The Middlebrow Network

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals has virtual ‘chat with an editor’ appts (20 minutes) for PGR and ECRs, Jan 15th from 5 pm to 8pm GMT (11-2 CST). To get some advice on publishing your work in academic journals sign up here www.celj.org/chat-with-an...

Very excited that this, by @kristinbluemel.bsky.social, arrived in the post today, and much looking forward to reading it!

Bedrooom for an unknown working woman, purpose built. Single bed with bedspread, washstand, framed pictures, curtained storage (hanging or folded clothes?), photographs, draws with dressing table

Tremendous research by Emily Gee presented at @thesahgb.bsky.social seminar last night from her book Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman @livunipress.bsky.social I can't wait to read the book. Illus: a bedroom in New Brabazon House by R. S. Ayling

“Marking White Womanhood Between the Wars: Surplus Women and Trafficked Women” by Annaliese Hoehling

The title of the volume captures the stark absence of the acknowledgement of Whiteness at the core of Anglophone Modernism and in Modernist Studies. What happens when a nation suddenly has “too…

New Issue Alert!

Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.

Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...

Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...

New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history

modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...

New on Print Plus:
Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.

Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.

Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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...

British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.

📖 Publication alert: @AnneWetherilt's monograph British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction and decolonisation by women writers. Available at:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.

📖 Publication alert: @AnneWetherilt's monograph British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction and decolonisation by women writers. Available at:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.

Congratulations Missy! So exciting to hear this, after hearing your wonderful talk on the project at Glasgow lately. Faye (Middlebrow Network)

Stunned and thrilled that the Amy Lowell Letters Project was funded in this round with a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant!

Congratulations! 💙 Also, I love the reference to the book by the wondrous master, Ernst Haeckel.

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).

In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.

Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...

@laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social

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:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...

The Middlebrow Network highly recommends Recommended!

for Elizabeth von Arnim fans

Please join members of the Elizabeth von Arnim Society for “A Day on the Town with Elizabeth”and help us launch a new essay collection, Elizabeth von Arnim: the Unexpected Modernist.

11 July 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. New York City (and streaming)

elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/conferences/...

A few days left to send in your abstracts! See you there?! 🕵🏻‍♀️🔍✨

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@moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social

#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social

USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections

Exciting (fully funded) PhD 📢 ! Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Keele (me!) and the British Library. Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections

www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... (see “advert and details” for full info)

PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢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.

Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships University of East Anglia

Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

🗃️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : “GLOBAL HISTORIES OF GENDER AND OLD AGE,” A Special Issue for the Journal of Women’s History

For more information on this great opportunity, go to our website: jwomenshistory.org/call-for-sub...

📃Deadline extended for this call for abstracts to Friday March 21st! Submit your work on care and Modernism, broadly defined