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2026
Evron, Nir. "Intimate Strangers: Regionalism and the Construction of Nonhuman Subjectivities in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Animal Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 49, no. 2, Winter 2026, pp. 1-19.
2025
Fillman, Robert. "'[A] certain amusing comfort that makes you happy.: William Carlos Williams’s Ambivalent Pastoral Aesthetic." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 49, no. 1, Fall 2025, pp. 70-88.
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.