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Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
Hello Beckettians and Modernists! You can now access registration link, full programme of the seminar, and abstracts and bio on the website of The Samuel Beckett Society: samuelbeckettsociety.org
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November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
Check out the new Modernism/ modernity issue!
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...
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Check out the new Modernism/ modernity issue!
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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...
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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...
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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Just under a month to submit your proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/seminar proposals for the joint BAMS/MSA 2026 Weird Modernisms Conference. Let's get weird!
Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just under a month to submit your proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/seminar proposals for the joint BAMS/MSA 2026 Weird Modernisms Conference. Let's get weird!
Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
Congrats to Aurore, John, and Jordan! The Film Studies SIG has organized some great events for the MSA, and we're all excited to see what comes next. Thank you for your service!
I'm excited to announce that I've just become the new co-chair of the Film Studies SIG for the Modernist Studies Association! @moderniststudies.bsky.social I'll be working with John Hoffmann and Jordan Brower to continue making MSA a welcoming space for film and media scholars.
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congrats to Aurore, John, and Jordan! The Film Studies SIG has organized some great events for the MSA, and we're all excited to see what comes next. Thank you for your service!
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Hey @matthewlevay.bsky.social —You did a great job as MSA program chair—it was a great conference—THANK YOU! ❤️💙💛 @moderniststudies.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hey @matthewlevay.bsky.social —You did a great job as MSA program chair—it was a great conference—THANK YOU! ❤️💙💛 @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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Had a preview of this last week at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, and can't wait to teach with it!
Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Had a preview of this last week at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, and can't wait to teach with it!
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today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share what you are working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
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Don't know if I'll be able to make it to the UK next summer — hope so, tho, bc this is exactly my field of study: weird modernism and/or the intersections of modernism and weird fiction.
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Don't know if I'll be able to make it to the UK next summer — hope so, tho, bc this is exactly my field of study: weird modernism and/or the intersections of modernism and weird fiction.
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A few notes and highlights from my MSA 2025. The Baroness and Djuna Barnes; Marianne Moore; H.D. and Bryher; Anticolonial manifestoes; South Asian modernism. And: remembering Sejal Sutaria.
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social
www.electrostani.com/2025/10/note...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social
www.electrostani.com/2025/10/note...
October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A few notes and highlights from my MSA 2025. The Baroness and Djuna Barnes; Marianne Moore; H.D. and Bryher; Anticolonial manifestoes; South Asian modernism. And: remembering Sejal Sutaria.
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social
www.electrostani.com/2025/10/note...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social
www.electrostani.com/2025/10/note...
Did you know the next MSA Conference in the UK will be a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social? And if you can't make it to the UK next summer, there will be opportunities to present in online panels and roundtables at this conference. More information in the CFP:
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Did you know the next MSA Conference in the UK will be a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social? And if you can't make it to the UK next summer, there will be opportunities to present in online panels and roundtables at this conference. More information in the CFP:
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More pics from the weekend..below left is @wwnorton.com author Bench Ansfield at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social exhibit holding Born in Flames, & on the right, @fordhampress.bsky.social author Christopher Breu at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit with In Defense of Sex. #uha2025 #msa2025
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
More pics from the weekend..below left is @wwnorton.com author Bench Ansfield at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social exhibit holding Born in Flames, & on the right, @fordhampress.bsky.social author Christopher Breu at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit with In Defense of Sex. #uha2025 #msa2025
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We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
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Now that the amazing and insanely full MSA Boston conference is over, I'm just making sure the place in NYC where EE Cummings would bellow YOU ALRIGHT DJUNA to Barnes across the way is still there (it's there)
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October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Now that the amazing and insanely full MSA Boston conference is over, I'm just making sure the place in NYC where EE Cummings would bellow YOU ALRIGHT DJUNA to Barnes across the way is still there (it's there)
@moderniststudies.bsky.social
@moderniststudies.bsky.social
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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can confirm @oxfordacademic.bsky.social discount for books displayed @moderniststudies.bsky.social works!
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
can confirm @oxfordacademic.bsky.social discount for books displayed @moderniststudies.bsky.social works!
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So many thanks to the organizers of @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston 2025 - so many great conversations and new ideas.
And I have the perfect book for the return journey!
And I have the perfect book for the return journey!
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
So many thanks to the organizers of @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston 2025 - so many great conversations and new ideas.
And I have the perfect book for the return journey!
And I have the perfect book for the return journey!
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"Shall I ask them to rebuild the college on the old lines? Or shall I ask them to rebuild it, but differently? Or shall I ask them to buy rags and petrol and Bryant & May’s matches and burn the college to the ground?" —Virginia Woolf
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On Not Knowing Professors: Virginia Woolf’s Outsider Pedagogy for Common Readers
I delivered the following essay as a paper at the 2025 Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston. (There are actually a couple more paragraphs here than in the paper as delivered, since I cut...
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October 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Shall I ask them to rebuild the college on the old lines? Or shall I ask them to rebuild it, but differently? Or shall I ask them to buy rags and petrol and Bryant & May’s matches and burn the college to the ground?" —Virginia Woolf
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This is my paper from the 2025 @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, just finishing up today. It was heartening to be able to have thoughtful discussions with folks about the difficult, painful realities of higher education today.
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is my paper from the 2025 @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, just finishing up today. It was heartening to be able to have thoughtful discussions with folks about the difficult, painful realities of higher education today.
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Today's first author pic comes from the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference where @utexaspress.bsky.social author Shiben Banerji stopped by to pose with his book, Lineages of the Global City. #msa2025
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today's first author pic comes from the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference where @utexaspress.bsky.social author Shiben Banerji stopped by to pose with his book, Lineages of the Global City. #msa2025
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I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism