Focus: Conspiracy Theories — Spring 2024
nina2024-06-22T17:06:47+00:00Conspiracy theories, disinformation, and meaning-making
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
nina2024-03-12T16:29:06+00:00Aesthetic experience in the digital age
Focus: Rethinking Classics — Fall 2023
nina2023-11-29T18:14:51+00:00Vital and changing studies of the ancient world, opening up the past with new questions.
Focus: Rejections — Summer 2023
nina2023-09-08T16:55:33+00:00Rejection is the universe’s way of affirming one’s existence, an unavoidable—but sometimes tonic—part of life.
Focus: Weak Theory — Spring 2023
nina2023-08-02T15:40:15+00:00Weak theory is a relatively recent concept that has emerged explicitly in the debates surrounding surface reading and affect aesthetics.
Focus: The New Campus Novel — Winter 2022
nina2023-05-02T00:49:55+00:00New campus novels often center on the experiences of graduate students rather than professors, offering new perspectives, identities, and hierarchies.
Focus: Soldier Writing — Fall 2022
nina2023-04-08T00:19:43+00:00Like the Beats and like “The Lost Generation,” the post-9/11 soldier-writers cannot be appreciated without a reckoning with their generation’s war.
Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory — Summer 2022
nina2023-01-30T16:27:25+00:00Autofiction has been conceived of as a hybrid genre, mixing the referential and the fictional. Autotheory is aimed against the conventions of academic discourse, often having a manifesto-like quality.
Focus: Pandemic Poetry — Spring 2022
nina2022-08-22T17:32:55+00:00Online publications, Zoom readings, and numerous themed issues in literary magazines, anthologies, and collections offer a powerful poetic testimony of the pandemic.
Focus: Critical Pleasure — September / October 2021
nina2022-06-15T21:40:43+00:00Volume 42, Number 6 features a focus on Critical Pleasure and a feature on J. Hillis Miller.
Focus: Detective Fiction — July / August 2021
nina2022-07-09T22:16:11+00:00Detective Fiction constantly adapts, not only to entertainment tastes but to philosophical concerns of the day.
