Previous Issues

Issue 10.1 (April 2022) – Special Issue “What Happens Now? Conference 2021”

Alluvium Editorial 10.1 by Julia Ditter, Martin Goodhead and Liam Harrison
Ambiguity and Parapraxis: Serially Reframing Trauma in “Peaky Blinders” by Susanne Köller
Failure: The Ghost and the Mother by Anna Johnson
“New year, new data”: Percival Everett’s Telephone, Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, and the Future of the “Affective Turn” by George Kowalik
Affect, Minecraft and Neoliberal Techno-Utopianism in Keith Stuart’s “A Boy Made of Blocks” by Holly Parker
“Being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again”: Literary Empathy in Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy by Craig McDonald
Indiana as Islamistan: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Crystal Maritta Sam

Issue 9.6 (December 2021)

Alluvium Editorial 9.6 by Emma Catan, Franca Leitner and Sofie Schrey
“I live with doubleness”: Non-Binary Gender Identity and Othering in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story by Kit Schuster
Reading Hybridity: Metafiction and Dystopia in Wayne Holloway’s Bindlestiff by Liam J. L. Knight
Feeling Straight: Heterosexual Fatigue in ‘Cat Person’ by Marni Appleton

Issue 9.5 (October 2021) – Special Issue “World Literature and the alter|native“

Alluvium Editorial 9.5 – Special Issue: World Literature and the alter|native by Misbah Ahmed
Ecopoetics, Intermediality, and the Language of Caroline Bergvall by Martin Schauss
Malaysian Speculative Fiction as Alter|native Text by Nurul Fateha
Energy Futures, Science Fiction, and the Failure of Mastery by Josephine Taylor
The Impossibility of Nativising Marginality by Aiman Khattak

Issue 9.4 (September 2021)

Alluvium Editorial 9.4 by Jasmin Lieberwirth
The ‘Other’ Women of Canada: Is the Canadian Rainbow a Myth? by Swagata Bhattacharya
Challenging Cis-Heteronormativity in The Night Brother by Emma Catan
Imagining Homelessness: Ethnofiction in Marc Augé’s No Fixed Abode and Mahsuda Snaith’s How To Find Home by Joseph Anderton
Neoliberal Façades, Concrete Utopias: The Infrastructure of Weird Fiction by Dave Owen

Issue 9.3 (May 2021) – Special Issue “Futurity in Crisis”

Alluvium Editorial 9.3: Futurity in Crisis by Niall Gallen, Josie Lilley-Byrne, Arzu Bali and Ben Horn
From Predictive Product to Polyphonic Practices: Techniques of Futuring Beyond Business-as-Usual by Paul Graham Raven
Procedural Futurism in Climate Change Videogames by Laura op de Beke
Archived Futures: Digging In The Crates Of Always by Gary Charles
‘The Future Starts With An Image’: Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) by Dan Heaven
Aristocratic Realism: Within and Against Feudalism in English Future Fiction by Joe P. L. Davidson
Education, a Monstrous Thief of the Future by Nicholas Stock
Lay Down And Rot: Incels and Lost Futures by Henry Price and Emily Pratten

Issue 9.2 (April 2021)

Alluvium Editorial Issue 9.2 by Alexei Warshawaki, Andreas Theodorou and Emma Catan
Mad Max: Fury Road: A Feminist Redemption by Isabel Sykes
“Sunt lacrimae rerum”: A structural analysis of Cloud Atlas by Imandi Mudugamuwa
Terrorism and Technology in Jennifer Egan’s Fiction by Mairi Power
Implicit Rape and Female Consent in Thomas Pynchon’s V. by Sofie Schrey

Issue 9.1 (March 2021) – Special Issue “Twenty-First Century Irish Women’s Writing“

