A selection of book covers from the MHRA's list of titles related to poetry
April is National Poetry Month: we have 252 titles in our list on the subject of poetry — editions, critical studies, and journal articles/collections 📚
Browse the cover gallery here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
#NationalPoetryMonth
You can access all articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56676
Front-cover of Special Issue.
🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out!
Special Issue 'Legacies of Cultural Resistance Across the 1989 Divide' featuring 8 articles, edited by Balázs Apor and Krzysztof Rowiński.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
A lecture theatre. Photo by crystal710 on Pixabay.
A reminder that the closing date for applications to the MHRA conference grant fund is 27 April 📆
The grant is for conferences/colloquia the field of medieval & modern European languages and literatures, including English, in the UK or Ireland.
Details here:
www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
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Image of the interview, including title, Simon's photo and the first question.
'Astronomy, Praise, and Ruin'
See this great interview by Barbara Burns with Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth University) about the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...
Poster for the launch event, titled 'The Poetry and the Poetics of Difficulty'
Spanish early modernists: Madrid Early Modern Seminar are hosting a launch event for our new edition of George Chapman's early poems on 27 April, with a talk by the editor, @zenon-l-m.bsky.social. Full details at the link. All welcome!
#earlymodern
madrid-ems.com
The front cover of the MHRA edition of Thomas Mann's later stories
Publishing in May: a brand new translation of Thomas Mann's last short stories 📘
Available now for review – journals are welcome to get in touch
Details here:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
The front cover of Modern Language Review, volume 121, Part 2, April 2026
🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articles on Marlowe, Balzac, Dadaism, and more, plus the usual book reviews 📚
Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56632
The front cover of Slavonic & East European Review, volume 103, Number 4
🔉The latest Slavonic & East European Review, edited by
@uclssees.bsky.social, is out!
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Articleson literature and history, plus the usual book reviews 📚
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social
👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56599
I'm thrilled to be working on this exciting project funded by the MHRA this year. It's been so much fun so far!
Front cover of the MHRA edition titled The Psalms in English 1530 to 1633, edited by Hannibal Hamlin
Answer: they all produced translations of the Psalms. All these authors and many more are included in this volume, edited by Hannibal Hamlin, of #earlymodern English translations of the Psalms in all their many & various forms:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Trivia question: what do Katherine Parr, Francis Bacon, Simon Forman, Anne Askew, John Donne, Robert Dudley, John Milton, Thomas Wyatt, Lady Anne Blount, and James VI & I all have in common?
#earlymodern
Pic of Will Bowers
Photo of Amy Wilcockson
'Romantic Deliveries'
A great interview by Barbara Burns with Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London, Co-Editor of 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley' (OUP) and Amy Wilcockson (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social), the project’s MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...
Fascinating blog by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social disussing the choice of cover image for his edition of George Moore's Confessions in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series:
matthewcreasy.substack.com/p/judge-a-bo...
#bookhistory
For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent'
A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗
www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
The title page of volume one of the Modern Language Review, published in 1906
Read a review of the very first issue of Modern Language Review (formerly published by CUP), from 1905:
'the first number of a new quarterly periodical — or, as it is called, journal — devoted to the study of mediæval and modern literature and philology'
academic.oup.com/nq/article-a...
Front cover of Bassnett's book.
'After the Great Theory Wars'
Barbara Burns speaks to Susan Bassnett, whose book 'Tales of Travellers and Translators: Essays on Comparative Literature' was published recently in Legenda’s Selected Essays series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!
'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'
Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395
Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies
In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London.
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...
Article by Derek Connon and Barbara Burns.
The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine
Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝
Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.
Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Photo of author Zenón Luis-Martínez
'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Image of interview and pic of Kerry Andrews
Photo of Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (and dog Margot)
'A Better Bristol is a Better World'
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394
@themhra.bsky.social
