Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould

New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series! 'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social) All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková. 🗓️ 23 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @themhra.bsky.social

We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun 😀

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works. Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026. 📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025 Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

'The Eloquent Picture' Barbara Burns talks to Andy Stafford, whose book 'Photo-texts From Below: Collectivist Dispatches from the 21st-Century French Margins' has just been published in Legenda’s Visual Culture series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/08...

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' 132.2, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles by Stefan Baghiu, Catriona Kelly, Donald Ostrowski, Maria Grazia Bartolini, Balázs Apor & Book Reviews. @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55383

📅Event: Book launch for MHRA Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman 23 Oct at 18:00, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, free 📖 Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! Titled 'Crossing Boundaries: Human-Animal Relationships in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union', the Special Issue has been edited by Helena Holzberger & Timm Schönfelder. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

"the first English translation of Mirdja (1908), a remarkable work of Decadent literature by Finnish author L. Onerva ( 1882–1972). Onerva was one of the most versatile literary figures of her generation. her novel Mirdja is among the most important works of Nordic fin-de-siècle literature." Yeah!

Very pleased to see this out. It's an absolutely wonderful novel, highly recommended (Zola-esque, I would say, with a slightly more modernist tint). (Of course I would say that, but honestly it's one of my fav works that we've published) 📘 'This is a game out of hell, this life of ours...'

41.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! 'Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures", special issue edited by @doboulanger.bsky.social & Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275 @themhra.bsky.social

'A Tapestry of Nordic Decadence' Barbara Burns talks to Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková about their work on 'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman', which has just appeared in the MHRA’s Jewelled Tortoise series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...

🗣️ Our latest book in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out now! 'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'. Translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction and notes by Viola Parente-Čapková. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @jstor.bsky.social 👉 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...

🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Articles by David J. Bailey, Shaun Regan, Ronnie Ferguson, Sabine Köllmann & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55097

'Deus absconditus' Barbara Burns talks to Clive Scott, whose book 'The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)' has recently appeared in Legenda’s Transcript series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...

'How to Live in Cergy-Pontoise' Barbara Burns talks to Ed Welch, whose book 'Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning' has recently won the Gapper Prize, and has just appeared in paperback, priced £14.99. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...

After "Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image" (@livunipress.bsky.social, 2010), here's Andy Stafford's new book on photo-texts, published by Legenda @themhra.bsky.social www.mhra.org.uk/publications... - Félicitations, Andy! #phototexts #photography #frenchstudies

Want to win a 2025 print subscription to our journal 'Portuguese Studies'!? Follow @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and repost their message to enter!!

'Claudia Dellacasa wins the Flaiano Prize' We're thrilled to share that Claudia Dellacasa's book 'Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs' has won the XXIV Premio Internazionale Flaiano d’Italianistica “Luca Attanasio”. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...

Portuguese Studies has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky, alongside Facebook (www.facebook.com/PortugueseSt...), to share news relating to the journal. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a prize giveaway here on Bluesky! @themhra.bsky.social

'Watch the Policy Dimensions of Research' Olivia Glaze (@oliviaglaze.bsky.social), the current MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, gave an inspiring webinar under the auspices of the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) in May, and the video is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdg...

Did you know that Portuguese Studies, published by @themhra.bsky.social, will mark 40 years of publication later this year? Check out this archive of past issues of the journal, including cover images going back to 2003: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

'Welcome to the Social Media Capital of the Universe' Barbara Burns talks to Victoria Adams‬, whose book 'Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro: Reproducing the Past for the Present' has recently been published by Legenda. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/06...

Publish your monograph or scholarly edition or journal article with @themhra.bsky.social! Human copy-editors and typesetters only.

@themhra.bsky.social is hiring another Policy Postdoctoral Researcher 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity for ECAs to gain policy experience, and I couldn’t recommend working with @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social more highly! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mvzce4nt

📣 'Ed Welch wins the Gapper Prize 2024' Huge congratulations to Ed Welch, whose book 'Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning' has won the 2024 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by ‪@frenchstudies.bsky.social. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/05...

We are pleased to announce that Susan Harrow, Professor of French at the University of Bristol, is the new General Editor of Legenda. Legenda is the MHRA’s book imprint for new research in the Humanities with titles ranging from medieval texts to contemporary cinema. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/05...

My edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man is out with @themhra.bsky.social‬ and I've been posting links to some blogging I did back in 2021, as I drafted the introduction, including this long-ish ramble about the word 'perverse' mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/perv...

'The Bad LSD Trip of an Overambitious Interior Designer in the 1970s (And Other Experiences of German Theatre)' Barbara Burns interviews Joseph Prestwich about his new book 'Staging Germanness in Contemporary British Theatre', out with Legenda - and free to read! #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/bdemr7ps

📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

'I Break, Therefore I Am' See this fantastic interview by Barbara Burns with Rebecca Walker, whose book 'The Sense of Fracture in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante: Fragile Selves, Fragile Others' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/05...

'Making Languages Research Accessible to Policymakers' Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04...

A fantastic project, funded by @themhra.bsky.social! Come along to our online seminar on 2 May to hear more about it! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/think...

Very happy to be interviewed with @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social about our project to create a database of impact-focused summaries of languages research for policymakers - thank you to @themhra.bsky.social for their support, and stay tuned for updates! tinyurl.com/bdzner29

www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04... Read about our MHRA-funded project to produce readable summaries for policymakers @themhra.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social @oliviaglaze.bsky.social Watch this space for ways to engage!

Really interesting interview in which Ian Maclachlan weaves together life writing, landscape and language, and advocates for poetry.

'The North Face of Nicolas Pesquès' See this great interview by Claire Moran with Ian Maclachlan, winner of this year's 'Modern Language Review' article prize. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04... #MLR #ModernLanguageReview

🔈 🔈🔈New forthcoming book in our 'New Translations' series! 'Griselda Gambaro, Searching for Light in the Darkness', translated by Claudio Medeiros and Maria Alessandra Woolson. Out in Autumn 2025! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

🎉Congratulations to Andrea Capovilla (@ibc-london.bsky.social), winner of our book giveaway! A huge thank you to everyone who shared our post and followed us - we’re thrilled by your support. Do keep connecting with us at @themhra.bsky.social!

📣📣📣 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Articles by Jeremy Tambling, Michael Hawcroft, Sumin Kim and Edmund Chapman & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54491

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

Don't forget to join our giveaway: win a book! And please follow @themhra.bsky.social anyway, we're new here & building our following. The MHRA is a learned society supporting research in hums; we publish a range of journals & book imprints + the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature

🔈 The latest book in our 'MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature' is now out! 'Children and Parents in Medieval Welsh Law', edited by Sara Elin Roberts. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Reposting to share though I am of course exempt from the competition 😊 Win a free book! And please help support the MHRA by following our account.

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

Issue 32 of Austrian Studies is now out! 'Reading Bachmann Now', edited by Andrea Capovilla (@ibc-london.bsky.social), Katya Krylova and Marlen Mairhofer. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54373

'Scandals and Metamorphoses' Barbara Burns talks to Elizabeth Boa, whose book 'Re-Viewing the Canon: Feminist Readings of German Literature from the Age of Goethe to the Present' was recently published in Legenda’s Selected Essays series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/03...

'Just Countryside' Barbara Burns talks to Peter Haysom-Rodríguez from @lcsleeds.bsky.social, whose book 'Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies' recently appeared in Legenda. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...