The ''American Journal of Philology'' is a quarterly
academic journal
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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. It covers the field of
philology
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...
, and related areas of
classical literature
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,
linguistics
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,
history
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,
philosophy
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, and
cultural studies
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. In 2003, the journal received the award for Best Single Issue from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the
Association of American Publishers
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. The current
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Joseph Farrell (
University of Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Dean Meritt
Benjamin Dean Meritt (March 31, 1899 in Durham, North Carolina – July 7, 1989 in Austin, Texas) was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece. His father was a professor of Greek and Latin at Trinity College (later Duke Un ...
(1934 - 1935, 1943 - 1946)
* Tenney Frank (1936 - 1939)
* Harold Cherniss (1940 - 1942)
* Henry T. Rowell (1946 - 1971)
*
Georg Luck
Georg Hans Bhawani Luck (February 17, 1926 – February 17, 2013)''American Journal of Philology'' at
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