Reflections

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

literary scholarship, editorial reflection, intellectual history, scholarly community, commemoration, centenary

Abstract

Phillip Sipiora surveys a pivotal moment in contemporary Norman Mailer studies, marked by the appearance of several major works that significantly deepen critical and biographical understanding of Mailer’s life and legacy. Balancing scholarly assessment with memorial reflection, Sipiora situates these publications within the ongoing mission of The Mailer Review while honoring the recent losses of key figures in the Mailer scholarly community. The essay underscores the cumulative intellectual labor represented by fifteen volumes of the journal, emphasizing their coherence as a long-term critical project responsive to evolving historical and cultural contexts. Looking ahead to forthcoming conferences and the centenary of Mailer’s birth, Sipiora frames the present moment as both retrospective and anticipatory, reaffirming the vitality, continuity, and collective purpose of Mailer scholarship at a significant historical juncture.

Author Biography

  • Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

    Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including Mind of an Outlaw (Selected Essays by Norman Mailer, Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, August, 2021), and author of Chapter 7, “Criticism,” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021). Forthcoming essays include “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2022).

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Published

2026-01-04 — Updated on 2026-01-04

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Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): 15th Anniversary Issue

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Reflections

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