Scientific Study of Literature

*Scientific Study of Literature*
Discipline	Poetics
Language	English
Edited by	David Ian Hanauer
Publication details
History	2011-present
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Frequency	Biannual
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Sci. Study Lit.
Indexing;
ISSN	2210-4372 (print); 2210-4380 (web);
OCLC no.	864916862
Links
	Journal homepage; Online archive;

Scientific Study of Literature is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since 2011. It covers research in literary study. The editor-in-chief is David Ian Hanauer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), founding editor and editor-in-chief from 2011-2013 was Willie van Peer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). It is the official journal of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, with membership including a subscription. The concept of the journal is discussed, because of its programmatic title, which suggests to bridge the common antagonism between sciences and literary study.^[1]^[2]

Abstracting and indexing[]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, European Reference Index for the Humanities ERIH PLUS,^[3] Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, and MLA Bibliography.