This special issue of Mosaic celebrates the journal’s 50th anniversary and gathers together a number of papers and events presented at a symposium to mark that occasion. The symposium, titled Living On, was initiated by Dawne McCance and… more...

Within the biological-ecological sciences from which the term Anthropocene emerged, “scale” has a longer history and broader usage than it does within the now-proliferating philosophical, critical, theoretical, and ethical discourses that address environmentalism, climate change, and the Anthropocene’s… more...

With topics ranging from the origins of Romantic lyric, bibliotherapy, and the aging body in Marguerite Duras on to genre theory, the afflictions of Wallace Thurman, psychopomp in James Joyce, the manipulative gaze of war representation, and the… more...

The topography of the general issue is always rough and unpredictable. As the poet Trevor Joyce would put it, the granularity of every essay is different. The terrain is uneven, the content variable, and on the micro level… more...

The content of this general issue consistently brushes up against a loose and broadly defined notion of governmentality. governmentality—what Foucault also calls “the art of government” and describes as a poietics of governing—is closely tethered to a second… more...

Traditionally, letters have been regarded as “non-serious” or at least as superfluous to the critical enterprise proper (consider Kant’s division of Plato the letter-writer from Plato the philosophical father). But can letters themselves be considered critical forays and/or… more...

This June 2017 Feature Author issue of Mosaic includes, as its opening essay, the public lecture (slightly revised) that Rebecca Comay delivered at the University of Manitoba as Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, “Testament of the Revolution (Walter Benjamin).” Readers… more...

Part of Mosaic’s year-long 50th-anniversary celebration, this special issue gathers between two covers all of the “Crossings” interviews the journal has featured since 2001. In addition to 16 interviews led by Dawne McCance, Editor, with leading scholars, artists,… more...

Mosaic takes as its mandate the publication of interdisciplinary essays that open new research avenues. Noteworthy in this respect, the present issue brings the journal’s 2016 publication year to a fitting close. I am taken, for example, with… more...

This issue of Mosaic includes ten essays that engage a diverse range of works by John Dos Passos, Lawrence Durrell, Jean-Luc Godard, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Ondaatje, Aimee Phan, and Olivia Rosenthal, among others. From non-linear storytelling techniques to… more...

Since its first publication, Mosaic has had two subtitles: from issue 1.1 (1967) to 12.4 (1979), a journal for the comparative study of literature and ideas; and from 13.1 1979) to 49.1 (2016), a journal for the interdisciplinary… more...

This issue broaches the conflation of “animal” and “woman” in traditional discourses on sexuality and sexual difference in several unexpected, instructive, and interdisciplinary ways: approaching Woolf’s Flush as a source text for feminist and animal studies; reading the… more...

This is the third and final Mosaic special issue to feature papers presented at the October 1-4, 2014 A matter of lifedeath conference. Mosaic is pleased by the diversity of presentations the conference attracted and grateful to presenters,… more...

This special Mosaic issue, the second of three conference proceedings issues, collects papers presented at the A matter of life death conference held at the University of Manitoba from October 1-4, 2014. Most of the papers have been… more...

The issue opens with Elisabeth Weber’s keynote lecture, an unparalleled essay that treats the theologically informed political-subjective concept of sovereignty as pre-eminently the power to decide over life and death. She adds significantly and provocatively to our understanding… more...

This issue examines the potential of queer intervention into affect theory, exploring non-normative ways of feeling, existing, and relating. Essay topics include emotion and expression, trauma theory, collectivity, shame, desire, queer subjectivity, and performativity, among others. more...

This issue features new work by Professor Michael Naas, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, on Hélène Cixous. The issue also features an interview with Professor Naas. more...

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This Mosaic special issue engages the rich history of the word “Romance,” with essays on “the romantic,” the roman, romantic fiction, Romanticism, “the Romantics,” and the state of the love story in literature and film. more...

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous books, including Veering (2011) and the novel Quilt (2010). This issue will feature a “Crossings” interview with Professor Royle and new… more...