Modern Humanities Research Association
@themhra.bsky.social
The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
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Announcing our new MHRA Member Benefits
We have a new online membership platform, making it easier than ever to join, and many new benefits too.
www.mhra.org.uk
We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies
In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies
In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
Funding
www.mhra.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
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New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London.
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies
Our journal Portuguese Studies celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a special issue.
www.mhra.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London.
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Announcing our new MHRA Member Benefits
We have a new online membership platform, making it easier than ever to join, and many new benefits too.
www.mhra.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine
Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝
Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.
Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝
Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM
The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine
Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝
Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.
Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝
Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.
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Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Languages Research Database | University Council For Languages
A free, searchable resource of concise, impact-focused research summaries in the field of languages, created specifically for policymakers.
university-council-for-languages.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Languages Research Database | University Council For Languages
A free, searchable resource of concise, impact-focused research summaries in the field of languages, created specifically for policymakers.
university-council-for-languages.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 AM
'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
'A Better Bristol is a Better World'
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
'A Better Bristol is a Better World'
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
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41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394
@themhra.bsky.social
@themhra.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 11:40 AM
41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394
@themhra.bsky.social
@themhra.bsky.social
'Contributing'
Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
January 26, 2026 at 9:57 AM
'Contributing'
Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
'Struggling since 1859'
Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
'Struggling since 1859'
Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
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Newly published after eight long years of work! Thank you to the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social for its confidence in this demanding project, and to its publishing manager, Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social for his invaluable contribution to making this book a better one: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez
Modern Humanities Research Association - George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez
www.mhra.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Newly published after eight long years of work! Thank you to the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social for its confidence in this demanding project, and to its publishing manager, Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social for his invaluable contribution to making this book a better one: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.
📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
January 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.
📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#EarlyModern
🔈🔈🔈 We're delighted to announce four forthcoming books!
Two in New Translations...
- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.
- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.
Two in New Translations...
- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.
- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🔈🔈🔈 We're delighted to announce four forthcoming books!
Two in New Translations...
- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.
- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.
Two in New Translations...
- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.
- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.
🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160
'Are Adjectives a Match for God?'
Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...
Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'Are Adjectives a Match for God?'
Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...
Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...
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Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year 🏴
[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]
[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year 🏴
[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]
[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The UCFL ECA SIG is looking for new reps! We have openings in German, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, and Middle Eastern Studies. Details below, and the application deadline is 15 December. Get in touch with the SIG co-chairs @oliviaglaze.bsky.social & @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social with questions 🥳
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The UCFL ECA SIG is looking for new reps! We have openings in German, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, and Middle Eastern Studies. Details below, and the application deadline is 15 December. Get in touch with the SIG co-chairs @oliviaglaze.bsky.social & @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social with questions 🥳
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Often very useful reading of the state of play in English studies in the UK bsky.app/profile/them... - although isn't AI beginning to demonstrate increasing relevance to the field? "We’re people, not robots" - but aren't robots being developed, via Large Language Models, into readers and writers?
'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
Project MUSE - What to Do for English Now
muse.jhu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Often very useful reading of the state of play in English studies in the UK bsky.app/profile/them... - although isn't AI beginning to demonstrate increasing relevance to the field? "We’re people, not robots" - but aren't robots being developed, via Large Language Models, into readers and writers?
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Many thanks to @themhra.bsky.social for making my 1987 book open access. It is great to see it available again:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language - Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Modern Humanities Research Association - Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language - Wendy Ayres-Bennett
www.mhra.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Many thanks to @themhra.bsky.social for making my 1987 book open access. It is great to see it available again:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
Project MUSE - What to Do for English Now
muse.jhu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...