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“Many Little Wildernesses”: Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist ABSTRACT. This article seeks to understand readerly experiences of the little magazine Poetry in the context of Harriet Monroe’s commitment to the American wilderness, combining insights from both per...

Delighted to see that my article, '"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist' is out in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies! doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.16.2.0107

Small correction to the term card! Our final event is in week 7 rather than week 8.

🔊 CfP: New Work in Modernist Studies 15
🗓️ Friday 9 January, online
⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December
bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...

A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.

DM: 3 orcs attack your party
Me: my level 20 literary critic critiques their racialised traits *rolls a 1*
DM: uh oh your critique runs out of steam
Me, panicking: I surface read them!
DM: your thin description reveals they are brigands in disguise and they flee. Well played!

Landscape photograph of a lake covered in lily pads and surrounded by trees. A section of fence is in the foreground

The sun is shining in Lancaster and I’m looking forward to the start of the @thebsls.bsky.social conference!

UEA staff to strike over plans to cut more than 150 jobs Union branch at redundancy-hit institution to stage one-day walkout

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy.

Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-sta... @ucu.org.uk

Interior courtyard of British Library, with staircases (to the left), public seating, colourful banners and (to the right) a mural on view.

Listening to #radio4 discussion of 'sovereign data' such as the British Libraries books as a resource that can generate income by being leased to Ai tech companies. Rather wish government had recognised its sovereign data status for the rest of us when the Library was hacked. #AcademicSky

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

Slide show title slide with the text: ‘Fallen Trees and Spring “unmade”: Reading Charlotte Mew with Lascelles Abercrombie; Madeleine Rose, University of Oxford’ in black on a pale green background

Very much enjoyed #NWiMS yesterday! Met lots of lovely people and was treated to a great variety of papers. Huge thanks to @matthewtaunton.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social for organising

Today I’m working on my #NWiMS paper on Charlotte Mew, Lascelles Abercrombie, and felled trees, which feels rather apt in the wake of Storm Darragh #ModWrite

Christmas Tree with golden lights in front of the Tower of the Five Orders at the Bodleian Libraries.

Close up of the Bodleian Libraries' Christmas Tree, festooned with golden lights, at the Old Schools Quad.

Bodleian Christmas Tree viewed through the engraved stone gateway into the Old Schools Quad.

The Bodleian Christmas Tree is up in the Old Schools Quad, for those who like their 17th Gothic Revival architecture served with a side of festive foliage. Christmas starts now!

Photo by @tansybranscombe.bsky.social.

Modernism and Data Special Issue: Call for Papers 27 September 2024 “A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fields—Victorian, Post45, and Black studies—there has been a proliferation of a…

📢 CfP Modernism & Data Special Issue of The Modernist Review

Submissions of 1000-1500 words (articles, creative responses) to the topic. We are just as excited about papers that use digital methods as those that refuse to; as long as you tell us why!

📌 Deadline - 20th December 2024

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

I'm on strike today and tomorrow with hundreds of my Guardian colleagues over the proposed sale of the Observer. Much of the brilliant journalism you enjoy for free on the Guardian website over the weekend is Observer journalism... cont'd www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

It’s the final ModCon Graduate Forum of term tonight! Looking forward to hearing from Sara L. Borga on '"Impractical" and "unsummarizable": The Terms of Tracy K. Smith's Poetry' and Shivani Arulalan Pillai on 'Memory and Imperial Ruins in Rohinton Mistry's ‘Family Matters’'

A line illustration of the dinosaur Diplodocus, showing its cumbersome stance when on land.

Diplodocus, in Ray Lankester's book Secrets of Earth and Sea (1920): 'It seems probable that Diplodocus was an aquatic reptile, and never raised himself on to his four legs on dry land as the Carnegie skeleton at the Natural History Museum is doing'. Sorry, Dippy (and Fern).

Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share with us what you're working on using the hashtag. Also, if you're joining us for New Work in Modernist Studies don't forget to register:

This #modwrite I’m thinking about tangled threads in H.D.’s ‘Helen in Egypt’ and wondering how to untangle the argument of this thesis chapter

The point is that at university you're meant to be taught by researchers. It's higher education because it's not just a static body of knowledge; researchers are the people who can teach you to make new knowledge yourself

Put together a wee modernism/contemporary lit Starter Pack (because there simply wasn't not enough research/teaching prep/admin/housework to keep me occupied)

DM me if I've made any glaring omissions or besmirched your good name by implying that you're a modernist

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Looking forward to the first Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum of term on Wednesday! We’ll be hearing papers from Aryehi Bhushan and Leo Kadokura.

Ta da! Our autumn programme is ready for launch.

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, The Sound of the Fens Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.

The Sound of the Fens: wonderful BBC Open Country in which Martha Kearney visits Helpston & Fen Edge to explore how the landscape has changed since the days of John Clare. Features Francesca Mackenney discussing Clare’s soundscapes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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This #ModWrite we're pleased to announce:

📢 New Work in Modernist Studies 14
📌 13 December 2024 @uniofeastanglia
🖋Abstract deadline 18 October 2024

An opportunity for PhDs/Early Career Researchers working on modernism (broadly defined!) to share work & connect. Please share!

The Modernist Review Issue #50: New Work in Modernist Studies With the promise of the coming spring, we are delighted to share with you our first issue of 2024 after a short hiatus over the winter break. This issue contains a selection of some of the brilliant p...

Happy to share The Modernist Review #50! Read a selection of papers from New Work in Modernist Studies our annual PG/ECR conference (organised by Daniel Abdalla & @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social).

Your Editors, Serena Wong & @jenniferashby.bsky.social

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Looking forward to the first Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum of term on Wednesday with Alex Gunn and Hadas Wagner!

Had a great time at NWiMS yesterday! It was fab to listen to such a variety of thought-provoking papers, and add my own contribution on Marianne Moore and rats. Thanks so much to @modernistudies.bsky.social, and especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social and Daniel for organising!

The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social