SIU Carbondale students present inaugural undergraduate research journal 'The Lighthouse'

Students and faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale unveiled The Lighthouse, the university’s inaugural undergraduate journal of literary research, during a board meeting presentation. The journal’s first issue collects revised course papers from undergraduates, was produced on campus, and its team said they plan an annual publication cycle.

The Lighthouse “allows them to take the research that they’re doing in the classroom and to further refine it to meet the standards for academic publication,” Ross Barnes, managing editor and MFA fiction student who served as editorial adviser, told the board. Barnes said the project began at the direction of David Anthony, director of the School of Literature, Writing and Digital Humanities.

Barnes said the physical, printed…