Welcome to the Journal of Modern Literature news and information site.


Check here for updates about our latest issues, calls for papers, submission guidelines and tips, as well special online-only content. Our issues themselves are available at Project Muse and are archived on JSTOR . Check out the "Read for Free" page to enjoy some featured content.



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.

Read for FREE



Check out these featured essays available to read for free!

2025

Topalović, Denis. "The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, n0. 4, Summer 2025, pp. 93-110.

Rajan, Romy, "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

McGuckin, Ryan James. "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.

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

James, Klem. "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.

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

Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)