Emergence, Volume XI (2026)

Contents:

“Am I marble?”: Charlotte Brontë’s literary self-styling and “Preference” by Sophia Benito

Tragic Oscillations Between Rhizome and Arborescence in 1950s-1960s Countercultural Media by Hannah Brard

The Decline of the American Industrial Midwest & Its Post-Industrial Identity by Aldo Cardona

Engineering Uncertainty: Ursula K. Le Guin, Predictive Processing, and Reimagining Social Frameworks by Grace Fisher

Exalting the Fairy Tale: The Power of the Chimerical by by Ethan Griffin

Our Hamlets are Too Embarrassed to Be or Not to Be: How Cringe Culture has Stolen Shakespeare from Our Youth by Ophilia Hamze

A Puppet Has Nine Strings by Madeleine Mekari

Love Me, Madly by Sebastian Muñiz-Massa

Unresolved Histories, Untold Narratives: AIDS and the Social Responsibility of Language in “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals” by Mia Octavio

If You’re Cold, They’re Cold, Invite Them Into Your House!: Examining Home Spaces and Vampricisim in Interview With the Vampire by Dia Kai Singh

Inside the Minds of Latiné Poets by Jeovany Tzilin-Gomez

Recentering Mrs. Ramsay Through Psychoanalysis: Woolf, Joyce, and the Recovery of Maternal Psychic Power by Sopha E. Vogt

Paratext, Epitext, and Contemporary Media: The Evolution of Literary Culture Beyond the Book by Josephine Yario

edited by Shaun Nowicki