In "Aphra Behn's Ooronoko and the Blank Spaces of Colonial Fiction," Albert J. Rivero argues that in Oroonoko, "Behn deploys the customarily duplicitous representations of colonial narratives... to take hold of a world fast slipping from her grasp." Check it out now! muse.jhu.edu/article/31027

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.

Check out the full thematic review on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/990196

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

Check out the full roundtable including position papers and responses from each participant now on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/990180

Our 64.2 Roundtable features papers on expressions of anger by women such as Charlotte Corday, Lucrece, Hecuba, Anne Greene, and Chinese woman poets and examines how anger, resentment, and other emotions have challenged notions of gender and womanhood.

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.

Lee argues that “Due to their central role in domestic routines and rituals, the women in the play are tasked with establishing a temporal order that balances the demands of both home and work.” Read the full article now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/990178

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

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.

Celebrate this #DickensDay with Tarr's exploration of the "registering age" as seen through A Tale of Two Cities. Find the full article in SEL's 61.4 issue! muse.jhu.edu/article/910833

#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...

Read the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/983665

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...