Contemporaries

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to converse with one another more directly and informally than in traditional academic publications. These curated conversations, or “clusters,” range from sets of relatively autonomous short essays on a common theme to extended epistolary exchanges.

Pitch Your Cluster Idea Here!
Listen to Pod45

The Specter of High School English

Introduction: The Specter of High School English

Robert Jean LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

The Institution(s) of High School English

Alexander Manshel

Teaching Writing in the Digital Age

Lindy L. Johnson and Peter Smagorinsky

How High School Testing Changes College English Classrooms and What To Do About It

Sarah Levine, Emma Bene, Daniel P. Moore, and Michael W. Smith

Post 451 : English Without Books

Andrew Newman and Jonna Perrillo

The Death of the Book: Mourning Literature Lost

James Joshua Coleman

Teaching in the Age of Attention: A Conversation with High School English Teachers

Russell Bollag-Miller, Liz Cettina, Kate Marshall Tim Milner, and Ella Zaslow

Teaching Writing for the Here-and-Now

Bethany Monea

Fostering Adaptive Readers

John Downes-Angus

Past clusters

1990 at 30

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever

African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century

After the Leftovers

Ali Smith Now

American Bimbo

Anti-Work Aesthetics

Asian/American (Anti-)Bodies

Bernadette Mayer

Bored As Hell

C.D. Wright in Context

Contemporary Literature from the Classroom

Critique in the Trump Era

Cultural Analytics Now

Dark Academia

David Berman

Decolonize X?

Ecologies of Neoliberal Publishing

Extraordinary Renditions

Feel Your Fantasy: The Drag Race Cluster

For Speed and Creed: The Fast and Furious Franchise

Forms of the Global Anglophone

Gestures of Refusal

Get in the Cage

Global Horror

Heteropessimism

How We Write (Well)

Interpretive Difficulty

Interviews

John Keene

Keywords for Postcolonial Thought

Leaving Hollywoo: Essays After BoJack Horseman

Legacies — 9/11 and the War On Terror at Twenty

Little Magazines

Locating Lorine Niedecker

Lydia Davis

marsh

midwinter

Mike Davis Forever

Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics

Mobilizing Literature: A Response

My So-Called Life at 30

New Filmic Geographies

New Literary Television

Poetry's Social Forms

Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Reading Disco Elysium

Reading Sally Rooney

Reading with Algorithms

Roth’s Yahrzeit

Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities

Severance

Slow Burn

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Someone Else's Object

Stranger Things and Nostalgia Now

Stuckness

Suspicion

Tan Lin

The 7 Neoliberal Arts

The After Archive

The Bachelor

The Body of Contemporary Latina/o/x Poetry

The Hallyu Project

The Pain Cluster

The Specter of High School English

The Stuff of Figure, Now

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Tis the Damn Season: Taylor Swift's evermore

W(h)ither the Christian Right?

Web 2.0 and Literary Criticism

What's Contemporary About the Academy Awards?