Modern Fiction Studies

Volume 72.2 is here. You can read more to find more information about what is included in this volume.

Robert P. Marzec, Editor

Maren Linett, Associate Editor

Frida Beckman, Managing Editor

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72.2 (Summer 2026)

Special Issue: Fictions of the Pandemic

Special Issue Articles
- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Introduction: We Didn't Know, and Other Fictions"
- Elizabeth Outka, "'In Some Strange Way Altered': Miasmic Crises and Pandemic Fictions"
- Maggie Boyd and Bekah Waalkes, "Plotting Pandemic Fictions"
- Ben DeVries, "Miracle Drug: Therapeutic Fantasies for Pandemic Times"
- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Introduction: Critical Intervals"
- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Publishing in the Time Of: We're Still Writing the Book of the Pandemic"
- Reid Gómez, "Teaching in the Time Of: Loving What Is Not Loved"
- Natasha Bowdoin and Sarah Welch, "Drawing in the Time Of: One Seed Sprouted Another"
- Anqi Liu, "From Tiananmen to COVID: Diasporic Witnessing and Metanarratives of Crisis"
- Lilith Acadia, "Prescient Plague Fiction: How Science Fiction Anticipates Corporate Pandemic Profiteering"
- Heather King, "Necessary Forgetting: On Pandemic Autofiction"
General Articles
- Siggy Frank, "Narrative Surveillance and Omniscience: Traces of Historiographic Metafiction in Nabokov's Work"
- Francesca Coppa and Barri Gold, "In Defense of the Freaky Stuff: The Ecological Potential of Iterative Storytelling"