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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.

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2025

Romy Rajan, "Subaltern Mosquitoes and Cyborg Histories in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 3, Spring 2025, pp. 2-19.

Careyva, Jeffrey. “‘The Mind and the Poem Are All Apiece’: William Carlos Williams and the Dysfluent Poetics of Aphasia.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, Winter 2025, pp. 60-81.

2024

Ryan James McGuckin, "E.M. Forster's Female Musicality: Inconclusive Counter-romance in A Room with a View." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 4, Summer 2024, pp. 107-125.

Katherine Franco. “Staging the Surface: James Joyce’s Theater for Theorization in 'Circe'.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, Spring 2024, pp. 106-123.

Klem James, "Particules Flottantes: Mutable Identity and Postmodern “Schizophrenia” in the Works of Michel Houellebecq." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, Winter 2024, pp. 17-36.

Daniel R. Adler, "Making Visible the 'Mental Wreckage': A Historical Materialist Reading of Milkman." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, Winter 2024, pp. 133-45.

2023

Sam Walker, "'[S]ongs of allusion': Sterling Brown, Harryette Mullen, and the Roots of Poetic Recycling." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 1, Fall 2023, pp. 118-135.

Patricia Morgne Cramer, "'Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion': The Waves as a Modernist Symposium." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2023, pp. 43-62.

Cory Austin Knudson, "Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2023, pp. 63-80.

Coogan, Sarah. “‘I am other I now’: Identity, Intertextuality, and Networks of Debt in Ulysses.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring 2023, pp. 97-116.

Ionica, Cristina. “‘For the Sake of Harmony’: Beckett’s Enactment of the Violence of Abstraction in The Lost Ones” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring 2023, pp. 147-165.

Ng, Lynda, and Paul Sheehan. "Introduction: Caring to Survive." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 1-9.

Allan Hepburn. "'To Come into the Story as Late as Possible, and To Tell It as Fast as You Can': Pace in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 157-173.

2022

Dwan, David. "Unlucky Jim: Conrad, Chance, Ethics." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Fall 2022, pp. 1-17.

Farrell, Susan. "American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Fall 2022, pp. 141-157.

Heim, Stefania. “‘I for i and i for I’: Susan Howe’s That This and the Relational Self.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 4, Summer 2022, pp. 130-47.

Murray, Rachel. "Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Spring 2022, pp. 21-38. Free access expires 31 Dec 2022

Yusin, Jennifer. "Editorial Changes." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Spring 2022, pp. 1-2.

Gaubinger, Rachel. "The 'Voiceless Language' of Sisters: Queer Possibility in E.M. Forster's Howards End." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, Winter 2022, pp. 52-68.

2021

Banin, Tali. "Winged Creatures of The Waves and Woolf's Figuration of 'The One'," Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 56-73.

McRae, Calista. "'More human than others': Stevie Smith and the Inner Lives of Pets." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 1-20.

Ellerhoff, Steve Gronert. “White Supremacy and the Multicultural Imagination in Ray Bradbury's Afrofuturist Stories of Mars.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 4, Summer 2021, pp. 1-18.

Harris, Laurel. “Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2021, pp. 19-34.

Grech, Marija. “Re-Visions of the End: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Post-Literary.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2021, pp. 146-63.




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