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🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!

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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We're delighted to announce our website is back online! Thank you all for your patience, & we'd like to invite you to take a look at our latest blog post. The contribution, written by A. Lawson, reflects on their path to writing on crime fiction! www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net/blog/the-pat...
The Path to Writing on Crime Fiction - On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett (The Ohio State University Press, 2024) by Ashley Lawson
​I admit that I was not always a devotee of crime fiction. My academic training focused on American Modernism, and the fact that this period coincided with the “golden age” of crime fiction and...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Kudos to Ashley Lawson, author ON EDGE: GENDER AND GENRE IN THE WORK OF SHIRLEY JACKSON, PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, AND LEIGH BRACKETT, which is nominated for an Edgar Award (critical/biographical) by @mysterywriters.bsky.social. ohiostatepress.org/b...
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that recognizing genre play as literary skill is essential for a more inclusive canon.
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January 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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