Modern Drama (journal)

Modern Drama is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of dramatic literature. It is published by the University of Toronto Press and the editors-in-chief are David Kornhaber and Lawrence Switzky. It was established in 1958 and largely focuses on literature of the 19th century onwards.

Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editors-in-chief: • A.C. Edwards (Founding Editor), 1958–1972

• Ruby Cohn, 1967–1982

• Frederick J. Marker, 1972–1976

• Jill Levenson, 1977–1986

• John H. Astington, 1986–1991

• Patricia Howard, 1990–1993

• Dorothy Parker, 1993–1998

• Alan Thomas, 1993–1998

• David A. Blostein, 1995–1999

• Ric Knowles, 1999–2005

• Joanne Tompkins, 1999–2005

• W.B. Worthen, 1999–2005

• Alan Ackerman, 2005–2015

• R. Darren Gobert, 2015–2020

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities

• EBSCO databases

• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

• Modern Language Association Database

• ProQuest databases

• Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.3.