In this season of thanks and as we close out 2025, all of us at Project MUSE wish to share our gratitude with our many friends, supporters, and colleagues from around the world. Thank you! From all of us at Project MUSE

Thank you to the latest to support #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore, @asmedotorg.bsky.social! To join ASME & the other generous sponsors in supporting our standards work: niso.plus/niso-plus-20... To join us in Baltimore: niso.plus/niso-plus-20...

With semester break upon us, keep up with scholarly content and create a free personalized MyMUSE account. MyMUSE offers a number of enhancements to help make your research and discovery more powerful and efficient. bit.ly/lMyMUSE #Discover #Explore #MUSE

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews. Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

In Visual Arts Research 51.2, read about how @gigisyu.bsky.social, @lllart.bsky.social, et al created a teaching resource to promote art making as a means of engaging with others & harnessing agency of materials as collaborative partners. #OA on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, William Foster Carr and Irina Arévalo Valverde translate an excerpt from Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's book The Strange Ones. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Kacy Dowd Tillman explores how archival petitions by Black loyalists during the Revolution challenge objectification & assert authorship. Her article reinterprets bureaucratic records as a form of early life writing. Now open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... @projectmuse.bsky.social #EAS

Journal of American Folklore special issue on “Folklore, Comics, & Graphic Storytelling” 138.550. @danielperetti.bsky.social, @ayannidoesthings.bsky.social, @sallypirie.bsky.social, @smposey.bsky.social, @kacymckinney.bsky.social, and more. @projectmuse.bsky.social: https//muse.jhu.edu/issue/55668

Heidi Ka-Sin Lee argues that the musical score in "Dune: Part One" functions as a quasi-diegetic entity for the viewer to grasp Paul Atreides's psychological states + the planets he traverses, in Music & the Moving Image 18.3, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

The amazing & enduring Jane Austen, born #otd 1775 - Happy 250! Do you have a favourite novel? Discover more about her work w/FREE OA book from @hopkinspress.bsky.social & their HOP Encore Edition w/ thanks to @nehgov.bsky.social & @mellon.org. #ReadUP bit.ly/fjaneausten #oa #janeausten

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Library Trends Volume 74, Number 2, November 2025 
 Special Issue: Libraries, Library Services, and Persons Living with Dementia 
 Guest Editors: Timothy J. Dickey and Sarah McNicol #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mv7wa6he#S2O

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Literature and Medicine Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2025 Special Issue: Shame and Medicine 
 Guest Editors: Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social tinyurl.com/46h43nwr

Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.4 is available on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Contributors include Britt Mize ( @tamu.bsky.social ), @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social ( @unibonn.bsky.social ), @dariocapelli.bsky.social , and more. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55693

American Music SPECIAL ISSUE on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Vol. 42, Iss. 2 is entitled "Current Perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico" and was guest edited by Marysol Quevedo. Contributors include Mark Levine ( @cnucaptains.bsky.social ), Noel Torres-Rivera, and more. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55782

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 4 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56088 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Check out the five new articles in The Pluralist Vol. 20, No. 3, now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55706

New volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature Vol. 125C (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54753 @projectmuse.bsky.social @ria.ie @graemewarren.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social

New issue of Neotestamentica Vol. 59, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56081 @projectmuse.bsky.social

Review alert! ✍️ ‘Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and the Correspondents' by Melvyn New was reviewed in the journal ‘SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900,’ Volume 63, Number 3, Summer 2025. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/nhch7nhb @projectmuse.bsky.social #18thCenturyLiterature #bookreview

Read the essay "Not Defiance, Not Deference: #Australia’s U.S. Alliance Pragmatism in the Second #TrumpAdministration" by Rory Medcalf ( @rorymedcalf.bsky.social ) on Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/136/arti...

In American Music 42.2, a special issue on Cuban and Puerto Rican music on @projectmuse.bsky.social , Benjamin Lapidus discuss how popular and folkloric Cuban music reflects a dialogue with music history and a Cuban context for issues like race, gender, faith, and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Library support means that @ceu-press.bsky.social has already been able to publish many new #OA books (with more funded and planned) ▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!

Join us in celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with a press-spanning Austen reading list! 30+ articles are free to read thru 31 Dec on @projectmuse.bsky.social, and we're offering a special discount code for Austen book titles: tinyurl.com/5dheyrpb Happy birthday Jane! 🥳🎉🎂🎁

Thanks @baltimoresun.bsky.social for the article this week reporting on our work with @ushmm.bsky.social. It can be read here: (bit.ly/SunMUSE_USHMM). MUSE & @hopkinspress.bsky.social are proud of this work of scholarly research & have made it open access and free to explore. bit.ly/USHMM_MUSE

Did you know, along with holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah & Kwanzaa, December is also the Universal Month for Human Rights? Explore more about #HumanRights w/ a FREE issue of HRQ from @hopkinspress.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4pobuwo #ReadUP #TeamUP #humanrightsmonth

RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD 16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the #Victorian literary scene, his engagement with his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age – also online via @projectmuse.bsky.social #C19th 5/5 asls.org.uk/publications...

"Embracing the Radical Potential of Art + Design Education," an #OpenAccess special issue of Visual Arts Research Vol. 51, Iss. 2, is guest edited by @courtniewolfgang.bsky.social, Mindi Rhoades, Veronica Hicks, and @lllart.bsky.social. Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55976

Two NEW journal issue releases: -International Journal of Surrealism @isss-surrealism.bsky.social 3.1: Collage Editors: Alyce Mahon and Katharine Conley -Swedish-American Studies 76 Editor: Mark Safstrom All available via @projectmuse.bsky.social Open access articles listed in comments.

Happy #HumanRightsDay! We collaborated with the editors of Human Rights Quarterly on a decades-spanning reading list celebrating the work of human rights labor around the world All articles will be free to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru the end of the year: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Victorian Poetry Volume 62, Number 4, Winter 2024 #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yjvj2rt5#S2O  CONTRIBUTORS
 Dana Moss
 Jude V. Nixon
 Joshua Fagan
 Nicholas Dunn-McAfee
 Saswati Sengupta

Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney argues that Poe's knowledge of daguerreotypy led to his narrative innovations in “The Gold-Bug” and other stories: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Gui Hwan Lee examines a 7min sequence from the soundtrack of Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" through the lenses of ecological satire, counterpoint, and third meaning in Music & the Moving Image 18.3, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015

New issue of Classical Journal Vol. 121, No. 2 (2025-2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56031 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025) The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! #litstudies muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

Praise for Christina Chalmers' "Free as a Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx's Capital" Read it in @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/908409

As fall comes to an end, check out this 2023 fall article, "Monstrous Beauty: The Alternative Aesthetic of Difference in Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters." muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... @projectmuse.bsky.social #ComicStudies #comics #MonsterTheory #formalism #LiteraryStudies #Chicago

SEL is excited to announce the release of our Autumn 2025 issue, 63.4 all about Neologisms. A huge thank you to our guest editors Padma Rangarajan and Michele Speitz! Read now on @ProjectMuse.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more updates on content and contributors! @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Read "Stoppard's Philosophical Investigations ; Or, Wittgenstein's Dogg's Hamlet" by @drfergusedwards.bsky.social It's available in the April 2023 issue of Philosophy and Literature via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Excited for this new issue of @sel1500to1900.bsky.social! Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55959

Maria Fuchs examines the music in German "Heimatfilm" (sentimental film in an idealized regional setting) in terms of cultural memory and the cultural coding of music in Vol. 18, Iss. 3 of Music and the Moving Image, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55551

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🆓 Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 59, No. 3, is now available and it's #OpenAccess from @projectmuse.bsky.social! Featuring 7 new articles and an essay review of Noël Carroll's "Classics in Western Philosophy of Art" (@hackettpub.bsky.social). muse.jhu.edu/issue/55534

According to John Ryan Fischer, Sauk and Meskwaki turned survival into strategy. Along the Mississippi, they blended adaptation and resistance, using trade, land, & selective adoption of colonial goods to sustain sovereignty after the Fox Wars. Link: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... @projectmuse.bsky.social

I loved working on this issue. Open access on @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Comics are Subversive medium! Check out this article by Margaret Galavan @projectmuse.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

Did you know, along with holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah & Kwanzaa, December, is the Universal Month for Human Rights. Discover & explore more about #HumanRights w/ a FREE issue of HRQ @hopkinspress.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/49yyap1 #ReadUP #TeamUP #humanrightsmonth

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW MLN Volume 140, Number 4, September 2025 (French Issue) 
 Special Issue: Un quart de tour: Writing at the Limit from France, 2000-2024 @ProjectMUSE #S2O #OpenAccess  tinyurl.com/3t8p3dew#S2O#OpenAccess CONTRIBUTORS Derek Schilling, Christy Wampole, Julien Tribotté, Aymeric Glacet, and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Lutheran Quarterly Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2025 @ProjectMUSE #S2O #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/2z2t5dww#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS
 Volker Leppin, Michael J. Halvorson, Timothy J. Wengert, Michael K.H. Lapp, Oliver K. Olson, Phillip Cary, Vincent Evener, Paul Strauss, Robert Christman & more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW L'Esprit Créateur Volume 65, Number 3, Fall 2025 
Special Issue: Reading the First Nations of Quebec: Indigenous Creativity and Critical Contexts 
 Guest Editors: Martin Munro and Miléna Santoro @ProjectMUSE #S2O #OpenAccess  tinyurl.com/bddmmfcz#S2O#OpenAccess