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Submissions from 2024

Quicksand, Nella Larsen and Asali Solomon

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

Submissions from 2023

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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

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

Submissions from 2022

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

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On Similitude, Lindsay V. Reckson

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

Submissions from 2021

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

The Days of Afrekete: A Novel, Asali Solomon

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

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

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

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Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini, Maud Burnett McInerney

Sugar, Smoke, Song: A Novel, Reema Rajbanshi

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

Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life, Gustavus Stadler

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

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

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

The Book of Jonah, Thomas Devaney

Where in the great glare was I, 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

Submissions from 2017

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

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Five, 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

Touching a Button, Lindsay V. Reckson

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

Submissions from 2015

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

First Instrument, Thomas Devaney

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

Runaway Goat Cart, Thomas Devaney

The Best Styles, Thomas Devaney

An Irish Motif in Guta saga, Kristen Mills

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

Disgruntled: A Novel, Asali Solomon

"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

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

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

Submissions from 2014

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

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

The Picture That Remains, Will Brown and Thomas Devaney

Calamity Jane, Thomas Devaney

The Envelope Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Devaney

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

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

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

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

The Weather in Hemingway, Lindsay V. Reckson

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

The Pete Seeger Reader, Gustavus Stadler

Submissions from 2013

Cold Water for Blood Stains, Asali Solomon

Secret Pool, Asali Solomon

Submissions from 2012

Doing Genre, Laura McGrane

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

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

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

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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

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

Art Music and the Machine, Gustavus Stadler

Submissions from 2011

Anita Desai, Rajeswari Mohan

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

Wharf Hypothesis, Ron Silliman

Strategic Naivete, Gustavus Stadler

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

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

Submissions from 2010

The Veil of Black: (Un)Masking the Subject of African-American Modernism's Native Son, Kimberly W. Benston

Review of Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzac, Men and Masculinties in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Maud Burnett McInerney

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Maud Burnett McInerney

Breaking Sound Barriers , Gustavus Stadler

Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity, Gustavus Stadler

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Vigorous Currents, Painful Archives: The Production of Affect and History in Poe's "Tale of the Ragged Mountains", Christina Zwarg

Submissions from 2009

Experimenting at the Threshold: Sacrifice, Anthropomorphism, and the Aims of (Critical) Animal Studies, Kimberly W. Benston

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Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality, Jill Dolan, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, and Jaclyn Pryor

Encylopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, Maud Burnett McInerney

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A Mercy by Toni Morrison [book review], Asali Solomon

Blues for a Semester Abroad, Asali Solomon

Queer and Disorderly, Gustavus Stadler

Crossing the Lines: Graphic (Life) Narratives and Co-Laborative Political Transformations, Theresa M. Tensuan

Submissions from 2008

Review of Simon Gaunt, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love, Maud Burnett McInerney

The Alphabet, Ron Silliman

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Difference, Asali Solomon

Submissions from 2007

The Unbearable Learness of Being; Or, ‘Why Should a Dog, a Rat, a Horse Have Life, and Thou No Breath At All?', Kimberly W. Benston

Thinking Precisely on the Event: (Dis)locating ""Politics"" in Shakespeare, Kimberly W. Benston

A Series of Small Boxes, Thomas Devaney

Bewitching Politics and Unruly Performances: Mother Shipton Gets Her Kicks in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Popular and Print Culture, Laura McGrane

Review of Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition, Maud Burnett McInerney

Review of Stephen Wailes, Spirituality and Politics in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim in Speculum, Maud Burnett McInerney

Review of The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study, Maud Burnett McInerney