SPECTRA

We are excited to announce the publication of issue 11.1! Take a look and explore the issue here: spectrajournal.org/21/volume/11/i…

We have some exciting news to share. We are proud to release the new SPECTRA 10.1 issue! Take a look and explore the issue here: spectrajournal.org/20/volume/10/i…

ICYMI: Vasilije Mesarovic explores the ways incest and miscegenation trouble heteropatriarchal, Western colonial concepts of linear time, especially as it relates to the family tree and dynastic futurity in 20th century American novels. doi.org/10.21061/spect…

ICYMI: Sabrina Harris explores how contemporary desirability politics uphold anti-Blackness through promoting a standard of female beauty which is appropriated from but is fundamentally detached from Blackness. Read her article here: doi.org/10.21061/spect…

ICYMI: John Bernardi critically engages with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! complicated space-time narration. Check out this excerpt: doi.org/10.21061/spect…

"Kin is everything. It is blood, but also running from one’s blood. It is about blood family, chosen family, relationality both through and against genealogy." @militantbodies -- read the rest of this article by following this link: doi.org/10.21061/spect…

We have extended our CfP until January 6, 2023! Visit spectrajournal.org for more info.

SPECTRA is still open for submissions for the 10.1 Issue! Submissions will be open at spectrajournal.org/announcement until Friday, October 28.

Our newest #SPECTRAjournal issue entitled "On Kinship and Precarity" has just been published! The articles are now posted online at tinyurl.com/7n5xuhtd - Special thanks to the previous co-editors Maddie Tepper and Jordan Fallon for their hard work on this issue!

ICYMI: SPECTRA, after taking a short break from the Twittersphere 🦤, is back with our much anticipated CfP! Submissions are open until October 28th. Go to spectrajournal.org/announcement/ for more information and submission guidelines.

ICYMI: @LivRoseA Reviews Jodi Dean's Comrade for SPECTRA @VersoBooks spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: .@Wolven Reviews Charlton McIlwain's Black Software for SPECTRA. @OxUniPress spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: @Sarah_E_Plummer and Shaun Respess interview rogue historians, @illuminatehisto about their work installing unofficial interpretive signs along Monument Ave in Richmond, VA following public protests surrounding Confederate monuments in Summer 2020. spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: "Pandemic Pedagogy" by @Emily_Brier_ , supported by surveillance theory, queer and feminist pedagogical theory, and radically empathetic and nonviolent teaching practices, suggests a better way forward teaching post pandemic. spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: Paul Smith's article places the development of and technology behind the COVID-19 vaccine at the intersections of globalization, capitalism, biopolitics, and our relationship with the natural word. @cultstudgmu READ: spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: @tnedrandolph's article applies discussions of biopolitics and rationalities by governments to “make live” and “let die” as a heuristic for the speculative sorting of bodies and their antibodies as the US lurches toward post-COVID life. READ: spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: Issue 8.2 considers the relationships between power, people, and environments in light of the pandemic as well as antiracist movements following the police murder of George Floyd. Read the letter from the editors @Sarah_E_Plummer and Shaun Respess spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

ICYMI: Issue 8.2's cover spotlights the work of artist @RobbyMooreArt. In Garden Party, artist Robby Moore uses print, ink, pen, fabric and discarded items to create artwork about memory and his identity as a Black Appalachian. spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…

Nice article about @SPECTRA_VT journal hosted by @VirginiaTechPub (all open access of course) @VT_LiberalArts vtx.vt.edu/articles/2021/…

.@LivRoseA Reviews Jodi Dean's Comrade for SPECTRA @VersoBooks spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21…