Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2026-02-09
C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and media studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. We invite prospective authors to submit ideas for review essays that discuss 2–3 recently published scholarly texts, published within the last 5 years, 21st-century writings (please see here for our submission guidelines).
Writing a review for C21 is an excellent way to engage with recent scholarship, share your expertise, and participate in ongoing academic conversations. Please see the list below👇:
Tim Beasley-Murray, Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life (Manchester UP, 2025)
Manisha Basu, Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the Long Twentieth Century (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Angelos Bollas (ed), The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (Routledge, 2025)
Angelica De Vido, Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel, Coming-of-Age 1990–2020 (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Niall Docherty, Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media (University of California Press, 2025)
Jenna Clake, Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Alexandra Effe, A History of Autofiction: Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18th-Century England to Contemporary Anglophone Literatures (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Bábara Fernández-Melleda, Chilean Women’s Poetry under Neoliberalism, 1980–2020 (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Keegan Cook Finberg, Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public (Columbia UP, 2025)
Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte Fabricius (eds), Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Sarah Jackson, Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Leslie Larkin, Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Nghana Tamu Lewis, Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Shana MacDonald, The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Benjamin Mangrum, The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence (Stanford UP, 2025)
Élika Ortega, Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas (Stanford UP, 2025)
James Peacock, Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction: Domestic Spaces, Neighborhoods, and Global Real Estate (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jennifer Scappettone, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia UP, 2025)
Aanchal Vij, Narratives of Nostalgia and Repair in American Comics and Literature: (Dis)abling Exceptionalism (Palgrave, 2025)
📩 To pitch a review essay, please contact our Reviews Co-Editors Oliver Haslam and Denise Wong at c21literature.reviews@gmail.com.
We welcome reviewers at all career stages and encourage a diversity of perspectives and disciplinary approaches.