Introduction / Michael J. Collins and Gavin Jones
Transatlantic print culture and the emergence of short narratives / Oliver Scheiding
The short story and the early magazine / Jared Gardner
The short story fad: gender, pleasure, and commodity culture in late nineteenth-century magazines / Brad Evans
The best of the best: anthologies, prizes, and the short story canon / Alexander Manshel
The story of a semester: short fiction and the program era / Loren Glass
The short story in the age of the internet / Simone Murray
The war story / Cody Marrs
Narratives from below: working-class short fiction / Owen Clayton
The short story and the popular imagination: pulp and crime / Will Norman
Love what you do: neoliberalism, emotional labor, and the short story as a service / Lee Konstantinou
Local color to multiculturalism: minority writers in the short story and ethnographic markets / Long Le-Khac
Part III: People and places
Native American short stories / Hertha D. Sweet Wong
African American short stories: from reform to renaissance / Amina Gautier
Little postage stamps: the short story, the American south, and the world / Coleman Hutchinson
Regional stories and the environmental imagination / Sylvan Goldberg
Concrete illuminations: the short story and/as urban revolution / Myka Tucker-Abramson
Short fiction, language learning, and innocent comedy / Gabriella Safran
The technology of the short story / Shelley Streeby
Homelessness: the short story and other media / Gavin Jones
The human and the animal: toward posthumanist short fiction / Michael Lundblad
The end of the story: grammar, gender, and time in the contemporary short story / Lola Boorman
The affordances of mere length: computational approaches to short story analysis / Mark Algee-Hewitt, Anna Mukamal, and J.D. Porter
