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There is a surprising amount of academic literature that concerns Esperanto, the language itself, as well as its history and culture. You have to dig around a bit because its spread over a lot of journals and disciplines. Beware this rabbit hole goes very deep !
A couple of starters:
On language:
The Journal "JĘZYK, KOMUNIKACJA, INFORMACJA" or "Language Information Communication" http://jki.amu.edu.pl/ often has articles about esperanto or on topics in interlinguistics in esperanto. Here is an issue from 2017 which should give you a pretty good idea of whats being researched.
If you are interested in the academic study of constructed languages, and particularly Esperanto, the work of Detlev Blanke is especially interesting. A selection of his work is collected in International Planned Languages. Essays on Interlinguistics and Esperantology.
Individual linguistic researchers also publish on esperanto. This is an interesting paper by Swedish professional linguist Mikael Parkvall- "How European is Esperanto? A typological study"
On teaching:
The Internacia Pedagogia Revuo is a journal dedicated to Esperanto language teaching published by the Internacia Ligo de Esperantistaj Instruistoj (ILEI)
On history:
Papers (and books in english and esperanto, and other languages like russian and spanish) on the history of Esperanto appear all over the place. They are published in such diverse journals that they are easy to miss.
Here is one such article I particularly enjoyed on "The Practical Internationalism of Esperanto" from the International Catalan Institute for Peace. The author of that article, Xavier Alcalde, is writing a biography of a Spanish esperantist and anarchist and his role in the Spanish civil war.
Brigid O'Keeffe, an associate professor of history at Brooklyn College has a new book in preparation on Esperanto in the Soviet Union - Tongues of Fire: Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia.
Of course the Revuo Esperanto (the UEA magazine), both online edition and the printed edition, is generally the best place to watch for recenzoj.
Given that the community is fairly small and widely spread, its dedication, the output and its quality is quite astonishing.
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