The Department is the home of the quarterly Monatshefte, the oldest journal of German studies in the United States, established in 1898. Monatshefte will be going online as of the Spring 2007 issue.
Other journals that were founded in Madison include The Brecht Yearbook / Brecht Jahrbuch (1969), Basis - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsliteratur (1974-1984), and New German Critique (1974, now published at Cornell University)
Two book series are also edited in the Department: occasional volumes of Monatshefte and German Life and Civilization.