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language. We publish articles, review essays, and book reviews three times a year.

R&L began publication in 1984, succeeding NDEJ: A Journal of Religion in Literature (1977-1984).

A program in the study of Religion and Literature is housed in the College of Arts & Letters of the University of Notre Dame. For information about this program, click here.

Past Contributors

R&L has published work by:

M. H. Abrams  Paula Gunn Allen  Thomas J.J. Altizer  Felicia Bonaparte Daniel Boyarin Robert MacAfee Brown Gerald Bruns Lawrence Buell Michael J. Colacurcio  Donald Davie  Robert Detweiler  Denis Donoghue Louis Dupré  Terry Eagleton  Caryl Emerson

Maurice Friedman  René Girard  Stanley Hauerwas  David Jasper  Hugh Kenner  Anthony Low Joseph Mazzeo  Sallie McFague John Milbank Elisa New Walter J. Ong  Alicia Ostriker Barbara Packer Chaim Potok  Regina M. Schwartz Nathan A. Scott Ralph C. Wood

and many other thinkers concerned with the intersection between language and the ineffable.

Staff of Religion and Literature

Assistant Editor:

James Shortall

Editorial Board:

Managing Editor 2007-2008:

Craig B. Woelfel (email link)

Business Editor:

Kathleen J. Canavan (email link)

Advisory Board

• Harold Bloom
  
• Felicia Bonaparte
• Nicholas Boyle
  
• Lawrence Buell
• James Daugherty
  
• Richard Giannone
• Roger Lundin
  
• John J. McDonald
• J. Hillis Miller
• Carole Slade
• Tom Werge
  
• Elie Wiesel

Submissions

Please submit three copies of typescripts to the Managing Editor at the address below. Unpublished work will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. R&L does not accept electronic submissions. Please submit hard copy only. Manuscripts should be between 4500 and 9000 words.

All critical work submitted should follow the MLA Style Manual for manuscript format. For all other stylistic matters, contributors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (13th ed. revised).

R&L does not accept unsolicited creative works, such as poetry, fiction, or translations. In general, such work will only appear in special issues at the invitation of the guest editor.

Contacting R&L

Mailing Address:

Religion and Literature
1148 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611
USA

Email: randl@nd.edu
Do NOT send submissions via email. Send only hard copy as directed above.

Business Manager Phone: (574) 631-5725
Managing Editor Phone: (574) 631-0250