The Society for Utopian Studies (founded 1975) is a North American interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.
The Society publishes Utopian Studies, an international triannual peer-reviewed journal, containing scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to utopias, utopianism, utopian literature, utopian theory, and intentional communities. The journal's founding editor was Lyman Tower Sargent.
It also publishes a regular newsletter, Utopus Discovered.
The Society has organized a series of annual conferences:
The 2017 conference is scheduled to be held in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Society sponsors a number of awards:
Recipients: