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FRAME is a biannual journal of literary studies, affiliated with Utrecht University. Katherine Hayles, Mieke Bal, and J. Hillis Miller.

Each issue centres on a specific theme that resonates with contemporary literary debates, intersecting with other disciplines and creating space for fruitful discussions. Frame is a biannual journal of literary studies, run by (former) students of Utrecht University, which publishes articles by international theorists along with important lectures, interviews, and critical reviews. Since its estab

lishment in 1984, it is the only Dutch publication forum that allows for a centred discussion on comparative literary studies. Frame broaches cutting-edge topics in the literary field and has in the past had the opportunity of working with well-known scholars such as Jonathan Culler, N. Issues of Frame are usually centred around a specific theme that resonates with the contemporary literary debate, and the editorial board aims to compile a set of articles that together allow for a fruitful discussion. Additionally, the Masterclass section offers students the opportunity to gain some much-needed publishing experience, as well as valuable guidance during the (re)writing process. The journal furthermore offers room for conference announcements, symposiums or workshop reports, lectures, and interviews.

25/06/2025

📃🌍FRAME’s New Issue is Posted! 🌏📃
We’re excited to announce that 38.1 “Page to Planet” our latest issue, exploring the connections between literature and sustainability, is all packed and ready for you to read!

From constructing different narrative forms that encompass the ecological imaginary, to immediate and personal effects of environmental and ecological damage that challenge us to consider our own roles and responsibilities, these articles illustrate that storytelling—whether in the form of memoir, poetic resistance, or speculative reflection— emerges as a vital medium that underscores the role of literature to cultivate awareness.

A special thank you to all our authors and contributors who made this issue as special as it is.

If you are already subscribed be on the lookout for your copy in the mail 📮! If you would like to have an individual copy of 38.1 you can order one on our website (linked in bio) under “Subscribe” > “Order individual copies”. If you subscribe now to FRAME you will receive our next issues 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue” and 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative” when they are in print. 🖼️

18/06/2025

On Saturday we had a lovely launch event to celebrate our latest issue 38.1 “Page to Planet” 📝🌍. Thank you to all the attendees for their participation and FRAME’s wonderful editorial board for their hard work in bringing the issue to life.

A special thank you to the launch event team for organizing and to one of our own, Mara, for putting together the flower printing workshop🔖💐! (You can find more of their workshops on Instagram )

Want to read the latest issue? You can get your own individual copy now OR you can subscribe to FRAME (students get a special deal) to get both of our biannual issues! All available on the “subscribe” tab of our website! 🌀

Thank you to Cultureel Centrum Moira for hosting us.

10/06/2025

Our new issue Page to Planet is here! 🌀 We’re celebrating the launch of this environmental edition of FRAME at Stichting Moira in Utrecht on Saturday, the 14th of June at 19:00. What can expect? Good conversations, coziness and flower stamping, literally taking the planet to the page. Discover our newest issue (available for purchase) and preview our upcoming call for papers! 🌀

Time:
19:00-22:00

Location: cc
Wolvenstraat 10, 3512 Utrecht

29/04/2025

For our final article highlight for issue 37.2 “Between the Lines”, we’d like to present to you “Besieged by Patriarchy, Bewildered by Conflicts: Exploring the Plights of Kashmiri Women in Nayeema Mahjoor’s Lost in Terror” by Wasim Akram. Through his reading of Lost in Terror by Nayeema Mahjoor, Akram investigates the intersecting structures of oppression that shape the lives of women in contemporary Kashmir, focusing in particular on militarism and patriarchy as a dual source of oppression.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our annual subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Wasim Akram’s article and more! 🖼️

23/04/2025

From our most recent issue 37.2 “Between the Lines”, we bring you another article highlight. In “Echoes of Silence: Listening and Creating Echoes to Break the Archival Violence in Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli” Elif Kayahan examines the novel’s main characters, who both pursue separate documentation projects on state-sanctioned violence in the United States of America against different population groups. Kayahan specifically focuses on how Luiselli traces connections between past and present through her characters’ engagement with reenactments and echoes of the past.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our annual subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Elif Kayahab’s article and more! 🖼️

