MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro

Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+ I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

10.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2

The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).

01.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1

Friends, please take some time to read Sookyoung Lee's inaugural "Letter from the Field" in the Energy & Environment forum over at @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus. Soo asks us to "rethink professional life" as all of our infrastructural systems are either fraying or being weaponized against us:

10.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to Sookyoung Lee @puddles13.bsky.social for wading into the tall grasses of the field! More to come! Reach out to us, or blog editor Thomas Davis to join to conversation: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder....

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Zoom link will be provided via our listserv, linked on our website!

02.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cover of W.E.B. DuBois' "The Comet": a comet hits an urban skyline.

Image of W.E.B. DuBois.

📚 Our next Reading Group Session is on Tuesday, July 15th at 11am ET! 📚
Join us for a discussion of W.E.B. Du Bois' 1920 short story ,"The Comet," paired with a chapter from Adrienne Brown's The Black Skyscraper (2017) and Saidiya Hartman's "The End of White Supremacy: An American Romance" (2020).

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Zoom links will be shared weekly via the listserv, reach out to @mollyvolanthhall.bsky.social to join!

05.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

✍️ New Writing Group Schedule! ✍️
The M&E Writing Group will now be meeting twice a week: Thursday mornings (10am-1pm ET) and Monday afternoons (2pm-5pm ET.) Zoom sessions will now be running for 3 hours, allowing folks to drop in as schedules permit.
Hope to see you there!

05.06.2025 20:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's abstract submission time for NAVSA and MSA 2025! And this year you could theoretically attend both. Proposals for workshops and seminars are due in 11 days for MSA 2025 too, and proposals for panels, papers, and roundtables are due in about a month!

04.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Consider checking out our fiery @moderniststudies.bsky.social CCIS-sponsored roundtable on The New Precarity! Via Zoom on 14 March!

04.03.2025 20:45 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3

Modernists, the Feminist inter/Modernist Association is now on Bluesky! Follow them at @fimassociation.bsky.social

05.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Board Nominations The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

MSA Members! Are you interested in serving on the MSA Board, which runs our organization? We need you! There are four positions open: 2nd VP, Treasurer, Vice Program Chair, and Contingent Faculty Rep. Nominations are open until April 21. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...

07.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!

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New Voices in Environmental Modernisms Roundtable | MSA Bos Oct 2025 Call for Participants in “New Voices in Environmental Modernisms” Roundtable MSA Boston 2025 (Submissions due March 23, Sunday) The urgency of climate change politics and struggles for environmental j...

Are you an early career scholar, maker, or modernist-inspired activist? Consider submitting an abstract discussing your recent work to @moderniststudies.bsky.social's Modernism & Environment SIG-sponsored "New Voices" Roundtable for MSA's Boston 2025 conference: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

24.02.2025 23:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Just a reminder that we are having our monthly SIG organizing meeting this week, Th 3/13, and that anyone wanting to get involved can always pop in. More info here (email me for zoom link - mhall04@risd.edu): sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

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Last of our Fall Reading Group sessions: Looking forward to this morning’s discussion of Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead w @msa-modenviro.bsky.social.

09.12.2024 15:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

We've made it to bluer skies 🦋 We have a lot of exciting programming in the works at the intersections of modernist pedagogy and climate justice—watch this space!

You can learn more about our community and get involved via our website: sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

27.11.2024 17:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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