IMPORTANT NEWS!

Deadline extended for BAMS/MSA26!

Please and thank you!

Our sense was that this feeling was widely shared!

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...

This sale includes preorders, so you can order my book for 50% off through the end of the year! Preorder your summer 2026 reading!

The deadline for proposals for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough is just TWO weeks away. It's going to be a great conference with lots of opportunities to socialize and the usual MSA panels, roundtables, workshops, seminars. If you can't join us in person, submit a proposal for an online panel/ roundtable.

@edinburghup.bsky.social Strange Intimacies copies have arrived at the only desk, and in the only garden that I still return to after writing it! Now out in the world, and the cover lightens up November gloom. Might be of interest to @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social ppl

@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @beckettletters.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social 29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.” Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.

Check out the new Modernism/ modernity issue!

New on Print Plus: A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde" Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wei...

New on Print Plus: H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Just under a month to submit your proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/seminar proposals for the joint BAMS/MSA 2026 Weird Modernisms Conference. Let's get weird! Full details can be found here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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).

Congrats to Aurore, John, and Jordan! The Film Studies SIG has organized some great events for the MSA, and we're all excited to see what comes next. Thank you for your service!

Hey @matthewlevay.bsky.social —You did a great job as MSA program chair—it was a great conference—THANK YOU! ❤️💙💛 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Had a preview of this last week at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, and can't wait to teach with it!

today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn

Don't know if I'll be able to make it to the UK next summer — hope so, tho, bc this is exactly my field of study: weird modernism and/or the intersections of modernism and weird fiction.

A few notes and highlights from my MSA 2025. The Baroness and Djuna Barnes; Marianne Moore; H.D. and Bryher; Anticolonial manifestoes; South Asian modernism. And: remembering Sejal Sutaria. @moderniststudies.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social www.electrostani.com/2025/10/note...

Did you know the next MSA Conference in the UK will be a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social? And if you can't make it to the UK next summer, there will be opportunities to present in online panels and roundtables at this conference. More information in the CFP:

More pics from the weekend..below left is @wwnorton.com author Bench Ansfield at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social exhibit holding Born in Flames, & on the right, @fordhampress.bsky.social author Christopher Breu at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit with In Defense of Sex. #uha2025 #msa2025

We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!

Now that the amazing and insanely full MSA Boston conference is over, I'm just making sure the place in NYC where EE Cummings would bellow YOU ALRIGHT DJUNA to Barnes across the way is still there (it's there) @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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...

So many thanks to the organizers of @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston 2025 - so many great conversations and new ideas. And I have the perfect book for the return journey!

"Shall I ask them to rebuild the college on the old lines? Or shall I ask them to rebuild it, but differently? Or shall I ask them to buy rags and petrol and Bryant & May’s matches and burn the college to the ground?" —Virginia Woolf matthewcheney.net/blog/on-not-...

This is my paper from the 2025 @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, just finishing up today. It was heartening to be able to have thoughtful discussions with folks about the difficult, painful realities of higher education today.

Today's first author pic comes from the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference where @utexaspress.bsky.social author Shiben Banerji stopped by to pose with his book, Lineages of the Global City. #msa2025

I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism

@moderniststudies.bsky.social friends, come hang on Saturday morning (10:15 in Jefferson) with the Hidden Histories of Faith and Grief roundtable!

Modernists, have you visited us at #MSA2025 in Boston? We're out here with a panoply of journals and books for your browsing pleasure! Come visit us, say hello and treat yourself to a conference discount on all orders! @moderniststudies.bsky.social

We have author sightings at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference...Brooks Hefner & Gary Edward Holcomb with their @yalepress.bsky.social book, Letters in Exile and also @princetonupress.bsky.social author Johanna Winant with her book, Close Reading. #msa2025

Our @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit is open. We're front & center in the Liberty B room & have @uchicagopress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social books & more! #msa2025

Come to this panel! It features the amazing @jessmasters.bsky.social who is the wonderful grad rep on the MSA Board.

We’re all set up in Boston for MSA 2025! Do pop by the booth to browse our huge collection of books and journals, grab a conference discount and discuss all things modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

Mod Squad! Come here me in some detail about Sedgwick and the etymology of various words at 1:00 tomorrow at MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Hello MSA friends in Boston! We're all ready for you at the @ModernistStudies conference exhibit hall Stop by our table to browse our books & journals (including @CuspLate!) and take advantage of our conference discount!

If you're attending the Modernist Studies Association (@moderniststudies.bsky.social) annual conference in Boston, please come stop by our booth where you can browse our recent and bestselling titles in literary studies. Take advantage of our conference discount online at bit.ly/31MSA25.

Moon lighting up the bay on the way in to Boston. See you soon @moderniststudies.bsky.social

So jealous of all the happenings lined up @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston, esp the queer modernist panels. You'll just all have to come to Loughborough next year to make it up to me!

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. buff.ly/THSpdk5 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing all the modernists (and maybe even some postmodernists!) TOMORROW!

I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday

Given the amount of drinking as well as flying in John Llewelyn Rhys, a very strong gin and tonic feels about right in an airport on my way to @moderniststudies.bsky.social in Boston to talk about his work.

Congratulations! We will miss you.

Looking forward to the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston this week! I'll be talking about early French women movie workers and engage in conversation with my dear colleagues Rutuja Deshmukh, Palita Chunsaengchan, and Kaveh Askari! @rutuja.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social