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The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Another event for Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11 is taking place next week (4 Nov) at the University of Turku – also live on Zoom, for those who couldn't make the London event.
Read our interview with the editor & translator here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Lovely event in London last week to celebrate the launch of Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, the first English translation of Finnish novel Mirdja.
Translator & editor pictured here, along with Stefano Evangelista, one of the General Editors of the series. Thanks to @uclssees.bsky.social for hosting!
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📣 The Yearbook of English Studies is out!

Edited by Richard Adelman, it features a new cover, a Foreword and Introduction, eleven articles and a special Open Access piece by Robert Eaglestone -'What to Do for English Now'- exploring the relevance of English Studies today.

👉 shorturl.at/OaISQ
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!

Articles by Kirstin Gwyer, Eric Weiskott, Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Robson, Victoria H. A. White, Dora Osborne & Book Reviews.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55393
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📣 A new volume is just out in our New Translations series!

'Ramón María del Valle Inclán, Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War', translated by Elizabeth Drumm.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
'A Call from the Wild'

Barbara Burns speaks to Laura Linares (@lauralinares.bsky.social), whose book 'Translation Landscapes: Contemporary Galician Fiction in English' recently appeared in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
'Midnight on the Western Front'

Barbara Burns speaks to Elizabeth Drumm, whose edition of Ramón María del Valle-Inclán’s 'Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War' has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch 📚
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔈 The latest book in our 'New Translation' series is out!

'Carl Sternheim, A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century', translated by Fred Bridgham.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
September 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'For it is autumn I love most of all, that time when everything withers and dies, blossoms and wilts, glows and pales in the same blink of an eye. When you’ve lived through autumn you’ve lived through life.'

– from Mirdja by L. Onerva
#autumn 🍂
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
'The Eloquent Picture'

Barbara Burns talks to Andy Stafford, whose book 'Photo-texts From Below: Collectivist Dispatches from the 21st-Century French Margins' has just been published in Legenda’s Visual Culture series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/08...
August 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' 132.2, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles by Stefan Baghiu, Catriona Kelly, Donald Ostrowski, Maria Grazia Bartolini, Balázs Apor & Book Reviews.

@projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55383
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by
@uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

Titled 'Crossing Boundaries: Human-Animal Relationships in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union', the Special Issue has been edited by Helena Holzberger & Timm Schönfelder.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
August 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
'A Tapestry of Nordic Decadence'

Barbara Burns talks to Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková about their work on 'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman', which has just appeared in the MHRA’s Jewelled Tortoise series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
July 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🗣️ Our latest book in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out now!

'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'. Translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction and notes by Viola Parente-Čapková.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @jstor.bsky.social 👉 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!

Articles by David J. Bailey, Shaun Regan, Ronnie Ferguson, Sabine Köllmann & Book Reviews.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55097
July 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
'Deus absconditus'

Barbara Burns talks to Clive Scott, whose book 'The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)' has recently appeared in Legenda’s Transcript series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
July 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
'How to Live in Cergy-Pontoise'

Barbara Burns talks to Ed Welch, whose book 'Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning' has recently won the Gapper Prize, and has just appeared in paperback, priced £14.99.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
July 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
'Claudia Dellacasa wins the Flaiano Prize'

We're thrilled to share that Claudia Dellacasa's book 'Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs' has won the XXIV Premio Internazionale Flaiano d’Italianistica “Luca Attanasio”.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
July 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
'Welcome to the Social Media Capital of the Universe'

Barbara Burns talks to Victoria Adams‬, whose book 'Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro: Reproducing the Past for the Present' has recently been published by Legenda.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/06...
June 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣 'Ed Welch wins the Gapper Prize 2024'

Huge congratulations to Ed Welch, whose book 'Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning' has won the 2024 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by ‪@frenchstudies.bsky.social.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/05...
May 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
'The Bad LSD Trip of an Overambitious Interior Designer in the 1970s (And Other Experiences of German Theatre)'

Barbara Burns interviews Joseph Prestwich about his new book 'Staging Germanness in Contemporary British Theatre', out with Legenda - and free to read! #OpenAccess

tinyurl.com/bdemr7ps
May 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out!

'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social).

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
May 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
'I Break, Therefore I Am'

See this fantastic interview by Barbara Burns with Rebecca Walker, whose book 'The Sense of Fracture in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante: Fragile Selves, Fragile Others' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/05...
May 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
'Making Languages Research Accessible to Policymakers'

Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04...
April 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM