The fall 2024 special issue of the journal College Literature contains ten thematic essays exploring various American literary institutions around the turn of the twentieth century. The issue was co-edited by Alexander Starre (FU Berlin), Sheila Liming (Champlain College), and Florian Sedlmeier (Bochum). Beyond the thematic introduction, Alexander Starre also co-wrote a research article with Florian Sedlmeier on the institutional configurations of "the study" and "the office" in the fiction and criticism of William Dean Howells and Willa Cather.