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Edited by Hannah V. Eldridge, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Book Review Editor: Melissa Sheedy, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Editorial Assistant: Hannah Brewer-Jensen, University of Wisconsin–Madison

ISSN: 0026-9271, e-ISSN: 1934-2810
Published four times per year

Monatshefte has appeared continuously since 1899 and has been published at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1927. A quarterly journal devoted to German literature and culture, Monatshefte offers articles on topics from all periods of German literature and book reviews of current scholarship in German studies. Monatshefte also publishes extensive topic-focused review articles intermittently. The winter issue of each volume contains “Personalia,” a comprehensive listing of German studies faculty and departments in the United States and Canada, as well as a list of all PhD theses that have been defended in the preceding year.

Special Issues:

Slowness, Untimeliness, Rupture: Queer Time and History in German Studies, Monatshefte 114(3), 2022
Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Photographic Practice, Monatshefte 113(3), 2021
Rhythm, Monatshefte 113(1), 2020
Aras Ören, Monatshefte 112(4), 2020
Rache und Sprache, Monatshefte 111(3), 2019
Archive und Geheimdienstakten: Dialogisches Erinnern an Verfolgung und Zensur im Ostblock, Monatshefte 110(2), 2018
Weimar Photography in Context, Monatshefte 109(2), 2017
Measuring the World, Monatshefte 108(3), 2016
Observation in Science and Literature, Monatshefte 105(3), 2013
Kafkas Spätstil/Kafka’s Late Style, Monatshefte 103(3), 2011
H.G. Adler—Dichter Gelehrter Zeuge, Monatshefte 103(2), 2011
Writing in Images, Monatshefte 102(3), 2010
100th Volume Special Issue, Monatshefte 100(1), 2008
Dea Loher, Monatshefte 99(3), 2007
The Art of Hearing, Monatshefte 98(2), 2006
Encounters with Schiller, Monatshefte 97(3), 2005
Integrität, Monatshefte 97(2), 2005
Johann Gottfried Herder 1744-1803, Monatshefte 95(2), 2003
Rereading Adorno, Monatshefte 94(1), 2002, available on JSTOR