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 …
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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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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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CfP: Telepoetics, edited collection (deadline 25 Sep 2020)
Edited by Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams Call for Papers From the ‘waves of sound, transmitted o’er the line’ in Jones Very’s ‘The Telephone’ (1877) to the ‘thin voice speak[ing] / from a drowning world’ in Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Six Rings’ (2018), telephones have been calling in and across literary …
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CfP: The Body Politic in Pain: A Modernism/Modernity Print+ Cluster (deadline 10 September 2020)
Editor: Jeremy Colangelo (jcolang2@uwo.ca) Abstracts due: September 10, 2020 Full papers due: February 1, 2021 This article cluster seeks thoughtful, theoretically engaged essays on the subject of pain and pain expression in modernism and modernist literature for a proposed cluster of peer reviewed articles on Modernism/Modernity’s Print Plus platform. Bodily experience …
