Issues

Forthcoming Issues

Volume 29 (2025)

The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in the New Anglophone Literature, eds. Nadia Butt (University of Giessen, Germany), Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University, Wales) and Michelle Stork (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

Wasted Lives in Contemporary Fiction: Bodies That Do Not Matter, eds. Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain) and Simonetta Falchi (University of Sassari, Italy)

The Place of Race in Law & Literature, eds. Andrew Benjamin Bricker (Ghent University), Elise Wang (California State University, Fullerton) and Cedric Essi (Osnabrück University)

Recent Issues

Volume 28 (2024)

Cultures of Empathy, eds. Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (COIDESO, University of Huelva, Spain), Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Erzsébet Barát (University of Szeged, Hungary)

28.2 & 28.3: Open Topic Double Issue. Ed. Birte Christ, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (forthcoming)

Volume 27 (2023)

27.1 Hashtags across Borders: Considering #Instapoetry as a Transglobal and Translingual Literary Movement, eds. Anna Nacher (Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie), James Mackay (European University Cyprus), JuEunhae Knox (University of Glasgow)

27.2 Nineteenth-Century Interstitial Spaces, eds. Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University), Joanna Hofer-Robinson (University College Cork) and Chris Louttit (Radboud University)

27.3 Limitrophy in Contemporary Literatures in English, eds. Laura Ma Lojo Rodríguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Jorge Sacido Romero (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Roberto Del Valle Alcalá (Södertörn University, Sweden)

Volume 26 (2022)

26.1 Victorian Materialisms, eds Ursula Kluwick (University of Bern), Ariane de Waal (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

26.2 Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change, eds Florence Binard (University of Paris) and Renate Haas (University of Kiel)

26.3 Going Viral: Chronotopes of Disaster in Film and Visual Media, eds Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos (Ankara University) and Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam)

Volume 25 (2021)

25.1 Brexit and Academia, eds Sibylle Baumbach (Stuttgart) and Andreas Maurer (Innsbruck)

25.2 Feminist Responses to Populist Politics, eds Mónica Cano Abadía (University of Graz), Sanja Bojanić (University of Rijeka), Valentina Moro (University of Verona)

25.3 Disseminating Knowledge: The Effects of Digitalized Academic Discourse on Language, Genre and Identity, eds Rosa Lorés Sanz (Universidad de Zaragoza), Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Volume 24 (2020)

24.1 Representing Trans, eds Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Berlin), Anson Koch-Rein (Grinnell) and Jasper Verlinden (Berlin)

24.2 Decentering Commemorations’: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Commemorations across and beyond the British Isles, eds Jeremy Tranmer, and Céline Sabiron (Lorraine)

24.3 Neo-Victorian Negotiations of Hostility, Empathy and Hospitality, eds Rosario Arias (Málaga) and Mark Llewellyn (Cardiff)

Volume 23 (2019)

23.1 Narratives of Religious Conversion from the Enlightenment to the Present, eds Ludmilla Kostova (Turnovo) and Efterpi Mitsi (Athens)

23.2 Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives, eds Jan Alber (Aachen) and Alice Bell (Sheffield)

23.3 Shame and Shamelessness in Anglophone Literature and Media, eds Katrin Röder (Potsdam), Christine Vogt-William (Berlin) and Kaye Mitchell (Manchester)

Volume 22 (2018)

22.1 Approaches to Old Age, eds Sarah Falcus and Maricel Oró Piqueras

22.2 Global Responses to the ‘War on Terror’, eds Michael C. Frank (Düsseldorf) and Pavan Kumar Malreddy (Frankfurt)

22.3 Poetry, Science and Technology, eds Irmtraud Huber (Berne), Wolfgang Funk (Mainz)

Volume 21 (2017)

21.1 Getting and Spending, eds Silvana Colella, Brecht de Groote, Frederik Van Dam

21.2 Debating the Afropolitan, eds Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Carla Rodríguez González, Ananya J. Kabir

21.3 Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies, eds Anna Kérchy and Catriona McAra

Volume 20 (2016)

20.1 Formulaicity in Language and Literature, eds Ian MacKenzie and Martin A. Kayman

20.2 J.M. Coetzee and the non-English Literary Traditions, eds María J. López, & Kai Wiegandt

20.3 The Politics of Form, eds Sarah Copland & Greta Olson

Volume 19 (2015)

19.1 Modern Creatures, eds Virginia Richter & and Pieter Vermeulen

19.2 Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture, eds Ingo Berensmeyer & Andrew Hadfield

19.3 Poetics and Partition, eds GJV Prasad & Stephanos Stephanides

Volume 18 (2014)

18.1  Scottish Renaissances, eds Wolfram R. Keller, J. Derrick McClure & Kirsten Sandrock

18:2  European Posthumanism, eds Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus & Manuela Rossini

18.3  Translating Ethnicity, eds Silvia Bruti, Roberto A. Valdeón and Serenella Zanotti

Volume 17 (2013)

17.1 Visual Text, eds Judy Kendall, Manuel Portela & Glyn White

17.2 Myths of Europe: East of Venice, eds Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan & Aidan O’Malley

17.3 The Rhetoric of Science, eds Maria Freddi, Barbara Korte & Josef Schmied

Volume 16 (2012)

16.1 Housing fictions: The House in Writing and Culture, 1950 to the Present, eds Janet Larson, Francesca Saggini & Anna Enrichetta Soccio

16.2 Dislocations and Ecologies, eds Alexa Weik & Christoph Irmscher

16.3: Gender Resistance,  eds Evgenia Sifaki & Angeliki Spiropoulou

The tables of contents of the most recent and all issues published since 2000, abstracts and access to the essays, can be found on the website of the journal’s page at Taylor & Francis .


The European Journal of English Studies:
A list of themes and editors 1997-2017

General editors: Catherine Belsey, Herbert Grabes, Jean-Jacques Lecercle
1997
1.1UntitledCatherine Belsey, Herbert Grabes, Jean-Jacques Lecercle
1.2PostmodernismCatherine Bernard
1.3Current ShakespeareJohn Drakakis
1998
2.1Postcolonial Literary StrategiesJ. L. Gionvannanageli
2.2Language & LiteratureMonika Fludernik
2.3FeminismClaudine Raynaud
1999
3.1Reconceptions of GenreJoao Ferreira Duarte
3.2Postmodern ParodyAnsgar Nünning
3.3Postcolonial Ireland?Claire Connolly
2000
4.1The Visual and the WrittenLiliane Louvel
4.2The Continuation of HistoricismSlavoj Zizek
4.3Historical SociolinguisticsIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
General editors: Catherine Bernard, Claire Connolly, Herbert Grabes
2001
5.1IconicityMax Nanny & Olga Fischer
5.2Early Modern English Text TypesLilo Moessner
5.3Systems TheoryChristoph Reinfandt
General editors: Catherine Bernard, Claire Connolly, Ansgar Nünning
2002
6.1The New PoeticsAdolphe Haberer
6.2Romanticism & Cultural GeographyDiego Saglia
6.3Current Critical Theories in EuropeCatherine Bernard & Ansgar Nünning
2003
7.1New English DramaturgiesElizabeth Angel-Perez
7.2Ethics & LiteratureRobert Eaglestone
7.3Literature & TraumaOrtwin de Graef, Vivian Liska, Katrien Vloberghs
2004
8.1New Approaches to Narrative TheoryRoy Sommer
8.2European Views on EnglishnessVera Nünning
8.3Cultural Variation in MetaphorZoltán Kövecses
2005
9.1Letters & Letter WritingMinna Nevala & Minna Palander-Collin
9.2Cognitive CriticismMichael Toolan & Jean Jacques Weber
9.3Intimate TransfersEffie Yiannopoulou & Maria Margaroni
General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Angela Locatelli, Ansgar Nünning
2006
10.1European EnglishesMartin Kayman, Angela Locatelli, Ansgar Nünning
10.2Literature and the Production of Cultural MemoryAstrid Eril & Ann Rigney
10.3Cultural ExchangeGesa Stedman
2007
11.1Law, Literature & LanguageMAK & Greta Olson
11.2New TextualitiesManuel Portela
11.3Literature, Epistemology & ScienceRonald Shusterman
2008
12.1New EnglishesBessie Dendrinos, Mina Karavanta & Bessie Mitsikopoulou
12.2Translation, Cultures and the MediaElena di Giovanni
12.3Reading the Modernist PastHelene Aji & Helen Dennis
2009
13.1Travelling Concepts in English StudiesBirgit Neumann & Frederik Tygstrup
13.2Intercultural NegotiationsIan MacKenzie
13.3Rhetoric of National CharacterTon Hoenselaars & Joep Leersen
2010
14.1Beyond Trauma: The Uses of the Past in 21c EuropeJacek Gutorow, Jerzy Jarniewicz, David Kennedy
14.2Crime NarrativesHeather Worthington & Maurizio Ascari
14.3Comparative Cultural HistoriesLogie Barrow & Karine Bigand
General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Greta Olson & Stephanos Stephanides
2011
15.1Matter & Material CultureMaurizio Calbi & Marlena Parlati
15.2MedievalismUte Berns & Andrew Johnston
15.3The Estoteric in Post/ModernismPia Brînzeu & György Szöny
2012
16.1Housing Fiction 1950 to PresentJanet Larson, Francesda Saggini & Anna-Enrichetta Soccio
16.2Dislocations & EcologiesAlexa Weik & Christoph Irmscher
16.3Gender ResistanceEvgenia Sifaki & Angeliki Spiropoulou
2013
17.1Visual TextJudy Kendall, Manuel Portela & Glyn White
17.2Myths of Europe: East of VeniceAidan O’Malley
17.3The Rhetoric of ScienceMaria Freddi, Barbara Korte & Josef Schmied
2014
18.1Scottish RenaissancesWolfram R. Keller, J. Derrick McClure & Kirsten Sandrock
18.2European PosthumanismIvan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter & Manuel Rossini
18.3Translating EthnicitySilvia Bruti, Robert Valdeón &  Serenella Zanotti
2015
19.1Modern CreaturesPieter Vermeulen & Virginia Richter
19.2Mendacity in Early ModernIngo Berensmeyer & Andrew Hadfield
19.3Poetics & PartitionGJV Prasad & Stephanos Stephanides
General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Greta Olson & Isabel Carrera Suárez
2016
20.1Formulaicity in Language & LiteratureMartin Kayman & Ian MacKenzie
20.2J.M. Coetzee and the non-English literary traditionsMaría J. López & Kai Wiegandt
20.3The Politics of FormSarah Copland & Greta Olson
2017
21.1Getting and SpendingSilvana Colella, Brecht de Groote, Frederik Van Dam
21.2Debating the AfropolitanEmilia María Durán-Almarza, Carla Rodríguez González, Ananya J. Kabir
21.3Feminist Interventions in Intermedial StudiesAnna Kérchy and Catriona McAra
General editors: Greta Olson, Isabel Carrera Suárez & Katerina Kitsi
2018