Seeking a Job on Social Media

This resource is titled Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find Your Dream Job by Noe Spies. This book looks into all of the ways that should set up your social media page allow interviewers and jobs  to see the best version of you. This could come in the form of how you post, how you set up your page’s structure, and so on. This coaching allows for people to be able to feel confident in what they post, and not fear of how their presence on social media looks to potential jobs. I think that this is very important for English majors because it allows them to know the dos and don’ts of social media when you are using it for a job or career position. With social media being such a large part of the world today, especially in terms of how you get a job, this serves as a vital tool to all English majors. For example, one sections of this article, titled “Be Visible, Active, and Involved,” seeks to inform people of how to keep their accounts active and appropriate for potential bosses. (Spies, p.1) This art of the book is very important, because it allows readers to understand how you should post on your social media that is appropriate for the work place. This book leads to help introduce people into the different aspects that they must look at when applying for a job, and how their social media should reflect the best parts of themselves. This book’s main takeaway is the very invaluable information that it offers an English major. It allows for them to grasp the different ways that their social media can influence the people that they will be sending their applications too. It offers other tips, such as the one about networking. In the book, it states, “Once you have crated your small network, you have to maintain it! Talk to people and offer your opinion where relevant.” (Spies, p. 2) This part of the book teaches you how to manage your circle of friends, and ensure that you know how to spread the amount of people that you know. In closing, this book allows for many different types of tips and information, tips that will be very important to students who are up and coming on graduation.

Works Cited

50minutes.com. Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find      Your Dream Job. 50 Minutes, 2015. Web.

What Can You Do with a Major in English?

The book titled What Can You Do with a Major in English? Real People, Real Jobs, Real Rewards by Shelley O’Hara works as a guide for English majors that helps them pursue a career once they graduate. It gives helpful information such as how to conduct a job search, and how to find the different salary levels that people must look. This article would be beneficial to English majors because it helps them with those big questions of “What am I going to do once I am done?” and “How am I ever going to find a job?” This book purpose helps ease student’s minds by showing them that they are going to be able to find work, no matter how hard it is going to be. It can also serve as a guide for resources that they might not be able to find on their own. 

Overall, this resource can benefit English majors in terms of what they need to do to find the job that they really strive for, and how they will be able to acquire that job. This resource is valuable to English majors because it touches on the important aspects that one will face when finding a job in this career. For example, the book discusses topics such as: “Breaking into the Job Market with an English Degree,” and “Career Possibilities for an English Major.” (O’Hara) These chapters both discuss the different things that an English major can do, while all of the previous chapters discuss how one chooses where to go to school, what makes them pick English, etc. Throughout these chapters, there are also many specific things that someone going into this career field can use. In one chapter, O’Hara writes, “You can find a wealth of job-related sites on the internet.” (O’Hara, p.57) With this part of the chapter, she is describing the different methods and websites that you can use on the internet to look for and apply to jobs. This can be very valuable, because most English majors may have not ever looked into the complexities of the job market before.

Works Cited

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.

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The Southern Quarterly

The Southern Quarterly was originally published in 2000 by the University of Southern Mississippi. It has different subjects throughout its various different issues, including subjects such as: aspects of the Southern United States, United States history, and American Literature. In the description of the article itself, it analyzes Southern culture through literature, folklore, anthropology, and history (ebsco host). For example, one of the earlier articles that this journal publishes was titled “Negotiating boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers that Be” (Petry). This journal is still publishing its collection of articles to this day, with it publishes by season. So, it has Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues. This journal is located at the University of Southern Mississippi still, and has recently published its Winter 2019 journal. This journal can be very useful for English majors because it shows insight into how Southern culture works and how it has developed over time. It can also show a large degree of how Southern writers produce their material, and how the way that they write can vary from other writers in different parts of the United States. For example, one article that is published is titled “Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston” (Ellis et al.,). This just shows how this article not only reflects the culture in the South, but also the different methods in which it is written with.

With this journal, there are specific criteria that one must follow in order to be able to have their work published in this article. You must have an article that is based on solid documentation, that is seated in literary or critical theory, and that make and original and important contribution to the study of the American South. Articles are not allowed to exceed twenty to twenty-five double-spaced pages in length, along with all of the sources and documentation (The Southern Quarterly). These are the basic guidelines, and as the articles are submitted, they must go through the editorial board. It also states that if you are submitting something and it does not get published, then it becomes the property of The Southern Quarterly. The editorial board consists of many people, with the main editor being Kate Cochran. This journal’s main focus is to shine a light on what Southern culture is, was, and what is projected to happen in the South in the future. This journal is currently calling for people to submit their own original articles for the Spring/Summer of 2020, the Fall of 2020, and the Winter of 2021. These articles must go along with the pre-selected theme of each seasonal publication, and must make sense to the topic that is shown.

While this journal looks into the different issues and topics in the South, its articles range widely from publication to publication. In the Fall of 2015, for example, the articles focused mainly on death. There was one article in this particular publication titled “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New South” (Hayes). This article explores the new looks into the various ways that the South perceives myths about death, and how they cope with it in today’s world and society. In another article stemming from the same published issue, titled as “Lay It All on the Table: Death in the American South,” this article touches on how older traditions around death flow into the new age (Smith). This article focused on touching on how old traditions correlate still with newer traditions in the South, and can still be seen in morphed ways. In another issue that was published in 2003, however, the articles were centered on a person rather than an idea. This particular issue focused on Richard Marius. They ranged from an analysis of the man himself, to a glimpse and discussion about how he lived his life. One of the works written about him, titled “Re-visioning the overland trail: Richard Marius’s bound for the promised land,” covers the analysis of Marius’s specific works and looks into how they can be interpreted (Carroll). But the attitudes of these articles do change, with each one being unique on its own outlook of Marius and his life and works. In another article, “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as a Biographer of Thomas Moore,” this article goes into the ways at which Marius wrote about the life of another writer (Bowman). Whereas one article was an analysis and break down of Marius’s works, this article was more of a critique.

Overall, The Southern Quarterly looks to delve into the many different aspects of the South, in many different terms. This journal can be very beneficial to English majors who are looking for information, writings, or specific analyses over the different parts of the South, and how they contribute to literature today. This journal solely looks at the different types of Southern literature and history, and tries to bring it to a more modern groups of people. This journal can be accessed by many databases and libraries, and can also be obtained with a subscription, which costs a fee. Overall, this journal is beneficial because it gives readers a newfound look into Southern culture and shines a light that might melt away all of the stigmas that the South faces today.

Works Cited

Bowman, Glen. “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as Biographer of                     Thomas More.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 78-91. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222245383?accountid=28833.

Carroll, Viera. “Re-Visioning the Overland Trail: Richard Marius’s Bound for the Promised         Land.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 52-67. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222260514?accountid=28833

“Details for The Southern Quarterly,” EBSCOhost, EBSCO Industries, 2019.             http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=08a3b4c8-c571-4c24-993b-          1657436eff03%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#jid=4LD&db=hft

Ellis, Clifton; Haney, Gina. “Visual Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston.” ProQuest, Vol. 44, Iss. 4, (Summer 2007), https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222264458/95B6382524E74A63PQ/4?accountid=28833

Hayes, John. “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New   South.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 105-120,262. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326149?accountid=28833.

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.                

Petry, Alice Hall. “Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers    that Be.” ProQuest, Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Fall 2002),  https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222268517/EB22E707FED450DPQ/13?accountid=28833

Smith, Abigail L. “Lay it all on the Table: Death in the American South.” Southern Quarterly,     vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 72-86,263. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326056?accountid=28833.

“The Southern Quarterly.” The Southern Quarterly | The University of Southern Mississippi,        University of Southern Mississippi , https://aquila.usm.edu/soq/

University of Southern Mississippi. College of Arts Letters. The Southern Quarterly. (1962).        Web.

50minutes.com. Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find                  Your Dream Job. 50 Minutes, 2015. Web.

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; an anthology of projects and works that this monumental writer accomplished in his life time. This first edition anthology, is a helpful guide to people studying Poe’s writing. The collection was originally published in August 2004 by Norton Critical Editions and Purdue University; edited by G.R Thompson, the book has proven the test of time to be useful in the classroom. The book features fifty-seven documents that Poe worked on during his profound career, that helped shape American Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Some of the works the editor included are: “Tamerlane”, “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontiado”, “Hop-Frog”, etc. The editor hand-picked some of Poe’s famous works, and some lesser known works that are also profound. Another interesting thing that was included in this edition are various critiques from Poe that he wrote during his time as an editor. One of the critiques that was included critiques is Poe’s review of Nathanial Hawthorne’s work. The editor also includes a biography about Poe’s life at the beginning of the book to show case his state of mind and the time period when he wrote some of his famous pieces. 

One great tool that is included in this anthology are the foot notes. These help readers understand the features included literature by citing old language or other works Poe mentions in his writing. This anthology is an essential piece for anyone who wants to learn more about Poe and his works. It includes projects that Poe works that most people have heard of such as “The Raven”, but it also includes lesser known pieces such as “Mezengerstein”. It can also be a useful tool to use as an instructor in a classroom. On the publisher’s website includes a link for educators so they can access study guides for quizzes or tests. 

The book’s inexpensiveness, and availability on several websites makes it a great

asset to students and educators. With the extra information added to the edition, it makes understanding something from a different time period easier for students. Having that extra information also helps educators, because they have reliable information with the texts. Overall this book’s a useful tool to have in a classroom, or to   gain a deeper understanding of Poe’s work.

Poe, Edgar Allan. The Select Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.

Harvard College Writing Center

Harvard College Writing Center is a website that can be a useful tool for any person who is looking to improve writing skills and find information to help fine-tune skills they already possess. The website has free access for the public, however, it’s specifically geared towards students that are at least on the high school level, but can be helpful for many students. Their website is composed of various links that allow students to pick topics that can be useful to their academic ventures. It could also be useful for educators to give to their students to help them form proper habits when they are writing. 

The skills that the website deals with a range from how to close read to how to write a comparative essay. The website’s topics cover material that every student will use in various subjects throughout their academic careers. For example, if a student needs information about outlining, they would find the tab labeled outlining and click on it. From there they would be directed to a page with an informational article about how to make a proper outline. In this specific example, the article’s sections include a definition, first steps in the process, generalizing information, and how to put it all together. Another useful section included in the example is what a standard outline will look like. Students would struggle with outlining can find helpful information on how to structure theirs.  

Overall Harvard College Writing Center has set up a wonderful website that can be utilized to teach and guide students to strengthen their writing abilities. It can be the most useful to English students of all backgrounds as well as educators. 

College Literature

Many college professors might be searching for the perfect resource to learn new material, or a different view through various lenses. As time goes on, scholars begin to look at different works through various lens that are fueled by things happening throughout time, and knowledge from other scholars. A fantastic place to find reliable research, and information, is the academic journal, College Literature. It’s published by John Hopkins University Press from 1974- present. It is published in a series of quarterly magazines that breaks down different works from authors, both past and present, and brings a fresh look to those various works.  Throughout its articles scholar’s breakdown different works from authors, and begin to process them in different ways. The works chosen to be broken apart vary, but can be anything from works of poetry in the 19^thcentury, analyzing the Odyssey in a new light, or many current works that have been published in the 21^stcentury. With the variety in topics covered it makes finding useful information about works easily accessible for scholars. 

Due to the large amount of literature that is covered in the collegiate setting, this magazine covers a wide variety of things. One of the topics covered is literary theory and criticism. Articles such as “From many million heart-throbs”: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms” (Schöberlein), and “Entropic imagination in Poe’s The masque of the red death.” (Zapf). It covers current topics on American literature today such as: “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon”, Jr (Ruiz- Velasco), and “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s “Fire in Beulah” (Hada). It has some articles that look at older American literature through new lens such as: “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales” (Lam), and “Frankenstein, Paradise Lost, and “the majesty of goodness”(Ping). Some other topics discussed in this journal are third word literature, European literature, and many other branches of literature taught in classrooms around the world. This journal captures interesting topics from all over the world, and throughout time for scholars to be able to utilize. This journal can be used as a vital resource for anyone who wants to learn more about various literature. 

 One thing that makes this resource valuable for scholars is that all the articles are peer reviewed. Over the past 40 plus years the editors, and the editor boards, for the magazine have changed, however, the current editor is Carolyn Sorisio, West Chester University. Sorisio has a Ph.D. from Temple University, and is currently a professor at West Chester University.  She specializes in 19^th century American Literature with an emphasis on gender and race. Sorisio has several published articles in various academic magazines, and continues to do research along with teaching various literature classes. She also won various awards for her writing which include, 2015 Susan Koppleman Award from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. She won that prize for “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights” [coedited with Cari M. Carpenter (Univ. of Nebraska P, 2015). Associate editors, review editors, and various other editors are professors who are actively continuing their research, and are well established researchers in their own right. 

