Contemporary Literature
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Quarterly of scholarly essays on contemporary writing.
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Contemporary Literature issue 67.2 is out now, featuring exciting new work from Maria Christou, Penny Fielding, Sophia Gatzionis, Mara Reisman, Caitlin Simmons, and Nicole Dib! Read it here:
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Contemporary Literature: 67 (2)
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September 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Contemporary Literature issue 67.2 is out now, featuring exciting new work from Maria Christou, Penny Fielding, Sophia Gatzionis, Mara Reisman, Caitlin Simmons, and Nicole Dib! Read it here:
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Issue 67.1 contains *two* Open Access articles 👇
Contemporary Literature: 67 (1)
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July 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Issue 67.1 contains *two* Open Access articles 👇
CL can be a beach read too! Check out our newest issue--67.1--for incisive new work by Jeffrey J. Williams, Adam Hill, Peter J. Schmidt, Maxim Shadurski, and Xuibing Yu cl.uwpress.org/content/67/1...
Contemporary Literature: 67 (1)
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July 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
CL can be a beach read too! Check out our newest issue--67.1--for incisive new work by Jeffrey J. Williams, Adam Hill, Peter J. Schmidt, Maxim Shadurski, and Xuibing Yu cl.uwpress.org/content/67/1...
What kind of body-politic emerges as the body itself unravels? In "The Coloniality of Sodomy: Culeros, Erotic Sovereignty, and the Unraveling of Man in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier, Salomé Herrera explores bodies, borders, and the queer erotics of material disintegration.
May 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
What kind of body-politic emerges as the body itself unravels? In "The Coloniality of Sodomy: Culeros, Erotic Sovereignty, and the Unraveling of Man in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier, Salomé Herrera explores bodies, borders, and the queer erotics of material disintegration.
Our newest issue, Contemporary Literature 66.4, is now live, with exciting recent work by Fatmah Al Thobaiti, Salomé Herrera, Tori McCandless, Michael Trask, and Matthew Hart. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature: 66 (4)
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May 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Our newest issue, Contemporary Literature 66.4, is now live, with exciting recent work by Fatmah Al Thobaiti, Salomé Herrera, Tori McCandless, Michael Trask, and Matthew Hart. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Congratulations to Dr. Raquel Kennon, CL Book Review Editor and recent winner of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at UW-Madison! Raquel's work shines both inside and outside the classroom, and we're lucky to have her on board at CL. news.wisc.edu/meet-the-202...
Meet the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award winners
The 13 faculty members named as this year’s honorees will be recognized at a ceremony in April.
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March 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Raquel Kennon, CL Book Review Editor and recent winner of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at UW-Madison! Raquel's work shines both inside and outside the classroom, and we're lucky to have her on board at CL. news.wisc.edu/meet-the-202...
"Is poetry of any use in the face of actual planetary crisis?" In Contemporary Literature 66.3, Elin Käck tackles poetry, politics, environment and emergency. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
February 27, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Is poetry of any use in the face of actual planetary crisis?" In Contemporary Literature 66.3, Elin Käck tackles poetry, politics, environment and emergency. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
Our newest issue, Contemporary Literature 66.3, is now live, with exciting recent work by Laura García Moreno, Elin Käck, Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Monika Szuba, Rachele Puddu, Miriam Jaffe and Aimee Pozorski. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature: 66 (3)
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February 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Our newest issue, Contemporary Literature 66.3, is now live, with exciting recent work by Laura García Moreno, Elin Käck, Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Monika Szuba, Rachele Puddu, Miriam Jaffe and Aimee Pozorski. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
From
@beatdomjournal
, an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...
@beatdomjournal
, an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...
“A multicultural tapestry of American voices”: How Pic Reframes On the Road
A conversation with Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac’s archives.
beatdom.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
From
@beatdomjournal
, an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...
@beatdomjournal
, an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...
Contemporary Literature issue 66.2 is out now, featuring new work on the poetics of recipes, small-press publishing, neurohumanities, and more! Contributors include Lucy Biederman, Monika Kaup, Pei-Chen Liao, Emmy Waldman, and Nayound Yang. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature: 66 (2)
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December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Contemporary Literature issue 66.2 is out now, featuring new work on the poetics of recipes, small-press publishing, neurohumanities, and more! Contributors include Lucy Biederman, Monika Kaup, Pei-Chen Liao, Emmy Waldman, and Nayound Yang. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
How was the future of literary criticism imagined in the past?
