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The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asiaβs Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
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This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately Iβve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.
30.07.2025 13:38 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read πππΎ
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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on βThe Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and Warβ: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
30.07.2025 13:29 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2
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...
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).
Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurmanβs typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
25.06.2025 18:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
"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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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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This week in our βIn These Timesβ forum, edited by @debraraecohen.bsky.social, read our managing editor, Harrington Weihl, on βthe tension between gender conservatism and the future of [the Olympics] as a liberal institutionβ: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
06.06.2025 16:10 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"Gaza is not the subject of the next paper. Its writers and artists are not bait for a new grant or fellowship. Its murdered children are not the subject of the next ethnographic study, or the next anthology or the next art installation or digital humanities project."
31.05.2025 06:00 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0"Palestinian literature is not literature for times of crisis, and its study is not an afterthought or a 'safe' way to show solidarity."
Our latest 'field report' comes from Huda Fakhreddine. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
"Where does understanding modernisms as local responses to a global colonial-capitalist modernity get us? What are the affordances of this redefinition?"
Mukti Mangharam has taken over the helm of our Field Reports forum! Read her introductory post here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
"Our title, βModernism in Comicsβ [...] refers simultaneously to modernismβs 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...
I wrote about Tove Jansson and queer modernism in comics for this cluster, super excited itβs finally out!
21.05.2025 06:04 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Eager to share this cluster on modernism in comics, now on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus! With contributions from @lkonstan.bsky.social, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Paul Peppis, Jean Lee Cole, Marie Sartain, Mike Classon Frangos, and @kinohi.bsky.social.
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"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 periodβs most vibrant yet critically derided art formsβcomics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
20.05.2025 15:40 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 0 π 2Read Tobias Boes on ensoulment as the "subjective expansion of a representation of reality" in his critical introduction to "Bilse and I" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
07.05.2025 20:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"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":
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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...
01.05.2025 19:09 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"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...
The deadline for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston has been extended to April 15! If you've been thinking of submitting a panel, paper, or roundtable proposal, you now have more time to do so.
It will feel good to gather to talk about modernism, the 20th century, and higher education. Join us!
Read Hannah Roche's fantastic article, "Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hallβs Reproductive Futures," now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/articles/roc...
02.04.2025 19:32 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
"What is it like to write within a fold?"
In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics":
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π’Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.
24.03.2025 17:29 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Our latest issue is about to hit the printer! Read Anajli Nerlekar's editorial note in advance: modernismmodernity.org/editors
20.03.2025 16:15 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0In which I sound off about Black Narcissus, Michael Powell, and uncredited actors stealing the show.
Thank you for reading ππΎ
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...
13.03.2025 15:46 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1
CFP MLA 2026: submit an abstract for MSA's guaranteed session at MLA Toronto on:
all things modernism and generosity, excess, 'too much' (or just enough), (free) labour, generous scholarship/writing, etc. etc.
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