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Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition Winner 2015

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition Winner 2015 

The Katherine Mansfield Society is delighted to announce that this year’s prize for the best essay on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and Psychology’ has been awarded to Polly Dickson. The judges, Professor Laura Marcus (Goldsmith’s Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford), Dr Isobel Maddison (Director of Studies in English, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge) and Professor Clare Hanson (Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, University of Southampton) were unanimous in choosing this essay from a wide field of excellent entries.
Chair of the Judging Panel Professor Clare Hanson comments: ‘Polly Dickson’s winning essay “Interior Matters: Hunger and Secrecy in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’” is a subtle, finely nuanced essay which allows us to see this much-discussed story in a new light. It adopts a mode of enquiry in which psychoanalysis is not applied to Mansfield’s texts, rather the essay explores the implication of psychoanalysis within them. This yields a reading which is supremely alert to textual detail and which opens up new perspectives on this familiar story. The essay is innovative, beautifully written throughout and announces the arrival of a fresh and original critical voice’.
Polly Dickson is a Ph.D. student with the departments of German and French at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her dissertation focuses on mimesis and mimicry in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. She is currently a visiting research scholar at New York University. She will receive a prize of NZ$ 500 (£211), and her essay will appear in the annual book series Katherine MansfieldStudies (Volume 8), on Katherine Mansfield and Psychology, to be published in October 2016 by Edinburgh University Press (sent free to all members of the Society).
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Call for interest- new Early Career Researchers in British Art network

Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to join our new Early Career Researchers network for historians of British art. The aim of this network is to provide a forum for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) working in the field of British art history to meet and connect, share work and provide supportive criticism. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art will host regular afternoon gatherings where members can present short papers, offer one another feedback, discuss their experiences and share information about career-related topics.
Meetings in the coming semester will held on 12th November, 26th November, and 10th December 2015 between 4.30-6pm at the Paul Mellon Centre, 15-16 Bedford Square, WC1B 3JA.Meeting 1 will be a chance for us to get to know one another, to talk a bit about our work, and for some of us to present research and gain feedback.
At Meeting 2 Oriana Baddeley, Dean of Research at University of the Arts London, will be on hand to discuss REF and how best to approach it. We will also have time to share research.Meeting 3 will be our last before Christmas, and Samuel Bibby, Associate Editor of Art History, will join us to discuss preparing manuscripts for submission to journals. Again, we will also have time to discuss our own research. We anticipate that this session will end with a sociable trip to the pub.
Members are invited to share their research journeys and profile information via our blog. Please contact us via ecrbritart@gmail.com.
 We define Early Career Researchers as post-doctoral scholars who are within 5 years of receiving their doctorate, or preparing for their viva. This definition can be flexible, so please do get in touch if you think the ECR network might be useful for your situation.
With very best wishes,
Dr Hannah Leaper, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art
Dr Sophie Hatchwell, University of Bristol
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Celebrating arts and humanities this October

According to United States President Barack Obama, “we rely on the arts and humanities to broaden our views and remind us of the truths that connect us”. This month, join Cambridge Scholars Publishing in celebrating National Arts and Humanities Month, which has run throughout October every year since 1993. Events and celebrations are planned to take place across America to highlight the occasion.

As our focus at Cambridge Scholars is on publishing original academic work in the arts, humanities and social sciences, we are very pleased to lend our support to National Arts and Humanities Month and invite our global community of authors and readers to take part as well. We are also offering a 50% discount on three of our best-selling related titles – click here to read more.

We are also delighted to be featuring another of our well-established and successful Series this month. Pierides, edited by leading Latinist Professor Philip Hardie and Emeritus Professor Stratis Kyriakidis, contains a variety of studies on a wide range of ancient Greek and Roman literature and, in the words of Professor David Konstan of New York University, “fills a real need”. To find out more about Pierides and to get a 50% discount on the titles in the series, please click here.

