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Welcome to the future home of Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. The journal hasn’t moved quite yet though. Please visit the Journal’s Home Page for current content and information on how to submit to the journal.

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (STTCL) is committed to publishing high quality, anonymously peer reviewed articles written in English on post-1900 literature, film, and media in French, German, and Spanish. The journal is devoted to theory and criticism in the modern languages, and encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative submissions. Each annual issue starts with a guest edited special focus section, with newly accepted general submissions and book reviews published incrementally throughout the year.

Announcement of Upcoming Issue:

Special Focus Section:  Volume 51.1 Special focus on early career scholars.

Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

Introductory Materials


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      STTCL Editorial Board

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        Special Focus


        Special Focus: Teaching 20th and 21st Century Literature

        • Kathleen Antonioli

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        “Vous en avez d’autres comme celui-ci?” (“Do you have any more like this one?”): Teaching Françoise Sagan’s 1954 Novel Bonjour tristesse to 21st-century Students

        • Mariah E Devereux Herbeck

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        Reading, Seeing, and Teaching Kafka’s The Metamorphosis in Translation

        • Mary A Bricker

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

        Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude through Talmudic Eyes

        • Ilan Stavans

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

        Exploring Maghrebi Literature Through the Lens of Active Learning Strategies

        • Florina Matu

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

        Teaching Hurricane María: From Chaos and Crisis to Healing and Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Fiction

        • Diana Aramburu

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

        Hooking Intermediate-level Students on Literature: Reading La Maison de Claudine with La Maison de Colette

        • Tama L. Engelking

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026

        Teaching Humor in French Literature in the 21st-Century Classroom

        • Jennifer J. Willging

        Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2026