Featured Journal Issues

Appréhender l’Autre: Altérités coloniales dans la littérature française du XVIIe au XIXe siècle

an issue of Romanic Review
Pierino Gallo and Pascale Pellerin, issue editor

This issue offers a multifaceted perspective on the confrontation between Europeans and so-called savages, colonists and colonized peoples (Africans, Orientals, Native Americans, etc.), and aims to broaden a little-explored perspective to include all representations of the Other exploited by French writers, particularly in their fiction, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. A focus on the study of colonial otherness as it is understood, modified and shaped by literary genres allows the authors of this issue to examine not only the theme of exoticism, but also the phenomena of slavery and oppression, as well as the notions of fanaticism and tolerance.res allows the authors of this issue to examine not only the theme of exoticism, but also the phenomena of slavery and oppression, as well as the notions of fanaticism and tolerance.

Literary Attention: From the Twentieth-Century to the Present

an issue of Poetics Today
Yael Levin, issue editor

Untimely Time: On History's Instrumental Narratives

an issue of English Language Notes
Samuel Boyd, issue editor

A Web of Sentiments: Gender and Letter Writing in the Early Modern World

an issue of Modern Language Quarterly
Jose Maria Perez Fernandez and Ida Caiazza, issue editors

Bandung’s Cultural Afterlives

an issue of boundary 2
Hala Halim and Ziad Dallal, issue editors

The past year marked the seventieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference, more commonly known as the Bandung Conference, held in Indonesia from April 18 to 24, 1955. At this historic gathering, representatives of twenty-nine recently decolonized states convened to articulate a shared project of cultural and political solidarity. The Cultural Afterlives of Bandung assembles critical essays that expand our understanding of this project and its enduring significance for political and cultural solidarity among the peoples of the Third World.

German Memory Politics at a Crossroads

an issue of New German Critique
Jonathan Catlin, Andreas Huyssen, and Anson Rabinbach, issue editors

This special issue of New German Critique explores major changes in German memory politics in the context of globalization and wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Incipient and Established Dialect Differentiation and Segmentation in North American English

the supplement to volume 100 of American Speech
Thomas Purnell, issue editor

Dialects, like brands, are built on the concepts of differentiation and segmentation. When dialectologists think of these concepts in language variation and dialectology, they recognize that not all variation in the linguistic signal (spoken, written, signed) produces perceptual differentiation or segmentation. Papers in this volume reflect established variation across groups, while other variation described in this volume are novel and serve to establish a baseline or examine ongoing variation that could lead to change. Such change leads us to look at older dialect forms and refer to the early latency as incipience.

Public Health Under Siege

an issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Sarah E. Gollust and Jonathan Oberlander, issue editors

Articles in this special issue explore the many ways in which public health policy has been transformed and dismantled during the second Trump administration, including the consequences of budget cuts, eroded administrative capacity and reduced workforce, erased data and lost research, the abandonment of health equity, and the shifting position of global public health. Authors also make sense of the political currents such as anti-expertise attitudes that have reshaped public health's policy environment. Finally, they look ahead to ways in which public health can recover, reinvigorate, and surmount the turmoil that now envelops it.

Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia: Moving with, against, and beyond the State

an issue of TSQ
Abraham B. Weil, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, issue editors

The last decade has witnessed an incredible and multidisciplinary engagement with contemporary South Asian trans-hijra-khwaja sira communities, and reckonings with the co-constitutive scripts of gender, sexuality, nation, region, language, kinship, class, caste, labor, and religion. This special issue grows out of the robust scholarship engaging such reckonings across South Asia and asks how regional conversations might further reimagine trans-hijra-khwaja sira possibility with, against, and beyond the state.

Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe

an issue of SAQ
Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, issue editors

For all that Cedric Robinson first deployed the concept of “racial capitalism” to describe the racialist hierarchies that early modern Europe entrenched and exported to the rest of the world, much of the scholarly literature on racial capitalism has centered North American histories of colonization, Indigenous dispossession, racial slavery, and indentured labor. More recently, scholars have begun to explore how theories of colonial and racial capitalism might be transplanted to and critically revised for other postcolonial conjunctures. This issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly joins that generative conversation by asking how we might theorize racial capitalism for the heart of empire.

