We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
We're getting ready for a new semester - our first event will be Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), ‘Imagining Alternative Arctics’: Literature and the Legacy of Polar Science from the 1890s to the Present - Wed 25 Feb, 16.00-17.00, in person and online via Teams (DM for link).
‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Another fantastic achievement from one of our doctoral researchers: @millykateh.bsky.social has an article on "The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910)" out in latest edition of @gothicstudies.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3366/goth...
It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
This week!
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
The cover image of Victoriographies journal volume 15, number 3, 2025, titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. The image of an ornate’V’ is paired with a collage picture that includes an image of Marie Corelli with representations of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, provincial newspaper mastheads, Japanese text, and subtle references to twins.
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
This Wednesday! DM for Teams link if you'd like to join online.
We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
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...
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
2/2 Followed by
Dr Nick Freeman
"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
In collaboration with @healthhumslboro.bsky.social
Wed 29 Oct, 16.15-17.30 - hybrid, DM for Teams link.
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...
If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche
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!
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Today!
Amy Lowell clutching her head, next to a reading lamp
Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link
Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!
The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details.
#lets #editing #textualscholarship
#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.
So exciting to finally officially launch our AHRC-funded project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. This is what I'll be doing until 2029 😮 @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social
www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...
You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
@drsarahparker.bsky.social is giving a talk about designing the The World of Oscar Wilde 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Kibworth Books next week: Tuesday 25 March at 19.30. You can book a ticket here:
kibworthbooks.com/collections/...
Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...