The Journal of English Language and Literature, or JELL (ISSN 1016-2283; E-ISSN 2465-8545), is one of Korea’s leading peer-reviewed journals in English Studies. Published quarterly by the English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK), JELL provides full-text open access to scholarly work across the fields of English language studies, literatures in English, cultural studies, education, translation studies, and interdisciplinary humanities. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.
First published in July 1955 in the aftermath of the Korean War, JELL has played a formative role in the development of English Studies in Korea. For nearly seven decades, the journal has provided a venue for scholars to examine the historical, linguistic, literary, cultural, and theoretical dimensions of English and English-language texts. As English Studies continues to be reshaped by the plurality of Englishes, transnational migration, digital media, ecological crisis, and the shifting map of world literature, JELL seeks to rethink the significance of English literary and language studies from Korea. The journal is committed not only to introdu
First published in July 1955 in the aftermath of the Korean War, JELL has played a formative role in the development of English Studies in Korea. For nearly seven decades, the journal has provided a venue for scholars to examine the historical, linguistic, literary, cultural, and theoretical dimensions of English and English-language texts. As English Studies continues to be reshaped by the plurality of Englishes, transnational migration, digital media, ecological crisis, and the shifting map of world literature, JELL seeks to rethink the significance of English literary and language studies from Korea. The journal is committed not only to introdu
cing global scholarship to Korean academic contexts, but also to generating critical perspectives from Korea that contribute to wider international debates on language, literature, culture, and the changing conditions of knowledge production in a globalized world. In this sense, JELL serves as an intellectual forum where local scholarly traditions and global critical debates intersect.
Building on its long-standing contribution to the formation and consolidation of English Studies in Korea, JELL welcomes original, unpublished research across these fields. The journal also publishes scholarship connected to ELLAK’s annual conference themes, which in recent years have addressed emergent literary, theoretical, social, and cultural issues.
2026
The End: Reclaiming the Beginning
2025
Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media
2024
Rethinking the Global in English Studies
2023
Literary Inquiry as 21st Century Vocation: Reclaiming Aesthetics, Criticism and Pedagogy
2022
Ethics of Life Reconsidered: Coexistence in a Chronic Emergency
2021
Beyond Pandemics : Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal
2020
The Age of AI and Machine Translation: What Can Language, Literature, and Education Do?
2019
Nurturing Global Citizens within War and Violence Narratives
2018
Encounters with the Posthuman: Materiality, Vitality, Narrativity
2017
Narrating Rights: Literary Texts and Human, Nonhuman, and Inhuman Demands
2016
The Interface of Literature and Economy
2015
Spaces / Spatialities: Practices, Encounters, and Articulations