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Peer Reviewed Articles

Susan Sontag and the Americanization of the Nouveau Roman

08.29.22

Ben Libman

Wattpad’s Fictions of Care

07.13.22

Sarah Brouillette

Amiri Baraka’s Changing Same as Anational Sociality

06.28.22

Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz

Hipsters and Homosexuals: Chandler Brossard’s Who Walk in Darkness and the Midcentury Gay Underground

06.02.22

Guy Davidson

Autofiction and Selfie Aesthetics

12.16.21

Joseph R. Worthen

“A Decent Life in these United States”: Walker, Williams, Wright and the Problem of the Black Middlebrow

08.04.21

Sean McCann

The Acid-Washed Novel

07.20.21

Mitch Therieau

Punchline Aesthetics: Recuperated Failure in the Novels of Ben Lerner and Sheila Heti

07.20.21

Dena Fehrenbacher

Professional Life, Childhood, and Fantasy Solutions: Middle-Class Alienation in the Fiction of J. D. Salinger and the Films of Wes Anderson

06.15.21

David Banash and Andrea Spain

Mary McCarthy’s “Irrelevant” Fiction: Arendt, Vietnam, and the Late Novel of Ideas

04.27.21

Katie Fitzpatrick

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Recent Uncollected Essays

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Bernadette Mayer’s Photographic Counter-Memory

Claire Grandy

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The Thinking Novel: Theme-and-Variations Form in the Contemporary Novel of Ideas

Benjamin Paul

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Toward a Poetics of the Detainee

John Steen

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Seeing Past Consumption: Race and Species in the Slaughterhouse

Akash Belsare

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The Blues Brothers, Tammy Wynette, and the Long Denouement of the 1960s

Andrew Hoberek

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Side Hustle: College Sports and the Future of Academic Labor

Joseph Darda

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Big Color Analytics: Privatization, Precarity, Pantone

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

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Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan

Lee Mandelo

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Post45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. The group was founded in 2006 and has met annually since to discuss new work in the field.

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