Invited Essays

The Editor occasionally solicits a piece of work of great significance in both length and content. The essays in this series are:

(forthcoming in 2027): Jennifer Yee on the legacy of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978)

(forthcoming in 2026): Alexandra K. Wettlaufer on the legacy of TJ Clark’s The Painting of Modern Life (1984)

2024: Lise Schreier, “Madmen and Matriarchs: Gender, Race, and the Reimagining of Creole Identity in Johnelle, by Alfred Mercier”

2023: Michael Lucey, “Conceptualizing Trajectories of Readability”

2017: Elissa Marder, “Baudelaire’s Feminine Counter-Signature: 'Mademoiselle Bistouri’’s Photographic Poetics”

2015: Kevin Newmark, “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Baudelaire’s Modernité”