Lauren M. Rosenblum

As Janine Utell writes of her experience in the opening post of this forum, reader reports can helpfully push our work forward towards publication. But she also points out that they can (perhaps unintentionally) dismantle our attempts to draw attention to what is excluded from conventional scholarly inquiry. I, too, recently was struck by a particularly provocative comment on an article I submitted on the writer Katherine Mansfield, and similarly have now come to realize that traditional...

In Towards a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed writes of feminism as “a fragile archive, a body assembled from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility.” [1] From this tenuous archive, I seek an affirming inclusion in modernist studies: Urmila Seshagiri explains in a recent Modernism/modernity Print Plus cluster that “the process of canon-formation––and deformation, and reformation––constitutes the simplest and yet the most complex act in feminist scholarship...