We’ve already announced this via social media, but we’re pleased to confirm that joining the committee from 2021 for a three-year term will be: Dr Barbara Cooke (Loughborough University)Dr Rob Hawkes (Teeside University)Dr Udith Dematagoda (Waseda University, Japan) The postgraduate rep election was very closely fought – so much so, in …
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CfP: Woolf: Hope and Wonder, panel for MLA 2022 (deadline 15 Mar 21)
International Virginia Woolf Society Panel for MLA 2022 “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.” Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “Woolf’s Darkness,” opens with this quotation from Woolf, and follows with a discussion that celebrates Woolf’s investment in uncertainty and even darkness as a space …
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The Writer as Psychological Warrior, online conference (12-16 July 21; abstracts 19 Mar)
The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict Online conference, hosted by Durham University12-16 July 2021 The tendency of the modern state is to wipe out the freedom of the intellect, and yet at the same time every state, especially under the pressure of war, finds itself more and …
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CfP: Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (abstracts 28/2/21; deadline 26/4)
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We …
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BAMS Elections 2021, running 22/1-28/2/2021
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 …
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 …
