Poe Studies

Join us online or in person this Thursday, October 30th at 7:00 pm ET for "Poe" and "After Lives": Richard Kopley and Megan Marshall in conversation. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/poe-and-after-lives-richard-kopley-and-megan-marshall-conversation

Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on
@projectmuse.bsky.social , featuring a newly translated essay by Japanese scholar Shoko Itoh. J. Scott Miller and Austin Koslow translated this important essay into English. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring a newly translated essay by Japanese scholar Shoko Itoh. J. Scott Miller and Austin Koslow translated this important essay into English. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Poe Studies vol. 58 is available now Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring an original poem by Jennifer Handy, “Quoth Lenore and Not the Raven”! Read for free at
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We talked with Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger & @kellyross910.bsky.social about @poestudies.bsky.social new issue celebrating 20 years of Richard's influential work

Revisit our podcast on The Poe/tics of Reception: tinyurl.com/mryjhz4s

The issue is out now and #OpenAccess!

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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Poe Studies Volume 58, 2025 Special Feature: Twenty Years of the Poe/tics of Reception Project MUSE #S2O #OpenAccess Contributors: Elissa Zellinger, Eliza Richards, Zachary Turpin, Alexandra Socarides, Christa Holm Vogelius, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Jonathan A. Cook, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Jennifer Handy, Emron Esplin, Takayuki Tatsumi, Shoko Itoh 伊藤詔子, Austin Koslow, J. Scott Miller, Rubén Darío, W. F. Carr, Irina Arévalo Valverde, Alissa Burger, and Nina Elisabeth Cook

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Poe Studies
Volume 58, 2025

Special Feature: Twenty Years of the Poe/tics of Reception
Project MUSE #S2O #OpenAccess
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Contributors:
Elissa Zellinger, Eliza Richards, Zachary Turpin, Alexandra Socarides, Christa Holm Vogelius, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher & more!

We are thrilled to announce that Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55733 @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Special feature: The Poe/tics of Reception guest ed. by Elissa Zellinger

The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to spotlight some of the amazing authors in vol. 58, including Christa Holm Vogelius! @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to spotlight some of the amazing authors in vol. 58, including Zack Turpin! @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Edgar Allan Poe in Hebrew Culture The first Hebrew translation of Edgar Allan Poe appeared in 1914; and in the years that followed, Poe sparked unabating interest among Hebrew cultu...

Poe Studies editorial board member Karen Grumberg is giving a free online talk, "Edgar Allan Poe in Hebrew Culture." October 30, 2025, 3:00pm-4:30pm MDT
Register here: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/history...

We would also like to acknowledge the incredible work of our intern, Brooke Foster, senior at Rider University, who created this social media campaign. Thank you, Brooke!

The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to preview vol. 58 with author spotlights beginning with the special feature, The Poe/tics of Reception, guest edited by the amazing Elissa Zellinger. muse.jhu.edu/journal/613 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

The Eureka Machine, which composes hexameter Latin verse. John Tresch discusses it and other automatons in an essay in _Poe Studies_ vol. 57: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others Here on Halloween of 2024, we have a greater variety of scary stories — and arguably, a much scarier variety of scarier stories — to choose from than ever before.

Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others

Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979) Christopher Lee, whose nearly 70-year acting career spanned most of the 20th century and nearly all of the 21st century so far, saw numerous technological, cinematic, and cultural trends come and go b...

Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979)

🖤 We’re just a little excited about the new paperback release of POE by James M. Hutchisson... can you tell?
It’s not all ravens and gloom—this bio reclaims Poe’s Southern roots and literary legacy.
🖋️ Pre-order now: buff.ly/PPzk0qt
#EdgarAllanPoe #PoeLives #BookDrop #UPMississippi #Bookstagram

Illustration of fungus

Abstract of Ashley's Kniss's essay

Huge congratulations to Ashley Kniss, winner of the 2024 James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Studies Association for her essay, "Gothic Mycology and Posthuman Ethics in Poe’s 'The Fall of the House of Usher'"!! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception Read free thru 1 August The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst Poe Studies Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia

And for your further reading pleasure, we’ve assembled a list of articles about Poe, his shenanigans, and his contemporaries spanning our journals roster, including Poe Studies, J19, Victorian Poetry, Arizona Quarterly and more!

All free thru 1 August: tinyurl.com/ykuz3nee

Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception Read free thru 1 August The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst Poe Studies Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia

Love him or hate him, Poe's impact on C19 women's poetics is undeniable

In this podcast, we talk with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross & Eliza Richards about the forthcoming issue of Poe Studies, celebrating the impact of Richards’ 2004 book on Poe

Listen: tinyurl.com/4nuxyyff

A strange Poe novel might be just the right book for today’s weird times - The Boston Globe Two local academics who contributed to a new edition of “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” say the book’s 19th century ideas around race, exploration, and capitalism speak to our own er...

It's your boys @rezekjoe.bsky.social and me in The Boston Globe! In print on Sunday! (We are in a big fight about how to interpret the ending of Poe's novel and the illustration poignantly captures the strain in our friendship.)

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/a...

Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception Read free thru 1 August The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst Poe Studies Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia

And for your further reading pleasure, we’ve assembled a list of articles about Poe, his shenanigans, and his contemporaries spanning our journals roster, including Poe Studies, J19, Victorian Poetry, Arizona Quarterly and more!

All free thru 1 August: tinyurl.com/ykuz3nee

Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception Read free thru 1 August The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst Poe Studies Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia

Love him or hate him, Poe's impact on C19 women's poetics is undeniable

In this podcast, we talk with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross & Eliza Richards about the forthcoming issue of Poe Studies, celebrating the impact of Richards’ 2004 book on Poe

Listen: tinyurl.com/4nuxyyff

UChicago Press has your summer reading right here! IN POE'S WAKE, by Jonathan Elmer, explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author.

Available now on our website!
Build your summer reading list at pressblog.uchicago.edu.

#summerreading

The Poe/tics of Reception Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle The Hopkins Press Podcast Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross

To accompany our lively discussion, we've assembled a reading list of works from past issues of @PoeStudies & other Hopkins Press journals, including work by Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, Ben Bascom, Christa Holm Vogelius & more!

All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs

The Poe/tics of Reception Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle The Hopkins Press Podcast Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross

New on the Hopkins Press Podcast:

We discuss The Poe/tics of Reception, the forthcoming @PoeStudies issue with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross and Eliza Richards, whose infuential book on Poe & 19th century women poets celebrates its 20th year

Listen: tinyurl.com/2h5w3r7m

Vol. 56 of Poe Studies, including the incredible special feature "African American Writers Respond to Poe," is currently free to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social Read amazing work by @nytebird45.bsky.social @mauricenow.bsky.social and many more!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/48691

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

Perhaps RFK Jr. should read Chiyo Yoshi's essay on how Poe anticipated the evidence-based scientific consensus on germ theory as the mechanism for disease transmission: "Toward the Germ Theory: Edgar Allan Poe and Disease," vol. 57, 2024

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Episode 8 (with Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery) POEcast: The Poe Studies Association Podcast · Episode

New POEcast episode with Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery about their co-edited collection Poe and Women, the latest winner of the Dameron Award. Hosted by the wonderful Caleb Doan!
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We had a wonderful conversation about Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle at #MLA2025 #MLA25 Look for the special feature in Poe Studies vol. 58 featuring essays by Elissa Zellinger, Christa Holm Vogelius, Alexandra Socarides, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Zack Turpin, and Eliza Richards!

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c