boundary 2

{{Infobox journal

| title = Boundary 2

| abbreviation=Bound. 2

| cover = File:Boundary 2 journal low resolution cover.jpg

| editor = Paul A. Bové

| discipline = Literature

| publisher = Duke University Press

| country = United States

| frequency = Triannually

| history = 1972–present

| impact = 0.1

| impact-year = 2022

| website = http://boundary2.dukejournals.org

| link1 = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/boundary/

| link1-name = Online access

| link1-at = Project MUSE

| link2 = https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2

| link2-name = Journal page

| link2-at = publisher's website

| JSTOR = 01903659

| OCLC = 1408678

| LCCN = 72626433

| ISSN = 0190-3659

| eISSN = 1527-2141

}}

Boundary 2, often stylized boundary 2, is a quarterly peer-reviewed{{cite web |title=boundary 2 |url=https://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com/title/1337368669877/56579 |work=Ulrich'sWeb |publisher=ProQuest, LLC |accessdate=18 May 2012}} {{subscription required}} academic journal of postmodern theory, literature, and culture. Established in 1972 by William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch (Binghamton University), under the title boundary 2, a journal of postmodern literature, the journal moved to Duke University Press in the late 1980s{{cite web |title=About boundary2 |website=boundary 2 |date=21 September 2016 |url=http://www.boundary2.org/about-boundary-2/ |accessdate=10 December 2018}} and is now edited by Paul A. Bové (University of Pittsburgh).{{cite web| title=Academic journal boundary 2, edited in Pittsburgh, has a national reputation.|last=Colman |first=Adam |url=http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/pittsburgh/academic-journal-boundary-2-edited-in-pittsburgh-has-a-national-reputation/Content?oid=1340024 |work=Pittsburgh City Paper |date=April 10, 2008 |accessdate=18 May 2012}}

Since the early 2000s the journal has been closed to unsolicited submissions.{{cite web |title=Editorial correspondence (Back Matter boundary 2) |url=http://boundary2.dukejournals.org/content/36/3/local/back-matter.pdf |publisher=Duke University Press |accessdate=18 May 2012}} This policy was described by Jeffrey Williams, editor of Minnesota Review, as one that "seems a little too closed, and would go in the opposite direction of taking chances". {{cite journal |last=Williams |first=Jeffrey J. |title=The Counter-Memory of Postmodernism: An Interview with William V. Spanos |journal=The Minnesota Review |volume=2006 |date=Fall 2006 |issue=67 |pages=47–63 |url=http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns67/interview_spanos.shtml |accessdate=18 May 2012|doi=10.1215/00265667-2006-67-47 |url-access=subscription }} In contrast, the editors note that "instead [we] will publish only material that identifies and analyzes the tyrannies of thought and action spreading around the world and that suggests alternatives to these emerging configurations of power."{{Cite web |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2 |publisher=Duke University Press |title=boundary 2}} boundary 2 has published special issues focusing on postmodernism in individual countries such as Greece{{cite journal |last=Papanikolaou |first=Dimitris |title=Greece as a postmodern example: Boundary 2 and its special issue on Greece |journal=Καμποσ: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek |year=2005 |issue=13 |url=http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/files/docs/greek/boundary2kambos.pdf |accessdate=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814200049/http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/files/docs/greek/boundary2kambos.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2014 |url-status=dead }} or Canada,{{cite book |last=Kroetsch |first=Robert |title=Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism After Modernism |date=October 2010 |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |isbn=9780776607399 |pages=1–7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0776607391 |editor=Robert David Stacey |accessdate=18 May 2012 |chapter=boundary 2 and the Canadian postmodern}} as well as a book of articles previously published in the journal.{{cite book |last=Bové |first=Paul |authorlink=Paul Bové |title=Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays |year=1995 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822316497 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiowPzKwscwC}} In an interview published in the Minnesota Review, Spanos discusses the history of the journal, its financial and editorial problems, and the motivations for various changes over the years, including the journal's practice of publishing articles by invitation only, refusing unsolicited submissions.

The Boundary 2 editorial collective also publishes an online-only, open access peer-reviewed journal called b2o: an online journal, which appears two or three times each year.{{cite web|url=https://www.boundary2.org/about-b2o-an-online-journal/|title=about b2o: an online journal|accessdate=January 28, 2019|work=b2o: an online journal|date=21 September 2016 }}