“Remember me”: Significant Absences and the Fragility of Family in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet by Eva-Maria Windberger
Alluvium Editorial 9.1: Twenty-First Century Irish Women’s Writing by Orlaith Darling, Dearbhaile Houston
Trauma, Disremembering and Postmemory in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s “The Fifty Minute Mermaid” by Fanni Fekete-Nagy
Uncertain Existences: Crime and Identity in Tana French’s “The Witch Elm” by Kathryn Hendrickson
From the Ashes: The Celtic Phoenix, Anna Burns’ “Milkman” and Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” by Aran Ward Sell
‘Complicating Things with Fancy Footwork’: The Ethics of Difficulty in Anna Burns’ “Milkman” by Paige Reynolds
‘At war with her body’: the threat of pregnancy in the novels of Anna Burns by Laura Hackett
The Pen is Mightier: Narrative power in contemporary Irish women’s writing by Taylor Allgeier-Follett
Eimear McBride’s “Gob” by Oliver Browne
‘Where are you from originally’: The cruel optimism of the precarious Irish public sphere in Melatu Uche Okorie’s “Under the Awning” by Deirdre Flynn

Issue 8.3 (November 2020) – Special Issue “Contemporary Representations of Homelessness”

Alluvium Editorial 8.3: Contemporary Representations of Homelessness by Julia Ditter, Liam Harrison and Martin Goodhead
The Post-Millennial Rise of British Homelessness Literature by Joseph Anderton
Homelessness, Borders, and the Displaced Youth: Understanding Young Refugees through Fictional Narratives by Anindita Shome
“The transient vigor of a man”: Home and Homelessness in Marilynne Robinson’s Home by Ben Screech
Disabled and Deprived: Reading Refugee Narrative in the Light of Disability by Anjum Khan
Where Childhood Ceases: Media Representations of the Homeless Street Children of Mumbai, India by Srishti

Issue 8.2 (July 2020) – Special Issue “Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature”

Alluvium Editorial 8.2: Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature by Daniel South and Lola Boorman
Class, Authenticity and Centrism by Jacob Soule
Decentring the “Scumbag” Veteran by Sarah Collier
The Centrality of the Trivial by Clare Fisher
Now “The Fact That” Then by Hannah Karmin

Issue 8.1 (May 2020)

Alluvium Editorial 8.1 by Chloe Ashbridge and Andreas Theodorou
Post-National Authors, Post-National Literature? An Interview with David Szalay by Christine Lehnen
Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer in Mindhunter (2017-) by Katie Jones
Highlighting Invisible Media: Television Subtitles in the Split-Attention Economy by Hannah Marcus
Conference Review: New Research on American Literature and Neoliberalism by Megan Kirkwood

Issue 7.5 (December 2019) – Special Issue “Contemporary Storytelling and Seriality”

Alluvium Editorial 7.5: Contemporary Storytelling and Seriality by Kate Wilkinson and Ricarda Menn
Transmissions: From Manga to Fandom by Hauwa Ahmadu
Dynamic Storytelling in Episodic Videogames by Rebekah Cunningham
“The great connective”: Contemporaneous Storytelling and Emergent Seriality in Ali Smith’s Seasonal. by Alex Calder
Distancing Affect in Fleabag by Denise Wong

Issue 7.4 (August 2019)

Alluvium Editorial 7.4 by Victoria Addis, Sam Cutting and Julia Ditter
Queer Kinship in Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers (1991) by Peter Ely
Afrofuturism in Danez Smith’s Black Movie by Donna Alexander
European Literature—made in the UK? by Christine Lehnen
Neoliberal Breakdowns: the Biopolitics of the Monstrous by Katharina Donn

Issue 7.3 (July 2019) – Special Issue “The Global Contemporary and the Ecological”

Alluvium Editorial 7.3 by Martin Goodhead and Katie Jones
Motherhood as Ecological Metaphor by Marie Hendry
Ecolarchy as Missional Leadership “From the Margins” by Meilanny Risamasu
The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma by Arya Aryan
Reproducing the Patriarchal Anthropocene by Beth Capo
Exorcizing the Ghosts of Dead Futures: Fisher in the Anthropocene by Daniel Gerke
Infrastructural Futures in Chinese Science Fiction by Andy Hageman
Sham(an) Songbird by Rhys Trimble

Issue 7.2 (April 2019)

Alluvium Editorial 7.2 by Julia Ditter and Andreas Theodorou
On “Creative Industries and Cultural Democracy” by Zoe Bulaitis
The Author Returns by Arya Aryan
“The Beautiful Game” in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric by Donna Alexander
Digitisation and the Death of the Real by Keri Thomas

