🚨New Issue alert! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our new 64.3 Summer Issue. Our new issue features our second installment of SEL: The Roundtable, this time an exciting discussion on Trans Studies in the Eighteenth Century, featuring responses by Grace Lavery and Colby Gordon

We are 1 week away from the launch of our Summer 2026 Issue, so for this #TBT we're looking back at an article in our Summer 1999 Issue, which has been getting a lot of attention from SEL readers recently.

Our upcoming Summer Issue (64.3) is almost here, perfect for any last minute summer reading and beach days! Follow our social media pages for updates on content and contributors.

Listen to Tracey Miller-Tomlinson speak about her article "Affective Circulation in Shakespeare's Henry V" which was featured in SEL's latest 64.2 Spring issue! Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/990179

In SEL's latest issue (64.2), Martin's thematic review examines recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama through the lens of nature, environment, science, and ecology.

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Lupton's thematic review examines recent studies in space, place, and commonplace in Tudor and Stuart Drama. Lupton finds that "What emerges across these efforts is a sense of the expansive vistas of Shakespeare studies."

Call for Papers! Consider submitting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks. Full CFP and on our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps

🏖️Marginalia's staff are taking a well-deserved summer break! While they rest, travel, and enjoy their time, Marginalia will be on hiatus. Once our staff return in late August, we'll be back with new essays, interviews, and book reviews! Until then, please enjoy our back catalogue from our first year

SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural SEL: The Roundtable on Early Modern Women's Rage. Part of our Living Discourse initiative, SEL: The Roundtable brings together scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion surrounding a central theme.

In SEL's latest issue, Lee examines The Comedy of Errors as a conflict between the male-dominated commercial sphere and the female-dominated domestic one over an important resource: time.

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Miller-Tomlinson uses Henry V to reconceptualize the playhouse as an alternative model of affective economy. muse.jhu.edu/article/990179 Image Citation: Branston, Allen Robert, and Thurston, John. Henry V, Act V, Scene 2 . [1778-1827]. Folger Shakespeare Library. Artstor.

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Lee analyzes how the market disrupts the domestic space in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Lee argues that “the play ultimately affirms the vital role that women collectively play in preserving social unity and harmony." Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/990178

🪻SEL is entering our lavender era! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2026 issue (64.2) featuring our inaugural installment of "SEL: The Roundtable." Read now on Project MUSE and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56866

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 64.2, Spring 2026 Special Issue: Tudor and Stuart Drama tiny.one/2wvhrnse CONTRIBUTORS 
Huey-Ling Lee Tracey Miller-Tomlinson Shannon Kelley Cora Fox Joanna Huh Haihong Yang Preea Leelah Patricia Wareh and more

SEL's spring issue (64.2) is set to release later this month. We are excited to share a teaser of the cover image ahead of the issue's release. Leave your guesses on the cover image in the comments! *Hint* Our cover is bringing floral fashion for the summer weather!

For SEL's 65th anniversary, two undergraduate students conducted research in the SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 papers at the Woodson Research Center as part of the Fondren Fellows program.

#OTD 167 years ago Dickens published the first issue of his literary magazine, All the Year Round featuring the of his classic text A Tale of Two Cities. Image Citation: Dickens Giving the Last Reading of His Works. n.d. Wellcome Collection. jstor.org/stable/commu....

Calling all Macbeth fans! Codiamat reviews Macbeth Before Shakespeare which Codiamat describes as "[guiding] the reader through understanding the aspects of what we understand about the man Macbeth, as opposed to the literary character." Check out the review marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/04/21/t...

In SEL's 64.1, Thierauf argues that infamous demographer Thomas Malthus influenced four works of spec fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, and Filippo-Tommaso Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist.

In SEL's 64.1, Zigarovich examines eighteenth-century medical treatises to understand how intersex people were understood and how their bodies were categorized. Image Citation: Von Holst, Theodor, Victor Frankenstein Observing the First Stirrings of His Creature. 1831. Wellcome Collection.

In SEL's 64.1, Delucia reads antiabortion feminists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to understand and examine their uncritical adoption of Wollstonecraft’s words into their modern contexts. Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/983662

In SEL's latest issue, Peh places queer antisociality and disability studies’ “crip time” together in order to understand “the ruining effects of reproduction” in Hutchinson’s poetry. Image: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother), 1776. George Romney The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund

It's a Victorian Studies weekend!! We hope you have a great time at NVSA and MVSA. A huge thank you to the organizers of each of these conferences for all of your hard work. SEL is proud to support @mvsa.bsky.social. We're excited for everyone's work! #MVSA2026 #NVSA2026

We wish everyone a great ASECS 2026! Thank you to the organizers @asecsoffice.bsky.social for all of your incredible work! We look forward to everyone's work!

Who doesn't love a good travel post? Check out the latest essay from our partner publication, Marginalia. Landry Wood visits Archer City, home of novelist and Rice alumnus Larry McMurtry and documents his trip to Booked Up, a bookstore once own by McMurtry. marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/03/24/a...

Happy #SHAX2026 to all! Thanks to the organizers @saaupdates.bsky.social for all of your hard work organizing the conference. We're excited for everyone's work!!

Have you checked out SEL's inaugural installment of The Exchange? Our first conversation, between Susan Fraimon and Gayle Salamon is featured in our 64.1 Winter 2026 issue. Read the full conversation on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/983666

In SEL's latest issue, Brataas attends to Cavendish’s imagined future in which women’s potential is decoupled from reproduction. Brataas argues that Cavendish "envisioned ways in which Nature might allow for alternatives through concepts of extracorporeal reproduction." muse.jhu.edu/article/983658

In SEL 64.1, Chambers and Lesley argue that there is a pervasive “abortive poetics of tragedy” in early modern English dramas. Image: Hogarth, William. A Night Scene with Tom Nero Apprehended in a Church-Yard before the Murdered Body of a Pregnant Maidservant. 1 February 1751. JSTOR.

Looking for a home journal for your article? SEL is currently accepting original scholarly essay submissions for our upcoming issues. We welcome scholars at any career stage. If you want to submit your work to SEL head over to our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps to learn more! #callforpapers