''Cultural Studies'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

covering research on the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical, and historical contexts. The current

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Ted Striphas (

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

Lawrence Grossberg Lawrence Grossberg (born December 3, 1947) is an American scholar of cultural studies and popular culture whose work focuses primarily on popular music and the politics of youth in the United States. He is widely known for his research in the phil ...

(

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), who has served as editor-in-chief from 1990 until 2018 is currently involved as Editor Emeritus. Former co-editors include

Janice Radway Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar. Education Radway holds a BA from Michigan State University, 1971, and an MA from State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972. She earned her PhD fr ...

(1991–1995) and Della Pollock (1995–2013). ''Cultural Studies'' was preceded by the ''Australian Journal of Cultural Studies'', published at the

Western Australian Institute of Technology Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

. The journal was established under its current name in 1987. Originally published by Methuen Publishing, it transferred to

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when the Methuen imprint was sold by then-owner

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to Octopus Publishing.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2012

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of 0.526.

References

External links

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''Australian Journal of Cultural Studies''
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