Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers

06/02/2026

This seminar will feature a mix of professional musicians and music scholars.

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Twenty-eighth Annual Conference, Johns Hopkins University, October 22-25

Moderators, Mike Mattison, Tedeschi Trucks Band; Ernest Suarez, David M. O’Connell Professor of English, Catholic University

We invite papers that explore the interactions between music, other art forms, and U.S. culture and politics.

In The Republic Plato claimed that, “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.” Music from the U.S. and other countries has left an indelible mark on other mediums in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, influencing and expressing the ways we conceive of culture and politics, and inspiring artists such as Cecil Taylor, Gil-Scott Heron, The Last Poets, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Anaïs Mitchell, and Kendrick Lamar, just to name a few. This seminar invites consideration of how music has functioned within various arts forms—plays, films (including documentaries), newsreels, podcasts—and at political rallies and other communal events to help alter how we see ourselves and our nation.

Please contact Ernest Suarez (executive director, ALSCW) at [email protected] if you’re interested.

09/22/2024

The Poetry Society of America presents

Ben Mazer lecturing on Delmore Schwartz' previously unpublished poems

October 7 online

04/16/2024

The New Yorker reviews The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz tried to change poetry, often by putting his own painful life on the page. The cost was that failure felt all the more acute.

04/12/2024

This Sunday at 7pm at Unnamable Books in Brooklyn
Delmore Schwartz Double Book Launch

04/08/2024

Today the New York Times reviews The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz.

A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”

04/02/2024

Six years in the making, The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz is published today!

03/29/2024

We're searching for a new editor for Literary Imagination! Many thanks to Archie Burnett for his many years at the helm. Rosanna Warren and I will help the new editor with the transition. The search committee consists of Rosanna, David Mikics, and Rebecca Rainof.

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Editor, Literary Imagination
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW)

Location: U.S.
Open Date: April 1, 2024
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Start date: January 2025

Description: The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) seeks a new editor, effective January 2025, of its flagship print publication, Literary Imagination. In consultation with the Associate Editors and our anticipated publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, the editor will plan, prepare, and finalize three issues of Literary Imagination annually. We seek candidates with wide intellectual range and connections to a number of fields, who embrace the journal’s purpose and can lead it effectively. After many years with Oxford University Press, as of January 2025 Literary Imagination anticipates switching to Johns Hopkins University Press as its publisher; thus the editor will have an opportunity to shape this new phase of the journal’s existence.

Literary Imagination is a forum for all those interested in the distinctive nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. The journal publishes literary criticism and scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, and book reviews. We emphasize attention to ancient and modern foreign literature as well as to works in English.

Qualifications: Profound knowledge and appreciation of literature, demonstrated creative leadership potential, an understanding of the ALSCW and the history of the journal, and a combination of some of the following: a Ph.D. in literature or the humanities, or an MFA; editorial experience; connections with a range of writers; and a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and carry out complex projects.

To Apply: Please send a letter of interest and a CV to Dr. Rebecca Rainof at [email protected]