Mediations is the journal of the Marxist Literary Group

Marxist Literary Group

The Marxist Literary Group is an affiliate of the Modern Language Association centered on scholarly discussion of the contributions of Marxism and the Marxist tradition in the humanities and related disciplines. It holds an annual summer institute, holds sessions at the MLA convention, and...

. Begun by Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...

 as a theoretical newsletter in the early 1970s, it was established as a journal in 1990-91 by Ron Strickland and Chris Newfield. The journal was reorganized in 2007 as a peer-reviewed web-based journal, appearing twice yearly and publishing dossiers of translated material on special topics and open-submission issues, usually in alternation. Recent contributors have included Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Paulo Arantes, Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he has directed the Centre for Civil Society since 2004. His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics...

, Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus

Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.-Life and work:...

, Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...

, Neil Larsen, Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...

, Francisco de Oliveira, Roberto Schwarz, and Paolo Virno

Paolo Virno

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. The journal's editorial operations are based in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...

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Editorial Board

Nicholas Brown, chair (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Eric Cazdyn (University of Toronto)

Maria Elisa Cevasco (University of São Paulo)

Timothy Choy (University of California, Davis)

Jamie Daniel (IFT/AFT/AFL-CIO)

Imre Szeman (University of Alberta)

Neil Larsen (University of California, Davis)

Silvia López (Carleton College)

Justin Paulson (Carleton University)

Modhumita Roy (Tufts University)

Emilio Sauri (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Recent Issues

Volume 25, No. 1: Marx, Politics… and Punk

Volume 24, No. 2: Marxism and Literature Revisited

Volume 24, No. 1: Dossier: South Africa

Volume 23, No. 2: History, Subjectivity

Volume 23, No. 1: Dossier: Brazil