Modern Humanities Research Association

'Contributing'

Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

Book's front-cover

Photo of the book's author

'Struggling since 1859'

Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez Modern Humanities Research Association - George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez

Newly published after eight long years of work! Thank you to the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social for its confidence in this demanding project, and to its publishing manager, Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social for his invaluable contribution to making this book a better one: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.

The front cover of the volume, featuring a painting of Actaeon and Diana by Lucas Cranach

📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'

Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

#EarlyModern

Links to all four books below ⬇️

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... And two more in Critical Texts, with covers still in preparation!

- 'Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, Tragedia de la destruyción de Constantinopla', edited by Aaron M. Kahn

- 'Zachary Coke, The Art of Logic Education, Freedom of Speech, and Liberty in the English Republic', edited by Emma Wilson

Frontcover of Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953

Frontcover of Berthe Morisot’s Journals Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle

🔈🔈🔈 We're delighted to announce four forthcoming books!

Two in New Translations...

- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.

- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.

Cover of the Slavonic & East European Review, Volume 103, Number 3, July 2025.

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.

Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

'Are Adjectives a Match for God?'

Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...

Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens

Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]

Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective

Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The UCFL ECA SIG is looking for new reps! We have openings in German, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, and Middle Eastern Studies. Details below, and the application deadline is 15 December. Get in touch with the SIG co-chairs @oliviaglaze.bsky.social & @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social with questions 🥳

Often very useful reading of the state of play in English studies in the UK bsky.app/profile/them... - although isn't AI beginning to demonstrate increasing relevance to the field? "We’re people, not robots" - but aren't robots being developed, via Large Language Models, into readers and writers?

Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language - Wendy Ayres-Bennett Modern Humanities Research Association - Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language - Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Many thanks to @themhra.bsky.social for making my 1987 book open access. It is great to see it available again:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone – Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...

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...

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!

📣 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

Other scholarly publishers! Please get in touch if you'd be interested in offering a discount on your humanities publications to members of the MHRA. Several generous publishers have already signed up, but we'd love to have more on board. Help us increase membership while driving sales of your books

Tomorrow!

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'.

Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social

New WPH Editor Wanted There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 10 November.

📣 New WPH Editor Wanted

We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.

Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...

🔈 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

Front-cover of the book.

📣 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...

'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...

'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...

Event poster for 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' with a painting titled 'After breakfast' by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1890.

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social