Great boost of academic energy during this very exhausting time! Many thanks to @charlotte-millar.bsky.social and @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social for organizing this mini, online follow-up conference to the "Ghosts in Britain and Ireland" in-person event in June. Wonderful discussion!

Such a fun conference to present at! Pity I can’t be there in person. @asleuki.bsky.social

Very excited for this!

Re-writing the opening of the first chapter I produced during the PhD (in the year of our Lord 2019) and I keep hitting "enter" so I don't have to look the old material in the eye. #PhDLife

Me, too, EB. Me, too.

Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻

We lost my beautiful, wonderful grandmother on Monday morning. She was a woman like no other. Here she is pictured holding my darling mother.

Today is the centenary of the publication of The Great Gatsby! Here's the piece I wrote about the novel: theconversation.com/after-100-ye...

Would anyone happen to have access to this article (Exeter doesn't), and would you be willing to share it with me? Stebbing and Eddington in the Shadow of Bergson scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/arti...

A new book featuring Elizabeth Bowen from the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain by Lara Ehrenfried studies the paths of film and text following the introduction of synchronized sound in the late 1920s. Incl. Home Front writing by Bowen.

SAVE THE DATE! Our next online Bowen Reading Group is on: Wed., May 28th 2025, at 7 pm GMT We are reading JOINING CHARLES. All welcome, link to follow.

An excellent conversation tonight with the @bowensociety.bsky.social reading group discussing Bowen’s second short story collection, “Ann Lee’s”. It was lovely co-hosting with you @nualaoconnor.bsky.social — for news about upcoming events, keep an eye on our social media channels!

This beautiful painting 'People Are Most Themselves When Suddenly Woken' by Annabel Carington is inspired by the work of Elizabeth Bowen. #ElizabethBowenSociety #elizabethbowen #atimeinrome #annabelcarington #artandwriting

Bowen’s eyes peer incongruously out from Ancestors, a new work by Debbie Godsell that features in her superb exhibition Flail. It opened today at Uillinn in Skibbereen with a conversation between Godsell and @cristinleach.bsky.social, followed by the rousing performance of a specially composed hymn.

A close up of Bowen's eyes in the artwork in our last repost from Michael Waldron.

Elizabeth Bowen died otd in 1973, in University College Hospital, London, aged 73. She is buried with her husband in St Colman's churchyard in Farahy, Co. Cork, close to the gates of her beloved family home, Bowen's Court.

Our next free, online Bowen Reading Group is: Wed., March 26th, 2025, at 7pm GMT. Ticket link below. We are reading more Bowen short fiction, this time her collection ANNE LEE'S. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

📢 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

As announced at #NWiMS - congratulations to @genevievesmart.bsky.social for winning the 2024 BAMS Essay Prize with the essay: 'Male Birth in Apollinaire’s Les mamelles de Tirésias: From Duplicity to Prophetic In(ter)vention'. For details on the 2025 BAMS essay prize: bams.ac.uk/essay-prize-...

Participants from #NWiMS - do consider submitting a version of your paper to The Modernist Review! Details below:

Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Reminder: our next online reading group is tonight, the 27th November at 7pm GMT. We are reading *Seven Winters*. All welcome - sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza... #sevenwinters #elizabethbowen #dublin #memoir #elizabethbowenreadinggroup #elizabethbowensociety

Concordia University just fired Pip Day, the director of their main art gallery-- the Ellen-- for her vocal support for Palestine. This is a research position. Terrible news for the entire academic community in Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS "Caribbean Literatures and the Environment" Deadline 1 Dec. 2024 Topics: oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction. journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2024/06/call...

I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added! go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR

R.I.P.

Here is our Call for Chapters! Deadline for proposals is 15th January 2025.

Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

Given there’s lots more people here now, I thought I’d share this again - @spacebetween.bsky.social’s 2025 conference will be at the University of Kansas, and do have a look at the cfp! spacebetweensociety.com/2025-confere...

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

Publication day !!! L’année dernière, j’avais organisé le colloque annuel de la SEAC à Lille avec le CECILLE, et c’était un beau moment. Aujourd’hui, une sélection d’articles vient de paraître dans le volume 67 d’Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines.

Very happy to share that my article on "Motion and Destination in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North" is out in Études britanniques contemporaines: journals.openedition.org/ebc/15262