There is widespread agreement among scholars that postmodernism has been eclipsed as a guiding sensibility in the West in the late 20th–early 21st centuries. Characterizations of the currently dominant cultural logic have been explored in recent decades; none more robustly than metamodernism. This series invites analyses of metamodern phenomena from across disciplines, cultural contexts, and geographies. It aims to advance a cohesive, theoretical-historical framework for the study of the present; and to identify, categorize, and contextualize its manifold forms and manifestations. Contributions are invited from cultural, literary, film, and media scholars, historians (inclusive of art and architecture), philosophers, scholars of religion, and more. We welcome analyses that build from or expand upon existing theoretical bases for the study of metamodernism as well as those that query the limits of its theoretical reach or efficacy. Metamodern genres, sensibilities, and tropes that may be discussed include but aren't limited to: the return to historicity, the aesthetics of oscillation (e.g., informed naivete, pragmatic utopianism, 'ironesty'), the affective turn and novel politics of belief, community, network, and identity. Successful proposals will be accessible to a multidisciplinary audience and will forward our understanding of metamodernism’s relevance as a theoretical approach.

Series Editor: Linda C. Ceriello, Timotheus Vermeulen

Advisory Board: Robin van den Akker, Katie Elson Anderson, Gregory Dember, Alison Gibbons, Mika Hallila, Dennis Kersten, Jimenez Lai, Christian Moraru, Antony Rowland, Urmila Seshagiri, Usha Wilbers