"One of the little-understood responsibilities of the artist is to bear witness—in almost a religious sense—to certain things ... the experience of suffering, the humiliation of any form of persecution."
—Joyce Carol Oates, 1982
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Intertextuality in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates
We invite scholars to submit paper proposals on any aspect of Oates studies for our panel at the annual American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Chicago. Proposal deadline: January 10, 2026. Please send proposals of approximately 200 words, along with a short bio, to Tanya Tromble-Giraud (tanya.giraud@univ-amu.fr) and Randy Souther (southerr@usfca.edu). Speakers will be invited to develop their papers into articles for submission to our journal.
For those who are unable to attend the ALA conference, we invite article submissions directly to Bearing Witness at any time.
Current Volume: Volume 6 (2025) Specters of Feminism in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction
Exploring Specters of Feminism in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates
Nicolas P. Boileau and Tanya L. Tromble
Essay
Joyce Carol Oates and Feminism: Facts Found and Foundered
Gavin J. Cologne-Brookes
Articles
Is Love a “pathological condition of the soul”? Joyce Carol Oates's Beasts and Rape: A Love Story
Nicolas P. Boileau
The 11-Year Itch: Exploitation as Sublimation in Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates, 2000; Andrew Dominik, 2022)
Jocelyn R. Dupont
The Mudwoman in the Academia: The Spectral Presence of Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway in Joyce Carol Oates's Mudwoman
Stéphanie Durrans
The Blinding Lights of (Post)feminist Empowerment in Joyce Carol Oates’s "Night, Neon”
Stéphanie Maerten
Editorial Board
- Editor
- Randy Souther
- Guest Editors for this Special Issue
- Nicolas Boileau
- Tanya L. Tromble
- Editorial Board
- Gavin Cologne-Brookes
- Joanne V. Creighton
- Brenda Daly
- Greg Johnson
- Tanya L. Tromble