Our October discount campaigns, with a time-limited discount of up to 60%, include:

Book of the Month – this month’s must-read is Citizenship in Transition: New Perspectives on Transnational Migration from the Middle East to Europe. This book’s topic is particularly relevant given the current refugee crisis in Europe and “deserves a wide readership” according to one reviewer. We are offering a 60% discount on this title – please click here to find out more.

The Editorial Advisory Board’s ‘Recommended Reads’ – this month, Professor Jonathan Winterton has chosen his recommended read: Work and the Challenges of Belonging: Migrants in Globalizing Economies edited by Mojca Pajnik and Floya Anthias. We are offering a 50% discount on this book to all our readers. Please click here to view Professor Winterton’s choice.

Forthcoming Titles, New Releases and Best Sellers – be the first to know about our new and noteworthy, or best-selling titles—all reduced by up to 50%. Our Editors have hand-picked 9 titles that are generating a buzz. Please click on our homepage to view the selection.

Happy reading!

Christine

Christine von Gall
Deputy Editor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
christine.von-gall@cambridgescholars.com

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The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture

The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, issued both in print and online versions, is pleased to announce its new website. You’re warmly invited to visit the current and archived issues and to submit articles and book reviews online. Several members of the editorial team work on modernism: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge), Eli Park Sorensen (Seoul National), Delphine Grass (Lancaster), Earl Jackson (NCTU), etc. Amongst advisory board member are Rachel Bowlby (Princeton/UCL), Timothy Mathews (UCL), Eric Robertson (RHUL), Cristanne Miller (SUNY Buffalo), and Andrew Taylor (Edinburgh). For details, follow the link: http://www.wreview.org

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A Listserv for Feminist Modernist Society and Journal (FMS)

Those interested in joining a Feminist Modernist Society listserv see below:

Dear Modernists,

We are collecting e-mails from people interested in joining a Feminist Modernist Society listserv to be hosted by Julie Vandivere at Bloomsburg.

You would receive announcements and updates concerning the forming Society and Feminist Modernist Studies Journal (being negotiated at a major press for start-up date of 2017. Send e-mails to me at:

claity@utk.edu

If you wrote a testimonial for FMS or attended the 2015 Woolf conference, you are already on this list (and may take your self off it).

Cheers, Cassandra Laity

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Biofiction Listserv

Biofiction, literature that names its protagonist after an actual biographical figure, has become a dominant literary form in recent years.  Before the 1980s, there were only a handful of well-regarded biographical novelists, but since the 1980s, writers such as Gore Vidal, Bruce Duffy, Joanna Scott, J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Julia Alvarez, Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Lily Tuck, Jay Parini, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Colum McCann, David Ebershoff, Anne Enright, and Hilary Mantel, to name only a notable few, authored important biographical novels that garnered much critical acclaim.  But the scholarship about biofiction is only recently starting to gain traction, and there is as of yet no formal place where scholars can share their work with each other, promote the study and teaching of biofiction, and organize events about it.

To promote scholarly work about biofiction, I have set up a listserv with the following objectives: 1) to organize conference panels on the topic of biofiction—hopefully, we can host an annual panel at the MLA convention, 2) to announce new publications about biofiction, 3) to issue CFPs about biofiction to the most suitable scholars, 4) to encourage and engage in conversations about biofiction, 5) and to share strategies for teaching biofiction.Let me explain why this is the time to create such a venue.  As I mentioned above, many prominent writers have authored stellar biographical novels.  But with regard to scholarship, the field has witnessed some exciting developments in the past twenty-five years: recent scholars such as Ina Schabert, Alain Buisine, Stephanie Bird, Mark C. Carnes, John Keener, Martin Middeke, Werner Huber, Monica Latham, Sandra Mayer, Julia Novak, Lucia Boldrini, Cora Kaplan, Marie-Luise Kohlke, Beverley Southgate, and David Lodge have authored works that have advanced the conversation about biofiction.  It was the pioneering work of all these scholars that led me to author Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists (2014), which consists of interviews with sixteen authors of biofiction.  In doing this project, many scholars and authors told me that there is a need for a venue to bring together those who have an interest in promoting and advancing scholarship about the genre.  Hence the creation of this listserv.

