Featured Journal Issues

AI Environments in Teaching

an issue of Pedagogy
Wendy Hinshaw and Barclay Barrios, issue editors

The second issue of this special double issue of Pedagogy broadens the conversation about generative AI and English studies beyond the college literature and composition classroom, examining its effects across writing centers, middle schools, and international universities. Contributors explore the pedagogical, ethical, intellectual, and affective labor created by AI, particularly as teachers navigate rapidly changing technologies amid uneven institutional guidance and support. Across contexts, the essays turn away from surveillance, fear, and technological determinism to foreground critical AI literacy, rhetorical agency, embodied experience, and relationships between teachers and students. Together, they argue for approaches to AI that keep the distinctly human work of reading, writing, thinking, and learning at the center of literacy education.

Contributors: Hadeel Al Rahal, Biven Alexander, Barclay Barrios, Zachary Beare, Neslihan Bilikozen, Lance Cummings, Rachel Gevlin, Laura Gonzales, Troy Hicks, Wendy Hinshaw, Sipai Klein, Ruth Li, Skyler Meeks, Pearl Kim Pang, Sana Sayed, Andy Schoenborn, and Alexander Slotkin

Criminalizing and Policing Dissent

an issue of South Atlantic Quarterly
Erin R. Pineda and Eraldo Souza dos Santos, issue editors

In the past decade, hundreds of new bills have been introduced in legislatures around the world–and especially in so-called liberal democracies like Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States–to criminalize dissent, social protest, and political resistance. Most of them have been designed to exercise control over anti-racist movements, outlaw grassroots climate change campaigns, and police anti-genocide and anti-war protests. Beyond parliaments, a variety of institutions–from the workplace to schools and universities–have also sought to monitor and curb their members’ exercise of political dissent. These contemporary efforts to discipline, punish, and quash dissent partake in a long, global history of state and corporate power over the form and figure of “the people out of doors.” Following South Atlantic Review’s long tradition of contributing to debates about social and political liberation, this special issue aims to shed historical and theoretical light on these new developments.

Contributors: Fikret Adaman, Meral Apak, Josh Campbell, Elizabeth Jordie Davies, Mine Eder, Esra Erdem, Kevin Lujan Lee, Darryl Li, Chong-Ming Lim, Azucena Morán, Ayşe Mumcu, Diego Nunes, Ceren Özselçuk, Erin R. Pineda, Kate Quinn, Bruce Robbins, Mark John Sanchez, Lilian Sendretti, Eraldo Souza dos Santos, Zafer Yılmaz, and Sezai Ozan Zeybek

The Wealth of Nations at 250

an issue of History of Political Economy
Michele Bee, issue editor

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, this special issue seeks to illuminate Smith's great book anew by offering a glimpse of what the Adam Smith of the twenty-first century might look like—contested and reinterpreted, as ever. Articles deal with buying and selling, economic progress, and conflicts and power. As the articles demonstrate, Smith remains a thinker for the twenty-first century not because his work resolves the problems of modern commercial society, but because it helps us see why those problems continue to return, and why the attempt to think them through, with all the elusiveness that such an attempt entails, is itself never finished.

Contributors: Michele Bee, Laurie Bréban, Vivienne Brown, Jean Dellemotte, Yiftah Elazar, Jimena Hurtado, Glory M. Liu, Maria Pia Paganelli, Michelle Schwarze, Ivan Sternick, Louise Villeneuve, and Barry R. Weingast

Unicode and the Humanities

an issue of Journal of Asian Studies
Raja Adal and Christopher Lowy, issue editors

This special issue provides interdisciplinary insight on the implications of computer coded script standardization for scholarship in Asian Studies. Script standardization within the pragmatics of writing has a long history linked to politics, economics, and cultural identity. In the digital age there are new and complicated ways in which coding script takes on heightened significance. Given that over ninety percent of individuals who use non-Latin scripts live in Asia, insights and questions on how script standardization has an impact on the humanities, and how the humanities can shed light on the techno-politics of text production, is fundamentally at the center of Asian Studies as a method for the development of new theoretical insights on the history and philosophy of science and technology.

Contributors: Raja Adal, Joseph S. Alter, Andrew Glass, Zev Handel, Anushah Hossain, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Christopher Lowy, and Mark Turin

Legends, Statements, and Stars

an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Victor Ultra Omni, eva pensis, and Noelle Deleon, issue editors

Contributors:  Luna Ákira, Muhammad Zain ul Abidin, Holly Eva Allen, Sean Arayasirikul, Marlon M. Bailey, Dylan McCarthy Blackston, Emily R. Bock, Noelle Deleon, Venus Green, Jennifer Lee, madison moore, Victor Ultra Omni, eva pensis, Diego Pereira, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Trinity Sapphire Revlon, Johari Terra, Cheshire Vineyard, and Brad Walrond

Crossing Boundaries: Translation in Korean Literature and Culture

an issue of Journal of Korean Studies
Susan Hwang and Haerin Shin, issue editors

Contributors:  Max Altenhofen, Kwon Boduerae, Paul Chang, Ki-In Chong, Karl Gerth, Angie Heo, Susan Hwang, Howard Kahm, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Joo Young Lee, Yumi Moon, Hyun Ok Park, Janet Poole, Andre Schmid, Haerin Shin, Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja), Sang-Keun Yoo, and Dafna Zur

"We Who Believe in Freedom"

an issue of Meridians
Ginetta E. B. Candelario, issue editor

Inspired by Ella Baker’s 1964 address at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Convention, where she declared that "we who believe in freedom cannot rest," this special issue of Meridians examines how liberation is continually reimagined across diverse feminist contexts. The issue's articles trace the ongoing work of collective resistance, and together these pieces demonstrate how creative practice, memory, and political struggle remain central to the shared pursuit of freedom.

Contributors: Madina Agénor, Maisnam Arnapal, Azza Basarudin, Layla D. Brown, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Hilaria Cruz, Maya Ghanem, Sneha Gole, Luz Huntington-Moskos, Diyora Kabilova, Aiza Khan, Kathryn E. Marklein, Shelby Pumphrey, Stephanie D. Sears, CK Snyder, Saba Taj, and Hana Hope Widerman

New Light on Dante′s Philosophical Sources, Between Arabic and Latin

an issue of Romanic Review
Marco Signori, issue editor

Contributors: Michael Bishop, Arianna Brunori, Lorenzo Dell’oso, Francesca Galli, Katharine Jensen, Akash Kumar, Cecilia Martini Bonadeo, Aurora Panzica, Cecilia Panti, Stefano Pelizzari, Federico Rossi, Marco Signori, and Isabelle de Vendeuvre

On Merrill

an issue of Twentieth-Century Literature
Lee Zimmerman and Stephen Yenser, issue editors

On Merrill offers an eclectic array of responses to the work of James Merrill, on the occasion of his centennial. Including contributions both by fellow poets and by critics, its concerns range from the relationships in his work between self and style, between prosodic tradition and innovation, and between travelogue and mourning, to considerations of the artistry of his prose, of his connection to Wordsworth, of his generative experience of modern and ancient Greek, and of his engagement with our ecocatastrophic present.  What emerges is a picture of a body of work whose center is everywhere, structured around an “extravagant centrality.”

Contributors: Hilton Als, Jennifer Clavoe, Peter Dimock, Carl Phillips, Jonathan F. S. Post, Willard Spiegelman, A. E. Stallings, Stephen Yenser, Lee Zimmerman

Cruising the Past

an issue of GLQ
Kris Trujillo and Adrian Emmanuel Hernandez Acosta, issue editors

Cruising the Past explores how queer of color literature, art, and theory stage unexpected, playful, and even uneasy attachments to the premodern past. Complementing queer of color critique’s continued consideration of queer time and futurity, the essays in this issue navigate ancient, medieval, and early modern histories, figures, and literatures in order to creatively illuminate how they intersect with modern formations of race, gender, and sexuality. By showcasing the ways that queers of color—including many of the issue’s authors—across an array of cultures, religions, and geographies have negotiated their often fraught relations with the distant past, Cruising the Past develops a concept of history that is just as much a constraint on as it is a resource for queer aesthetics, theory, and politics—that is, simultaneously the foundation of invidious structures of power and a means through which to subject such structures to queer critique.

Contributors: Eleanor Craig, Crystal Gong, Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta, Amy Hollywood, C. Libby, Mellissa Linton-Villafranco, Amber Jamilla Musser, Vinh Nguyen, Austin Raetz, Christofer A. Rodelo, Kris Trujillo, Thelma Wang, Peng Yin, and Yunning Zhang

Inhuman Reparations

an issue of South Atlantic Quarterly
Archie Davies, Elsa Noterman, and Kathryn Yusoff, issue editors

Efforts to confront and reckon with colonial afterlives around the world have multiplied and accelerated in recent years. In this Special Issue we consider the task of dismantling extensive and networked structures of harm by thinking across reparative frameworks grounded in different theoretical, spatial, legal and material contexts. Challenging the connections between epistemic violence and material realities, the Special Issue considers how reparative discourses and practices involve translating repair across space-times, epistemologies and subjectivities.

Health Politics and Democracy

an issue of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Andrew S. Kelly, Charley E. Willison, Holly Jarman, and Herschel Nachlis, issue editors

The articles in Health Politics and Democracy demonstrate both threats to and buttresses for democratic politics and policy. Across research with American, comparative, and global perspectives, contributors seek to understand welfare state retrenchment when it occurs in the form of budget cuts, reductions in the scope and generosity of programs, and the introduction of onerous administrative burdens. That health politics and policy can play central roles in both democratic erosion and democratic flourishing demonstrates the enduring significance of the questions animating this journal as well as the inaugural conference upon which this special issue is based. Now, as ever, health politics and policy scholarship remains vital, as all of the pieces that follow make clear.

Contributors: Andrea Louise Campbell, Wenhui Feng, Ashley Fox, Holly Jarman, Andrew S. Kelly, Alee Lockman, Caitlin L. McMurtry, Herschel Nachlis, Christopher Ojeda, Megan Reynolds, Michael E. Shepherd, Cerise M. Siamof, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Kimberly Turner, Charley E. Willison, Liana Woskie, and Michael Youssef

Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace

an issue of boundary 2
Christiane Frey and David Martyn, issue editors

This special issue of boundary 2 revisits Kant's essay on "Perpetual Peace" as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, and international law.

Contributors: Luke Beller, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Christiane Frey, Peter Gilgen, Glen Gray, Sari Kisilevsky, David Martyn, Jan Mieszkowski, Marc Redfield, Thomas Schestag, Chenxi Tang, and Tuba Turan

Comics, Politics, and Gender in the Arab World and Turkey

an issue of Journal of Middle East and Women's Studies
Sherine Farouk Hamdy, issue editor

This special issue on “Comics, Politics, and Gender in the Arab World and Turkey” brings together works that analyze how comics, or graphic narratives, have become an important medium for documenting firsthand accounts of political turmoil, violence, and resilience in the region. Highlighting the work of Arab women comics artists who are less well known in the West, the issue explores the important role comics can play in documenting people’s range of experiences during moments of intense political strife and violence. The articles in this issue also serve as testaments to the challenges that creators have overcome in producing graphic narratives that transgress the boundaries between text and image, between internal thought and outward expression, between political forces and personal experience, and between “high” and “low” forms of expression. The authors of this special issue argue that comics are an excellent medium for documenting the horrors of warfare, as well as memory, survival, fear, and grief. They also demonstrate how comics creators navigate multiple forms of censorship and overcome hurdles to disseminating their work.

Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism

an issue of Qui Parle
Naima Karczmar and Joel Auerbach, issue editors

In the wake of genocide, this special issue gathers critical theorizations of the Israeli occupation of Palestine with the aim of providing a basis for understanding formations of imperialism and possibilities of solidarity in the contemporary global conjuncture.