Coverage includes the contributions and works of American authors. Temporal coverage is from the colonial period until present day. Publishing formats also include book review, and relevant announcements (conferences, grants, and publishing opportunities). A citations index is also part of this journal. The index is for future issues and reprints, collections, anthologies, and professional books.[2]
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is Indexed/abstracted in the following databases:[4][5][6]
^"American Literature Section General Information"(Online). Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Retrieved 2011-02-16. The American Literature Section of the MLA is a community of scholars, teachers, and students of American literature and culture. The Section sponsors the journal American Literature and the annual volume American Literary Scholarship, both of which are published by Duke University Press