T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
The leading venue for critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his oeuvre, including poems, prose, letters, and plays. The Annual is published by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, and our articles are accessible via Liverpool, JSTOR Books, University Scholarship Online, and soon Project Muse. Members of the Society are entitled to free access to the Annual (access information here).
We welcome submissions pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work, life, and influence. The Annual publishes essays, research notes, book reviews, and special topic forums.
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CFP for Volume 8
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 7
Craig Woelfel and Kevin Rulo are delighted to report that Volume 7 of the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual will be published soon and available on the Liverpool University Press website (the link will be posted here as soon as the issue is available). Current Eliot Society members should receive an access email from the Press (and can retrieve the information at any time from this page). If your membership has lapsed, please renew it to regain access!
Contents of Volume 7
Articles
Ronald Schuchard, “Eliot’s Double World and the Way of Suffering and Contemplation to Burnt Norton”
Philip Coleman, “ ‘The eternal design may appear’: T. S. Eliot and the Problem of Periodization”
Rachel Murray, “Feeling Stupid at the Beach”
Gabrielle McIntire, “Ecology and Voice: Non-Human Speech and Songs of the Earth in The Waste Land”
Forum: “The Eliot We Need”
Patrick R. Query, “Editor’s Introduction”
Juliet Bretan, “Eliot’s ‘Polish plains’”
Anna Budziak, “T. S. Eliot and Populism”
Christina Lambert, “ ‘Learning to be Affected’: Food Studies and The Waste Land”
Zoe Miller, “The Radical Potential of Eliot’s Unstable Rape Metaphors: A Re-Reading of the Typist’s Assault”
Ben Papsun, “Cornel West’s Revaluation of T. S. Eliot”
Ian Webster, “Eliot on the Dole”
Research Notes
Matthew Hiscock, “The Cupidons in The Waste Land: Their Origin and its Possible Implications”
Book Reviews
Timothy Materer, from “T. S. Eliot’s Letters and the Course of Eliot Studies: Reviews of T. S. Eliot’s Letters, Volumes 5-8”
John Morgenstern, “An Anticolonial Eliot?”: A Review of Ria Banerjee’s Drafty Houses
Michelle A. Taylor, “Costing Not Less Than Everything”: A Review of Sara Fitzgerald’s The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T.S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime and Mary Trevelyan and Erica Wagner’s Mary & Mr. Eliot
John Whittier-Ferguson, “‘Renewed, Transfigured’”: A Review of Eliot Now, edited by Megan Quigley and David Chinitz
Craig Woelfel, “Indic Traditions and T. S. Eliot”: A Review of Edward Upton’s Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot
Bibliography
Zachary Zahaykevitz, “T. S. Eliot Bibliography 2024”
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Craig Woelfel, Flagler College
Kevin Rulo, Catholic U. of America
Editorial Advisory Board
Jewel Spears Brooker
Ronald Bush
David E. Chinitz
Robert Crawford
Anthony Cuda
Lyndall Gordon
John Haffenden
Benjamin Lockerd
Gabrielle McIntire
John D. Morgenstern
Jahan Ramazani
Christopher Ricks
Ronald Schuchard
Vincent Sherry
Jayme Stayer
John Whittier-Ferguson