Modernism/modernity
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The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
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.
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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...
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...
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...
New Issue Alert!
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...
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...
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
modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
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...
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...
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...
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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
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...
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:
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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...
"Our title, “Modernism in Comics” [...] refers simultaneously to modernism’s representation in individual comics as well as the ethos of modernism that makes itself plain within so many comics produced."
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
May 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Our title, “Modernism in Comics” [...] refers simultaneously to modernism’s representation in individual comics as well as the ethos of modernism that makes itself plain within so many comics produced."
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
May 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
"Bilse and I. . . there is some sort of difference between us."
We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
May 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Bilse and I. . . there is some sort of difference between us."
We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
The latest entry in our Visualities forum, ed. @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Pardis Dabashi, is John Lurz on Barthes's 'semiographic' work. Read "A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
May 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The latest entry in our Visualities forum, ed. @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Pardis Dabashi, is John Lurz on Barthes's 'semiographic' work. Read "A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
"The privileging of negativity in modernist studies is connected in various ways to the gendering of modernism."
Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim...
Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim...
April 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"The privileging of negativity in modernist studies is connected in various ways to the gendering of modernism."
Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim...
Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim...
Read Hannah Roche's fantastic article, "Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures," now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/articles/roc...
April 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Read Hannah Roche's fantastic article, "Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures," now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/articles/roc...
"What is it like to write within a fold?"
In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
March 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"What is it like to write within a fold?"
In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics":
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Our latest issue is about to hit the printer! Read Anajli Nerlekar's editorial note in advance: modernismmodernity.org/editors
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Our latest issue is about to hit the printer! Read Anajli Nerlekar's editorial note in advance: modernismmodernity.org/editors
The latest in the "Visualities" Forum (edited by @alixbeeston.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social): Read @ria4983.bsky.social on the aspects of "Black Narcissus" that "elide, evade, and ultimately refuse to be controlled" by its directors: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The latest in the "Visualities" Forum (edited by @alixbeeston.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social): Read @ria4983.bsky.social on the aspects of "Black Narcissus" that "elide, evade, and ultimately refuse to be controlled" by its directors: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...