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Meow Mix | Cats in Hopkins Press Journals: A Reading List

Meow Mix; Cats in Hopkins Press Journals: A Reading List

Cats and the internet are a crowd-pleasing combination, and in honor of Rod Phillips' new book for Hopkins Press, Cats: A History, we surveyed our journals catalog for other academic research focusing on our feline friends, and came up with a whole litter of articles, spanning more than 30 journals and ranging from poetry and children's literature to the immortal cats of Poe, Eliot, Dickinson, and Joyce. 

Our curious curators collaborated on a cross section of content that we think is the cat's pajamas; find Project MUSE links in the list below: 

(Header photo from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

Cover of "Cats: A History" by Rod Phillips, featuring a painting of multiple cats on an ornate table.
Cats
A History
by Rod Phillips
Publication Date
Binding Type

Poetry & Fiction

The Times cover

The Times

Lucille Clifton
Callaloo
Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1999

Stevens’s Cat cover

Stevens’s Cat

William Virgil Davis
Wallace Stevens Journal
Volume 45, Number 2, Fall 2021

Ron's Cat cover

Ron's Cat

Dave Smith
The Hopkins Review
Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2011

Cover thumnail for Volume 12, Number 3, 2010

Home Sonnets

Susan J. Wolfson
Literary Imagination
Volume 12, Number 3, 2010

Cover thumnail for Volume 26, Number 4, Fall 2003

Notes for a Feline Sonnet

Jorge Brash, Steven F. White
Callaloo
Volume 26, Number 4, Fall 2003

Cover thumnail for Volume 130, Number 3, Summer 2022

An Insult to Biology, and: Political Animals

Rebecca Wolff
Sewanee Review
Volume 130, Number 3, Summer 2022

A Cat Named Lonesome cover

A Cat Named Lonesome

William Virgil Davis
The Hopkins Review
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2010

Cover thumnail for Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2008

Girl Cat Cape

Sheila Maldonado
Callaloo
Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2008

Desiderium cover

Desiderium

Matthew Olzmann
Sewanee Review
Volume 130, Number 1, Winter 2022

Cover thumnail for Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 2020

A True Story about a Cat and Possum, and: For a Sixtieth Birthday

Michael Collier
The Hopkins Review
Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 2020

Cover thumnail for Volume 10, 1986

Tigrino and Tigrene

Nina Cassian
The Lion and the Unicorn
Volume 10, 1986
Cover thumnail for Volume 12, Number 4, Fall 2019

Cat's Cradle

Amit Majmudar
The Hopkins Review
Volume 12, Number 4, Fall 2019

Common cover

Common

Anna Lena Phillips Bell
The Hopkins Review
Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 2025

Something Forced cover

Something Forced

Benjamin S. Grossberg
The Yale Review
Volume 107, Number 2, April 2019

A Pretext for Poetry cover

A Pretext for Poetry

Milton J. Bates
Wallace Stevens Journal
Volume 45, Number 2, Fall 2021

Canonical Cats

Through the Tiger's Eye: Constructing Animal Exoticism in Emily Dickinson's

Through the Tiger's Eye: Constructing Animal Exoticism in Emily Dickinson's "Big Cat" Poems

Leslie Mcabee
The Emily Dickinson Journal
Volume 26, Number 1, 2017

Cover thumnail for Volume 56, Number 1, 2018

"O Loire, what a fine bridge!": Foreignizing Domestications and Illustrating Bridges in James Joyce's The Cat and the Devil and Its French Translations

Aneesh Barai
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 56, Number 1, 2018

“A series of mere household events”: Poe’s “The Black Cat,” Domesticity, and Pet-Keeping in Nineteenth-Century America cover

“A series of mere household events”: Poe’s “The Black Cat,” Domesticity, and Pet-Keeping in Nineteenth-Century America

Heidi Hanrahan
Poe Studies
Volume 45, Number 1, 2012

Cat Got Your Tongue? Expression and Confession in Poe's Gothic cover

Cat Got Your Tongue? Expression and Confession in Poe's Gothic

Caleb Smith
ELH
Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2025

The Misdirection of Unconscious Motives in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” cover

The Misdirection of Unconscious Motives in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”

Ansu Louis
American Imago
Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2022

A “Wild” and “Homely Narrative”: Resisting Argument in “The Black Cat” cover

A “Wild” and “Homely Narrative”: Resisting Argument in “The Black Cat”

Paul Lewis
Poe Studies
Volume 35, Numbers 1-2, 2002,

Cover thumnail for Volume 120, Number 3, Summer 2012

T. S. Eliot's Autobiographical Cats

Henry Hart
Sewanee Review
Volume 120, Number 3, Summer 2012

The Sane, the Mad, the Good, the Bad: T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats cover

The Sane, the Mad, the Good, the Bad: T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Marion C. Hodge
Children's Literature
Volume 7, 1978
Cover thumnail for Volume 11, 1983

Eliot's Cats: Serious Play behind the Playful Seriousness

Paul Douglass
Children's Literature
Volume 11, 1983

Children's Literature

Cover thumnail for Volume 42, 2014

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss’s Racial Imagination

Philip Nel
Children's Literature
Volume 42, 2014

Cover thumnail for Volume 23, Number 2, April 1999

Amy Tan's The Chinese Siamese Cat: Chinoiserie and Ethnic Stereotypes

Sheng-mei Ma
The Lion and the Unicorn
Volume 23, Number 2, April 1999
Cover thumnail for Volume 22, 1994

Cat-Quest: A Symbolic Animal in Margaret Wise Brown

Suzanne Rahn
Children's Literature
Volume 22, 1994

Cover thumnail for Volume 63, Number 2, 2025

Cats in Space: Animal Astronauts, Scientific Information, and Nonfiction Picturebooks

Sharon Smulders
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 63, Number 2, 2025

Cover thumnail for Volume 63, Number 3, 2025

Child-Shaped Cats, Talking Hats, Jiggly Wurrms: The Joys of Un/doing Language and the Comfort of Interpretive Communities in Hungarian Nonsense Children's Literature

Anna Kérchy
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 63, Number 3, 2025

Cover thumnail for Volume 41, Number 2, Summer 2016

Everything I Wanted to Know about Sex I Learned from My Cat: Animal Stories, Working-Class “Life Troubles,” and the Child Reader in Victorian England

Monica Flegel
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Volume 41, Number 2, Summer 2016

Cover thumnail for Volume 13, Number 1, June 1989

Belling the Cat: Heroism and the Little Hero

Gregory Maguire
The Lion and the Unicorn
Volume 13, Number 1, June 1989
Cover thumnail for Volume 6, 1977

Individuation in "La Chatte Blanche"

Jane Merrill Filstrup
Children's Literature
Volume 6, 1977

Cover thumnail for Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 1991

Through a Glass, Intimately: The Distant Closeness of Paula Fox's One-Eyed Cat

Perry Nodelman
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 1991
Cover of "Catland" by Kathryn Hughes, showing Louis Wain’s stylized blue cat with large golden eyes and intricate white ornamental patterns.
Catland
Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
by Kathryn Hughes
Publication Date
Binding Type

Science

Cover thumnail for Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 1972

Comparative Oncology: Dogs, Cats, And Man

C. Richard Dorn
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 1972

 

Cover thumnail for Volume 30, Number 4, Summer 1987

The Importance of Animals in Biomedical Research

Robert W. Leader, Dennis Stark
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Volume 30, Number 4, Summer 1987

Humanities

Cover thumnail for Volume 17, Number 4, November 2010

Cat People

Glenn Willmott
Modernism/modernity
Volume 17, Number 4, November 2010

Cover thumnail for Volume 65, Number 3, September 2013

Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism

Brigitte Nicole Fielder
American Quarterly
Volume 65, Number 3, September 2013
Cover thumnail for Volume 53, Number 1, March 2001

Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet's Olympia

Jennifer DeVere Brody
Theatre Journal
Volume 53, Number 1, March 2001

Cover thumnail for Volume 31, Number 3, September 2024

From Streetsmart to Stranded: Stray Encounters with the Modernist Cat

Anushka Sen
Modernism/modernity
Volume 31, Number 3, September 2024

issue front cover image

Breeding True (or Not)

Harriet Ritvo
Victorian Review
Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2025

Cover thumnail for Volume 19, Number 3, October 2016

Migrant Cat: Family, Nation, and Empire in Prewar Japanese Migrant Fiction

Kristina S. Vassil
Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 19, Number 3, October 2016
Cover thumnail for Volume 63, Number 2, May 2011

Furry Cartography: Performing Species

Marla Carlson
Theatre Journal
Volume 63, Number 2, May 2011

Cover thumnail for Volume 40, Number 4, Summer 2007

Tobias Smollett and Cat-for-Hare: The Anatomy of a Picaresque Joke

William Gibson
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume 40, Number 4, Summer 2007

Cover thumnail for Volume 55, Number 1, January 2014

“Rowme” on the Street (A Cheshire “Cat Massacre”)

Odai Johnson
Theatre Survey
Volume 55, Number 1, January 2014

 

Cover thumnail for Volume 2, Number 2, October 1984

Cats, Snakes and Poetry: A Study of Seferis' "The Cats of Saint Nicholas"

Katerina Krikos-Davis
Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Volume 2, Number 2, October 1984

 

Cover thumnail for Volume 34, Number 3, Fall 1994

Magie et métaphores félines dans le Miroir des limbes

Béatrice Stiglitz 
l'esprit créateur
Volume 34, Number 3, Fall 1994

Cover thumnail for Volume 41, Number 3, Spring 2008

Dead Pets: Satire and Sentiment in British Elegies and Epitaphs for Animals

Ingrid H. Tague
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume 41, Number 3, Spring 2008
Written by: Rahne Alexander
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