September 4, 2024
On March 12, 2020, I gave a book talk at California State University, Bakersfield, celebrating the release of Weird Al: Seriously. I began that book because I had wanted to confront prejudices against funny music—ideas that humor in music was somehow less significant than so-called “serious” music or classical music….
July 29, 2024
By Katherine Franco, author of “Staging the Surface: James Joyce’s Theater for Theorization in ‘Circe,’” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3,…
June 14, 2024
Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
JML publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature….
April 8, 2024
By Daniel R. Adler, author of “Making Visible the ‘Mental Wreckage’: A Historical Materialist Reading of Milkman,” Journal of Modern Literature 47.2 (Winter 2024),…
January 9, 2024
By Sam Walker, author of “‘[S]ongs of allusion’: Sterling Brown, Harryette Mullen, and the Roots of Poetic Recycling,”[A1] Journal of Modern Literature 47.1,…
October 31, 2023
By Cory Austin Knudson, author of “Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille,” Journal of Modern Literature 46.4,…
October 24, 2023
By Patricia Morgne Cramer, author of “‘Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion’: The Waves as a Modernist Symposium,” …
October 11, 2023
The trailer for Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie’s In Country (2014) opens with archival footage of the Vietnam War accompanied by a voice-over whose source is quickly revealed to be that of a man dressed in fatigues….
September 25, 2023
Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world,…
