Contemporary Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the contemporary literature field. Genre coverage includes poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media (including digital literature and the graphic narrative).
Contemporary Literature published the first academic articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe, as well as the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo. It also introduced American academic readers to Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee. Also published are articles based on wide ranging critical styles. Hence, the journal actively strives to include text analysis framed "within larger literary historical, theoretical or cultural debates".
The current editors are Thomas Schaub and Timothy Wu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael LeMahieu of Clemson University, and John Marx of the University of California, Davis.[1]