ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (29 July 2024)

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Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook, X/Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram and/or LinkedIn

Here they are, In Case You Missed It: 

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Ocean Prayer of Love

Mona Lydon-Rochelle

Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2021

Today's #SummerLit Friday features a poem by Mona Lydon-Rochelle

"Ocean Prayer of Love"

as featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality

Read free thru 9 August

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the latest issue of Configurations, a figure from the article depicting a lateral view of Plasticus sacculi sp. nov., and the text:  The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov Read free in Configurations through 9 August

The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov

Prema Arasu, Paige J. Maroni, and Alan J. Jamieson

Configurations
Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2024

In the new Configurations, a deep dive into the the distribution, life history, and phylogeny of a new deep-sea “species,” Plasticus sacculi — a common ocean plastic bag

Read free through 9 August

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the January 2008 issue of Technology and Culture, a photograph of a fish stick (© Superbass / CC-BY-SA-4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), and the text:  The Ocean’s Hot Dog The Development of the Fish Stick Read free in Technology and Culture thru 31 July

The Ocean's Hot Dog: The Development of the Fish Stick 

Paul Josephson

Technology and Culture
Volume 49, Number 1, January 2008

Yearning for the ocean this week, we discovered in Technology and Culture, Paul Josephson explored the fascinating history of the development of the fish stick — a post-war invention that some of us are still enjoying over lunch

Treat yourself; read "The Ocean's Hot Dog" free on Project MUSE thru 31 July
 

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Submerging Inscription: On Corals and Thermal Stress

Melody Jue

ASAP/Journal
Volume 7, Number 2, May 2022

From ASAP/Journal, Melody Jue watches the 2017 documentary Chasing Coral, finding a film in which both inscription and erasure emerge out of a sea change centering on an extreme ocean warming event

Read free thru 9 August 

Promotional tile featuring a photo of Bernice Johnson Reagon, cover art from the Summer 2018 edition of Feminist Formations, and the text:  Celebrating the legacy of Bernice Johnson Reagon  Stop Thinking Properly: Feminist Activism and Coalescing with History Read free thru 31 July in Feminist Formations

Stop Thinking Properly: Feminist Activism and Coalescing with History

Kate Boyd

Feminist Formations
Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 2018
We’re saddened to learn of the passing of the great musician and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon. 
 
In Feminist Formations, Kate Boyd looks at pain, coalition-building, and institutional critique through key works by Johnson and Alice Walker.
 
Read free thru 31 July
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Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons

Rhonda Garelick

Postmodern Culture
Volume 6, Number 1, September 1995

Still sad about Richard Simmons? Us too, which is why we're reading about his camp performance

 

Rhonda Garelick's 1995 piece for Postmodern Culture: "Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons" is free to read thru 31 July 

Read free thru 31 July
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MLN Forum: Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy

Eleni Theodoropoulos and Bradley Harmon

MLN
Volume 138, Number 5, December 2023

 

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
 

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Postmodern Culture
Editors :

Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine and 
Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier University

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Theatre Journal
Co-Editors :

Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth College and Ariel Nereson, University at Buffalo

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South Central Review
Editor :

Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University

Cover image of World Politics
World Politics
Editorial Chair :

Grigore Pop-Eleches 
Executive Editor : Emily W. Babson

 

Princeton University

 

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Studies in American Fiction
Editors :

Maria Farland, Fordham University and Duncan Faherty, Queens College and The CUNY Graduate Center

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New Literary History
Editor :

Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

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Technology and Culture
Editor-in-Chief :

Ruth Oldenziel, Eindhoven University of Technology

Special Issue
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American Imago
Editor :

Jane Hanenberg, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

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Theory & Event
Co-editors :

Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University and Hagar Kotef, SOAS, University of London

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