
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies publishes theoretically engaged and historically informed articles on modernist and contemporary fiction. Published by @JHUPress
West Lafayette, IN
Joined January 2022
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Modern Fiction Studies is currently inviting papers for 2 forthcoming special issues: (1) Global South Ecologies with editors Pashmina Murthy and Rituparna Mitra and (2) Foreseeable Humanities Futures with editors Michael Bérubé and Robert Marzec.
Our Summer 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/ema…
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/ema…
Our newest issue (70.3) is now available! The "Women Thinking in Public" special issue of Modern Fiction Studies was guest edited by Debra Rae Cohen and Catherine Keyser. Check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/ema…
Great news! We've extended the deadline for submissions to our Fictions of the Pandemic special issue, guest edited by Roanne Kantor and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. New deadline: August 1. Check out the CFP here: cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl…
The Summer 2024 issue (70.2) of Modern Fiction Studies has been released. Check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/ema…
Our 68.2 issue also announces this year's Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize Winner!
"Dogs, Whiteness, and the Politics of African Humanity" by Megan Cole Paustian, which appeared in volume 67, issue 3 (pages 443-67).
"Better Futures Needed" by Simon J. James: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (9/9)
"Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics" by Liliane Campos: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (8/9)
"Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land" by Rajeshwari Vallury: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (7/9)
"The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye" by Sarah Bernstein: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (6/9)
"Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol" by Elizabeth Floyd: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (5/9)
"Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London" by Kate Perillo: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (4/9)
"Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing" by Valentina Montero Román: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur… (3/9)
"Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy" by Claire Stanford: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0009 (2/9)
Our Summer 2022 issue (68.2) has released!
You can access the entire issue here: muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.pur…
We've updated our list of books on our website! If you're interested in writing a book review for us, check it out here: cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl…
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🇮🇪 Happy St. Patrick's Day! #ReadUP on "The Forms of Irish Modernism" from Paul Stasi in the latest issue of @MFSjournal: bit.ly/3qdIVpi
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Beyond excited to see @MFSjournal has just published a special issue on “Peripheral Literatures and the History of Capitalism," co-edited by @erickabeckman1, Oded Nir, and myself. See below for a list of the contributors that made the issue possible.








