Representations is an interdisciplinary journal in the humanities published quarterly by the University of California Press.

The journal was established in 1983 and is the founding publication of the New Historicism movement of the 1980s.

It covers topics including literary, historical, and cultural studies.

The founding editorial board was chaired by Stephen Greenblatt and Svetlana Alpers.

[4] The UC Press Representations books series has collected and reprinted many essays originally published in the journal, including: