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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Sep 9
We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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The Modernist Review Issue #57
8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…
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tomue.bsky.social
Still beavering away on my @navsa2025.bsky.social paper! #ModWrite
tomue.bsky.social Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 8d
This #ModWrite, I'm beavering away at my paper @navsa2025.bsky.social on Gissing's New Grub Street.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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jennykenyon.bsky.social
today's #ModWrite is appropriately aqueous, as I write a paper about the waves crashing on the shore and over the self in Ann Quin's novel Berg, ready for the @bristolcms.bsky.social Brat Symposium 🎶 Quin's my favourite reference baby 🎶
A black and white photo of Ann Quin seated in a wicker chair, holding up sheets of paper and intently reading them. She has dark bobbed hair, and is wearing a dark shirt. The kettle and stacked dishes in the background suggest the photo was taken in her bedsit (or at least cramped kitchen).
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jenniferashby.bsky.social
This #ModWrite I am finishing a section on Mina Loy's 'Parturition' (1914) and early twentieth century mysticism
Manuscript of Mina Loy's 'Parturition' held in Yale University's Beinecke Library. The first few stanzas are visible.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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erettalviste.bsky.social
#modwrite: I'm getting started on researching Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet (1974) via ecocritical/ ecofeminist/ posthuman lens. I know Natalya Lusty's, Susan Suleiman's, Gloria Feman Orenstein's, Gabriel García Ochoa's work, but any suggestions for eco-readings of Carrington are welcome!
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
Rainy Monday with #ModWrite! What are you working on today? We'd love to know - share with the hashtag!
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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intleliotsociety.bsky.social
#ModWrite Mondayers - know how it's easier to TALK ABOUT writing than sitting down to it? The Eliot Society grad student reps have a solution for you: a writing group for all!

November 20 - 5 pm CET - QR code to registration form is on the poster. Please RT and share, ty 🙏
Eliot Writing Group poster - November 20 2025
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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thelong1930s.bsky.social
Looking forward to going to this - Shiben Banerji is doing some of the most interesting work on the interwar period I know: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/shibe...

@modernistudies.bsky.social, could you share? Highly recommended for Modernist Studies people!
Shiben Banerji: Humanity without humanitarianism in interwar urbanism | King's College London
How can urban space create a global identity? Prof Shiben Banerji (UC Berkeley) comes to King's to discuss his latest book, focussing on an early-twentieth-century concept of the globe as an ethos, wh...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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tomue.bsky.social
This #ModWrite, I'm beavering away at my paper @navsa2025.bsky.social on Gissing's New Grub Street.
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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ria4983.bsky.social
A bit late for #ModWrite this week because I was at my Monday 9 a.m. volunteer student book club. To the Lighthouse! Ecocritical Woolf! Students literally shouting NO WAY over some of the best square brackets in Anglophone fiction!
Photo of a table strewn with books, papers, pens, and breakfast snacks
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
modernistudies.bsky.social
the clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in... but #ModWrite perseveres! share what you're working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
a cat is looking at a clock on a wall that says london
Alt: a cat slowly paws at the face of a clock, pushing the clock's second hand backwards
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November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
Just under a month to submit your proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/seminar proposals for the joint BAMS/MSA 2026 Weird Modernisms Conference. Let's get weird!

Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 29d
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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robbhawkes.bsky.social
Excited to see this cover image for the forthcoming volume Inflationary Modernities on the @springer.springernature.com website. It’s due out January 2026 and features a chapter @videotroph.bsky.social and I have co-authored on #TheGreatGatsby 🎉
Cover image for Inflationary Modernities Literature, Culture and Economy, edited by Wayne Stables and Kieran Brown, in the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics series. The images features an image of a large balloon with a crowd of people in the foreground.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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forster1970.bsky.social
My new book "E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations" is now with the publisher University of Warsaw Press and should appear as an Open Access e-book by the end of the year! #modwrite #emforster
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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jennykenyon.bsky.social
today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
modernistudies.bsky.social British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 22d
Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share what you are working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share what you are working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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modernistudies.bsky.social
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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moderniststudies.bsky.social
Also important to note: next year's conference is jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social!
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
Happy Monday! What are you working on today? Share with us using the hashtag #ModWrite.
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
It's #ModWrite Monday again! We're curious to learn what you're working on - share with us using the hashtag📚
October 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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intleliotsociety.bsky.social
Hi #ModWrite #Modernism peeps! If you've been to an Eliot Society meeting, you know we love our grad students and early career scholars.
We have annual awards to show where our hearts lie! Winners of the 2025 Fathman Awards are: Gabriela Minden and Nicholas Smart
September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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jennykenyon.bsky.social
today's #ModWrite I'm writing about illustrator Eric Fraser & his depiction of telephone trauma for Hamilton's radio play Money with Menaces. Fraser also invented 'Mr Therm' for British Gas: maybe the ultimate example of cute mascot & terrifying tagline?
www.modernillustration.org/archive/mrth...
A British Gas advert from the 1950s. Mr Therm is a smiling red character, his head (or hair) is made to look like flames. The tag line reads: Mr Therm burns to serve you
September 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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tomue.bsky.social
This #ModWrite, I'm polishing off my essay on The Holdovers. What a fab film!
September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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danieldicks.bsky.social
Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!
modernistudies.bsky.social British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Sep 29
It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.
September 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
modernistudies.bsky.social
It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.
September 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM