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Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone

The Ends of Entanglement: Conjectures on a Future Politics for Global Anglophone Literature

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, Forms of the Global Anglophone

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…

Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the 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…

Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone

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…

Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone

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…

Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone

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…

Contemporaries Essays, Interviews

Being a Person, Being in Public

Convened by Claire Jarvis

Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)

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…

Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)

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…

Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)

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…