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 2/11: Spring 2010 (Vol. 43.1) The Work of Gender (contributing ed. Martin Danahay). Upcoming issues include: Charles W. Chesnutt, 2008: Making a Stamp on America (contributing ed. Mary B. Zeigler); Enlightenment Depression I and II (contributing ed. Richard Terry); Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination (contributing ed. J. Shantz); Thomas Carlyle & the Totalitarian Temptation (contributing eds. Tom Toremans & Tamara Gosta); and James Thomson's The Seasons, Textuality, and Print Culture (contributing ed. Sandro Jung).

Editor: Paul H. Schmidt

Managing Editor: Lori N. Howard