Literary Studies & Poetry

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"

Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press

Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,