Modernism & Environment - RG Duncan April 29 We welcome you to join the Modernism & Environment Reading Group on Wednesday, April 29th at 11AM EST, when we will be discussing Joel Duncan’s book Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automob...

Join @msa-modenviro.bsky.social's reading group this April (29th) online to discuss Joel Duncan's Poetic Drive (2025)! More info here: sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

Reminder: Today at 11:00am ET, we gather to read a recent article from @mmodernity.bsky.social: Ann Ang's "Ecological Modernist Poets of Singapore: Wong May and Ho Poh Fun" (2025), and works by Wong and Ho. Learn more here: sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod.... Email mhall04@risd.edu for link to join!

Reminder! "New Voices in Environmental Modernisms" Roundtable CFP (for MSA 2026, Loughborough) deadline is 2/1/26: pls share w/ emerging and contingent modernist scholars, makers, and activists: sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

Thanks Jefra!

Odd! Try this: sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

I fear this article in The Healthy Life from 1912 on Futurist gardening may have been overlooked by modernist scholars @modernistudies.bsky.social

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Check out our "New Voices in Environmental Modernisms" Roundtable CFP (for MSA 2026, Loughborough): share widely with emerging and contingent modernist scholars, makers, and activists please! (DL 2/1/26): sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

New on Print Plus:

In their post "“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion" in the "Orientations" blog series, Bracken et al trace a missed connection between James Joyce and Samuel Seward.

Read it here: 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...

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).

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:

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....

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...

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

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).

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

✍️ 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!

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!

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

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

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-...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...