SEL's partner publication, Marginalia, has a new installment of our interview series Marginalia Office Hours. Preview our recent conversation w/ Dr. Ann C. Christensen, Professor of English at University of Houston and author of A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theatre.

New book review live on Marginalia! Morgan Bettin-Coleman reviews The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and the Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1883. Check out the full review now!

In SEL 64.3, James O'Rourke reappraises Jane Austen's use of free indirect discourse in Pride and Prejudice. He argues that "it solicits an active reading that shreds the authority of the most straightforward assertions of both Elizabeth and the heterodiegetic narrator."

New book review live on Marginalia! Grace Fox reviews Victorian Women and Wayward Reading which Fox describes as "[offering] an alternative identity for Victorian women readers: that of the wayward reader." Check out the full review now! marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/09/02/r...

#CallforPapers SEL is still accepting 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.

Check out this amazing video by Grace Lavery about papers featured in our latest SEL: The Roundtable in our 64.3 Summer 2026 issue! We're so happy to work with such amazing scholars! www.instagram.com/reel/Dcwr3-4...

Happy early birthday to Mary Shelley! To celebrate Shelley's 229th birthday, we're looking back at "Frankenstein and the Progress of Civilizations" from SEL's Autumn 2022 62.4 issue. In the article, Mark Canuel reads "Frankenstein as a novel permeated less by tragedy than by precarious hope."

🚨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