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english @ city college, cuny | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
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My co-edited volume with Cajetan Iheka - “Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960 - 2015” has been published! Those with institutional access to @universitypress.cambridge.org can read it online, and we are grateful for help in spreading the word.

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African Literature in Transition
Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Literature - African Literature in Transition
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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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...
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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).
moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · Oct 13
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...
An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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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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
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Our @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit is open. We're front & center in the Liberty B room & have @uchicagopress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social books & more! #msa2025
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Clemson University Press is at Modernist Studies Association 2025 in Boston this week on the 9th through the 12th! Stop by our table to browse recent Clemson UP books on display and say hello to our Acquisitions Editor, Andrew Dorkin. Hope to see you there!
A black post with the text "Modernist Studies Association 2025" with our table at the event!
October 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Every other year, the MSA awards a prize for Editions, Anthologies, and Collections. This year's winner is: Oliver Herford, editor of Henry James, The Prefaces, Vol. 33 of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James.

Congratulations Oliver and @universitypress.cambridge.org!
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 MSA First Book Prize: Sonali Thakker for The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought.

Congratulations Sonali and @stanfordpress.bsky.social!
The Reeducation of Race | Stanford University Press
World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as ...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press
In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP
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September 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Are you in Baltimore? Here are two great event you should come to!
September 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"Humanities Theory" by Amanda Anderson & Simon During, is now available as an ebook (bit.ly/4m6XGUU) and out in hardback and paperback on 7th Oct (UK) / 7th Jan (US).This is the first book in a new OUP series, Literature & Politics, ed by Janice Ho, Benjamin Kohlmann, and me: bit.ly/4ntmW9c.
Humanities Theory
Abstract. Humanities Theory offers a new framework for understanding the place of the humanities in the culture at large and as a transdisciplinary project
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September 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The MSA Committee of Contingent/Independent Scholars is holding a Zoom roundtable on Tues., Aug. 26, 4pm EST on “Funding and Support Off the Tenure Track and in the Face of Increasing Precarity” w/ @nissaren.bsky.social, Emily Bloom, and @chollis.bsky.social Email kschnur@qc.cuny.edu for Zoom link!
August 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Reminder! Deadline to sign up for @moderniststudies.bsky.social seminars at this year's conference, including mine on Surveillance Modernity (described below), is August 31.

#surveillancestudies
stephjayb.bsky.social Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social · Jun 12
If you'll be at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Oct and want to talk surveillance: just received the acceptance for the Surveillance Modernity, Surveillance Modernisms seminar. Join us!

(MSA registration coming soon!) @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
A description of the seminar, which reads: This seminar considers surveillance, broadly conceived, as a practice of modernity. In keeping with the theme of the conference, it encourages considerations of surveillance infrastructures as constitutive of, and responses to, modernity. It asks whether our definitions of modernity and modernism might reveal them to be coeval with surveillance as an increasingly institutional, corporate, transnational, and state-based mode of control. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the expansion of surveillance-based state power at the level of nations and empires (including emergent US imperial ambitions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific). However, the seminar will not limit its consideration of the entanglement of modernity and surveillance to these decades, and may include work that takes up surveillance modernity outside a strictly delineated historical modernism. Similarly, work that considers non-state infrastructures (of e.g. the factory, the ship, the corporation, the university) are welcome. The seminar will query how different media forms, working at scales that vary from the compactness of the passport, the poem, and the case file up to the expansiveness of the census, the sociological study, the epic, and the ordinance survey, registered emerging surveillance culture. It will ask, broadly, how surveillance practices and the institutions from which they emerged shaped modernist aesthetic practice? Similarly, it encourages participants consider the affordances of modernism to reveal the dynamics, desires, impulses, and demands that underlay various surveillance infrastructures as they evolved.
August 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
Tarot card image of the empress with a crown of stars. Text reads Weird Modernisms BAMS/ MSA 1- 4 July 2026 Loughborough University, UK
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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At this year's MSA conference in Boston, there will be some great keynote plenaries that should not be missed! On Friday, Oct. 9 at 4:30 pm, Kelly Rich and Jina Kim will give an Infrastructure Roundtable moderated by Michael Rubenstein.
July 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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There are so many great (free!) events lined up for the Boston MSA! The first is the Peripatetic Seminar led by John Plotz on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 5pm. The walk will be accessible and interactive. Space is limited so register now when you register for the conference! msa.press.jhu.edu/membership/c...
MSA Membership - Conferences
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July 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Registration for the 2025 MSA Conference is now open! If you didn't have a chance to submit a paper this year, there's still a chance to participate by registering for a seminar. Seminars are a great opportunity to get feedback on drafts. Seminar topics can be found here:
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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July 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Looking up the difference between an Air Tractor and a Turbo Thrush (fka Ag Commander) made me urgently need to find and watch Subway Sandwich Airstrike Takes Out Grandpa www.youtube.com/shorts/fres6YuuhQk
Subway Sandwich Air Strike Takes Out Grandpa
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July 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Today, I get to make my first major announcement as Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I am SO EXCITED that we are, in a small way, able to step in right at the moment when the NEA has left our country’s arts and culture sector high and dry. www.deepvellum.org/news/aghi-dv...
Deep Vellum announces partnership with The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins — Deep Vellum
JULY 2, 2025 — The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins and Deep Vellum are proud to partner in bringing the world’s greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres...
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July 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I’ve seen several pup pics recently and Enkidu says “let’s make it a trend”
A senior miniature poodle mix is sitting in a stroller. The sunshade is pulled down, but there’s a little mesh window in it, and the pup is looking up at you through the mesh with a big goofy grin
July 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM