There's still time to submit your proposals for NWiMS 15, deadline 5pm today! ⏰

This is such an interesting conversation! Djuna Barnes! open.spotify.com/episode/2tgp...

🔊 NWiMS Deadline Extended! If you're a PGR or ECR with an idea for a paper on modernist cultures, the deadline for submissions is now 5pm (GMT) Friday 19 December. Full details here: bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...

With @modernistudies.bsky.social we're pleased to announce our keynote speakers for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough in July 2026. First up is Catriona McAra, art historian, curator and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at University of Aberdeen.

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...

In "Curating Deviance," Marc Francis rekindles queer utopian imaginaries by studying how, from the 1960s to 1980s, a cadre of programmers and art house theaters brought together a dizzying array of deviant films to create a queer repertory film canon. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PTjtgDs

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

My intro to a new special issue on Chaplin for CQ, along with a mounting pile of brilliant essay constructions. Here’s the link …

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This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite