A few years ago in the Kathleen Collins archive in New York, I started reading a heavily edited, coffee-spilled notebook. I'm honored to share an excerpt of Collins's first novel, virtually unread before now, in dream magazine @parisreview.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...

Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!

The joint @AustModernist & MSIA Conference will be held in Adelaide on 19-21 November, on the theme "Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication." Further details at the link below. Send us your abstracts! amsn.org.au/amsn-confere...

Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21. Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷

There’s flattering reviews of Saunders’ new novel ‘Vigil’ out there. Mine isn’t one of them. (If you don’t want to be let down by a novel about oil barons in this economy, just read some Upton Sinclair. The GOAT.) Thanks to @jamesley.bsky.social for his brilliant editing (and fearless headline).

This looks fascinating: a fading snapshot of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s beheld, briefly, in 1972 and then folded away until its reappearance in our own day. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21. Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷

📚 Infinite Jest is a kind of geological cross-section of a writer and a literary culture at a moment of major upheaval.

Ever been generous? Considered the fraught ethical ways generosity shapes modernist literature/studies? Come to @moderniststudies.bsky.social session "Generous Modernisms" at 1.45pm Friday at #MLA2026! Showcasing work from three continents @amyeelkins.bsky.social @tamlynavery.bsky.social & others.

Layover in paradise (aka Vancouver), en route to Toronto for #MLA26. Pls join me — plus all 32 puffer jackets I’m rocking as an Aussie bracing her first 🇨🇦 winter 🤪! — this Fri. 145pm for a roundtable on generous modernisms w/ @jessmasters.bsky.social & excellent @moderniststudies.bsky.social folks.

I don’t do end-of-year publication roundups, but I’m deeply proud of this essay cluster on “Modernism in Comics” that I edited for @mmodernity.bsky.social, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with the brilliant pieces in it.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (2020) is now out in Japanese translation (2025), courtesy of Naoki Kondo--the President of the #Orwell Society of Japan & an Associate Professor at Nihon University, Tokyo. #BookSky www.suiseisha.net/blog/?p=21369 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

I’m pulling together a panel for the 2026 International Virginia Woolf Conference: “Audibility and Attribution in Woolf,” and am looking for 2 contributors and a chairperson.

Another cool thing that happened yesterday was I bumped into *the* great Honorée Jeffers in the archive. Starstruck! (Of course, had to be the one day my coffee machine exploded on me, so I was running late, frazzled and fully unkempt, wearing my daggiest outfit, etc. But I’ll count the win.)

At Emory’s Rose Library on a short-term fellowship researching c19/20 Af. Am. radical engagements w/ typewriters & white-collar literary cultures. Luck has it, Rose has curated a brilliant exhibition on cultural history of typewriters! Obligatory selfie w/ James Weldon Johnson’s Corona 🤩 #modwrite

stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on

For Bartleby day, I had students copy 19th century legal documents by hand until they appropriately protested. They made it 7 minutes. So much longer than I expected!

"The novel form, then, can function to break open categories of exclusion, reorient subjectivity, and destabilize dominant discourses through polyvocality." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.

Straight in the cart! 🛍️

My book Regional Development is just $15 in @edinburghup.bsky.social's sale. For folks in #modernism & #novelstudies, it considers how capitalism's uneven developments & regional politics informed C20 US coming of age novels. Comes with an Aaron Douglas stunner on the cover: bargain! #modwrite

This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite

In wonderful news, just found out our ARC Discovery Project '26 got up! With my brilliant colleagues Andrew van der Vlies and Benjamin Madden, I'll be co-leading a project investigating local Australian print cultures and global modernism. :)

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...

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).

What should contemporary criticism do with the novels of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and John Rodker, too often ignored by earlier critics? Read Simon During's review of Liz Pender's THE NEW MODERNIST NOVEL: CRITICISM AND THE TASK OF READING, just published in AFFIRMATIONS: tinyurl.com/bdd9hda3.

If you’ll be in Adelaide next Fri. (28th), please come along to our Dpt of English, Creative Writing, & Film research seminar, led by the brilliant Prof. Peter McDonald (St Hughes, Oxford). He’ll be discussing his recent work on book history in his “Double Life of Books.” Details in the flyer! 📚

The Australasian Modernist Studies Network exec. (which I recently joined as Treasurer) is delighted to announce a CFP for a guaranteed AMSN panel at this year’s MSA. The panel is on Southern (Infra)Structures. Details below.

Last few hours to submit for 'Generous Modernisms' -- have thoughts on the impossibility (or necessity) of generosity in academia? Read a generous modernist text? Thinking about generous scholarship? Resisting or examining scarcity? Consider submitting a paper to us! @moderniststudies.bsky.social