Canadian Literature’s Issue 226 (Fall 2015), Emerging Scholars, is now available for order. Sheila Giffen and Brendan McCormack, our journal assistants, interrogate what it means to be an emerging scholar:
When we sat down and discussed the simple question “What is new?” we quickly realized how it opens to other, complex questions concerning novelty that we both find ourselves contending with as we imagine how to position our work as graduate students—Sheila in transnational literature and postcolonial theory, Brendan in Canadian and Indigenous literatures. What are the implications of claiming newness in scholarly work? What past or present conditions give rise to novelty? How might charting the new also involve a process of historicization and return? As scholars, how can we do the work of situating our current condition within a genealogy of thought that contextualizes critical moments and turns? Reflecting beyond the specific call for this issue led us to speculate more widely on the idea of newness itself as a concept we’ve broached in our thinking as emerging scholars—what is new?
—Sheila Giffen and Brendan McCormack, “What’s New?“
Emerging Scholars also features articles by Ariel Kroon, Dominique Hetu, Christina Turner, Kristina Getz, and Christopher Doody; interviews with Orly Lael Netzer, Rebecca Fredrickson, Brandon Kerfoot, Katherine Meloche, Mini Aodla Freeman, Keavy Martin, Julie Rak, and Norma Dunning; new Canadian poetry by Stephanie May McKenzie, Norman F. Cornett, Cassidy McFadzean, Stephen Heighton, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough; and book reviews.
The new issue can be ordered through our online store. Happy readings!