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We're pleased to announce that the CFP for the TMR Virginia Woolf special issue is now open!
📆Important dates:
Expression of interest: September 15th, 2025
Submission due date: October 10th, 2025

Please get in touch with tmr@bams.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing from you! 🌻

The Modernist Review Issue #57 8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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We’re delighted to announce a CFP for a Virginia Woolf special issue of TMR, marking the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Please see the details below:

Congrats on the new book!! 🎉👏Can’t wait to read it!!

CFP: MSA Boston 2025, British Association of Modernist Studies Panel The British Association for Modernist Studies will be represented at the Modernist Studies Association 2025 Conference in Boston, October 9-12, with a guaranteed panel, as part of a reciprocal arrangement with our colleagues at MSA. We’re very grateful to MSA for their support and collaboration and very happy to be part of their annual conference. The conference theme for MSA 25 is Infrastructure understood as a capacious term dealing with questions of affective patterns, historical configurations, media ecologies, and so on. For this special BAMS panel, we are calling for 250-word abstracts (accompanied by a short presenter’s bio of about 100 words) for 20-minute papers on this broad theme. For further details about the conference and for the full CFP, see: https://www.moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2025/CFP/ As part of our reciprocal agreement with MSA, all presenters on the BAMS panel will have their conference registration fees waived. Contributors to this panel must be BAMS members. The opportunity to apply for limited MSA travel grants will be made available nearer to the time of the conference. Please submit your abstracts/bio by 4pm BST on Wednesday 12 June 2025 (and please also direct any questions) to the Chair of BAMS, Barbara Cooke: b.cooke@lboro.ac.uk All best wishes, Barbara

CFP: MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2025 BAMS PANEL

We're very excited to announce a call for papers for the British Association of Modernist Studies panel at the 2025 Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston. Please see below for the details:

Also thanks to @Nicoletta Asciuto for sharing her experience of translating Hope Mirrlees into Italian.

Thanks to @ruthclemens.bsky.social and @erettalviste.bsky.social for organising this! Looking forward to next time!! 🌟❤️

For this #ModWrite I did a translation piece during the (post)Tartu conference workshop. A rough Chinese version of Gwendolyn B. Bennett’s “Streetlamps in Early Spring”. I found it’s hard to preserve the imagery when translating adjectives. Some lines are muddled; some meaning gets lost inevitably.

This #ModWrite, I’m still working on the one-day short story by Lin Huiyin as part of a parallel reading with Mrs Dalloway. The Woolf section has been done, and I’m now at the very last bit of Lin’s experiment with & against imagined simultaneity. Hoping the whole chapter comes together well. 🍀🪽

Table of contents to The Statist special supplement "The Economy of Ireland"

For #modwrite I'm finishing a note for @theparishreview.bsky.social on a "new" Myles na Gopaleen article I discovered

Myles wrote "Cultural Affairs" for a 1953 issue of The Statist (a financial mag à la The Economist) on "The Economy of Ireland"

Interesting for his views on Irish culture & economy

This #modwrite I'm preparing for my upcoming conference presentation on Finnegans Wake.

Our 1st issue for this year is out!! We’ve collected a pile of brilliant works from last year’s NWiMS14. Enjoy reading!! The second part will be coming soon too!

Celebrating #Blackhistory Month w this powerful chapter by Rachel Falkenstern situating Anna Julia Cooper's philosophy w/in American philosophical movements. Feminism, epistemology, aesthetics and more! Available online; print soon. #philsky #19C #womeninphilosophy

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Now I’m returning to my writing on civilisation(s) and the cultural colonialism in China in the 1930s.

This #ModWrite is literally a ModTeach - just had a quick meeting with a student in my PTA class on Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. We had a quick review of the section on native culture and literature of combat, and read it with Stuart Hall’s chapter on race and dominance.

This #ModWrite I’m thinking back on the #MLA2025 last week. So much enjoyed the panel Woolf&Skepticism. Thanks Amy&Shilo for organising this!! Loved all questions and feedback I got. Thanks to those brilliant people who’d love to read my paper afterwards. See many of you later this year at Sussex!!

A glittering and sparkling start of 2025!! Happy New Year everybody!! 🎆🎆

Please check out the Reps’ dialogue. We are friendly and flexible!! You’ll find it fun and rewarding to work as a Rep!!! Please consider joining the team!!

New Work in Modernist Studies 14 Julian Study Centre University of East Anglia, Norwich UK 13th December 2024

📣 CfP: #NWiMS Special Issue

Presenters, please consider submitting your abridged papers (extracts or summaries also welcome) of c.1000 words to The Modernist Review.

🖋 Express interest by 31 December 2024
🖋 Submit by 15 January 2025

Any questions do contact us at tmr@bams.ac.uk

About a month left to propose something for next summer in Seoul...

MSIA4 - Modernism and Language

Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea
June 26 - 27, 2025

Keynotes: Rebecca Walkowitz and Janet Poole

Proposals due: January 15, 2025

What happened this week:
- a celebratory event for the Dean’s award on Monday
- #NWiMS14 at UEA. Met with BAMS exec committee, other reps, and peers. 🥰 Chaired a panel on geomodernisms. Attended fascinating sessions and had wonderful discussions. So many valuable takeaways from yesterday. 💓

Writing my abstract for #VWoolf2025 and misread the word count - mistook 1500 characters for 1500 words. 🤣🤣Got shocked for one second, chatted with a friend, got corrected and off the “rollercoaster”. Now I’m back to writing about (another kind of) shock and dissidence. Lol.

Passed Waterstones window one night.

The British Museum puts Woolf with Marcus Garvey, Karl Marx, and Sun Yat-sen together in the reading room - somehow resonating with 2025 Woolf conference’s theme “dissidence”. #VWoolf2025

#VWoolf2025

IVWS Visit the post for more.

Speaking of Infrastructures, the IVWS has a beautifully revamped website & blog.
(Big thanks to @bdavidhagen.bsky.social for his sustained efforts as Society president & now website Wizard!)

#academicsky #virginiawoolf

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Thanks so much!! Sure. Will email you now.

@moderniststudies.bsky.social could you please help 😭😭

Typed in the url but got blocked (again). I must do something wrong with it?? 🥺😢