The Old English Newsletter was a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1967. It covered Anglo-Saxon studies and was published by the University of Massachusetts for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America. The journal published an annual Bibliography and Year's Work, which are widely relied upon. Many issues include obituaries of relevant scholars. The online version contains an archive of several years of the journal's publications. As of February, 2026, the journal has been discontinued due to a lack of "funding, volunteers, and contributors."
History When first established, the Old English Newsletter was published at Binghamton, New York, by the State University of New York's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In 1975, publication had transferred to the Ohio State University and in 2011 to the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. Until 2026, The journal was published by the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, still on behalf of the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America.
Past editors 1967: Jess B. Bessinger, New York University, and Fred C. Robinson, Cornell (jointly) 1975: Stanley J. Kahrl 1977: Paul E. Szarmach 2011: Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee 2026: Stephen Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
See also Anglo-Saxon England
References
External links Official website Archives, with free access to Volume 1 (1977) through to volume 42 (2009)