Issue 7.1 (March 2019) – Alluvium Relaunch

Alluvium Editorial 7.1: Relaunch by Zoe Bulaitis
Digital Media and the Global Contemporary by Sarah Kirpekar-Sauer
Mapping the Contemporary by Caroline Wintersgill
Identifying with Our Contemporaries by Richard Bingham
Contemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read) by Rachel Sykes

Issue 6.2 (May 2017)

Book Apps and Digital Textuality by Zita Farkas
Deep State and the Future of Theatre by Christina Scholz
With Love from Iceland by Andy Hageman
Will 2017 be 1984? by Ben Worthy

Issue 6.1 (March 2017) – Special Issue “Contemporary Speculative Fiction”

Contemporary Speculative Fiction by Mark P. Williams
The Altermundos of Latin@futurism by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
Jordan Krall’s Speculative Fiction by Sebastien Doubinsky
Martin MacInnes and Celtic SF by Martyn James Colebrook
Speculative Resistance in Lost Girls by Mark P. Williams

Issue 5.5 (October 2016)

Pod People: Brave New Worlds of Digital Audio Drama by Michael J. Collins
Infrastructure and the Anthropocene in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island by Andy Hageman
Bollywood Adaptations of Agatha Christie by Iain Robert Smith
Literary Annotation, from Poe to Twitter by John Roache

Issue 5.4 (July 2016) – Special Issue “Nuclear Narratives”

Alluvium Editorial 5.4: Nuclear Narratives by Christopher Daley
The Futures of Nuclear Criticism by Daniel Cordle
Documentary Film and Our Restless Nuclear Present by Jonathan Hogg
Haunting Clouds by Grace Halden
Representations of National Identity in Cold War UK and US Civil Defence Films by Jacquelyn Arnold

Issue 5.3 (May 2016)

What Game Worlds Can Teach Us About Literary Worlds by Alistair Brown
The Contemporary Historical Novel & the Novel of Contemporary History by Xavier Marco Del Pont
The Semblances of Roberto Bolaño by Neil Vallelly
Consuming Television’s Golden Age with Hannibal Lecter by Rowena Clarke

Issue 5.2 (March 2016)

Responding to the Chance of Space in Marshland by Raphael Kabo
Medieval Jesus Fan Fiction by Katharine Handel
Crossing the Line: Characters’ Re/actions as a Driving Force of Narrative by Andrea Dietrich
On the Political Aesthetics of Metadata by Martin Paul Eve

Issue 5.1 (January 2016)

Caring about things in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold by Ruth Charnock
Duration Without Breaks: Marclay and McQueen Against the Clock by Richard Martin
Re-imagining Bluebeard’s Wives: Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr Fox by Heidi Yeandle
Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World: Does Art Have a Gender Identity? by Diana Wagner

Issue 4.5 (October 2015)

Queerversity: Desire and Sexuality in China Miéville’s Fiction by Christina Scholz
Everybody Wants Some: Sexual Energy and the American Avant-garde by Robert W. Jones II
Photographing the Flag by Harriet Earle
Fake Flesh: Black Mirror and Ex Machina by Sarah Chihaya

Issue 4.4 (September 2015)

Kendrick Lamar and the Dialectics of Performing Hip Hop by Bryan Banker
9/11 Fiction and the Death of Irony by Dolores Resano
Loud Fictions: Noise in the Contemporary American Novel by Rachel Sykes
Peak Oil in the Popular Imagination by Caroline Edwards

Issue 4.3 (Juni 2015)

A Unified Scene? Global Fictions in the C21 by Kristian Shaw
Celebrity and Surveillance in ‘There But For The’ by Heidi Yeandle
Towards a Taxonomy of Edgelands Literature by Raphael Kabo
Original Modern or a New Kind of Ordinary? by Alexander Beaumont

Issue 4.2 (May 2015)

Editorial – Global Conflict by Daniel O' Gorman
Displaced Perspective by Emily Hogg
Drones and Dissociation by Dorothy Butchard
Pixels/Tissue – Drone Wars and Suicide Attacks by Dana Bönisch

Issue 4.1 (February 2015)

Litter, Landscape and The Road by Antony Mullen
Reconsidering Quarantine in Invasion Narratives by Jacob Murphy
A Terrible Precariousness by Francesco Di Bernardo
The Legitimacy of Literary Opinion by Zita Farkas

Issue 3.2 (October 2014)

Snapshots of the Executioners by Richard Martin
Framing Comics Words by Harriet Earle
Involving Animals by Heidi James-Dunbar
From Genre to Zenre by Christos Callow Jr.

Issue 3.1 (September 2014) – Special Issue “Critical Environments”

Editorial: Critical Environments by Deborah Lilley
Re-Approaching Urban Nature by Astrid Bracke
Changing the Climate of Writing by Matthew Griffiths
Performing Carbon (in the) Capital by Sam Solnick
The Thoughts in our Head: A World by Louise Squire

Issue 2.6 (December 2013)

Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction by Zara Dinnen
An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth by Daniel Rourke
The Electronic Heart by Sophie Jones
The Metaphorics of Virtual Depth by Rob Gallagher

Issue 2.5 (October 2013)

Incipience and the Historical Subject by Neil Vallelly
Comics and Page Bleeds by Harriet Earle
Shakespeare on Television, this Millennium by Sarah Olive
Hypodermics at the fin-de-siècle by Adam Stock

Issue 2.4 (July 2013) – Special Issue “Thatcher’s Legacies”

Thatcher’s Legacies: Editor’s Introduction by Bianca Leggett
Margaret Thatcher in the 21st Century by Joseph Brooker
The Allure of the 1980s by Christopher Vardy
Utopia Loops, Ghost Legacies by Tony Venezia
Gordon Burn and Mrs T by Rhona Gordon

Issue 2.3 (May 2013)

Are Video Game Narratives Postmodern? by Alistair Brown
Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing by Deborah Lilley
Identity and Consciousness in Dial H by Christina Scholz
DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War by Martin Paul Eve

Issue 2.2 (March 2013)

Explorations in the Ergodic by Ash Ogden
Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism by Robert W. Jones II
Re-Writing Belfast by Caroline Magennis
Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup by Jacob Murphy

Issue 2.1 (January 2013)

Railways and Fiction by Christopher Daley
Diverse Suburbias by Rowena Clarke
Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum by Sarah Olive
Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics by Harriet Earle

Issue 1.7 (December 2012)

The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading by Michael J. Collins
A New Century of Trauma? by Lewis Ward
‘Planetarity’ and Pakistani Post-9/11 Fiction by Daniel O' Gorman
Insurgent Subliteratures: Fictions of Resistance by Mark P. Williams

Issue 1.6 (November 2012)

Extraordinary Renditions: Voicing Opposition to War by Alex Latter
Fifty Shades of the Future by Katy Shaw
Superhumanity: Refiguring the Superhero by Sarah Chihaya
Social Media Memory by Courtney Hopf

Issue 1.5 (October 2012)

The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction by Richard Martin
Androids in the Academy by Zara Dinnen
Ulysses as an RPG by Alistair Brown
America and America by Xavier Marco Del Pont

Issue 1.4 (September 2012)

Human Nature: Pastoral in the Anthropocene by Deborah Lilley
Departures: The Novel, the Non-Place and the Airport by Bianca Leggett
Transgression and Contemporary Fiction by Martyn James Colebrook
Intermediality: Middling and Meddle English by Holly Pester

Issue 1.3 (August 2012)

Sherlock Hound and the Transnational by Iain Robert Smith
Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism by Martin Paul Eve
Making Art in Dystopia by Adam Stock
Authentic Violence: The Case for Autofiction by Heidi James-Dunbar

Issue 1.2 (July 2012)

On Nuclear Criticism by Christopher Daley
Backwards and Forwards with the Atomic Priesthood by Dennis Duncan
Transfixed: The Radical Feminist Body by Churnjeet Mahn
Gaming and the Novel by Marianne Corrigan

Issue 1.1 (June 2012)

Empathy After 9/11 by Daniel O' Gorman
Shakespeare and Lady Gaga by Sarah Olive
On Literary Darwinism by Michael J. Collins
Alternative Fictioneers by Mark P. Williams
Editors’ Introduction: Issue 1.1 by Caroline Edwards