The list below begins with journals that clearly label cultural studies as their primary focus. While the titles in this first section might not all define cultural studies in identical fashion, they nonetheless all claim an explicit allegiance to cultural studies as an intellectual and political project.
The remaining subcategories revolve around the primary editorial agendas of the journals in question. Some of these subcategories, of course, are not mutually exclusive (a "media"-focused journal, for instance, may still publish articles on "gender/sexuality" or "marxism/socialism"), and so some journals appear under more than one heading. The journals included under these headings are all "cultural studies friendly," but are not exclusively (or even necessarily primarily) dedicated to publishing cultural studies work.
Cultural Studies
- Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
- European Journal of Cultural Studies
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
- International Journal of Cultural Studies
- Journal for Cultural Research
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
- The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies
- Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
- Cultural Studies Review
Formerly known as The UTS Review
Gender/Sexuality
- Body & Society
- Camera Obscura
- differences
- Feminist Media Studies
- Feminist Review
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Sexualities
- Women and Performance
Literary Criticism
Marxism/Socialism
- Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life
- The New Left Review
- Mediations
- Monthly Review
- Rethinking Marxism
- Socialist Review
Media/Popular Culture/Communications
- Camera Obscura
- Canadian Journal of Communication
- Critical Studies in Media Communication
Formerly known as Critical Studies in Mass Communication - Fast Capitalism
- Feminist Media Studies
- Interfacings
- Journal of Communication Inquiry
- M/C -- A Journal of Media and Culture
- Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies
- Media, Culture & Society
- Media International Australia
- New Media and Society
- Popular Music
- Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
- Screen
- Wide Angle
National/Regional
- American Quarterly
- Australian Humanities Review
- Nepantla: Views From South
- positions: east asia cultures critique
Psychoanalysis
- Culture & Psychology
- Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
- Umbr@: A Journal of the Unconscious
Race/Ethnicity
Theory/Philosophy
General/Miscellaneous
- Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
- Critical Inquiry
- Cultronix
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Critique
- Cultural Dynamics
- Culture Machine
- Enculturation
- Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
- Journal of Material Culture
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses
- Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
- Learning Inquiry
- Left Business Observer
- Nebula
- New Formations
- October
- Postmodern Culture
- Public Culture
- Radical History Review
- Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
- Representations
- Social Text
- Soundings
- South Atlantic Quarterly
- Space and Culture