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Journal of Modern Literature JML is published quarterly by Indiana University Press. No simultaneous submissions or previously published material. We accept only electronic submissions.

JML is a leading scholarly serial in modernist, postmodernist and contemporary studies of literature and culture. It publishes the latest scholarship on modernism, and traces the continuing effects of modernist thought on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and cultural production. Submit: JML seeks scholarly studies of literature, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. Submissions should conform to MLA 7th edition style for documentation and manuscript formatting, and should include a 100-150 word abstract and 3-5 keywords. Submissions must be under 9,000 words for the entire submission package, including the abstract, notes and works cited. We respond within three and a half months on average. Submit manuscripts as a Word or RTF attachment to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. Book reviews are by assignment only. Interested writers should send a query letter stating their areas of expertise, along with a writing sample (.doc or .rtf attachment) to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. JML is published quarterly in January, April, July and October by Indiana University Press. Issues run 150-204 pages and contain nine to twelve scholarly essays and one to six book reviews. Print and/or electronic subscriptions are available to individuals and institutions. JML was founded in 1970 by Maurice Beebe of Temple University, who served as editor-in-chief until his death in 1986. His successor Morton P. Levitt served as editor until 2003. In 2000, the journal was purchased by Indiana University Press. It is now overseen by eight co-editors: Robert L. Caserio (Pennsylvania State University), Caren Irr (Brandeis University), Janet Lyon (Pennsylvania State University), Daniel O’Hara (Temple University), Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Ramon Soto-Crespo (University of Illinois), Robert T. Tally, Jr, (Texas State University), and Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University). JML’s advisory editors are Kevin Bell (Pennsylvania State University), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore Country), Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Mikita Brottman (Maryland Institute College of Art), Jessica Burstein (University of Washington), Andre Carrington (University of California, Riverside), Tim Dean (University of Illinois), Maria DiBattista (Princeton University), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University), Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvania State University), Hoda El Shakry (University of Chicago), Alan Golding (University of Louisville), Matt Hart (Columbia University), Eric Hayot (Pennsylvania State University), Scott Herring (Yale University), Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University), Eric Keenaghan (The University at Albany – SUNY), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), Karen Lawrence (The Huntington Library), Michael Leong (California Institute of the Arts), Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen), Marina MacKay (Oxford University), Gina MacKenzie (Holy Family University), Bernard McKenna (University of Delaware), Peter Lancelot Mallios (University of Maryland), Ira B. Nadel (University of British Columbia), Aldon Nielsen (Pennsylvania State University), Patrick Pritchett (University of Connecticut), Richard Purcell (Carnegie Mellon University), Ralph Rodriguez (Brown University), Urmila Seshagiri (University of Tennessee), Alan Singer (Temple University), David Sterritt (Maryland Institute College of Art), and Shane Vogel (Yale University). Subscribe: Subscription rates are: Individual Print/$60.50 US a year; Individual Electronic/$52.50 US a year; Individual Print and Electronic/$66.55 US a year. Foreign orders add: $18 US to Canada, Mexico, and overseas surface; $34 for overseas airmail. Shipping charges apply to both Print/Print and Electronic subscriptions. To order, go to http://www.jstor.org/r/iupress. For institutional subscription rates, go to www.jstor.org/page/journal/jmodelite/about.html. Individual issues are available for purchase. Authors may purchase single issues of the number in which their essay appears at a 40% discount. Call IU Press customer service at 812.855.8818 for information and to order. Advertise: To advertise your book, event or journal in JML, go to https://iupress.org/meet/journal-advertising/. Discounts offered for multiple placements.

IN OUR LATEST ISSUEHuiming Liu demonstrates how Eliot's *The Waste Land* reinterprets the Golden Bough myth as a hollow ...
10/13/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Huiming Liu demonstrates how Eliot's *The Waste Land* reinterprets the Golden Bough myth as a hollow pursuit of capital—symbolized by the co**se that fails to sprout
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/1002581

IN OUR LATEST ISSUEKuhelika Ghosh explores Jamaica Kincaid’s Caribbean aesthetic rooted in the invisible human and inter...
10/12/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Kuhelika Ghosh explores Jamaica Kincaid’s Caribbean aesthetic rooted in the invisible human and interspecies labors that go into the production of flowers
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/1002580

SPECIAL FEATURE + FREE ARTICLEDavid A. Vivian considers how Caribbean science fiction might resist the common climate-fi...
10/09/2026

SPECIAL FEATURE + FREE ARTICLE
David A. Vivian considers how Caribbean science fiction might resist the common climate-fiction plot
His article, "Reimagining Urban Ecology through Caribbean Science Fiction," linked in the post, is available FREE
https://iupress.org/connect/blog/floating-cities-and-amphibious-engineers-a-closer-look-at-jml-49-4/

By David A. Vivian, author of “Reimagining Urban Ecology through Caribbean Science Fiction: Reading the Green Cities of Tobias Buckell and Stephanie

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10/08/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Jie Chen and Quan Wang explore how in “The Effluent Engine” N.K. Jemisin channels a reimagined steampunk Tinkerer archetype and Vodou epistemology to create a decolonial utopian future
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/1002579

IN OUR LATEST ISSUERamón E. Soto-Crespo introduces JML 49.4 in "Literature on a Hot Planet: An Introduction to Ecocritic...
10/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo introduces JML 49.4 in "Literature on a Hot Planet: An Introduction to Ecocriticism/Anti-Imperialism"
Read it for FREE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/1002577
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NEW ISSUE!Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Ramón E. Soto-Cr...
10/05/2026

NEW ISSUE!
Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57714
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BOOK NEWS: The poetic innovations of the Noigandres group*Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil*
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BOOK NEWS: The poetic innovations of the Noigandres group
*Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil*

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil By Antonio Sergio Bessa Fordham UP, 2026 ISBN: 9781531513689 https://fordhampress.com/noigandres-hb-97...

BOOK NEWSTracing Chilean women poet's resistance to neoliberalism
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BOOK NEWS
Tracing Chilean women poet's resistance to neoliberalism

Chilean Women’s Poetry under Neoliberalism, 1980–2020 By Bárbara Fernández-Melleda Edinburgh UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781399541497 https://edinburghu...

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BOOK NEWS: Youth catalyzing change in stories of Central American migration
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