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...

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 Issue Alert! Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now. Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2... Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...

New on Print Plus: Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text. Read here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/saw...

New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...

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Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor. Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Exciting news from @msa-modenviro.bsky.social and @mmodernity.bsky.social

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:

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...

I reviewed this book for @mmodernity.bsky.social a few years ago, and it’s incredible. Check it out!

Read Martin Harries's review of Thierry de Duve’s Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Now live on Print Plus: “Dreaming through Marg” by Rashmi Viswanathan Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...

Our latest issue is in the mail! This issue brings together innovative new work on modernism’s global forms, critical methods, and cultural histories. Read the Editor's note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...

Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.

Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global. Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa... @laskin.bsky.social @kenansharpe.bsky.social

This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.

Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read 💚🙌🏾 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social

In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Our latest cluster, "Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris: A Poem' @ 100", edited by Nell Wasserstrom and Rio Matchett, takes a long walk along the Seine. Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...

Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+. The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).

Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...

"The modernist beachscape yields a rich cultural archive and a generative space through which to think questions of emplacement, improvisation, and relationality." From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team! Read his farewell message here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...

This week in our “In These Times” forum, edited by @debraraecohen.bsky.social, read our managing editor, Harrington Weihl, on “the tension between gender conservatism and the future of [the Olympics] as a liberal institution”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"Gaza is not the subject of the next paper. Its writers and artists are not bait for a new grant or fellowship. Its murdered children are not the subject of the next ethnographic study, or the next anthology or the next art installation or digital humanities project."

"Palestinian literature is not literature for times of crisis, and its study is not an afterthought or a 'safe' way to show solidarity." Our latest 'field report' comes from Huda Fakhreddine. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"Where does understanding modernisms as local responses to a global colonial-capitalist modernity get us? What are the affordances of this redefinition?" Mukti Mangharam has taken over the helm of our Field Reports forum! Read her introductory post here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"Our title, “Modernism in Comics” [...] refers simultaneously to modernism’s representation in individual comics as well as the ethos of modernism that makes itself plain within so many comics produced." Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...

I wrote about Tove Jansson and queer modernism in comics for this cluster, super excited it’s finally out!

Eager to share this cluster on modernism in comics, now on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus! With contributions from @lkonstan.bsky.social, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Paul Peppis, Jean Lee Cole, Marie Sartain, Mike Classon Frangos, and @kinohi.bsky.social.

"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...

Read Tobias Boes on ensoulment as the "subjective expansion of a representation of reality" in his critical introduction to "Bilse and I" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"Bilse and I. . . there is some sort of difference between us." We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

The latest entry in our Visualities forum, ed. @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Pardis Dabashi, is John Lurz on Barthes's 'semiographic' work. Read "A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"The privileging of negativity in modernist studies is connected in various ways to the gendering of modernism." Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim...

The deadline for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston has been extended to April 15! If you've been thinking of submitting a panel, paper, or roundtable proposal, you now have more time to do so. It will feel good to gather to talk about modernism, the 20th century, and higher education. Join us!

Read Hannah Roche's fantastic article, "Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures," now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/articles/roc...

"What is it like to write within a fold?" In our latest print issue, Paul Jaussen reviews Heather A. Love's "Cybernetic Aesthetics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

📢Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.

Our latest issue is about to hit the printer! Read Anajli Nerlekar's editorial note in advance: modernismmodernity.org/editors

In which I sound off about Black Narcissus, Michael Powell, and uncredited actors stealing the show. Thank you for reading 🙏🏾

The latest in the "Visualities" Forum (edited by @alixbeeston.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social): Read @ria4983.bsky.social on the aspects of "Black Narcissus" that "elide, evade, and ultimately refuse to be controlled" by its directors: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

CFP MLA 2026: submit an abstract for MSA's guaranteed session at MLA Toronto on: all things modernism and generosity, excess, 'too much' (or just enough), (free) labour, generous scholarship/writing, etc. etc. @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social

Modernists! Elioteers! Please send in your abstracts in any way related to Eliot by April 1 2025. We are offering travel support in the form of $400 grants to two grad students with accepted proposals. If you are a full-time grad, please mention in your submission. Please RT and tell friends 🙏

Read @debraraecohen.bsky.social's review of Michael Carney and Kate Murphy's biography on the "inherently iconoclastic" Hilda Matheson on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Read @debraraecohen.bsky.social's review of Michael Carney and Kate Murphy's biography on the "inherently iconoclastic" Hilda Matheson on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

The MSA and ACLA are co-sponsoring a panel for MLA 2026: Routes, Resemblances, and Correspondence in Présence Africaine. This panel will facilitate new questions about the journal Présence Africaine. 1/

Edited by Florian Grosser and Monica Bravo, "Another Revolution" is framed "against the foil of the ambiguous political [and] contested intellectual history of revolutions": "this cluster examines the specific phenomenality of profound, pervasive change." modernismmodernity.org/forums/anoth...