Studies in the Literary Imagination is a biannual scholarly journal focusing on special topics in literature and enjoys a worldwide audience with contributing editors and authors considered the leaders in their fields. SLI is unique among scholarly journals in that it relies on an editorial committee to review proposals from potential guest editors, who then invite scholars to contribute articles exploring different aspects of a particular theme. One of the favorable distinctions resulting from this practice is that each issue is topic driven; in this sense, SLI serves more as a monograph series than as a typical journal.

Last issue published: Fall 2008 (Vol. 41.2) Literature and Religion in the Aftermath: Reading (Sacred) Texts in Light of Trauma (contributing ed. Shelly Rambo). Upcoming issues include: The World in William Gilmore Simms (contributing ed. Matt Brennan); Charles W. Chesnutt: Making a Stamp on America (contributing ed. Mary B. Zeigler); Biological Constraints on the Literary Imagination (contributing eds. Katja Mellmann & Anja Müller-Wood); The Work of Gender (contributing ed. Martin Danahay); and Depression in the Enlightenment (contributing eds. Richard Terry & Alan Ingram).

Editor: Paul H. Schmidt

Managing Editor: Lori N. Howard