Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare
Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the Shakespeare Quarterly under the editorial leadership of Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr., and David McInnis.
What conversations are we having, should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? We are particularly interested in essays working at the intersection of different theoretical models as well as essays that seek to push us toward Shakespeare’s historical futures or futuristic histories. Given the realities of not just the decline of the humanities but the assault on them, what are the implications for how we imagine Shakespeare in the humanities? What’s the place of Shakespeare in an embattled or reformed Shakespeare? What ethical, philological, and political challenges face twenty-first century Shakespeare? How do we begin to carry out and privilege Shakespeare work that seeks awareness of the real-world implication of the “knowledge” it produces? Whether one’s scholarship focuses on book history, (dis)ability, the environment, film, gender, intellectual history, medicine, neurodiversity, race, sex, textual editing, trans studies, just to name a few, we seek to publish essays focused on an emergent Shakespeare, perhaps a Shakespeare that is or is not caught up in a state of emergency.
In the hopes of including a variety of perspectives in this issue, we aim to publish six to eight essays and thus invite submissions between 6000 and 6500 words.
Completed articles should be sent to the journal via Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/sq/) and should indicate they are being submitted for consideration for this special issue.
Please direct queries to any of the editors:
Vanessa I. Corredera (Vanessa_Corredera@baylor.edu)
Arthur L. Little, Jr (little@humnet.ucla.edu)
David McInnis (mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au)
Deadline for article submissions: 03 October 2025