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Marvell Studies 10.1 contains articles by Hyunyoung Cho and Christopher D’Addario on fen drainage, local agricultural improvement, and Upon Appleton House. It also includes a review of Matthew Augustine and Steven Zwicker’s The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (by Andrea Walkden). In 2026,…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam. As one of the Netherlands’ leading public research universities, Erasmus University Rotterdam traces its roots back to 1913, when the Netherlands School of Commerce (Nederlandsche Handel…

We’re excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature.  This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors of the Journal of Philosophical Logic published an open letter announcing that they will le…

We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles:  Üstbaş, M., (2025) “Velázquez’s The Ladies-in-Waiting in Panels: Recreating a Painting within the Poetics of Comics”, The Comics Grid: …

Guest editors Mira Benjamin and Scott McLaughlin invite contributions to a special issue of video articles 'On Music', which asks what an evolving discourse around embodied research and videographic scholarship can offer to music as a field; and what music can offer to embodied research. Journal of…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Founded in 1996 and based in Berlin, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research is a humanities institute for literary studies in interdisciplinary …

During their shared time as doctoral candidates at the University of St Andrews, Dr Dong Xia and Dr Sandro Eich came up with the idea of a collection of essays on the relationship between digital media and contemporary fiction, and proposed a special issue of C21 Literature in 2023. Two years and t…

In this Editorial for the September 2025 issue [click here browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $9.82 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, E…

BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in collaboration with the Modernist Studies Association. The proposed panels would sit under the combined …

Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the time, the methods of fiction, and the reader.” He suggested that such works help readers challenge th…

You can now watch the recording of the panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4  In this webinar, leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyon…

Over the last decade, concrete and visual poetries have enjoyed a renaissance of critical attention and creative activity, in Britain and Ireland and internationally. Over this period, new creative, critical, and socio-political contexts have emerged for the study and practice of concrete and visua…