21/04/2025

Next we would like to highlight “Tarrying Between Speech and Silence: Deferment and Disruption in ‘Story of a Stammer’” by Muskaan Katiyar, where she explores the aesthetics of dissent. In “Story of a Stammer,” Gábor Vida’s autofictional novel, his stutter becomes a pars pro toto for his layered experience of alienation: as a Hungarian under Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romanian dictatorship, through his family’s shame and rejection of his stutter, and by the societal ableism he faces. Katiyar argues that this titular stammer is repositioned by Vida as a form of dissent, challenging dominant historical and social myths.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our annual subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Muskaan Katiyar’s article and more! 🖼️

19/04/2025

Also from issue 37.2 “Between the Lines,” here is “Varieties of Literary Worlding: The Different Intercultural Visions of Witold Gombrowicz and Julio Cortázar” by Antonis Sarris. In this article two novels, Julio Cortázar’s “Hopscotch” and Witold Gombrowicz’s “Pornography,” are analysed through the lens of interculturality with a focus on their differing approaches as works from semi-peripheral cultural contexts. Sarris also demonstrates the two authors’ visions for questioning and undermining the European canon and its supposed superiority.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our yearly subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Antonis Sarris’ article and more! 🖼️

17/04/2025

Continuing our article highlights, next up is “Hearing Together? A Listening Across the Lines of Tracy Chapman’s Crossroads”. Co-authored by Cae Joseph-Masséna and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, this article outlines the significance of q***r singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman in an academic, societal and personal context. The authors demonstrate Chapman’s ability to cross the boundaries of different knowledge traditions such as blues, Vodou and North-Atlantic Black feminism, interspersed with contemplations on the range of listening experiences that her work inspires.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our annual subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Cae Joseph-Masséna and Alexandra Benedicty-Kokken’s article and more! 🖼️

15/04/2025

As we prepare our next issue, we’d like to look back at the articles in our most recent publication, issue 37.2 Between the Lines, where we asked scholars to focus on creative methods of opposing erasures, and breaking silence, and what literature can tell us about processes of marginalisation of places, people, and things, and how can it bring marginalised perspectives to the foreground:

First up, we have Reindert Dhondt’s “Decolonizing the Future through Archival Museum Fictions: The Case of ‘Untold Microcosms’.” The article presents a critical examination of “Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum”, a collection of essays and short stories by Latin American authors that recontextualizes objects that are conserved in the archives of the British Museum. It outlines several theories on the decolonisation of the museum and ultimately focuses on Yásnaya E. Aguilar Gil’s short story ‘Letter to a Young Mixe Historian,’ which proposes a more communal, indigenous approach to technology and heritage preservation.

Check out our website linked in our bio to either subscribe to our yearly subscription and get FRAME’s biannual print publications OR order an individual copy of 37.2 Between the Lines (digital or print) to read Reindert Dhondt’s article and more! 🖼️

13/01/2025

🎉 Join us for the launch of Between the Lines’ latest issue!
📅 Date: 22.01.2025 🕖 Time: 19:00 - 21:00 📍 Location: Aleph Books, Vismarkt 9, Utrecht
Get ready for an evening of creativity and conversation! 🎤 ✨ Keynote by Cae Joseph-Masséna & Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken: Hearing Together? A Listening Across the Lines of Tracy Chapman’s Crossroads 🎨 Blackout Poetry Workshop with Mara van Herpen & Dewi Kopp
💡 Don’t miss this opportunity to listen, create, and connect with fellow literary enthusiasts. RSVP now - space is limited!

21/12/2024

🎉📚 Frame’s New Issue is Here! 📚🎉
We’re excited to present Between the Lines, our latest issue exploring silence, erasure, and the power of literature to amplify marginalised voices.

From music as a crossroads of diverse knowledge traditions to unraveling the silences created by colonial histories, this issue reminds us that true understanding starts when we read between the lines.

13/12/2024

🎄📚 Celebrate the Holidays with Frame! 📚🎄
This holiday season, we’re spreading literary joy with our 2+1 Holiday Promo!
🎁 Here’s the deal:
Buy 2 issues of Frame and get 1 issue FREE—the perfect gift for scholars, literary enthusiasts, and anyone who loves exploring deep analysis and critical perspectives.
📖 How to redeem:
Select any 3 issues from our collection.
Mention the promo code FRAMEHOLIDAY in the order form.
We’ll ensure your third issue is free!

🎅 Hurry! Offer valid until January 6. Celebrate the season with the critical insights and thought-provoking articles of Frame.
📬 Order now to get your issues in time for Christmas!

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