From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3
From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
How was the future of literary criticism imagined in the past?
From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3
From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3
How have poets post Black Arts Movement navigated the politics of form? In issue 66.1, Lizzy LeRud explores interplays of formalism and (non)conformity in recent radical poetry. Read "A Thousand 'We Real Cools':New Forms in Recent African American Poetry" here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How have poets post Black Arts Movement navigated the politics of form? In issue 66.1, Lizzy LeRud explores interplays of formalism and (non)conformity in recent radical poetry. Read "A Thousand 'We Real Cools':New Forms in Recent African American Poetry" here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature issue 66.1 is out now, featuring exciting new work by Inbar Gidron, Cynthia Hogue, Lizzy LeRud, Brett Sigurdson, and Emily K. Yoon. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
Contemporary Literature: 66 (1)
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October 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Contemporary Literature issue 66.1 is out now, featuring exciting new work by Inbar Gidron, Cynthia Hogue, Lizzy LeRud, Brett Sigurdson, and Emily K. Yoon. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
Contemporary Literature issue 65.4 is out now, featuring new work by Brooke Conti, Katy Dadacz, Kristin Emanuel, Hannah A. Jorgensen, and Weishun Lu. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
Contemporary Literature: 65 (4)
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August 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Contemporary Literature issue 65.4 is out now, featuring new work by Brooke Conti, Katy Dadacz, Kristin Emanuel, Hannah A. Jorgensen, and Weishun Lu. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
How does digital celebrity shape the self-consciousness of contemporary autofiction? Hannah A. Jorgensen answers in "Authentic Flesh, Digital Bits," featured in CL 65.4. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/65/4/514
August 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
How does digital celebrity shape the self-consciousness of contemporary autofiction? Hannah A. Jorgensen answers in "Authentic Flesh, Digital Bits," featured in CL 65.4. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/65/4/514
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2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase is on the shortlist for the 2025 Walcott Prize! Honoring the work of St. Lucian Nobel Prize poet Derek Walcott, the prize is offered annually for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.
Congrats, Ajibola!
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Congrats, Ajibola!
www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott
July 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase is on the shortlist for the 2025 Walcott Prize! Honoring the work of St. Lucian Nobel Prize poet Derek Walcott, the prize is offered annually for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.
Congrats, Ajibola!
www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott
Congrats, Ajibola!
www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott
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If you missed our last talk of the 2024-25 academic year, you can find it on our YouTube channel: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris discussing the vital need for academic writing and publishing in impossible times!
youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0
youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0
Writing in Impossible Times: Thinking With and Beyond the First Book.
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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June 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you missed our last talk of the 2024-25 academic year, you can find it on our YouTube channel: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris discussing the vital need for academic writing and publishing in impossible times!
youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0
youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0
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Thank you @cl-journal.bsky.social, & Congratulations Jessica Swoboda! 'Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology' is a brilliant article
We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Swoboda has been awarded the 2025 L.S. Dembo prize for her wonderful article, "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology."
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
June 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Thank you @cl-journal.bsky.social, & Congratulations Jessica Swoboda! 'Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology' is a brilliant article
We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Swoboda has been awarded the 2025 L.S. Dembo prize for her wonderful article, "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology."
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Swoboda has been awarded the 2025 L.S. Dembo prize for her wonderful article, "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology."
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
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New work on waste in @cl-journal.bsky.social
A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
June 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New work on waste in @cl-journal.bsky.social
Don’t miss new work by @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @astarre.bsky.social on “Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative” in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Now available completely open access.
When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)
June 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Don’t miss new work by @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @astarre.bsky.social on “Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative” in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Now available completely open access.
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I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access!
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More in Corinna's🧵
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More in Corinna's🧵
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access!
cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3...
More in Corinna's🧵
cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3...
More in Corinna's🧵
A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
June 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
Contemporary Literature issue 65.3 is out now, featuring new work by Charlie Ericson, Sam Ladkin, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Alexander Starre, Matt Prout, and Martha Swift! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature: 65 (3)
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June 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Contemporary Literature issue 65.3 is out now, featuring new work by Charlie Ericson, Sam Ladkin, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Alexander Starre, Matt Prout, and Martha Swift! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
CL 65.3 is shaping up to be an exciting issue...stay tuned for its release later this week 📚🔜
June 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CL 65.3 is shaping up to be an exciting issue...stay tuned for its release later this week 📚🔜