Modern Drama was founded in 1958 and is the most prominent journal in English to focus on dramatic literature. The terms, "modern" and "drama," are the subject of continuing and fruitful debate, but the journal has been distinguished by the excellence of its close readings of both canonical and lesser known dramatic texts through a range of methodological perspectives. The journal features refereed articles that enhance our understanding of plays in both formal and historical terms, largely treating literature of the past two centuries from diverse geo-political contexts, as well as an extensive book review section. Published quarterly.
Modern Electronic Materials (MoEM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original research articles on manufacturing and studying the properties of semiconducting, magnetic and dielectric materials for micro- and nanoelectronics. The publication addresses topics such as material science and technology of single crystal semiconductors, dielectrics and magnetic materials; their physical properties; technology of multilayered structures and composite materials (including nanostructuring ones); structure and properties of boundary surfaces; non-thermal activation methods of physical processes; quantum-sized structures and nanocrystals; properties of amorphous and organic semiconductors; modeling of thermophysical, hydro- and gasodynamic conditions of single crystal and epitaxial layer growth for electronics; processes of semiconductor materials synthesis and purification.
The journal is published by the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Moscow, in a collaboration with Pensoft Publishers. The publication in the journal is free of charge, thanks to the generous support of MISiS.
Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
Modern Judaism provides a distinctive, interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the modern Jewish experience since the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment. Its contributors address topics pertinent to the understanding of Jewish life today and the forces that have shaped that experience, including the Zionist movement and the establishment of the State of Israel, the socio-political role assumed by literary works of art, and the rise of modern anti-Semitism and its devastating climax in the Holocaust.
Over a century ago, MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Its reputation for high standards and excellent quality continue into the new millennium. Critical studies in the modern languages (Italian, Hispanic, German, French) and recent work in comparative literature are the basis for the articles and notes in MLN. The journal publishes four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue.
The focus of MLQ is on change, both in literary practice and within the profession of literature itself. MLQ is open to papers on literary change from the Middle Ages to the present and welcomes theoretical reflections on the relationship of literary change or historicism to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and all other forms of representation and cultural critique. Seeing texts as the depictions, agents, and vehicles of change, MLQ targets literature as a commanding and vital force.