The Minnesota Review

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The Minnesota Review is a literary and cultural studies journal currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The journal places a special emphasis on politically engaged criticism, fiction and poetry. Issues are often "themed," recent issues examining the nature of academic publishing, of academic celebrity and of "smart" working class kids' experiences as adults or children within the educational system.

1 History
2 Editors
3 Locations
4 External links

[edit] History

The Minnesota Review began in 1960 in Minnesota. Some of the early editors were from Macalester College, but early issues have a disclaimer against affiliation with any university. The journal was oriented toward publishing avant garde fiction, poetry, and graphic work. It moved to New York City in 1970 under the editorship of the poet Alvin Greenberg.

In 1973 it moved again, edited by Roger Mitchell, to Indiana University, beginning with n.s. 1. During the 70s Fredric Jameson was one of the associate editors. In 1982, with n.s. 18, the journal moved to Oregon State University, edited by Fred Pfeil and Michael Sprinker and began to acquire the Marxist overtones and emphasis on literary theory for which it would later be known. In 1986 it moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook under Sprinker's editorship. In 1992 Sprinker turned the editorship over to Jeffrey Williams, starting with ns 39, while Williams was at East Carolina University. The journal moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998 and to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2004, remaining under Williams' editorship, and moving from out-and-out Marxism to politically conscious cultural studies.