As Fall 2025 comes to a close and we look forward to Spring: A friendly reminder that contingent faculty are human beings and deserve to be treated as such 😊

2PM EST next Wednesday, 17 December, if you're interested in what will definitely be an outstanding event on all things spiritual, ethical, and social in T. S. Eliot's work!

If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

A bit of a ways off, but if T. S. Eliot is your jam: I'm speaking on this cool Zoom panel in December on "The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work." Check it out if you can! eicsp.org/events/event...

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

My review of The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke, is now live in English Studies! Such an important, timely provocative volume. @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“College campuses have historically been the places where these kind of conversations, these kind of robust debates and dissent take place in the United States.” “It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”

Disgusting and disastrous. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/ohio-...

I used the template. Fast, easy. The more of us write, the more of a chance it has being effective.

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 🙏

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

CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢 Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society 2–5 July 2025 Dublin, Ireland Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳

Remember our extended deadline for conference abstracts! And grad students, we welcome you - so tell us about your dissertation and scholarship, whether or not it sparked the fury of the worst parts of internet culture. 😉

The story of Arthur Blair, Relieving Assistant Commissioner in Calcutta, who died of the same disease which would later claim his nephew, throws more light on the importance of understanding #Orwell's Anglo-Indian ancestry on his outlook! www.darcymoore.net/2024/11/24/o...

My article, Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier, is now live in English Studies! @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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

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