Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), established in 1940, is a quarterly, literary history journal, produced (housed) at the University of Washington and published by Duke University Press.

[4] The focus of MLQ is all topics in literary history, which includes all genres, and all time periods.

Topical coverage includes how literary change, or literary history, relates to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and cultural critiques.

Publishing formats are scholarly essays and book reviews.

[1][2][5][6] This journal is indexed in the following databases:[1][7] The managing editor from 1943 to 1963 was Edward G. Cox.