The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

PREFACE
Letter from the Editors

ARTICLES
Special Editors’ Introduction
Layne Parish Craig and Alexandra Edwards, Texas Christian University

Literary Memory of the 1932 Matanza
Arón Montenegro, University of California Irvine

The Labor of Limbs: Dance and Domesticity in Women’s Fiction Between the Wars and the Art of Moving Forward
Kimberly Coates, Bowling Green State University

Tenure-Excluded Faculty Speak: Roundtable on Contingent and Precarious Labor in Higher Education
Alexandra Edwards, Texas Christian University; Layne Craig, Texas Christian University; Nissa Cannon, Stanford University; Kate Schnur, CUNY Queens College; Josh Cohen, University of Georgia; Ally Nick, Young Harris College; and Elysia Balavage, Slippery Rock University

The Dignity of Labor: From Proletarian Literature to the Academic Precariat
Thomas Collins, Mercer University

Creative Contingency & Modernist Difficulty: A Case Study in Close Making
Kellie Krumrie, New Mexico State University

Austerity, Care Work, and General Education: Making Space for Modernism as Tactical Resistance
Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University

BOOK REVIEWS

CONTRIBUTORS
Biographies