Previous Issues

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