Contemporary Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewedacademic journal which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the contemporary literature field. Genre coverage includes poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, and new media (including digital literature and the graphic narrative). The editor-in-chief is Thomas Schaub (University of Wisconsin–Madison). It was established in 1960 as the Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, obtaining its current title in 1968.
