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Tongues of Settlement

Blake Allmendinger

Exile and the Jews

Nancy E. Berg, Marc Saperstein

Colonialism and Literature

Patrick Colm Hogan

Swallowing a World

Benjamin Bergholtz

Object-Oriented Narratology

Marie-Laure Ryan, Tang Weisheng

Reading the Contemporary Author

Alison Gibbons, Elizabeth King

The Narrator

Sylvie Patron, Catherine Porter

Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives

Torsa Ghosal, Alison Gibbons

Cather Studies, Volume 14

Cather Studies, Marilee Lindemann, Ann Romines

Cather Studies, Volume 13

Cather Studies, Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, Kimberly Vanderlaan

Cather Studies, Volume 12

Cather Studies, Guy J. Reynolds

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888–1891

Henry James, Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias, Katie Sommer, Dee MacCormack

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887–1888

Henry James, Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias, Katie Sommer

Free Listening

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis, Tim Dean

Dirty Knowledge

Julia Schleck

Hell-Bent for Leather

Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara L. Spurgeon

Unhomely Wests

Stephen Tatum

The Beauty Hunters

Adil Babikir

Speculative Wests

Michael K. Johnson

Transforming Family

Jocelyn Frelier

Weird Westerns

Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara L. Spurgeon

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“The Question of Jargon.” Jeffrey R. Di Leo, 45.2, Summer 2024

“The Economy of Translation.” Brian O’Keeffe, 45.2, Summer 2024

“It’s the Algorithm, Stupid!” Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, 45.1, Spring 2024

“No, Alexa: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Art.” David Riddle Watson, 44.4, Winter 2023



“Why is Matses an Onomatopoetic Language?” David W. Fleck, 64.1-2, Spring/Summer 2022, Published 2024

“A Hero’s Quest: An Early Twentieth-Century Text in Passamaquoddy.” Philip S. LeSourd, 64.1-2, Spring/Summer 2022, Published 2024

Reflections on Joel Sherzer (1942-2022): A “Circumstantial” Special Issue, 63.4, Winter 2021

“Effects of Uvular Consonants on Vowel Quality in Lushootseed.” Ted Kye, 63.3, Fall 2021



Special Issue: Communi-care, or How to Create Communities of Care in an Uncaring System. Guest-edited by Maria Stehle and Helga Thorson, 40.1, Spring/Summer 2024

“Loneliness and Pathos in Heiner Carow’s Coming Out (1989).” Thomas Preston, 39:2, Fall/Winter 2023

“Loving in Queer Time: Rahel Varnhagen’s Life and Letters.” Rhiannon Hein, 39:2, Fall/Winter 2023

“Jewish Women and Intersectional Feminism: The Case of Bertha Pappenheim.” Elizabeth Loentz, 39:1, Spring/Summer 2023



Special Issue: Comparative Critical Perspectives on the Anthropocene.” Edited by Adeline Johns-utra and Xianmin Shen, 27:2, Fall 2023

“Contemporary Illuminations: Reading Donne’s ‘A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies day’ through Three Twenty-First Century Poems.” Theresa M. Dipasquale, 27.1, Spring 2023

“Echoes of Romanticism and Expatriate Englishness in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘The Professor'” David Sigler, 27.1, Spring 2023

“Facebook + Feminism + Cartesianism: Resurrecting ‘the Ghost in the Machine.'” Tegan Zimmerman, 27.1, Spring 2023



“The Evolution of Servant Laws in the Habsburg Empire.” Ambika Natarajan, 57.2, Summer 2024

“‘A Test of Fire of One’s Character’: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Self-Examination by Means of War in World War I.” Ulrich Arnswald, 57.2, Summer 2024

“Neocolonial Echoes in the Heart of Darkness: Peter Kubelka, Ulrich Seidl, and the Distrust of Sound.” Arne Koch, 57.1, Spring 2024

“Assimilation as Abjection in Franz Kafka’s “Ein Bericht für eine Akademie.” Christian Shuetz, 57.1, Spring 2024



Special Issue: Trauma in Latin American Literature. Guest Edited by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky and John Eipper, 10.1-2, Spring/Fall 2021

“Language, Memory, Massacre: The Legacy of Trauma among Chechen Diasporas.” Rebecca Ruth Gould, 9.1-2, Spring/Fall 2020

“Writing the Self in Jane Eyre: A Study in Trauma.” Meera Jagannathan, 9.1-2, Spring/Fall 2020

“Resilience and Trauma in Alexandra Fuller’s Memoirs.” Lena Englund, 8.2, Fall 2019



“‘New and Crazy Social Schemes’: The Nineteenth-Century Free Love Movement in Edith Wharton’s Fiction.” Jennifer Haytock, 41.1, 2024

“Chloroformed: Anesthetic Utopianism and Eugenic Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Other Works.” Claire Marie Class, 41.1, 2024

“Pauline E. Hopkins and the Black Feminist Editorial Imperative to Remember.” Jaycelyn K. Moody, 40.1-2, 2023

“Androgyny and Desire: Margaret Fuller, Julia Ward Howe, and Fractured Trans Archives.” Eagan S. Dean, 40.1-2, 2023



“Madmen and Matriarchs: Gender, Race, and the Reimagining of Creole Identity in Johnelle, by Alfred Mercier.” Lise Schreier, 53.1-2, Fall/Winter 2024-2025

“Scenting Sapphic Elegance and Queer Promises: Advertisements for Amaryllis du Japon (1891-94).” Hyoungee Kong, 53.1-2, Fall/Winter 2024-2025

“Challenges in Commemorating the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Académie d’Amiens Poetry Contest of 1819 and 1820.” Kylie Sago, 52.3-4, Spring/Summer 2024

“Coal and Fuel Alternatives in the Novels of Jules Verne.” Anne O’Neil-Henry, 52.3-4, Spring/Summer 2024



“Écrire le quotidien. Représentations et enjeux dans les littératures française et francophones contemporaines.” Dossier spécial, co dirigé par Adina Balint et Sara Buekens, 39.1, 2024

Special Issue: Meetings of Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism. Guest edited by Mona El Khoury and Nikhita Obeegadoo, 38.2, 2023

“(Re)créations du moi dans la littérature francophone du Pacifique contemporain.” Carole Atem, 38.1, 2023

“Écrire pour devenir soi ou un autre? À travers trois œuvres polynésiennes de référence.” Daniel Margueron, 38.1, 2023



“From Resilience to Resistance: An Almost New Journal for Environmental Humanities.” Marco Armerio, 11.1, Winter 2023

“All the Queen’s (White) Men: Figures and Limitations of Ecological Masculinity in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild.” Luke Rodewald, 11.1, Winter 2023

“How to Make Preserves: Turning Maine Wild Blueberries into Environmental Jam.” Danila Cannamela, Lydia Ann Gargano, 11.1, Winter 2023

“Biofoul: Dirty Interfaces and the Politics of Technological Hygiene.” Lisa Yin Han, 11.1, Winter 2023



“‘I want to tell you about Christmastown . . .’: The Navigation of Festive Narrative Tropes in The Nightmare Before Christmas.” John D. Ayres, 13.2, Winter 2021

“The Occasion in Rhetorical Narrative Theory: Encountering the Book in Ling Ma’s Severance” Daniel Punday, 13.2, Winter 2021

“Minimal Departure and Fictional Narrative Situations.” Kai Mikkonen, 13.2, Winter 2021

Special Issue: Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age. Guest edited by Marta-Laura Cenedese and Miłosz Wojtyna, 13.1, Summer 2021



Special Issue: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. Guest edited by Sarah Hernandez, Christopher Pexa, and Julianne Newmark. 35.3-4, Fall/Winter 2023

“The Hermeneutics of Starvation: Alienation, Reading, and Fish in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood.” Lloyd Alimboyao Sy, 35.1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

“Locating Sacajawea.” Melissa Adams-Campbell, 35.1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

“Lands, Bodies, and the Meaning(s) of Consent in Recent Writing by Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Authors.” Jenny Kerber, 34.3-4, Fall/Winter 2022



“Fossil-Fueled Naturalism and Pastoral Optimism in the Novels of Dreiser, Norris, and Sinclair.” Megan Cole Lyle, 18.1, Summer 2023

“Naturalism and the New Woman: Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did.” Gary Totten, 18.1, Summer 2023

“American Literary Naturalism and The Visual.” Alan Gibbs, Sarah McCreedy, 17.2, Winter 2022

“Naturalism, Aesthetics, and the New Hollywood Cinema.” Steven Frye, 17.2, Winter 2022



“The Eco-Marxist Problematic: Value Between Economy and Ecology.” Jan Overwijk, 32.1-2, 2024

“The Jargon of Critical Environments.” Jeffrey R. Di Leo, 32.1-2, 2024

“What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Infrastructure.” Zachary Tavlin, 31.1-2, 2023

“Indigenous Infrastructuralisms? Grounding Materialisms along and against the Pipeline.” Jordan B. Kinder, 31.1-2, 2023


“Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park.” Surabhi Balachander, 59.2, Summer 2024

“Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild.” Sarah Tanner, 59.2, Summer 2024

“‘A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through’: Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana’s Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility.” Christina Herrera, 59.1, Spring 2024

“Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland.” Todd Francis Tietchen, 59.1, Spring 2024


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