During the rapidly globalizing 1990s a term used in quantum physics to describe “spooky relations” between particles “at a distance” made its way into the humanities, where it was adapted…
Contemporaries Essays
Fragments of a World That “Doesn’t End”: The Apocalyptic Impulse in a Time of Perpetual War
9/11 and the subsequent “War on Terror” have produced temporalities of indefinite deferral and perpetual war. Literary scholars have noted the pervasive presence of this phenomenon in contemporary Global Anglophone…
Mood, Health, and the Global Anglophone Novel
A maximal definition of the Global Anglophone Novel would, as we know, include all novels written in English, regardless of origin.1 The cost of inclusivity is definitional crisis: such a…
The Form of Global Anglophone Literature is Grenfell Tower
On 14 June 2017, shortly after midnight, a fire broke out in the public housing flats at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London. The fire spread rapidly, due in large…
What’s in a Name?: the Global Anglophone, the Anglosphere, and the English-Speaking Peoples
What does it mean to “do” Global Anglophone Studies at a time when an ordinary conversation in Spanish in a New York restaurant could propel a customer into such a…
Introduction: Forms of the Global Anglophone
What does the term “Global Anglophone” signify? As a new Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone and English Literature, I should ostensibly have an answer to this question since it was…
Being a Person, Being in Public
Convened by Claire Jarvis
Acknowledgement(s): A Response to Frances McDonald
Although collaboration is the norm in STEM fields, it is, as Frances McDonald points out, an anomaly in the humanities. Even as new subfields like digital humanities and new methodologies…
The Humor We Fear Most: a Response to Sarah Wasserman
Sarah Wasserman, Frances McDonald, and for that matter all of us appear to be part of a rising wave of reappraisals about what literary critics do when we critique. Why…
The Right to Silence: a Response to Irvin Hunt
“He said nothing. He simply stood and waited as the rest of them came up to him, while they stopped and looked and understood.”1 These lines appear toward the end…