Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 [1999]
Essays investigating the role of affiliation in contemporary academic life: how affiliations to colleges, disciplines, specializations and theoretical positions impact academic careers, the relationship between affiliation and change in academia, the nature of academic inquiry and its connection to affiliation, and the links among disciplinarity, identity and affiliation. The remainder of the essays show us how the identification of an author’s literary, cultural and theoretical affiliations can play a significant part in a more general understanding of their work.

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Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2 [1998]
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari use the concept of the rhizome to signify a type of thought that is capable of making connections between different systems of knowledge-formation. Rhizomatic thought would open the possibility of redrawing the lines between sometimes rigidly distinct areas of inquiry such as philosophy, literature, politics, and the arts. Rhizomatic thinking, as expressed in this challenging and unique set of essays, is always consonant with the announced aim of this journal: to encourage the intermingling of discourses and disciplines.

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Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2 [1997]
Essays concerning the redrawing of cultural, political, economic, literary, and theoretical boundaries by traditionally “marginal” and “marginalized” areas within the “new” Europe, contextualized by Anna Klobucka’s insightful introductory essay.

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Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2 [1996]
Essays exploring emerging discourse on the rhetoric of science, including in the fields of primatology, queer studies, and pedagogical theory.

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Vol. 3, No. 2 [1995]
Essays examining the “histories” of Michel Foucault, including approaches from genealogy, power, subjectivity, the history of sexuality, ethics, and archeology.

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Vol. 3, No. 1 [1995]
Essays by emerging voices in comparative literature and theory that consider how the next generation of critics (who grew up in the ‘70s and went to graduate school in the ‘80s) receive paradigms that originated in the generational experiences of the 1960s. If interpretation both reflects and shapes its particular cultural moment, and if the next generation faces an entirely different social, political, and professional scene, should it not then follow that this generation’s theoretical orientation also be significantly different?

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Vol. 2, No. 2 [1994]
Essays on literary expressions of hermeneutics, aesthetics, ethics, phenomenology, and philosophy of self.

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Vol. 2, No. 1 [1994]
Essays that challenge the disciplinary limits of Wittgenstein studies, including discourse that includes Jacques Derrida, Joseph Conrad, and Ludwig Wittgenstein as architect.

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