🪻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!
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.
Read the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/983665
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
64.2, Spring 2026
Special Issue: Tudor and Stuart Drama
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CONTRIBUTORS

Huey-Ling Lee
Tracey Miller-Tomlinson
Shannon Kelley
Cora Fox
Joanna Huh
Haihong Yang
Preea Leelah
Patricia Wareh
and more
#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....
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
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.
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...
Our Fondren Fellows created exciting physical exhibits and wrote essays which will be featured on our partner publication, Marginalia. Check out the first essay by Jenna Perrone now marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/04/28/w...
New York City, 1978: Marilyn Loden, a human resources employee at The New York Telephone Company is attending a feminist conference known as the Women’s Exposition. At a panel discussion titled…
