This year, the BAMS Executive Steering Committee is looking to fill three vacant academic positions and two PG Representative positions. At the close of the application period, we received three academic applications, and five PG Representative applications, all of which included nominations from existing BAMS members. Click to download a pdf …
Publicising your call for papers and/or event via BAMS
A quick reminder on the different ways you can communicate with the BAMS community to promote your call for papers and/or event. 1: Use the JISCMail list If you join the BAMS jiscmail list you can post directly to it. 2: Tweet @ us If you mention us @modernistudies in a twitter post …
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BAMS statement on Black Lives Matter
We at BAMS recognise that more needs to be done to counter the whiteness of academia and of modernism studies, and that we need to do more. In February 2020, The Higher Education Statistics Agency reported that fewer than 1% of professors employed at UK universities are black, whilst 85% are …
CfP: Collaborations & Networks symposium, 4-5 Sep 2021 (abstract 31 Mar; deadline 31 July)
Virtual Symposium Irish Women’s Writing Network 4-5 September 2021 The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected …
CfP: Another Revolution: Building Modern Worlds (abstract 28 Feb; deadline 30 June)
For a prospective peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform, we seek proposals for original essays that analyze the role of art and culture in building modern worlds in the aftermath of revolutions. Situated within the discourse of global modernisms, the transdisciplinary cluster probes whether there is something intrinsic to the post-revolutionary reconstructive moment that …
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Publication: Transnational Jean Rhys
Transnational Jean Rhys investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys’s entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer …
BAMS Elections 2021: call for nominations (deadline 15 Jan)
2021 Call for Nominations For: The 2021 Election of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) Executive Steering Committee. There are three vacant positions on the committee, and we seek nominations for those vacancies. Nominations will now be accepted up to 15 Jan 2021, and the online election will take place …
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CfP: Charlotte Mew and Friends: Decadent and Modernist Networks, 9 July 2021 (online; deadline 31 Jan 2021)
A one-day virtual symposium 9 July 2021 Organisers Dr Megan Girdwood, University of Edinburgh Dr Francesca Bratton, Maynooth University Dr Fraser Riddell, Durham University Keynote Professor Joseph Bristow, UCLA Call for Papers ‘I think it is myself I go to meet’ ‘The Quiet House’ (1916) Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was a British …
New Work in Modernist Studies, Friday 11 December 2020: registration and programme
About the conferenceThe tenth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 11 December 2020, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association for …
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CfP: Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism (book; abstract 1 March; essays 3 Aug 2021)
Discontent with the prevailing culture, modernist artists sought to break the world apart in order to remake it, calling into question long-held assumptions about ethics and consciousness, identity, religion, responsibility and accountability. Further, the scientific discoveries and technological innovations that took place during this period resulted in a culture that was …
Essay prize: The Emerging Beardsley Scholar Prize (deadline 31 Dec 2020)
To mark the foundation of the Aubrey Beardsley Society, a prize for the best short essay on any aspect of Beardsley’s work, life, and reception will be awarded to an outstanding emerging scholar. The Society aims to encourage new work that is intellectually adventurous and stylistically accomplished, and seeks submissions that …
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New Work in Modernist Studies, online 11 Dec 2020 (CfP deadline 19 Oct)
About the conference The tenth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 11 December 2020, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association …
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