Modernism/modernity
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The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
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H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.
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H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New on Print Plus:
H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...
A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New on Print Plus:
A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...
A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"
Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...
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Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.
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Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.
Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...
Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New Issue Alert!
Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.
Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...
Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.
Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...
Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
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Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.
Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...
Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.
Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New on Print Plus:
Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.
Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...
Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.
Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...
New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history
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September 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history
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modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.
Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
September 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.
Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Exciting news from @msa-modenviro.bsky.social and @mmodernity.bsky.social
We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past
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September 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Exciting news from @msa-modenviro.bsky.social and @mmodernity.bsky.social
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Friends, please take some time to read Sookyoung Lee's inaugural "Letter from the Field" in the Energy & Environment forum over at @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus. Soo asks us to "rethink professional life" as all of our infrastructural systems are either fraying or being weaponized against us:
Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past
modernismmodernity.org
September 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Friends, please take some time to read Sookyoung Lee's inaugural "Letter from the Field" in the Energy & Environment forum over at @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus. Soo asks us to "rethink professional life" as all of our infrastructural systems are either fraying or being weaponized against us:
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We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past
modernismmodernity.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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I reviewed this book for @mmodernity.bsky.social a few years ago, and it’s incredible. Check it out!
The 2025 Literary Studies winner is Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank, edited by Daniel Morgan (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I reviewed this book for @mmodernity.bsky.social a few years ago, and it’s incredible. Check it out!
Read Martin Harries's review of Thierry de Duve’s Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read Martin Harries's review of Thierry de Duve’s Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Now live on Print Plus: “Dreaming through Marg” by Rashmi Viswanathan
Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Now live on Print Plus: “Dreaming through Marg” by Rashmi Viswanathan
Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
Our latest issue is in the mail! This issue brings together innovative new work on modernism’s global forms, critical methods, and cultural histories.
Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our latest issue is in the mail! This issue brings together innovative new work on modernism’s global forms, critical methods, and cultural histories.
Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
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Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
August 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.
Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
@laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
@laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
@laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
@laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social
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This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.
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Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read 💚🙌🏾
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read 💚🙌🏾
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Our latest cluster, "Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris: A Poem' @ 100", edited by Nell Wasserstrom and Rio Matchett, takes a long walk along the Seine.
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
July 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Our latest cluster, "Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris: A Poem' @ 100", edited by Nell Wasserstrom and Rio Matchett, takes a long walk along the Seine.
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
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Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+.
The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+.
The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
"The modernist beachscape yields a rich cultural archive and a generative space through which to think questions of emplacement, improvisation, and relationality."
From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach":
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From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"The modernist beachscape yields a rich cultural archive and a generative space through which to think questions of emplacement, improvisation, and relationality."
From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team!
Read his farewell message here:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
Read his farewell message here:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
June 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team!
Read his farewell message here:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
Read his farewell message here:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
This week in our “In These Times” forum, edited by @debraraecohen.bsky.social, read our managing editor, Harrington Weihl, on “the tension between gender conservatism and the future of [the Olympics] as a liberal institution”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
June 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week in our “In These Times” forum, edited by @debraraecohen.bsky.social, read our managing editor, Harrington Weihl, on “the tension between gender conservatism and the future of [the Olympics] as a liberal institution”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...