"Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation," edited by U. C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning, is published.
Volume 50, Number 1 of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is published. The journal launches a new website.
2010-2020
Robert L. Patten retires from SEL; Logan D. Browning is named Publisher and Executive Editor.
Joseph Campana is named Editor for 1500–1659.
Anniversary celebrations continue as SEL editors and staff host receptions at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) annual meeting in Vancouver CA; the 2011 Milton Society Dinner, held during the MLA convention in Los Angeles CA; the 2011 North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in Nashville TN; and the 2011 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference in Park City UT.
Photo: Joseph Campana, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
Alexander Regier is named Editor for 1660–1900.
SEL welcomes guests at the 2012 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference in Neuchâtel CH.
The Robert Lowry Patten Award is established to honor Robert L. Patten, Professor of English at Rice University and former Publisher and Executive Editor of SEL. The award is given each year to the best recent study in nineteenth-century British literary studies or the best recent study in British literary studies of the Restoration and eighteenth century.
Photo: Alexander Regier, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
Kay McStay retires from SEL; Becky Byron is hired as Associate Editor and Business Manager.
SEL cosponsors the closing banquet at the 2013 North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in Pasadena CA.
Photo: Becky Byron, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
K Krueger McDonald retires as Production Editor.
SEL sponsors the opening reception at the 2014 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference in Washington DC.
SEL is presented the 2014 Voyager Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver CA. The award recognizes excellence in any journal covering the period between 1500 and 1800. The judges noted that “Studies in English Literature has been and remains one of the premier journals of early modern English Literature.” They also proclaimed, “Each issue … reads as an achievement. This journal exhibits an admirable clarity of purpose and an undeniable unity, and it distributes high-calibre, original research in English literature that reflects the rigorous intellectual curiosity of the broader scholarly community in the humanities.”
Photo: 2014 Voyager Award presented to SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
SEL toasts the twentieth anniversary of the Diana Hobby Editorial Fellow program at its reception held during the 2016 MLA convention in Austin TX.
SEL underwrites a jazz funeral to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death at the 2016 Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) annual meeting in New Orleans LA.
Becky Byron is promoted to Managing Editor.
SEL sponsors the opening reception at the 2017 North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)/Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA) supernumerary conference at La Pietra in Florence IT, and the opening reception at the 2017 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference in Ottawa CA.
SEL celebrates another year of superb scholarship at the annual reception and awards celebration held at the Lotos Club in New York NY during the 2018 MLA convention.
The journal publishes a Winter special issue, “After Sovereignty,” which is highlighted at a Renaissance Society of America panel in New Orleans LA, and sponsors the opening reception at the 2018 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference at Brown University in Providence RI.
In the fall of 2018, SEL and JSTOR Labs announce the launch of their collaborative Understanding Series: British Literature repository (https://www.jstor.org/understand/british-literature).