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Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture post45.org/journal Editor @jdconnor.bsky.social Managing Editor @aabedkoff.bsky.social Editor-at-Large @arthurzw.bsky.social‬

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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Abstracts due August 23, 2026!

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Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Reading Devin W. Daniel's essay on paranoia, race, and the State in 1970s US cinema is making me go "I *need* to add this to my syllabus somehow!"

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you missed it last week, @post45.bsky.social has just published my five-years-in-the-making article "Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan" -- and it's free to read! post45.org/2026/07/tran...

Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan – Post45

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@post45.bsky.social finally has an instagram. It stinks! (I set it up.) But it kinda works. And it will get better, I promise. For now, it might be easier to find out about our new stuff if you subscribe over there. As always, everything will be at post45.org, too www.instagram.com/post45journal/

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Simply put, color has gone private." Super excited to publish @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social's Panoramic Pantone Piece at @post45.bsky.social post45.org/2026/08/big-...

Big Color Analytics: Privatization, Precarity, Pantone – Post45

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

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stale cooper @stalecooper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

new piece by me, just published in Post45!

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's finally here!! An article on trans faggotry, powerful and orientating queer affects, gender formations that don't or can't map neatly onto essentialist binary hierarchies, and the Lou Sullivan archive(s)... among other things.

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@leemandelo.bsky.social, TOWARDS A TRANS FAG PHENOMENOLOGY "This article aims to illustrate some of the affective difficulties of determining — and then fighting for the material right to transition toward — an interrelated trans and queer gender(ed) sexual self." post45.org/2026/07/tran...

Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan – Post45

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@tonyweiling.bsky.social, CARTOON VISCERA "Pus, wound, ooze, rash...the stylized depiction of vital fluids, exposed flesh, and internal organs — laid out as sequence, scrawl, or diagram — constitutes not only a material but an idiom, a method, and a bid for value." post45.org/2026/07/cart...

Cartoon Viscera – Post45

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Devin William Daniels, "THE TROUBLE SPOT" "Rather than passively accepting the state’s pathologization...SPOOK co-opts the state’s own paranoid projections of Black radicalism and conspiracy, treating them as an enabling condition for visualizing revolution." post45.org/2026/07/the-...

“The Trouble Spot”: Racialized Paranoia and the Vision of the State in The Spook Who Sat by the Door – Post45

Devin William Daniels

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Three new articles in Post45 Journal! by Devin William Daniels, @tonyweiling.bsky.social, and @leemandelo.bsky.social! post45.org

Post45 – American literature and culture since 1945

American literature and culture since 1945

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Please help circulate this Call for Bids to host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium. Full Call for Bids: post45.org/graduate/202... Hosting Questionnaire: bit.ly/post45host Questions: grad@post45.org

Host the Post45 Graduate Symposium
Open Call for Bids

Bids Due July 24, 2026

- The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day conference where about 15 graduate students convene in a workshop-style setting to discuss works-in-progress.

- Host committees are composed of 2-4 graduate students who work with the Steering Committee to write a call for papers and select participants.

- The host committee is responsible for securing funding for the conference, booking meeting rooms, and liaising with faculty respondents at the host institution.

- Fill out the form at bit.ly/post45host

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! In “Migrants Anonymous: The State-Sanctioned Archive Before and Beyond LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE,” @dianafilarski.bsky.social explores naming and anonymity in two archives: Mexico City’s Archivo General de la Nación and Valeria Luiselli’s novel. post45.org/2025/10/migr...

Black-and-white photograph of the Palacio de Lecumberri, which houses the General Archive of the Nation (AGN) in Mexico City, seen behind the bars of a fence.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Catching up on this recent piece in the Irish Times, I see that the New Yorker's editors are reading @post45.bsky.social

"It’s hard to imagine New Yorker fiction without the contributions of the many Irish writers who have been published in the magazine, but the first notable Irish story didn’t appear until 1945, two decades after the magazine’s founding. That was Frank O’Connor’s News for the Church, which is set chiefly in a confessional in Ballygrogan, Co Cork.

A couple of years earlier, as the scholar Ben Fried has noted, one of the magazine’s fiction editors, William Maxwell, rejected a story from a Tennessee-born writer with the somewhat rueful observation: “The story belongs to a world that is essentially remote from New York City. The editors have in their minds an imaginary map of Manhattan which includes, strangely, all of Connecticut and Long Island, Florida, New Jersey, Hollywood, and wherever New Yorkers go.”

Quote from Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor of the New Yorker

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested. Abstracts are due November 14.

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Post45 keeps crushing it. Sara Kippur gets *into it*. I may be drawn to the chapter on the French avant-garde on US tv, but the work is sharp throughout. Your periodic reminder that I am now co-editing the Peer Reviewed side of our journal. Send us your best stuff. www.sup.org/books/litera...

New York Nouveau | Stanford University Press

Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation—from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo—but less often appreciated is the ex...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Comics folks should definitely go read “Metamorphoses of the Spiral: Comics and Modernism in Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!” by @emmywaldman.bsky.social over at @post45.bsky.social. What a great piece! post45.org/2025/08/meta...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We’re grateful to Post45 board members, past and present, and an Open Access Award from @openlibhums.org for sponsoring the prize competition. www.openlibhums.org/news/760/

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Promoting Post45 Journal with an OLH Grant

Promoting Post45 Journal with an OLH Grant The OLH Open Access Award 2023 awardee’s report: Post45 Journal An Open Insights report by Post45 Journal co-editors Annie McClanahan, Associate Professor of...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was an honor to read 80 innovative, ambitious submissions by early-career scholars, and we are delighted to publish this special issue featuring the very best of those essays. Prize Committee: Nia Judelson, @anniemcc.bsky.social, Sean McCann, Rachel Greenwald Smith, and @arthurzw.bsky.social

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@emmywaldman.bsky.social’s "Metamorphoses of the Spiral: Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!" moves deftly between Spiegelman's signature spiral motifs and his oscillations between biographical filiation and modernist affiliation. post45.org/2025/08/meta...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Marie Buck, in her essay "For Malcolm and Embodied Collectivity in the Early Black Arts Movement,” reevaluates the uses of masculinity in 1960s Black cultural politics, demonstrating that Black masculinity, as metaphor, was never reducible to Black Macho. post45.org/2025/08/for-...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In "The Variant: Form as Deliberative Practice,” Anna Moser writes on literary variants from Emily Dickinson through Susan Howe to query a feminism whose ideal subject is she-who-choses, arguing that poetic form allows us to see the complexity of choosing itself. post45.org/2025/08/the-...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@michaelharrington.bsky.social’s, "Wild West Fringe: The Cowboy’s Queer Trace," limns a vivid archive of "camp-cowboy imagery," foregrounding the traces of queer and Black life that not only pervade, but establish, the image of the American cowboy. post45.org/2025/08/wild...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@mitchtherieau.bsky.social's "The Ambient Mode” reads Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun as the self-dissolving cli-fi of slow apocalypse, articulating a broader theory of the ambient as the dissolving of climate “background” into daily “foreground.” post45.org/2025/08/the-...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Amanda Jennifer Su’s "The Dragon Lady and the Cold War" finds, in Pearl S. Buck's Imperial Woman, both a liberal critique of American gender ideology and a reckoning with the complicity with liberal empire that would bedevil feminist thought in the decades to come. post45.org/2025/08/the-...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

These articles “reflect precisely the diversity of work that emerging scholars are doing across the field…suggesting that despite obstacles, the post45 literary and cultural studies remains both remarkably vibrant and enduringly vital” (Co-Editor @anniemcc.bsky.social) post45.org/2025/08/priz...

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...

Screenshot of the special issue's web page, with articles displayed in a grid format.

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Chatting with prospective Post45 authors and special issue editors at #MLA2025 12-2pm on Friday! Last year’s event led to a fantastic special issue that’s now in development (articles under review) at @post45.bsky.social

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In a new article, Zackary Kiebach asks “what do we gain by aligning the fallibility of the computer interface with our own divergent cognitive and physical processes for interfacing with image, text, or sound?" post45.org/2025/01/glit...

Glitch Ability: A Crip Poetics of Failure - Post45

Zackary Kiebach

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Announcing the Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes! One for PhD students & recent PhDs and one for contingent scholars. Winners receive $500 and publication in the journal (pending peer review). All submissions considered for publication. Submit by 1/15/24! Please circulate widely! post45.org/prizes-cfp/

Call for Submissions: Post45 Essay Prizes - Post45

Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholar...