October 13, 2025 • 1:25 pm | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — The new issue of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 53, no. 1) focuses on the foods and recipes that enrich and reflect Appalachian culture, including the cross-cultural influences reflected through foodways. This issue includes...
September 12, 2025 • 9:00 am | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — As the Crow Flies, the new open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, goes live on Sept. 15. Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, roundtable...
July 1, 2025 • 3:50 pm | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — The new issue of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 52, no. 4) features an ecofeminist exploration of Mesha Maren’s stunning debut novel Sugar Run, an in-depth discussion of Northern Appalachian writer Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural...
March 12, 2025 • 2:50 pm | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — The new issue of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 52, no. 3) focuses on the many talented and brilliant visual artists who call Appalachia home and whose work often depicts and engages with the region but is not limited by its...
November 20, 2024 • 8:30 am | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — The new Appalachian Journal (vol. 51, no. 1-2) features a tribute to Marie Cirillo, an exploration of underrated bestselling writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull, new poems, book reviews of recent publications and an interview with Leigh Ann Henion on...
July 25, 2024 • 9:00 am | Publications
BOONE, N.C. — The new Appalachian Journal (vol. 51, no. 3-4) celebrates the life and career of Gurney Norman, Appalachian writer, documentarian, English professor and Kentucky Poet Laureate (2009-10). Norman is the author of Divine Rights Trip: A Folk-Tale (1972),...
August 9, 2023 • 1:37 pm | Publications
By Barbara Kingsolver NEW YORK TIMES—Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary…
March 8, 2023 • 10:10 am | Publications
By Lauren Anderson, edited by Jessica Stump BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review marks its 50th anniversary this academic year, with the journal’s semicentennial volume set to publish later this...
June 25, 2021 • 11:30 am | Publications
Appalachian Journal has published its first special edition on Appalachian music. This double issue (vol. 42, nos. 3-4) is the largest one in the journal’s 42-year history, with 300-plus pages and 60-plus contributors. Guest editors Mark Freed and Trevor...
June 17, 2021 • 12:21 pm | Publications, Research Spotlight
“After Coal” profiles inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and South Wales. This hour long documentary invites viewers to the front lines of the transition away from fossil fuels. The stories of...
March 18, 2020 • 2:46 pm | Publications
By Anna Muckenfuss The latest Appalachian Journal features reviews and articles that focus on opioids in Appalachia, along with poetry by two recent Poet Laureates—George Ella Lyon of Kentucky and Joseph Bathanti of N.C., and poems by Phillip Howerton, R.T. Smith and...
July 15, 2019 • 12:08 pm | Publications
The new edition of Appalachian Journal, vol. 46. 1-2, features articles on foodways in Appalachia, the literature of Ron Rash, LGBTQ topics and a lively discussion of a new book on the field of Appalachian Studies, along with other book reviews and new poetry from the...
