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The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
New on Print Plus: Stephanie J. Brown writes on the deployment of images that depict and enact surveillant mechanisms in her article, "Suffrage Journalism against State Brutality: Surveillance Art in Votes for Women and The Suffragette, 1910–1914": modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For another teaser from our latest print issue, check out Edward Mitchell's review of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey by Sarah-Neel Smith, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
December 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In her Afterword to our new special issue, "The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” Rebecca Walkowitz writes about accepting the challenge of language, and rising to it.

Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wal...
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We are thrilled to call your attention to our new special issue, titled “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” guest-edited by the wonderful Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow! Read Anjali Nerlekar’s note introducing the issue here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/spec...
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
New on Print Plus

As a part of our "Visualities" blog series, Jane Frances Dunlop explores Gertrude Stein's visual thinking, the simultaneity of perception, and interdisciplinary approaches to seeing.

Read the piece here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New on Print Plus:

In their post "“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion" in the "Orientations" blog series, Bracken et al trace a missed connection between James Joyce and Samuel Seward.

Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.

Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"

Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New Issue Alert!

Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.

Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...

Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.

Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history

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September 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.

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September 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Friends, please take some time to read Sookyoung Lee's inaugural "Letter from the Field" in the Energy & Environment forum over at @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus. Soo asks us to "rethink professional life" as all of our infrastructural systems are either fraying or being weaponized against us:
Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past
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September 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past
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September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I reviewed this book for @mmodernity.bsky.social a few years ago, and it’s incredible. Check it out!
The 2025 Literary Studies winner is Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank, edited by Daniel Morgan (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Read Martin Harries's review of Thierry de Duve’s Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Now live on Print Plus: “Dreaming through Marg” by Rashmi Viswanathan

Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our latest issue is in the mail! This issue brings together innovative new work on modernism’s global forms, critical methods, and cultural histories.

Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
August 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.

Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...

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July 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read 💚🙌🏾

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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM