The Hopkins Review 17.1: Are you with us?
From Gioncarlo Valentine’s collaborative cover image, Self-Portrait with Dawit, through guest editors Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager’s provocative folio of scholarship and art, “Locating a Collective Lyric ‘I,’” you’ll find engagement with plurality and the relational self throughout this winter issue. Come read, reflect, and connect in great company.
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Established in 1947 and relaunched in 2008, The Hopkins Review is a journal of literature and culture from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. It is published in partnership with Hopkins Press, America’s oldest university press.
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In this issue and beyond, you’ll cross languages, borders, and cultures; you’ll also experience the rich artistic life of The Hopkins Review’s home city. This juxtaposition of global and local reflects our belief in conversation across real and perceived distances—art and scholarship, tradition and innovation. Our community includes readers, writers, artists, and scholars; the staff of the Hopkins Press Journals Division; esteemed advisory and contributing editors; and a brilliant editorial team of students in the Writing Seminars at JHU. We hope the issues in 2023’s volume—our 16th in THR’s “New Series” founded by John T. Irwin in 2008—provide both escape and connection.
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Julián David Bañuelos, Sarah Beckmann, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Bethany Dixon, Leila Easa, Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Crystal Favorito, Eileen G’Sell, Briony Hughes, Christine Hume, Virginia Jackson, N. Jane Kalu, Laura Larson, Michael Leong, Chloe Martinez, James Miller, Mirabai (c. 1498–c. 1547), Tonee Moll, Amy Newman, David Ishaya Osu, Cristalina Parra, Michael Pearce, Antonia Pozzi (1912–1936), Related Tactics, Margaret Ronda, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, Jennifer Stager, Gioncarlo Valentine, Marcus Wicker, Kandis Williams
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On the cover is Baltimore-born photographer Gioncarlo Valentine’s Self-Portrait with Dawit (2020). As part of its special folio, 17.1 also features a full-color selection of works by Kandis Williams (also born in Baltimore), preceded by an essay by Williams.
Meet the Artist
featured in 17.1-4
Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning photographer and writer. Valentine hails from Baltimore City and attended Towson University, in Maryland. Backed by his seven years of social work experience, his photographic work seeks to examine issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities.