Dear Colleagues,

We take great pleasure in announcing the publication of the September 2023 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. The special issue, “Profilicity: Literature, Theory, and the Rise of Profile-Based Identity,” is guest edited by Professor Hans-Georg Moeller and Professor Paul J. D’Ambrosio. This special issue features four research articles. There are also five research articles on general topics. All articles are available on our website; for more information please visit http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/.

Sincerely,
Justin Prystash
Editor
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 49 No. 2 (September 2023)
Special Issue “Profilicity: Literature, Theory, and the Rise of Profile-Based Identity”
Guest Editors: Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio

Introduction
Introduction: From Technologies of the Self to Identity Technologies / Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio

Articles
The Rise of Profilicity and the Decline of Identity As We Know It / Seán McFadden

The “Digital Other”: Self-Objectification and Narration in Contemporary Fiction / Katja Kauer

The National Image of China and the Construction of a Profilic National Identity / Daniel Sarafinas

Working-Class Identity between Sincerity and Authenticity: From Wanchun Hu to Lijia Zhang / Luka Lei Zhang

Literary and Cultural Criticism
“Virgin Harlot Mother of War”: William Blake and the Cultural Image of Prostitution / Kang-Po Chen

Miasma in the House of Memory: Idealism, Contagion, and the Making of the Gothic Self / John Michael Corrigan

Adventures in Error: Social Science in the Sherlock Holmes Stories and Ulysses / Kevin Hart

Stevensian Dao, or the Possibilities of Change / Feng Dong

Public Secrets, Private Exposures: Li Ang’s The Lost Garden and Ye Zhaoyan’s Nanjing 1937: A Love Story / Billy Beswick