Melissa Bradshaw
@missybradshaw.bsky.social
Feminist modernist studies, American poetry, material culture, textual studies, periodical studies, DH, and all things diva at Loyola University Chicago. 1st VP of the Modernist Studies Association, Director of the Amy Lowell Letters Project.
Deadline extended for BAMS/MSA26!
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Deadline extended for BAMS/MSA26!
Stunned and thrilled that the Amy Lowell Letters Project was funded in this round with a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant!
NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k
NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects
tinyurl.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Stunned and thrilled that the Amy Lowell Letters Project was funded in this round with a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant!
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SHE WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST ACTUAL LIBRARIAN TO EVER GET THE JOB. BEFORE HER IT'S OLD WHITE DUDES ALL THE WAY DOWN
May 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
SHE WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST ACTUAL LIBRARIAN TO EVER GET THE JOB. BEFORE HER IT'S OLD WHITE DUDES ALL THE WAY DOWN
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Kate Schnur and I are co-editing a cluster for @fimassociation.bsky.social journal on accessibility and feminist modernism, or on "modernist difficulty." Abstracts aren't due until Nov. 15 so you have a long time to think about a submission. Feel free to reach out with questions. CFP is here:
Accessibility and “Modernist Difficulty”
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May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Kate Schnur and I are co-editing a cluster for @fimassociation.bsky.social journal on accessibility and feminist modernism, or on "modernist difficulty." Abstracts aren't due until Nov. 15 so you have a long time to think about a submission. Feel free to reach out with questions. CFP is here:
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While you're watching Cory Booker's soon-to-be record-breaking oratory in Washington, here's a way to help the humanities support free thought in the future...
Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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April 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
While you're watching Cory Booker's soon-to-be record-breaking oratory in Washington, here's a way to help the humanities support free thought in the future...
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Modernists, please share! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
March 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Modernists, please share! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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📢Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.
PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
📢Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.
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The MSA needs someone to take over as Treasurer this fall. Many members feel intimidated by the position, but the current Treasurer promises it's not as scary as it sounds. The organization can't run without a Treasurer! Please consider putting your name forward. Email or DM me for more details.
MSA Members! Are you interested in serving on the MSA Board, which runs our organization? We need you! There are four positions open: 2nd VP, Treasurer, Vice Program Chair, and Contingent Faculty Rep. Nominations are open until April 21. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...
Board Nominations
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The MSA needs someone to take over as Treasurer this fall. Many members feel intimidated by the position, but the current Treasurer promises it's not as scary as it sounds. The organization can't run without a Treasurer! Please consider putting your name forward. Email or DM me for more details.
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INCREDIBLE Ruling!
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
March 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
INCREDIBLE Ruling!
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
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MSA Members! Are you interested in serving on the MSA Board, which runs our organization? We need you! There are four positions open: 2nd VP, Treasurer, Vice Program Chair, and Contingent Faculty Rep. Nominations are open until April 21. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...
Board Nominations
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
March 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
MSA Members! Are you interested in serving on the MSA Board, which runs our organization? We need you! There are four positions open: 2nd VP, Treasurer, Vice Program Chair, and Contingent Faculty Rep. Nominations are open until April 21. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...
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NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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16,000 people died from the flu this year. It was the worst flu season in 15 years.
Now Trump & company are helping ensure we're not ready to keep our seniors safe next year.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html
Now Trump & company are helping ensure we're not ready to keep our seniors safe next year.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html
FDA cancels vaccine advisory meeting for choosing flu strains for next season's shots
It comes as RFK Jr., a vaccine skeptic who now leads the Department of Health and Human Services, makes moves that could affect vaccination uptake and policy.
www.cnbc.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
16,000 people died from the flu this year. It was the worst flu season in 15 years.
Now Trump & company are helping ensure we're not ready to keep our seniors safe next year.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html
Now Trump & company are helping ensure we're not ready to keep our seniors safe next year.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html
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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend.
And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October.
I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October.
I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend.
And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October.
I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October.
I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
February 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
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I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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February 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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Also featuring, from @mmodernity.bsky.social's Print Plus,
Nissa Ren Cannon on borrowing practices at Shakespeare & Company and the American Library in Paris
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Nissa Ren Cannon on borrowing practices at Shakespeare & Company and the American Library in Paris
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Gertrude Stein “was disappointed in me when I published Ulysses,” wrote Sylvia Beach in her 1959 memoir; “she even came with Alice to my bookshop to announce that they had transferred their membership to the American Library on the Right Bank.”[1] Stein’s move—from Shakespeare and Company to the American Library in Paris—has sustained the ongoing scholarly and popular
modernismmodernity.org
December 9, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Also featuring, from @mmodernity.bsky.social's Print Plus,
Nissa Ren Cannon on borrowing practices at Shakespeare & Company and the American Library in Paris
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Nissa Ren Cannon on borrowing practices at Shakespeare & Company and the American Library in Paris
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
2025 SSAWW Conference
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old
studyamericanwomenwriters.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
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If you've tried to access the new MSA website and got an error, it's possibly because the site hasn't been fully indexed and your university/ work server is blocking it. Try again in a few weeks, or try when you're in a different location.
The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM
If you've tried to access the new MSA website and got an error, it's possibly because the site hasn't been fully indexed and your university/ work server is blocking it. Try again in a few weeks, or try when you're in a different location.
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Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place.
Call your reps please.
Call your reps please.
Nancy Mace has introduced a federal bathroom ban which would ban trans people from bathrooms in DCA and Dulles airports, national park bathrooms, museum bathrooms, and all federal building bathrooms.
November 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place.
Call your reps please.
Call your reps please.
So happy about this beautiful new site and grateful to Steve Nathaniel for his work making it!
The MSA has a new website! www.moderniststudies.org (Notice the new easy-to-remember URL.)
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
So happy about this beautiful new site and grateful to Steve Nathaniel for his work making it!
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The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!
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Take a look at the gorgeous new MSA website!
The MSA has a new website! www.moderniststudies.org (Notice the new easy-to-remember URL.)
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Take a look at the gorgeous new MSA website!