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The International T. S. Eliot Society
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Founded in 1980, the International T. S. Eliot Society is an association of persons around the world who are interested in the art and thought of T. S. Eliot.

Join us: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/tseliotsociety/
#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 🙏
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Alana Murphy is an English PhD student at the University at Buffalo, was the Digital Managing Editor for Modernism/modernity, and is transcriber for the Amy Lowell Letters Project. She traveled to present her paper "From the Desk of Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot" at our conference
September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nicholas Smart is a Junior Research Fellow in English at New College, Oxford. His PhD thesis, “T. S. Eliot and the Making of Reputation” examined Eliot’s approach to, and anxieties about, matters of self-fashioning. He has also published on TSE’s theories of the archive in ELH
September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Gabriela Minden is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University, where she is researching the role of dance in the development of modern verse drama. She is the author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre (OUP, 2025)
September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Happy belated birthday to me! - TSE
September 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Want another listen of Fran Brearton's excellent Memorial Lecture at our annual conference in Dublin? Thanks to TCD, we have a recording!

"Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940"
soundcloud.com/tlrhub/ts-el...

#ModWrite #modernist #modernism #litstudies
July 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For #ModWrite this week, how about a ModRead? Our new Eliot Studies Annual is out now. Chew on these:
- Special forum: THE ELIOT WE NEED
Higher ed is collapsing, climate crises abound. Our Prez asks: "in what contemporary struggles could we enlist Eliot as an ally?"
June 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey modernists, the new issue of T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is now out and it looks pretty good!

TOC: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/tsesa/cu...
June 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New scholarship alert 📖
Kevin Rulo, author of SATIRIC MODERNISM from @cupress.bsky.social asks, "Who is the young man carbuncular who appears in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?"

Link below. Please repost and give us a read before our Annual Meeting, Jul 2-5, 2025 in Dublin. Join us if you are able!
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ann Marie Jakubowski @amjakubowski.bsky.social was our other brilliant Fathman awardee 🤩😻🥳

Her essay reimagines the experience of religious conversion as textual revision, examining the intertextual relationship between Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets through the Hale letters
January 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Brenna Courtney was one of our 2 Fathman Award winners! 🥳

Her "T. S. Eliot's Marianne Moore's 'Restraint'" argues that it was Eliot who first pitched Moore as a "restrained" poet, a trope that has obscured the ways in which Moore's Observations (1924) transcends the descriptor
January 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Last year, we were so delighted with Erin Yanota @drbigyan.bsky.social
whose "Eliot, Mysticism, and a Usable Past" won the Annual Prize!

Yanota reads "Little Gidding" to show how the dialectical mode can help us to grapple anew with contradictions in modernism and its afterlives 🥳🥳🥳🤓📚
January 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland

Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
January 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM