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)
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)
GRIT: Resilience, Resistance, and other Infrastructural Interventions, eds. Alexandra Campbell (University of Glasgow, Scotland), Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany) and Katie Ritson (LMU Munich, Germany)
Recent Issues
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 | ||
| 1.1 | Untitled | Catherine Belsey, Herbert Grabes, Jean-Jacques Lecercle |
| 1.2 | Postmodernism | Catherine Bernard |
| 1.3 | Current Shakespeare | John Drakakis |
| 1998 | ||
| 2.1 | Postcolonial Literary Strategies | J. L. Gionvannanageli |
| 2.2 | Language & Literature | Monika Fludernik |
| 2.3 | Feminism | Claudine Raynaud |
| 1999 | ||
| 3.1 | Reconceptions of Genre | Joao Ferreira Duarte |
| 3.2 | Postmodern Parody | Ansgar Nünning |
| 3.3 | Postcolonial Ireland? | Claire Connolly |
| 2000 | ||
| 4.1 | The Visual and the Written | Liliane Louvel |
| 4.2 | The Continuation of Historicism | Slavoj Zizek |
| 4.3 | Historical Sociolinguistics | Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
| General editors: Catherine Bernard, Claire Connolly, Herbert Grabes | ||
| 2001 | ||
| 5.1 | Iconicity | Max Nanny & Olga Fischer |
| 5.2 | Early Modern English Text Types | Lilo Moessner |
| 5.3 | Systems Theory | Christoph Reinfandt |
| General editors: Catherine Bernard, Claire Connolly, Ansgar Nünning | ||
| 2002 | ||
| 6.1 | The New Poetics | Adolphe Haberer |
| 6.2 | Romanticism & Cultural Geography | Diego Saglia |
| 6.3 | Current Critical Theories in Europe | Catherine Bernard & Ansgar Nünning |
| 2003 | ||
| 7.1 | New English Dramaturgies | Elizabeth Angel-Perez |
| 7.2 | Ethics & Literature | Robert Eaglestone |
| 7.3 | Literature & Trauma | Ortwin de Graef, Vivian Liska, Katrien Vloberghs |
| 2004 | ||
| 8.1 | New Approaches to Narrative Theory | Roy Sommer |
| 8.2 | European Views on Englishness | Vera Nünning |
| 8.3 | Cultural Variation in Metaphor | Zoltán Kövecses |
| 2005 | ||
| 9.1 | Letters & Letter Writing | Minna Nevala & Minna Palander-Collin |
| 9.2 | Cognitive Criticism | Michael Toolan & Jean Jacques Weber |
| 9.3 | Intimate Transfers | Effie Yiannopoulou & Maria Margaroni |
| General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Angela Locatelli, Ansgar Nünning | ||
| 2006 | ||
| 10.1 | European Englishes | Martin Kayman, Angela Locatelli, Ansgar Nünning |
| 10.2 | Literature and the Production of Cultural Memory | Astrid Eril & Ann Rigney |
| 10.3 | Cultural Exchange | Gesa Stedman |
| 2007 | ||
| 11.1 | Law, Literature & Language | MAK & Greta Olson |
| 11.2 | New Textualities | Manuel Portela |
| 11.3 | Literature, Epistemology & Science | Ronald Shusterman |
| 2008 | ||
| 12.1 | New Englishes | Bessie Dendrinos, Mina Karavanta & Bessie Mitsikopoulou |
| 12.2 | Translation, Cultures and the Media | Elena di Giovanni |
| 12.3 | Reading the Modernist Past | Helene Aji & Helen Dennis |
| 2009 | ||
| 13.1 | Travelling Concepts in English Studies | Birgit Neumann & Frederik Tygstrup |
| 13.2 | Intercultural Negotiations | Ian MacKenzie |
| 13.3 | Rhetoric of National Character | Ton Hoenselaars & Joep Leersen |
| 2010 | ||
| 14.1 | Beyond Trauma: The Uses of the Past in 21c Europe | Jacek Gutorow, Jerzy Jarniewicz, David Kennedy |
| 14.2 | Crime Narratives | Heather Worthington & Maurizio Ascari |
| 14.3 | Comparative Cultural Histories | Logie Barrow & Karine Bigand |
| General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Greta Olson & Stephanos Stephanides | ||
| 2011 | ||
| 15.1 | Matter & Material Culture | Maurizio Calbi & Marlena Parlati |
| 15.2 | Medievalism | Ute Berns & Andrew Johnston |
| 15.3 | The Estoteric in Post/Modernism | Pia Brînzeu & György Szöny |
| 2012 | ||
| 16.1 | Housing Fiction 1950 to Present | Janet Larson, Francesda Saggini & Anna-Enrichetta Soccio |
| 16.2 | Dislocations & Ecologies | Alexa Weik & Christoph Irmscher |
| 16.3 | Gender Resistance | Evgenia Sifaki & Angeliki Spiropoulou |
| 2013 | ||
| 17.1 | Visual Text | Judy Kendall, Manuel Portela & Glyn White |
| 17.2 | Myths of Europe: East of Venice | Aidan O’Malley |
| 17.3 | The Rhetoric of Science | Maria Freddi, Barbara Korte & Josef Schmied |
| 2014 | ||
| 18.1 | Scottish Renaissances | Wolfram R. Keller, J. Derrick McClure & Kirsten Sandrock |
| 18.2 | European Posthumanism | Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter & Manuel Rossini |
| 18.3 | Translating Ethnicity | Silvia Bruti, Robert Valdeón & Serenella Zanotti |
| 2015 | ||
| 19.1 | Modern Creatures | Pieter Vermeulen & Virginia Richter |
| 19.2 | Mendacity in Early Modern | Ingo Berensmeyer & Andrew Hadfield |
| 19.3 | Poetics & Partition | GJV Prasad & Stephanos Stephanides |
| General editors: Martin A. Kayman, Greta Olson & Isabel Carrera Suárez | ||
| 2016 | ||
| 20.1 | Formulaicity in Language & Literature | Martin Kayman & Ian MacKenzie |
| 20.2 | J.M. Coetzee and the non-English literary traditions | María J. López & Kai Wiegandt |
| 20.3 | The Politics of Form | Sarah Copland & Greta Olson |
| 2017 | ||
| 21.1 | Getting and Spending | Silvana Colella, Brecht de Groote, Frederik Van Dam |
| 21.2 | Debating the Afropolitan | Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Carla Rodríguez González, Ananya J. Kabir |
| 21.3 | Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies | Anna Kérchy and Catriona McAra |
| General editors: Greta Olson, Isabel Carrera Suárez & Katerina Kitsi | ||
| 2018 | ||