But there is an additional reason why this is the time for such a listserv.  Bloomsbury will publish an anthology about biofiction in November 2016, which contains authors’ prefaces, afterwords, statements, lectures, interviews, and essays about biofiction as well as scholarly studies of the genre.  So committed to biofiction is Bloomsbury that its academic division is currently considering starting a new series devoted exclusively to the aesthetic form.  There is clearly a growing market for scholarly studies about biofiction.

To subscribe, send a message to Michael Lackey (lacke010@morris.umn.edu) with Biofiction in the subject line.

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Northern Modernism Seminar

Northern Modernism Seminar website

Friday 25 September

Hosted by Northumbria University & the North East Modernist Research Initiative at

The Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE

10.30 Registration. Tea & Coffee.

11.00 Welcome: Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University).

11.15 Dr Fiona Green (Cambridge University) ~ ‘Marianne Moore, Syllabics, and History’

~ Chair: Victoria Bazin.

12.15 Lunch (provided).

1.30 Francesca Bratton (Durham University) ‘Publishing a Fragmentary Whole: Hart

Crane’s The Bridge in Little Magazines’. Chair: Julie Taylor.

2.30 Jude Riley (Northumbria University) ‘Not real, scarcely there at all’: Elizabeth

Madox Roberts and Intellectual Disability in Southern Modernism’. Chair: Ann-Marie

Einhaus.

3.30 Tea & Coffee.

4.00 Professor Michael O’Neill (Durham University) ‘Endings in Yeats and Edward

Thomas’. Chair: Claire Nally.

5.00 Closing Remarks Katherine Baxter (Northumbria University).

The event is free of charge, but attendees must register to ensure a place:

Email: Victoria.Bazin@northumbria.ac.uk.

Getting there from Newcastle Central Station: The Lit and Phil is only a few minutes walk from the central

station. Please see attached map: http://www.litandphil.org.uk/information/visit-us/

Getting there by car: Car parking spaces are available near Newcastle Central Station. It is best not to use

the station itself for parking as long stay is very expensive. See map for details of parking nearby: http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/ne1_1se/

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Modernisms catalogue

Blackwell’s Rare Books is pleased to announce its second ‘Modernisms’ catalogue, focusing on literary innovation in the first half of the twentieth century – the catalogue includes important first editions, limited editions, inscribed copies, and manuscript material. The catalogue is now available at: http://rarebooks.blackwell.co.uk/rarebooks/assets/images/catalogues/cat_mf2.pdf

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CFP Deadline Extended: A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales

Many thanks to those who have already submitted abstracts for the inaugural MONC conference. Upon request, we have now extended the CFP deadline to 30 June. To complement the papers already received, we are especially keen to receive proposals relating to the visual arts, material culture and women artists and writers.

CFP A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales
The Inaugural Modernist Network Cymru Conference
Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, Monday 7 September
Keynote speaker: Professor Angharad Price (Bangor University)

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars to reflect upon the past, present and future of both modernism and modernist studies in Wales. We welcome proposals on any aspect of modernism, as defined in the widest sense, but we particularly welcome proposals relating to Welsh modernist writers and artists, as well as modernist art and writing in Wales.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to modernistnetworkcymru@gmail.com by 30 June 2015.

To download revised versions of the CFP in English and Welsh, please visit http://modernistnetworkcymru.org/2015/06/16/cfp-deadline-extended-a-century-on-modernist-studies-in-wales/ Please do circulate the CFP to any interested colleagues, especially postgraduates.

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Blackwell’s Rare Books – forthcoming Modernism catalogue

Blackwell’s Rare Books is pleased to announce its second ‘Modernisms’ catalogue, focusing on literary innovation in the first half of the twentieth century – the catalogue includes important first editions, limited editions, inscribed copies, and manuscript material. Please contact rarebooks@blackwell.co.uk to request a free copy (specifying hard copy or email).

Please find a PDF flyer here