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On May 8th, I was honored to accept the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing award on behalf of Dr. Charles Rowell, the founder and longtime editor of Callaloo. Callaloo started with Dr. Rowell’s vision for Black literature, namely for the inclusion and...

I first became aware of the work of Ilia Zdanevich while searching libraries and archives to study the typography of 20th-century avant-garde Dada and Futurist poets through their manuscripts and printed ephemera. But my research on Iliazd brought me into...

Why did you decide to write Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects?Until I went to college in 1997, I lived in a log cabin that my parents had built on a spot of land owned by my great grandparents, tucked by the side of a desolate dirt road in...

I wrote Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self to account for an experience that I think is fairly common, but which has not often been described in academic queer theory: the act of discovering an empowered, socially oppositional sense of...

The Johns Hopkins University Press will add a quartet of journals to its list. The diverse additions - ASAP/Journal, Dante Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities and Lutheran Quarterly – now bring the JHUP journals list to 83. "The addition of these titles...