In this Issue
Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. Contemporary Literature published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; it also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J. M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, Contemporary Literature features the full diversity of critical practices. The editors seek articles that frame their analysis of texts within larger literary historical, theoretical, or cultural debates.
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Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2017Editorial Board
Executive Editor
Thomas Schaub, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Editors
Poetry
Brian Reed, University of Oregon
American Fiction
Steven Belletto, Lafayette College
Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University
British and Anglophone Fiction
Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Ageles
Associate Editors
Poetry
Alan Golding, University of Louisville
Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa
American Fiction
Heather Houser, University of Texas at Austin
Jessica Pressman, San Diego State University
British and Anglophone Fiction
Elizabeth S. Anker, Cornell University
David James, Queen Mary, University of London
Book Review Editors
Poetry
Lisa Hollenbach, Oklahoma State University
American Fiction
Aida Levy-Hussen, University of Wisconsin—Madison
British and Anglophone Fiction
Janice Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder
Editorial Staff
Managing Editor
Eileen R. Ewing
Editorial Assistants
Sunny Chan
Addie Hopes
Ruth M. Kellar
Laura Perry
Peter Ribic
Andrew Thomas
Sara Gabler Thomas
Board of Editorial Consultants
Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Timothy Bewes, Brown University
Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University
Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia
Hillary Chute, Northeastern University
Robert J. Corber, Trinity College
Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego
Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Amy Elias, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mary Esteve, Concordia University
Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas Gardner, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Caren Irr, Brandeis University
Joseph Jeon, Pomona College
Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
John Marx, University of California, Davis
Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford
Aldon Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California–Los Angeles
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Rita Raley, University of California–Los Angeles
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Eric Selinger, DePaul University
Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois–Chicago
Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University
Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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