SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press. Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mj5skqn7ke2xIt's a Victorian Studies weekend!! We hope you have a great time at NVSA and MVSA. A huge thank you to the organizers of each of these conferences for all of your hard work. SEL is proud to support @mvsa.bsky.social. We're excited for everyone's work! #MVSA2026 #NVSA202610 Apr 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5skqn7ke2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mj3a7qfhbl22We wish everyone a great ASECS 2026! Thank you to the organizers @asecsoffice.bsky.social for all of your incredible work! We look forward to everyone's work!09 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3a7qfhbl22https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mitosse5772hWho doesn't love a good travel post? Check out the latest essay from our partner publication, Marginalia. Landry Wood visits Archer City, home of novelist and Rice alumnus Larry McMurtry and documents his trip to Booked Up, a bookstore once own by McMurtry. https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/03/24/a-memorial-pilgrimage-to-archer-city-by-landry-wood/06 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitosse5772hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mih4h7nott2xHappy #SHAX2026 to all! Thanks to the organizers @saaupdates.bsky.social for all of your hard work organizing the conference. We're excited for everyone's work!!01 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih4h7nott2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mielylhida2qHave you checked out SEL's inaugural installment of The Exchange? Our first conversation, between Susan Fraimon and Gayle Salamon is featured in our 64.1 Winter 2026 issue. Read the full conversation on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/98366631 Mar 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mielylhida2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mi2glhx52l2qIn SEL's latest issue, Brataas attends to Cavendish’s imagined future in which women’s potential is decoupled from reproduction. Brataas argues that Cavendish "envisioned ways in which Nature might allow for alternatives through concepts of extracorporeal reproduction." muse.jhu.edu/article/98365827 Mar 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2glhx52l2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mhvqlfbizf27In SEL 64.1, Chambers and Lesley argue that there is a pervasive “abortive poetics of tragedy” in early modern English dramas. Image: Hogarth, William. A Night Scene with Tom Nero Apprehended in a Church-Yard before the Murdered Body of a Pregnant Maidservant. 1 February 1751. JSTOR.25 Mar 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvqlfbizf27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mhdvxd433z27Looking for a home journal for your article? SEL is currently accepting original scholarly essay submissions for our upcoming issues. We welcome scholars at any career stage. If you want to submit your work to SEL head over to our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps to learn more! #callforpapers18 Mar 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdvxd433z27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mh6vsr7aek27In SEL's 64.1 issue, Meek's thematic review assesses recent studies in reproduction and sexuality. Meek finds that the texts in her review reveal how in 1500-1900 "writers reimagined the notion of reproduction to include the creation not merely of human offspring...16 Mar 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6vsr7aek27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgsdicbecv2u In SEL's 64.1, Cardelli reads Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Raleigh’s “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” to understand the connections between “reproduction and environmental plenitude” (p. 43). Image: Sleeping Shepherds, 1663. Adriaen van de Velde. The Cleveland Museum of Art.11 Mar 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsdicbecv2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgndkx36hr27In SEL's latest issue, Sheldon’s article centers readings of the Black abolitionist Robert Wedderburn, particularly his 1824 The Horrors of Slavery, to “historicize the family as an organ for the extraction of value under plantation slavery.” Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/98366309 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgndkx36hr27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgaumylj2u2xIn SEL 64.1, Miller’s article discusses flowers that resist being useful for reproduction in Victorian poetry. Miller argues that such a depiction of “unproductive flowering challenges the anthropocentric, agricultural value system that underwrites the reproductive imperative.”04 Mar 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgaumylj2u2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mg3toewznu2dIn SEL's latest issue, McCall's article reads The Fortunate Transport to analyze mid-eighteenth-century connections between labor and race. McCall contends “The novel’s many reproducing women help us situate gendered labor at the heart of eighteenth-century geopolitical and fictional worldbuilding.”02 Mar 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3toewznu2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfuafo5e542kSEL makes the best conference-traveling companion! Check out our latest winter issue (64.1) on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/5644827 Feb 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfuafo5e542khttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfpba5gmkf2c🚨 New Issue Alert! SEL is pleased to announce our latest issue Winter 2026 (64.1) is now available. A huge thank you to our guest editors Ashley Miller, Doreen Thierauf, and Livia Arndal Woods! Read now on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/178 and stay tuned for more updates on content!25 Feb 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpba5gmkf2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfk7enzs3s2s#RenSA26 was such a great time. Thanks again to organizers @rsaorg.bsky.social for all of your hard work. If you're looking for something to fill that post-conference void, consider submitting your work to SEL! Check out SEL's website for our submission guidelines.23 Feb 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfk7enzs3s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfa6i3egbk2nHappy #RenSA26 to all who's attending! Thanks to the amazing organizers at @rsaorg.bsky.social. We are excited for everyone's work!!!19 Feb 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfa6i3egbk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3meojhpsbgw24SEL's partner publication, Marginalia, has a new interview series. Take a first listen to our upcoming conversation with Dr. Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of English and author of Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone.12 Feb 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3meojhpsbgw24https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mejkdotg7v2yCall for Papers! Consider submitting to a themed issue on Victorian Personhood(s). This call welcomes essays that consider the troublesome conception of Victorian personhood, understood as a legal but also a literary-cultural property. Find the full CFP shared on SEL's website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps10 Feb 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejkdotg7v2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3me7ieqc42m2cWant to keep up with recent scholarship in Nineteenth-Century Studies? Check out our three thematic reviews essays from SEL's latest autumn 2025 issue, covering everything from poetics, to industrialization, to the gothic. Now available on Project MUSE!06 Feb 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7ieqc42m2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3me4xyuhpee2lHave you checked out our latest issue on Nineteenth-Century Neology yet? Swipe for a fun peek at some neologisms explored in this issue and leave a comment with your favorite words!! Read SEL's Autumn 2025 issue now on Project MUSE.05 Feb 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3me4xyuhpee2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mdnv46s63j2l🎉 SEL is pleased to announce that the Early Career Scholar Essay Award for volume 63 is awarded to Margaret Summerfield for the Winter 2025 essay "Almanac Time and Growing Older in Andrew Marvell's Mower Poems." Find the full article on Project MUSE! https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2025.a95206130 Jan 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnv46s63j2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mdiud2qlaw2wSEL is excited to announce the winner of the volume 63 Monroe Kirk Spears Award, for the Autumn 2025 essay "The Soulzight of Neologistic Nostalgia in Thomas Hardy and William Barnes," is Veronica Alfano. Check out the full article on Project MUSE buff.ly/4ZrdXFP28 Jan 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdiud2qlaw2whttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mddrjjed4q2z🏆 It's award season!🏅 SEL is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Robert Lowry Patten Award: Kevis Goodman for Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics (Yale Univ. Press, 2023 @yalebooks.bsky.social). #SEL1500to1900 #AcademicSky26 Jan 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddrjjed4q2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mcamvpj4vi23#MLA2026 was a blast! Thanks again to all those who made it happen @modernlanguage.bsky.social. If you're looking for a sign to send your work out for publication, here it is! SEL welcomes the opportunity to consider your work https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines #AcademicSky #SEL1500to1900 #callforpapers12 Jan 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcamvpj4vi23https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mbwho32miw2u🎉 Happy #MLA2026 to all! Thanks to the organizers @modernlanguage.bsky.social for all of your hard work. Wishing everyone a great conference! #MLA26 #AcademicSky #SEL1500to1900 #literarystudies08 Jan 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwho32miw2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3m7b2zwqlqe2vSEL is excited to announce the release of our Autumn 2025 issue, 63.4 all about Neologisms. A huge thank you to our guest editors Padma Rangarajan and Michele Speitz! Read now on @ProjectMuse.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more updates on content and contributors! @hopkinspress.bsky.social05 Dec 2025 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7b2zwqlqe2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3m63e5i56f223🚨New cover alert! In honor of our 65th anniversary, our Winter 2026 issue (64.1) features our first new cover. This themed issue, "Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction," is edited by guest editors Doreen Thierauf, Ashley Miller, and Livia Arndal Woods! #SEL1500to1900 #AcademicSky20 Nov 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63e5i56f223