Tennessee Tech students have access to this journal through the libraries various databases. Issues from 1999 to 2019 are able to be viewed by current students and faculty are housed in the EBSCOhost data base. Other data bases carry articles as well, but EBSCOhost houses the largest variety of the articles. Some articles are able to be viewed on the publisher’s website, but usually it is only two articles per edition. The best way to view the information is to subscribe to the magazine, or have access through the school database. 

 Work Cited

“College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies | JHU Press.

“English.” Carolyn Sorisio – West Chester University, 2018.

Hada, Kenneth. “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s ‘Fire in Beulah’.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Lam, Joshua. “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2018.

Ping, Tang Soo. “Frankstein, Paradise Lost, and ‘the Majesty of Goodness’.Ta.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon, Jr.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Schöberlein, Stefan. “‘From Many Million Heart-Throbs’: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms.” College Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, 2018.

Zapf, Hubert. “Entropic Imagination in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Poetry

Poetry Foundation is the website for the Poetry Magazine. The magazine publishing company is located in Chicago, Illinois run by the deputy director of administration,  Krystal Languell. The website makes it easier and faster to find more poems and information about a specific poetry related topic. It allows someone to get more information about Renaissance playwrights and authors as well as authors from other eras like Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence, and Layli Long Soldier. Poetry Foundation includes poems, articles, and poets from different cultures and time periods. The websites even makes it easy for someone to find collections of a specific topic. Some of their collections include Poetry and Feminism, Native American Poetry, and Poems of Jewish Faith and Culture. 

The variety of poems include some for all ages. There’s a section where someone can find poems specifically for kids as well as teenagers. The website includes a section for audio poems. People can listen to some poems instead of reading them.  A part of the website is dedicated to learning. They have this section split up into different sections. There’s a section for children, teenagers, adults, educators, and even a glossary of poetry terms. The glossary has definitions of every poetry term which they have organized in alphabetical order. Some of the terms they have are abecedarian, Kenning, and Tanka. 

There’s even a place where someone can get information on how to submit their own work, so they can be featured in the magazine. In order to submit poems, it has to be original work. The website mentions they prefer the poems to be written in English or at least translated to English. They no longer accept paper submissions since July 2013. On this page, they list the steps that a person would need to follow to send their submission.

Works Cited

Languell Krystal. Poetry Foundation. Web Access 10/11/2019. https://www.poetryfoundation.org

Renaissance Civilization

The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization V by Will Durant is about the civilization history of Italy from 1304 to 1576. Will Durant gained popularity with his History of Philosophy. The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization V is the fifth volume in his monumental seven-part series. The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization V was published in 1953 under by Simon and Schuster located in New York.  

The purpose of this book is to aim towards the philosophical history, studies the economic basis and background, and focuses on the growth and history of the Renaissance era and the effects it had on society. Durant explains how Renaissance was presented in multiple cities in Italy and among different types of people from princes, poets, historians, scientists, etc. An example is how the “waning of the Renaissance” was popular among historic figures like Titian, Aretino, Veronese, and Benvenuto Cellini. He explores the self-emancipation of man during the Renaissance and how they had no purpose except for their happiness. Durant explains how in Italy they explored ideas in order to advance as a society but then banished these ideas.

The book is organized by book and then chapters. Book I: Prelude covers years 1300-1377.  Chapter one is about The age of petrarch and Boccaccio (1304-1375). Under each chapter there are several subheadings like The Father of the Renaissance, The Poet, Siena, etc. Chapter two covers The Popes in Avignon (1309-1377). After chapter two, Book II picks up with chapter three, and it does this with three through five as well. The book does include pictures like Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Doors of the Baptistery located in Florence and Donatello’s David bronze statue in Florence.

Works Cited

Durant, Will. The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization V. Simon and Schuster, New York: 1953.

Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama was first published in 1956 under University of Chicago Press. The journal’s goal is to investigate the significance of Renaissance drama by examining interpretations of plays, theater, and performance. There’s a new volume out every year, and it circulates about five hundred of them. In order to be featured in the journal, the suggested length of an article is 6,000-12,000 words, the editing style must be Chicago, and have to submit at least three copies. 

In Volume VIII, which was published in 1965, one of the articles included was “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy” by Werner Habicht. He explores contrasts of morality and love that were featured in plays before Shakespeare came into the scene. Habicht speaks of situations that revolve around moral play, “temptation, deneration, repentance, regeneration,” (Habicht pg. 79). Habicht goes on to explain how these are typically dramatized as an archetype of morality. In the same volume, there was an article called “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play” by Dieter Mehl. In his article, he discusses how the actors on stage are having to perform separately of their characters at some points in a play. An example he gave was how sometimes an actor on stage would divulge from the play to provide comic relief after a heavily serious scene. 

