Representations is an interdisciplinary journal in the humanities published quarterly by the University of California Press. The journal was established in 1983 and is the founding publication of the New Historicism movement of the 1980s. It covers topics including literary, historical, and cultural studies. The founding editorial board was chaired by Stephen Greenblatt and Svetlana Alpers. Representations frequently publishes thematic special issues, for example, the 2007 issue on the legacies of American Orientalism, the 2006 issue on cross-cultural mimesis, and the 2005 issue on political and intellectual redress.
The Body, Gender, and Sexuality
Culture and Law
Empire, Imperialism, and The New World
History and Memory
Music
Narrative and Poetics
National Identities
Philosophy and Religion
Politics and Aesthetics
Race and Ethnicity
Science Studies
Society, Class, and Power
Visual Culture
The UC Press Representations books series has collected and reprinted many essays originally published in the journal, including:
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur
Representing the English Renaissance, edited by Stephen Greenblatt
Misogyny, Misandry, Misanthropy, edited by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson
Law and the Order of Culture, edited by Robert Post
The New American Studies: Essays from Representations, edited by Philip Fisher
New World Encounters, edited by Stephen Greenblatt
Future Libraries, edited by R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse
The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, edited by Sherry B.