Popular this week ⬇️ '“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain' by David Miranda-Barreiro @bangormodlangs.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Julio-Camba-Travelling-Spain @benschofield.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

Institutions & libraries can become members of MLO for £3,000/$3,900, allowing scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975! 💰 Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership @ilcs.bsky.social

'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' by Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty has also been popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BodofEv @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @lostdetectives.bsky.social

'Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries' by Nicola Bermingham and Paul O’Neill is popular this week. ➡️ Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/BerOn @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

James Rann asks an important question this week from the special collection guest edited alongside @victoriadonovan.bsky.social & @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social. He asks: 'Does Impact Reinforce the Boundary Between the Academy and the World?' Read it #OpenAccess, only on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Rann

Popular article on MLO this week⬇️ 'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social

Popular this week on #MLO 📣 'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @xineyaophd.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedMasques @timb-m.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucldiscovery.bsky.social

MLO Membership Explained 🔐 Once a library purchases an MLO membership (£3,000), this allows their scholars to publish 5 Open Access articles for the price of 4, saving £750!* Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership *subject to rigorous peer review @ilcs.bsky.social @cmlangs.bsky.social

'Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna offers a corpus-assisted lexical semantic/semiotic analysis of the noun eresia “heresy": @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Popular this week: 'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by @naswells.bsky.social, @cforsdick.bsky.social, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, @svshh.bsky.social, Shirley Jordan, @theapitman.bsky.social & Georgia Wall ⬇️

NEW ARTICLE: Un, Dos, y Juntos: Interpretation, Incommensurability, and Linguistic Evolution in Juana Adcock’s “Thirteen Ways of Inhabiting a Language” by Calum MacLean Esler @sgsah.bsky.social @clairesquires.bsky.social Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Esler @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

Popular article: 📣 'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland asks what happens when music and comics are created and experienced together? Read the article #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Pitman-MLO @ilcs.bsky.social @imagecomics.com #comics

📣 NEW ARTICLE: '“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli @livunihss.bsky.social‬ @livunilanguages.bsky.social Read it OA via MLO: bit.ly/MarcoPaoli-MLO

'Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation' by Jessica Zychowicz discusses definitions, challenges and opportunities of research on post-Soviet Ukraine. Read the #OpenAccess article for free via MLO: bit.ly/Zychowicz-MLO @victoriadonovan.bsky.social @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social

Learn more about extended reality linguistics in @aalsayed.bsky.social 's work on 'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' available #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/4aL2HOK @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social @ucldh.bsky.social

'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by @marzmac.bsky.social is popular this week. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/Maccaferri-MLO @psa-italian.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: 'Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and Drift' by Gareth Hughes. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Hughes-MLO @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social‪ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬

'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social

'Contemporary British Travel Writing on Italy and British Broadsheets: Tobias Jones, John Hooper and Tim Parks' by Kate Willman is popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Willman-MLO @ilcs.bsky.social @psa-italian.bsky.social

'The Media Intertextuality of “Que Tiro Foi Esse”: Tracking the Circulation of (Stray) Bullets in and through a Brazilian Internet Meme' explores the function of memes as “cultural touchstones” by @toririo.bsky.social. Read it Open Access on MLO: bit.ly/QTFE-Holmes @ilcs.bsky.social

'Miners’ Stories from Eastern and Western Ukraine: In Search of Identity' by Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic & Maria Voronchuk is #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-miners @uclssees.bsky.social @eetn.bsky.social @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social@ubc-cenes.bsky.social @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @associationruta.bsky.social

'Warriors and Weavers: The Poetics and Politics of Indigenous Appropriations of New Media Technologies in Latin America' by @theapitman.bsky.social is popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Pitman-MLO

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

'Enhancing Language Inclusivity in Digital Humanities: Towards Sensitivity and Multilingualism: Includes interviews with Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra and Cosima Wagner' by @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social examines the strive to strengthen language diversity. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Horvath @dariaheu.bsky.social

Roxana Patras, Tomaž Erjavec, Diana Santos and @christofs.bsky.social reflect on building the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) for the Distant Reading for European Literary History funded by @costprogramme.bsky.social. Read it #OA: bit.ly/ELTeC @sciencebusiness.net @mariejruiz.bsky.social

'Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna is now available #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Guardamagna-MLO @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

'Vernacular Mythologies: Instagram, Starbucks and Meaning-Making by Non-Elites at Paris Orly Airport' by @robjblackwood.bsky.social explores mythmaking by non-elites through networked language and semiotic practices of Instagram users. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/VM-Blackwood @livunihss.bsky.social

📣 Institutions & libraries can become members of MLO for £3,000/$3,900, allowing scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975! bit.ly/MLO-Membership. @ilcs.bsky.social @hpartzsch.bsky.social

Welcoming three new institutions to Trailblazers: Liverpool John Moores University, University of Wolverhampton & University of Reading - bit.ly/Trailblazers-insts @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmulibrary.bsky.social @wlvunilibrary.bsky.social @librarianmilne.bsky.social @mealison.bsky.social

We are pleased to share the success of the LUP Fundraiser in aid of @foodcycle.bsky.social! Read all about our 2,409-mile walk and the Careers & Cake bake sale on the LUP blog: bit.ly/LUP-FR-2025 @nutritionorguk.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social @livunisustain.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Want to publish in MLO? Institutions & libraries can become members for £3,000/$3,900, entitling their scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975. Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership#OpenAccess

NEW ARTICLE: ''La straniera' as 'Strangers I Know': Translational Readings of Claudia Durastanti Through Actor-Network Theory' by @efbond.bsky.social is here! Read it #OA at MLO: bit.ly/Bond-MLO#OA@hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @osgaoxford.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: '“Neither Here, nor There”: Riverscapes in Films on Migration' by @drmirnasolic.bsky.social is now published in the 'Reading and Writing in Transit' Special Collection. Read it #OpenAccess online: bit.ly/Šolić-MLO#OpenAccess@hpartzsch.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Introducing 'Reading and Writing in Transit', a Special Collection which interweaves comparative literature and translation studies to explore the movement of texts, edited by @hpartzsch.bsky.social & @drmirnasolic.bsky.social. Read the articles as they are published #OA: bit.ly/Reading-Writing-MLO✍️

NEW ARTICLE: 'Seeing Images, Reading Images: Circularity, Mirroring and the Artwork in Dario Argento’s Cinema' by Dr Giulio Luciano Giusti (of @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social @europeinthepub.bsky.social) is now available. Read it for free, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Giusti

Read the interview between Shirin Ramzanali Fazel & Simone Brioni on the veiling issue, cultural stereotypes, female agency, the publishing market in Italy, and the place of transnational literature by Maria Morelli. Now available #OpenAccess at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Morelli. @ilcs.bsky.social

'More of the Same? D’Holbach and the Temptation of Self-Quotation' by Ruggero Sciuto has been popular in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix', now available #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Sciuto @tomofwynnland.bsky.social @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

Read Jean-Alexandre Perras (@humboldt-foundation.de) on ‘Homo bulla: variations axiologiques sur l’éphémère’ in the new MLO collection, 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cronk' #OA online: bit.ly/MLO-Perras#OA@voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

Read the new article by @catrionaseth.bsky.social ‘Des nouvelles de mon infortunée sœur’: Marie-Antoinette dans les lettres de l’archiduchesse Marie-Christine à l’empereur François’ in the Nicholas Cronk festschrift #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Seth. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

Articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include 'Giustizia fatta: observations sur un registre des condamnés à mort (1471–1764) de la bibliothèque de Beccaria' by @pierremusitelli.bsky.social. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Musitelli @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

Chuffed to see this wonderful collection out. To name just a few of the stellar contributors: Catriona Seth, Michel Delon, Alexis Tadié, Caroline Warman, Glenn Roe. All articles freely available. Discover more 👇

We are delighted to launch 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk', a special festschrift introduced by Gillian Pink and Thomas Wynn. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Festschrift-N-C @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

Yay! Please welcome @modlangopen.bsky.social to Bluesky! 👋 @svshh.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: 'Illuminating the Chaos and Obscurity: Polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante' by @sarahhudspith.bsky.social & Olivia Santovetti brings into dialogue Fyodor Dostoevsky with the 21st century Italian novelist Elena Ferrante. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Chaos📚

Delighted my article with Olivia Santovetti is out now in MLO. #Dostoevsky #Ferrante Hudspith, Sarah, and Olivia Santovetti 2024 Illuminating the Chaos and Obscurity: Polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante. Modern Languages Open, 2024(1): 13 pp. 1–18. DOI: doi.org/10.3828/mlo....