LibGuides: English Literature: Keeping Current

Staying Current in your Field

Graduate students and faculty may wish to stay abreast of new work in your specific fields. A good idea can be to set alerts for new articles on your topic in databases like the MLA Bibliography, or in Google Scholar. (Look in the database's Help menu for advice on how to set an alert.) Another strategy is to keep your eye on annual publications such as the ones listed below.

Year's Work in English Studies
The Year's Work in English Studies is the qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English. It is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind and the oldest evaluative work of literary criticism. [publisher description]
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
A companion volume to The Year’s Work in English Studies. It provides a narrative bibliography of published work, recording significant debates and issues of interest across a broad range of research in the humanities and social sciences.