Queer Apocalypse

an issue of GLQ
Curran Nault, Justin L. Mann, and Samantha Pinto, issue editors

Queer Apocalypse explores the subcultural limits and pleasures of creating queer art, scholarship, and community across hostile terrains and turbulent times. This issue’s imaginative and engaged mix of approaches to the apocalyptic includes conversations, brief essays, and full-length articles–all of which reflect and mobilize the embodied stakes of queer studies today. Spanning disciplines, geographies, and temporalities, Queer Apocalypse surveys strategies for living trans, crip, and queer lives within ongoing structures of violence and crisis, offering not just critique, but radical possibilities.

Writing History in Place

an issue of Agricultural History
Andrew C. Baker and William Thomas Okie, issue editors

The interpretive introduction and accompanying articles in this special issue explore the uses of place as a concept, method, and narrative tool in agricultural, environmental, and rural history. The wide-ranging essays demonstrate how an attention to place can lead historians to highlight the human scale, the inhabited, the particular, and the contingent. The issue provides readers with interpretive models and suggestive examples of the value of place in framing historical thinking, research, and writing.

Marine Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Eighteenth-Century Life

an issue of Eighteenth-Century Life
Killian Quigley, Kate Fullagar, and Kristie Flannery, issue editors

Theaters of Post-Truth

an issue of Theater
Lily Climenhaga, issue editor

Contributors: Julian Blaue, Luanda Casella, Chokri Ben Chikha, Gibson Alessandro Cima, Lily Climenhaga, Ameera Conrad, Yves Degryse, Daria Kerschenbaum, Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡, Kfir Lapid-Mashall, Cuixi Lin, Sawako Nakayasu, Edy Poppy, Georgia Petersen, Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Kenneth T. Williams, Alex Wilson

Radical Histories of Decolonization

an issue of Radical History Review
Manan Ahmed, Marissa Moorman, Jessica Namakkal, and Golnar Nikpour, issue editors

Radical Histories of Decolonization takes as its starting point the foundational truth that despite global waves of decolonization in the mid-20th century, colonialism persists into the present day. The articles in this issue ask questions about both the horizons and limits of decolonization, both in the past and in the present, exploring how concepts of sovereignty, self-determination, indigeneity, and independence have changed over time.

Crossing the Indian Ocean: The Oceanic Flow of Cultures and Ideas

an issue of Monsoon
Crispin Bates, issue editor

Emphasizing the transmission of ideas, cultural forms, artistic styles, and design across the Indian Ocean in the early modern and modern periods, this special issue moves beyond the usual focus on economic and political relationships — including labor migration — highlighting the non-material exchanges among societies along the margins of the ocean.

The History of Economics Unbound

an issue of History of Political Economy
Philippe Fontaine and Joel Isaac, issue editors

The history of economics may no longer be a central subfield of economics, but to think of its fate in terms of decline and marginalization is misleading. Since the 1990s, intellectual historians more generally have taken an increased interest in the place of economic ideas and practices in modern societies. With contributions by, among others, historians of science, international studies scholars, and experts on global development, this issue of HOPE seeks to demonstrate that the narrative of decline can usefully be replaced by a narrative of disciplinary diversification and renewal.

Lyric Beyond Containment

an issue of differences
Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, issue editors

This special issue of differences expands on debates in lyric theory by reconsidering the bounds of poetic and lyric forms. Contributors explore the fictions of lyric subjectivity and aesthetic autonomy, the presumed whiteness of the lyric “I,” and the colonial legacies of key lyric theorists. At the same time, they theorize lyric tropes beyond these limitations by considering abstraction, figuration, apostrophe, confessionalism, and intimacy apart from the presupposed individual expression that still largely defines and derails lyric studies. The collection reflects on records of subjectivity enmeshed in complex political and historical worlds, opening new possibilities for reading lyric and for poetry studies more broadly.