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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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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
Another event for Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11 is taking place next week (4 Nov) at the University of Turku – also live on Zoom, for those who couldn't make the London event.
Read our interview with the editor & translator here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Lovely event in London last week to celebrate the launch of Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, the first English translation of Finnish novel Mirdja.
Translator & editor pictured here, along with Stefano Evangelista, one of the General Editors of the series. Thanks to @uclssees.bsky.social for hosting!
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📣 The Yearbook of English Studies is out!

Edited by Richard Adelman, it features a new cover, a Foreword and Introduction, eleven articles and a special Open Access piece by Robert Eaglestone -'What to Do for English Now'- exploring the relevance of English Studies today.

👉 shorturl.at/OaISQ
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Other scholarly publishers! Please get in touch if you'd be interested in offering a discount on your humanities publications to members of the MHRA. Several generous publishers have already signed up, but we'd love to have more on board. Help us increase membership while driving sales of your books
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Tomorrow!

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'.

Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social
Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📣 New WPH Editor Wanted

We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.

Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
New WPH Editor Wanted
There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 10 November.
www.mhra.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!

Articles by Kirstin Gwyer, Eric Weiskott, Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Robson, Victoria H. A. White, Dora Osborne & Book Reviews.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55393
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📣 A new volume is just out in our New Translations series!

'Ramón María del Valle Inclán, Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War', translated by Elizabeth Drumm.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
'A Call from the Wild'

Barbara Burns speaks to Laura Linares (@lauralinares.bsky.social), whose book 'Translation Landscapes: Contemporary Galician Fiction in English' recently appeared in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
'Midnight on the Western Front'

Barbara Burns speaks to Elizabeth Drumm, whose edition of Ramón María del Valle-Inclán’s 'Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War' has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Hit me up if you'd like to review any of these!
These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch 📚
September 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch 📚
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔈 The latest book in our 'New Translation' series is out!

'Carl Sternheim, A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century', translated by Fred Bridgham.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
September 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'For it is autumn I love most of all, that time when everything withers and dies, blossoms and wilts, glows and pales in the same blink of an eye. When you’ve lived through autumn you’ve lived through life.'

– from Mirdja by L. Onerva
#autumn 🍂
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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📚Looking for a new book to read? Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, includes a review essay and 10 book reviews. 👀
- @iciberlinpress.bsky.social
- @undpress.bsky.social
- @uclpress.bsky.social
- @themhra.bsky.social
- @psupress.bsky.social
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September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!

'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
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September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun 😀
📅Event: Book launch for MHRA Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
23 Oct at 18:00, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, free 📖
Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship.

The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works.

Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026.

📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025

Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
'The Eloquent Picture'

Barbara Burns talks to Andy Stafford, whose book 'Photo-texts From Below: Collectivist Dispatches from the 21st-Century French Margins' has just been published in Legenda’s Visual Culture series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/08...
August 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' 132.2, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles by Stefan Baghiu, Catriona Kelly, Donald Ostrowski, Maria Grazia Bartolini, Balázs Apor & Book Reviews.

@projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55383
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM