In the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Literature, author Benjamin Kahn discusses George Chauncey's Gay New York (1994) and its claim that unity exists between same-sex cultures of working class immigrants and African Americans. Below, Kahn expounds upon his essay, titled "Sheiks, Sweetbacks, and Harlem Renaissance Sexuality, or the Chauncey Thesis at Twenty-Five," by presenting literature as a written history of sexuality. Kahn's essay is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! “Reading Outward” is a cluster of essays from Victorian Studies newest issue, drawn from papers delivered at the Fall 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, with the theme "Looking Outward." In the excerpt below, CUNY Professor of English Talia Schaffer summarizes essays from Sara Maurer, Maia McAleavey, and Lech Harris while framing them in relation to issues facing Victorian scholars today. The entire “Reading Outward” cluster can be read for free now on JSTOR. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Beverly Brooks Thompson and Michael F. Burnett’s article, “Impact of the S.T.R.I.P.E.S. Leadership and Extended Orientation Program on Philanthropic Giving,” from Philanthropy & Education's newest issue, is now available on JSTOR. Below, co-author Beverly Brooks Thompson elaborates on the effects of student engagement with campus traditions and leadership on giving back. Continue reading

Julia Chan’s article, "The Brave New Worlds of Birth Control," from the Journal of Modern Literature's newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Julia draws on the work of Ewa Płonowska Ziarek and Naomi Mitchison to... Continue reading

Valerie O’Brien’s article, “'A Genius for Unreality': Neurodiversity in Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout," from the Journal of Modern Literature's newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Valerie discusses the limitations of using neurotypical capacities to define personhood distorts and neglects the complex interior lives of neurodivergent subjects. Continue reading

Jago Morrison’s article, "Tradition and Modernity in Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy," from Research in African Literatures' newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Jago discusses a rereading of Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God as three parts of a unified project that problematize the opposition of tradition/modernity, expressing Achebe's distinctively Igbo commitment to dialogue and boundary crossing. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Gregory Vargo’s article, “Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt,” from Victorian Studies newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. VS editor Rae Greiner provides an introduction to Gregory’s work. Continue reading

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In celebration of Chiricú Journal being recognized as the Council of Editors of Learned Journals' Best New Journal for 2018, we are giving away two Chiricú prize packs - you get to choose! PRIZE ONE - A one year subscription... Continue reading

The following is a guest post by John Nieto-Phillips, founding editor of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures and Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion at Indiana University. John Nieto-Phillips, Founding Editor Initially founded in 1976 by Professor Luis... Continue reading

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) named Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures the winner of the 2018 Best New Journal award at the Modern Language Association conference in Chicago on January 4. CELJ’s Best New Journal... Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Laura Barrett’s article, “‘[R]adiance in dailiness’: The Uncanny Ordinary in Don DeLillo's Zero K,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Laura explores DeLillo’s reliance on the uncanny to investigate the limits of the human condition and to bridge the tension between the transcendental and the everyday. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Allen MacDuffie’s article, “Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial,” from Victorian Studies newest issue is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, guest editor Elizabeth Carolyn Miller elaborates on the historical roots of “soft denial.” Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Derek Lee’s article, “Dark Romantic: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Specters of Gothic Modernism,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Derek explores a largely unrecognized “Gothic mode” in Fitzgerald’s oeuvre. Continue reading

Did you know a third of the journals IU Press publishes are open access? Defined as digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, Open Access (OA) allows scholarship to happen anywhere at any time... Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Kathleen Antonioli’s article, “How Colette Became a Feminist: Selling Colette in the United States 1960–1985,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Kathleen shares a conversation with Erica Jong on the adoption of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette into the feminist literature canon. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Barbara Estrin’s article, “The Secrets of Blood and Seed”: Primo Levi's Poetic Emergence” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Barbara explores a poet who struggles to end the conflict between knowledge and feeling. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Elaine Freedgood’s “Banishing Panic: Harriet Martineau and the Popularization of Political Economy,” from the Victorian Studies archives is available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, guest author Mary L. Mullen explores the essay with fresh eyes in anticipation of celebrating Freedgood’s extraordinary career. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! James Brunton’s article, “Whose (Meta)modernism?: Metamodernism, Race, and the Politics of Failure,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, James elaborates on poetry as an antidote to the noise of self-righteous social media posts and crisis-fueled cable news. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Matthew Scully’s article, “Plasticity at the Violet Hour: Tiresias, The Waste Land, and Poetic Form,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. In this post, Matthew elaborates on modernist anxieties, order, and a claim that Eliot’s poem contains its own critique. Continue reading

Guest editor Sujatha Fernandes recaps the launch party hosted by Sydney Ideas at the University of Sydney for the special issue of Transition magazine on Bla(c)kness in Australia. Edited by Fernandes and Jared Thomas brings together the voices and artwork of diverse Bla(c)k writers, artists, poets, and scholars in Australia. Continue reading

Today marks the 54th anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - the landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. In honor of this historic event and current trends, we invite you to explore Transition Magazine’s 1972 conversation with James Baldwin, and a discussion of more than five decades of black action in St. Louis, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. Continue reading

Today marks the 54th anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - the landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. In honor of this historic event, we invite you to explore Indiana University’s Black Film Center and Archive, home of Black Camera, the international film journal. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! James Arnett’s article, “What’s Left of Feelings? The Affective Labor of Politics in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, James elaborates on why at this political moment it is important for readers to read Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. Continue reading

Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Burke Stanton’s article, “Musicking in the Borders toward Decolonizing Methodologies,” from the Philosophy of Music Education’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Author elaborates on the ongoing struggle for decolonization and liberation in music education. Continue reading