Laughing at Fascism in Vonnegut’s Mother Night: A Closer Look at JML 46.1
January 10, 2023
By Susan Farrell, author of “American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night,” from Journal of Modern Literature,… READ MORE
A Closer Look
Eliot’s Gripping Crustaceans: A Closer Look at JML 45.3
July 27, 2022
Eliot’s Gripping Crustaceans: A Closer Look at JML 45.3
By Rachel Murray, author of “Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot,” now available for free on Project Muse…. READ MORE
On E.M. Forster’s doubt, and my own: A Closer Look at JML 45.2
April 20, 2022
On E.M. Forster’s doubt, and my own: A Closer Look at JML 45.2
By Rachel Gaubinger, author of “The ‘Voiceless Language’ of Sisters: Queer Possibility in E.M. Forster’s Howards End,” now available for free on Project Muse…. READ MORE
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story?
February 14, 2022
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story?
A Closer Look at JML 45.1
By Tali Banin, author of “The Winged Creatures of The Waves and Virginia Woolf’s Figurations of ‘The One,’” now available on Project MUSE …. READ MORE
Pets’ Inner Lives: A Closer Look at JML 45.1
January 24, 2022
Pets’ Inner Lives: A Closer Look at JML 45.1
By Calista McRae, author of “‘More human than others’: Stevie Smith and the Minds of Pets,” now available for free on Project Muse…. READ MORE
Ray Bradbury’s Anti-racism: A Closer Look at JML 44.4
October 5, 2021
By Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, author of “White Supremacy and the Multicultural Imagination in Ray Bradbury’s Afrofuturist Stories of Mars,” in Journal of Modern Literature 44.4 (Summer 2021),… READ MORE
“How’s the university doing?”
August 9, 2021
Michael McNamee
Philanthropy & Education Spring 2021
“How’s the university doing?” I caught myself asking this as I chatted with an old friend who still worked at the institution I attended…. READ MORE
“And we’ll all on go as if….”: Re-Visiting Christine Brooke-Rose
August 2, 2021
A Closer Look at JML 44.3
By Marija Grech, author of “Re-Visions of the End: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Post-Literary,” now available on JSTOR .
I first discovered Christine Brooke-Rose’s fiction in my student years while scouring the university library for something good to read…. READ MORE
Jean Rhys’s Lively Objects and Objectified Lives: A Closer Look at JML 44.3
July 21, 2021
By Laurel Harris, author of “Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse,” now available on JSTOR.
In Jean Rhys’s 1939 novel Good Morning,… READ MORE
How did blues music spread around the world?
February 9, 2021
A lecture-style preview of a just-published issue of The Global South, an academic journal, entitled “Blues Music in Transnational Context.” The issue was edited by Adam Gussow, professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi…. READ MORE