Preface: Futures of literary studies, revisited
Tim Lanzendörfer and Mathias Nilges
Introduction: Futures of literary studies
Mathias Nilges and Tim Lanzendörfer
1. Phronesis: Shifting the concept of the political in the environmental humanities
Caren Irr
2. The work of literary studies: Interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience
Tim Lanzendörfer
3. Thinking the contemporary: Beyond distinctiveness in the literary humanities
Russell West-Pavlov
4. Prospective criticism: On private and public things
Anna Kornbluh
5. The notion of criticism at the present time: From postcriticism to an ethics of reading well
Josh Toth
6. A case for religious criticism
Matthew Mullins
7. Meathead materialisms: César Aira’s ANTsy fictions of a world without conviction
Emilio Sauri
Afterword: How we argue
Jessica Swoboda
Biography
Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Fellow for Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His most recent books include Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel (2023) and, with Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho, The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Podcast, TV, Games (2023).
Mathias Nilges is Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His most recent books include How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (2021) and, with Mitch Murray, William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture (2021).
