Dear colleague,

We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, entitled ‘Crossings – Concept, Discourse, Practice’, has been published. This special issue is occasioned by the eponymous 12th annual CLIC day and was edited by Janine Hauthal and Arvi Sepp (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

The contributors to this issue explore the conceptual transversality of intermedially and transculturally oriented studies of crossings across medial, spatial, and historical axes. The media and genres they discuss range from autofiction on social media (Saemmer) and perceptions of literary translation through reader-generated social media posts (Sanz Gallego) to plurimedial theatre adaptations (Lacoue-Labarthe) and the embedding of visual art in literature (Mamatsashvili). While most contributions focus on 21st-century artworks, Manu’s exploration of 19th-century Victorian whimsical satire provides an inspiring example of how historical depth and an appreciation of contemporary aesthetics can fruitfully converge in the study of generic crossings. The special issue concludes with two interviews that bring humanities scholarship and artistic practice into dialogue about crossings, focusing respectively on 21st-century street poetry by poets David Giannoni and Timotéo Sergoï (Gusella) and on the way cultural, geographical, and linguistic intersections have shaped Belgian British poet Patrick McGuinness as a ‘writer of crossings’ (Rosenfeld).

The open access issue can be accessed under: clic.research.vub.be/volume-9-issue-1-2024-crossings-concept-discourse-practice or via the JLIC website:  Journal | CLIC (vub.be) .

Kind regards,

The JLIC editorial board,