In Volume XXVII, which was published in 1996, an article included was “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?” by Meredith Skura. Her article focused more on Elizabeth Cary and her part in with History. She speaks of the claim that Cary actually wrote History instead of Falkland. Another article was “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris” By Karen Newman. In Newman’s article, she discusses Corneille’s comedies as well as how courtship was portrayed in plays. Newman speaks of how women were always portrayed as “the object of a lover’s passion.”

In Volume XL, published in 2012, it featured an article called “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies” by David Bevington. He discussed the anthology of Renaissance drama in England and how it had begun. Bevington discusses how Renaissance drama was introduced to more people because of this journal, and how in the earlier versions it was typically filled with similar articles. The last article was “Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community” by Mary Bly. Her article was about how playwrights would tend to “borrow” ideas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century including Shakespeare. 

The Renaissance Drama journal has changed over the years by including more topics that fall under Renaissance drama. When the journal first started out, the articles included were always about Pre-Shakespeare and plenty of the same playwrights. Whereas now, the journal includes discussions over ideas and topics that were seen in plays as well as discussions about a female playwright. This journal includes a great deal of articles about Renaissance drama that anyone wanting to learn more or a student has to write a paper over Renaissance drama they can find useful information in it. If a student writes a paper over Renaissance drama, they can easily access this journal by going to the campus library and checking the journal out. 

Works Cited

Bevington, David. “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Bly, Mary.“Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Habicht, Werner. “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Mehl, Dieter. “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Newman, Karen. “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Skura, Meredith. “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Diacritics

Diacritics is a scholarly, quarterly, journal that lends itself to “no particular school of thought”, instead choosing to present as a collection of the intelligentsia with contributions from both national and international scholars and professors, all of whom may “enter a forum for thinking about contradictions without resolutions (Overview) . It was founded in 1971 as a branch of Cornell University’s Romantic Studies department. Since then, it has gone on to become published by John Hopkins University although the majority of the editorial board is  made up of a majority of Cornell professors. 

Within an issue of Diacritics, articles range anywhere from book reviews, to literary criticism, to criticism of fellow scholars and artists, often with no correlation existing between any of the articles. For example, in the Fall 1971 issue, a book review titled “Gabriel Garcia and the Lost Art of Storytelling” by Ricardo Gullon appeared alongside a response to personal criticism titled “Monstrosities In Criticism” by Michel Foucault. Both authors were professors at their respective Universities, with Gullon being credited as the “Professor of Spanish/Spanish American Literature at the University of Texas”(Gullon), and Foucault was a professor at the Collége de France. Additionally, both articles were written in Chicago Style format, as is required by the Diacritics submission form. However, that is where the similarities end as both articles differ completely in subject matter and length. The wide variation of topics continued on through the 1990s with the only difference coming with the addition of footnotes to articles and a longer length of paper. Beginning in the 21st century, however, issues began to adopt a common theme along with reducing the number of articles. An example of this is the Winter 2018 issue titled “Collective Temporalities: Decolonial Perspectives. 

With about 1600 issues in circulation, most articles in the 21st century issues are formatted similarly as directed by the Diacritics submission file which states that articles “must not exceed 12,000 words, must be written in Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, with endnotes and a bibliography” (Author Guidelines). An additional requirement is that the work you submit must be original and unique to Diacritics as they reject articles that have already been published by other scholarly journals. On average, 80 articles are submitted annually with only 26 of those actually being chosen for publication. 

Students at Tennessee Tech University can access any 20th century issue of Diacritics for free through their website. To access articles written in the 21st century, students have to go to the research database ProQuest and are given free access through the university. Diacritics is a useful resource in that it offers alternative theories and criticisms posed by a variety of knowledgeable scholars, however, it should be noted that most articles are founded solely on one author’s individual thought process that may not reflect the consensus of a general academia on any given topic.

Works Cited

“Author Guidelines.” Author Guidelines | JHU Press, www.press.jhu.edu/journals/diacritics/author-guidelines.

Gullon, Ricardo. “Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the Lost Art of Storytelling.” Diacritics, vol. 1, no. 1, 1971, pp. 27–32. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/464556.

“Overview.” Diacritics, John Hopkins University, 21 Aug. 2019, http://www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/overview/.