Post45 Journal
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Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture post45.org/journal Editor @jdconnor.bsky.social Managing Editor @aabedkoff.bsky.social Editor-at-Large @arthurzw.bsky.social
Abstracts due August 23, 2026!
J.D. Connor@jdconnor.bsky.social · 3mo agoPost45 CFP Alert: Super excited to announce this special issue, edited by Michelle N. Huang and Carlos Alonso Nugent. If you've ever thought that our periodization (or ASAP's!) needed fixing, now is your chance. submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...
Reading Devin W. Daniel's essay on paranoia, race, and the State in 1970s US cinema is making me go "I *need* to add this to my syllabus somehow!"
Post45 Journal@post45.bsky.social · 3mo agoThree new articles in Post45 Journal! by Devin William Daniels, @tonyweiling.bsky.social, and @leemandelo.bsky.social! post45.org
If you missed it last week, @post45.bsky.social has just published my five-years-in-the-making article "Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan" -- and it's free to read! post45.org/2026/07/tran...
Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan – Post45
Lee Mandelo
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@post45.bsky.social finally has an instagram. It stinks! (I set it up.) But it kinda works. And it will get better, I promise. For now, it might be easier to find out about our new stuff if you subscribe over there. As always, everything will be at post45.org, too www.instagram.com/post45journal/
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"Simply put, color has gone private." Super excited to publish @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social's Panoramic Pantone Piece at @post45.bsky.social post45.org/2026/08/big-...
Big Color Analytics: Privatization, Precarity, Pantone – Post45
Lida Zeitlin-Wu
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new piece by me, just published in Post45!
Post45 Journal@post45.bsky.social · 3mo agoDevin William Daniels, "THE TROUBLE SPOT" "Rather than passively accepting the state’s pathologization...SPOOK co-opts the state’s own paranoid projections of Black radicalism and conspiracy, treating them as an enabling condition for visualizing revolution." post45.org/2026/07/the-...
It's finally here!! An article on trans faggotry, powerful and orientating queer affects, gender formations that don't or can't map neatly onto essentialist binary hierarchies, and the Lou Sullivan archive(s)... among other things.
Post45 Journal@post45.bsky.social · 3mo ago@leemandelo.bsky.social, TOWARDS A TRANS FAG PHENOMENOLOGY "This article aims to illustrate some of the affective difficulties of determining — and then fighting for the material right to transition toward — an interrelated trans and queer gender(ed) sexual self." post45.org/2026/07/tran...
Three new articles in Post45 Journal! by Devin William Daniels, @tonyweiling.bsky.social, and @leemandelo.bsky.social! post45.org
Post45 – American literature and culture since 1945
American literature and culture since 1945
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Please help circulate this Call for Bids to host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium. Full Call for Bids: post45.org/graduate/202... Hosting Questionnaire: bit.ly/post45host Questions: grad@post45.org
TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.
Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!
Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩
Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!
NEW ARTICLE ALERT! In “Migrants Anonymous: The State-Sanctioned Archive Before and Beyond LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE,” @dianafilarski.bsky.social explores naming and anonymity in two archives: Mexico City’s Archivo General de la Nación and Valeria Luiselli’s novel. post45.org/2025/10/migr...
Catching up on this recent piece in the Irish Times, I see that the New Yorker's editors are reading @post45.bsky.social
The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested. Abstracts are due November 14.
Post45 keeps crushing it. Sara Kippur gets *into it*. I may be drawn to the chapter on the French avant-garde on US tv, but the work is sharp throughout. Your periodic reminder that I am now co-editing the Peer Reviewed side of our journal. Send us your best stuff. www.sup.org/books/litera...
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Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation—from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo—but less often appreciated is the ex...
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Comics folks should definitely go read “Metamorphoses of the Spiral: Comics and Modernism in Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!” by @emmywaldman.bsky.social over at @post45.bsky.social. What a great piece! post45.org/2025/08/meta...
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The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!
Post45 Journal@post45.bsky.social · last yr.Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...
Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...
Chatting with prospective Post45 authors and special issue editors at #MLA2025 12-2pm on Friday! Last year’s event led to a fantastic special issue that’s now in development (articles under review) at @post45.bsky.social
@celj.bsky.social · 2y agoDon't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social bit.ly/3Ppc0KB
In a new article, Zackary Kiebach asks “what do we gain by aligning the fallibility of the computer interface with our own divergent cognitive and physical processes for interfacing with image, text, or sound?" post45.org/2025/01/glit...
Glitch Ability: A Crip Poetics of Failure - Post45
Zackary Kiebach
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Announcing the Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes! One for PhD students & recent PhDs and one for contingent scholars. Winners receive $500 and publication in the journal (pending peer review). All submissions considered for publication. Submit by 1/15/24! Please circulate widely! post45.org/prizes-cfp/
Call for Submissions: Post45 Essay Prizes - Post45
Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholar...
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