
Colloquies
Welcome to Colloquies, a dynamic index to current themes that run through Arcade’s field of literature, the humanities, and the world. For each Colloquy, a curator selects from a variety of intellectual work in different modes — journal articles, book chapters, multimedia recordings, and blog posts — to assemble a conversation. These topical clusters draw upon the best material that circulates through places where intellectual work is cultivated, including humanities centers, journals, presses, and other digital venues for scholarship and commentary, as well as Arcade's rich content.
Colloquies are built for interaction: they evolve as new material appears, while the older ones are archived and remain available. Visitors to Arcade are invited to submit their own contributions to open Colloquies for consideration by the curator. Of course, all Colloquies encourage comments.
How can readers become curators? All Colloquies, as well as everything published on Arcade, may be remixed into a discrete anthology, which we call "My Colloquies." The black button under the title of each item permits readers to create their own collections, which may be shared with friends, a class, or a reading group, or maintained for personal reflection.
Featured Colloquies


Elena Ferrante

Thing Theory in Literary Studies

Queer Environmentalities

On Being a Medievalist and More

Personification and Allegory: Selves and Signs

Prosody: Alternative Histories

Shakespeare and Cervantes Then and Now

Critical Semantics: New Transnational Keywords

Animals, Animacy, and the Moving Image

Postcolonial Spatialities

Imagining the Oceans

Tropicalismo Fifty Years Later

21st-Century Marxisms

Americans in Paris

Precariousness and Aesthetics

Locating Contemporary Asian American Poetry

Poetry after Language

We, Reading, Now

The Nature of Literary Being
