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This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
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02.03.2026 14:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MSA Members, it's time to vote for new board members! Please visit this link: vote.press.jhu.edu/msa/election...
Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!
A very cool collaboration for next winter's MLA in LA! See this CFP below.
13.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21.
Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷
It's #ModWrite time! Banish the spectre of Blue Monday and let us know what you're working on this afternoon using the hashtag 📚
19.01.2026 14:35 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
MSA Members! Do you have any interest in helping out on the MSA Board? Do you want to take over this Bluesky account next fall? Run for a board position! More information is here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...
The MSA needs you!
You're in luck because the weather is mild for January in Toronto right now!
08.01.2026 19:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Free house on the MSA!
08.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out this generous roundtable with some wonderful modernists at the MLA!
08.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out some modernism at the MLA!
08.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The CFP deadline for BAMS/ MSA is TODAY!
29.12.2025 06:48 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0The deadline to apply for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough, July 1-4, 2026, is now exactly 1 week away!
22.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Panel proposal for @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough submitted - Alice Dodds, @thehubble101.bsky.social, @mcmccluskey.bsky.social and I talking about weird villages…
19.12.2025 15:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to 29 December 2025. The CFP and submission details are available below:
18.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
17.12.2025 10:10 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Check out the wonderful keynote speakers for BAMS/MSA 'Weird Modernisms' 2026 below. There's still time to submit your proposals - deadline 29th December, and full details here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
17.12.2025 10:25 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Are you looking to join a panel for Weird Modernisms in Loughborough, UK next summer? This one on weird epistemologies might be for you!
16.12.2025 21:12 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0P.S. Keynotes will be delivered in-person and broadcast virtually in real time. There will be reduced registration rates for virtual participation and opportunities to present virtually too. The CFP is open for another two weeks!
16.12.2025 17:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
She is the author of Weird Queer Ecologies, co-editor of Weird Temporalities, a special issue of Studies in the Fantastic, and currently finishing a monograph appropriately called Weird Modernism!
We're so excited to welcome all three speakers to Weird Modernisms in Loughborough.
Finally, it couldn't be more fitting to have Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of Literature, Media, and Culture at Florida State University, give a keynote talk.
16.12.2025 17:50 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of States of the Body Produced by Love shows the head of a Hindu woman with scripts in purple underneath.
The next BAMS/ MSA keynote speaker is Nisha Ramayya, poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. She's is the author of Fantasia (Granta) and States of Body Produced by Love (Spiral Books). @grantamag.bsky.social
16.12.2025 17:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts shows a pale, white woman wearing a pink robe with big sleeves covering her whole body except one foot and hand. Her blond hair is parted in half and twisted upward into two horns above her head.
She's the author of The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Check out its beautiful, intriguing cover!
16.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0With @modernistudies.bsky.social we're pleased to announce our keynote speakers for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough in July 2026. First up is Catriona McAra, art historian, curator and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at University of Aberdeen.
16.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2Maybe it's an abstract for Weird Modernisms next summer in Loughborough when BAMS and MSA join forces?
16.12.2025 14:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@modernistudies.bsky.social
15.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You won't regret spending July in the UK talking about weird modernisms with the best weird modernists! The deadline to apply for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough is just two weeks away on December 29. More information is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
15.12.2025 16:44 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Deadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.
15.12.2025 01:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Looking for a Weird Modernisms panel to join for MSA/ BAMS in Loughborough? Check out this VIDEO!
15.12.2025 01:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Cannibalism and modernism! It might not get weirder than this! Submit your abstract to this panel and join us in Loughborough for Weird Modernisms.
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