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Submissions from 2026

On Whiteness and Sound Studies, Gustavus Stadler

The Education of Perceval: Teaching Romance in the Age of Consent, Maud Burnett McInerney

David Bowie: “Girl Loves Me”, Gustavus Stadler

Prince: “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” or, Could / Be the Most Beautiful Girl in the World?, Gustavus Stadler

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End of the Line, Asali Solomon

Jacquette of Luxembourg, Sarah Wilma Watson

Submissions from 2025

Local Claiming, Capacious Life: Kevin Quashie on Lucille Clifton, Lindsay V. Reckson

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Glimpsing Goethe’s Corpse, Christina Zwarg

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Dove Woman, Maud Burnett McInerney

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Tongue Surgery, Elizabeth Kim

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The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (4th ed.), Henry Louis Gates Jr., Valerie A. Smith, and Kimberly W. Benston

“Crossing Borders—From Slavery to Abolition (1670-1875)”: A Collaborative Student Exhibition at the Haverford College Libraries, Sarah M. Horowitz and Sarah Wilma Watson

“Crammed With Tongues”: Cosmopolitan Creole in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution, Elizabeth Kim

The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition, H. G. Wells and Kimberly W. Benston

Submissions from 2024

"Cut Off from the Green Reconciling Earth": Patriarchal Preservation and Ecological Subjectivity in Aurora Leigh, Hannah Schultz

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Epistolary Experiments, Lindsay V. Reckson

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An Herbal Triptych: Queer Intimacies and the Vegetal Middle Ages, Danielle Allor and Micah James Goodrich

'Beyond this Narrow Now'; or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois. By Nahum Dimitri Chandler. Durham [book review], Christina L. Zwarg

Introduction, Asali Solomon

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The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930 [book review], Lindsay V. Reckson

Submissions from 2023

George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 1890, Alexander Millen

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Remembering the Electric Factory: New Drexel show gives a front-row seat to 50 years of rock, Thomas Devaney

Up on the Roof & Other Poems, Thomas Devaney

Submissions from 2022

American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910, Lindsay V. Reckson

French Texts and English Literary History: The Reception of Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England, Sarah Watson

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On Similitude, Lindsay V. Reckson

Submissions from 2021

Delandria, Asali Solomon

The Days of Afrekete: A Novel, Asali Solomon

The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure?: The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France [book review], Sarah Watson

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This Land Is … whose land?: The history of Woody Guthrie’s song, Gustavus Stadler

Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, Maud Burnett McInerney

Submissions from 2020

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Art helps democracy. Mayor Kenney's plan to zero out Philly's arts office hurts us all., Thomas Devaney

Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France: From Christine de Pizan to Louise Labe, Sarah Watson

Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature, Lindsay V. Reckson

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Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini, Maud Burnett McInerney

Sugar, Smoke, Song: A Novel, Reema Rajbanshi

The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois, Christina L. Zwarg

Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life, Gustavus Stadler

Submissions from 2019

Conversations with Microaggressions and the Spirit World, Asali Solomon

Delandria, Asali Solomon

In Search of Lost Chords: Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz, and the Refuge of the Road, Gustavus Stadler

Submissions from 2018

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An Urban Palimpsest: Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City [Book Review], Thomas Devaney

Raccoon, Thomas Devaney

Seizures of Sleep in Early Modern Literature, Benjamin Parris

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music:Merriam Theater, Philadelphia, June 2 & 9, 2018, Gustavus Stadler

Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and “Graphicality” in Poe, Christina Zwarg

The Book of Jonah, Thomas Devaney

Where in the great glare was I, Thomas Devaney

Submissions from 2017

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Five, Thomas Devaney

Commentary: In 'Paterson,' a snippet of the poet's life, Thomas Devaney

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend, Maud Burnett McInerney

Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory, Maud Burnett McInerney

Submissions from 2016

Harper and Trane: Modal Enactments of A Love Supreme, Kimberly W. Benston

Laying Down The Rails Scared and Secular Groundwork in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine and King Vidor's Hallelujah, Leslie Wingard

Touching a Button, Lindsay V. Reckson

Submissions from 2015

An Irish Motif in Guta saga, Kristen Mills

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Asali Solomon Recommends, Asali Solomon

A Week in the Childhood of W.C. Fields, Thomas Devaney

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Black History, Asali Solomon

Disgruntled: A Novel, Asali Solomon

First Instrument, Thomas Devaney

"Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz, Gustavus Stadler, Jeanne Vaccaro, Peter Coviello, and Karen Tongson

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O My Swineherd [review of Amit Chaudhuri's Odysseus Abroad], Christina Zwarg

On Seeing William Larson's "Figure in Motion", Thomas Devaney

Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller on 'The French in Algiers', Christina Zwarg

Runaway Goat Cart, Thomas Devaney

The Best Styles, Thomas Devaney

The pocket instructor, literature: 101 exercises for the college classroom, Lindsay V. Reckson, Diana Fuss, and William A. Gleason

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things, Christina Zwarg

Submissions from 2014

Gauvain and Gringalet: Comic Masculinities in Paien de Maisières, Maud Burnett McInerney

News and Material Culture in Early Modern and Restoration England: Using and Making Digital Archives, Laura McGrane

The Picture That Remains, Will Brown and Thomas Devaney

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Black Women Academics and Their White Male Partners: A Study in Seamless Contradictions, Asali Solomon

Calamity Jane, Thomas Devaney

'My Wife': The Tape Recorder and Warhol's Queer Ways of Listening, Gustavus Stadler

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Preface to a Twenty Volume Critical Note: For Amiri, Ghost of the Future, Kimberly W. Benston

The Envelope Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Devaney

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Kimberly W. Benston

The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (3rd ed.), Henry Louis Gates Jr., Valerie A. Smith, and Kimberly W. Benston

The Pete Seeger Reader, Gustavus Stadler

The Weather in Hemingway, Lindsay V. Reckson

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"When Elephants Are in Must": Peggy Shaw, Acts of Trans/fer, and the Present Future of Queer Desire, Jaclyn Pryor

Submissions from 2013

Secret Pool, Asali Solomon

Cold Water for Blood Stains, Asali Solomon

Submissions from 2012

Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction [book review], Gustavus Stadler

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A ‘Reg’lar Jim-Dandy’: Archiving Ecstatic Performance in Stephen Crane, Lindsay V. Reckson

Art Music and the Machine, Gustavus Stadler

Doing Genre, Laura McGrane

Each Attitude a Syllable: the Linguistic Turn in William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience, Lindsay V. Reckson

Fantasies of Failing Empire in La Belle Helène de Constantinople, Maud Burnett McInerney

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Review of Colin Dickey's Afterlives of the Saints, Lindsay V. Reckson

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Review of Jane Shaw's Octavia, Daughter of God, Lindsay V. Reckson

Submissions from 2011

Anita Desai, Rajeswari Mohan

Easy A, or Who's Your Daddy?: The Scarlet Letter Once More, Christina Zwarg

Strategic Naivete, Gustavus Stadler

The Excavation of History in Michelle Cliff's Fiction, Rajeswari Mohan

The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature [book review], Christina Zwarg

Twain's Idiomatic Gun, Christina Zwarg

Wharf Hypothesis, Ron Silliman

Submissions from 2010

Afterword: The Metaphysics Of Science: An Interview With Manuel Delanda, Peter Gaffney