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Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics
Jan 14, 2026
Fig. 1. Cover of Kynpham Sing Nonkynrih, Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends.Anglophone Literature from the borderland region of Northeast India has a relatively short history with the major works comprising the oeuvre published in the last four decades or so. One of the most visible trajectories in Northeast Indian Anglophone Literature (NIAL) [1] is the reworking of myths and origin stories, especially by writers from...
Gertrude Stein’s Landscapes, and Other Things That Are All at Once
Dec 3, 2025
I have always liked things that were all at once. Not abundance so much as excess. But excess is not quite the correct word. What I am thinking about, what I have many times tried to make, what I have often loved, is the exuberance of too much possibility. Too much: those things that capture, or at least organize and aestheticize, the ways the world is often too much.
“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion
Nov 20, 2025
In March of 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown, we—then-undergraduate Marissa Stinson and her Rider University professor Laurel Harris—visited the Special Collections at Princeton University’s Firestone Library to sift through boxes of Sylvia Beach’s papers . Rider is a fifteen-minute car ride down Route 206 from Beach’s hometown of Princeton. The accessibility of Beach’s and the Shakespeare and Company’s archives offered us a local connection to James Joyce’s iconic Irish...
Modernism, Energy, and Environment
Introduction to “Letters from the Field”
Sep 10, 2025
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past two years. We bring these conversations to forum on Modernism, Energy, and Environment in the hope of having the...