Modern & Contemporary Literature Network: an informal, supportive, academic community in Durham for @READEnglish PGRs. Run by: @hm_voss & @ClarksonPoetry.
Durham, England
Joined April 2019
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📢 Very excited to announce that @AnnaLSnaith and I will be co-organising 'Sounding Modernism', an interdisciplinary conference (@KingsCollegeLon, June 22-23, 2023). *The CFP is now open*, deadline Jan 13th: soundingmodernism.wordpress.… 📢
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Huge congratulations to @IHickey91 and @DrMagennis on winning his year's BACLS monograph prize, and to @KatieOsha for winning the postgraduate essay prize! 🏆🎉
bacls.org/prizes/2021-winner…
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my first article on still-living poets (!) is now out in Textual Practice, part of a Special Issue on Contemporary Style edited by Barry Sheils and Richard Robinson, who are far too sensible to be Twitter regulars tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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‘With all this luxury going on, what hope was there for a better state of things?’— Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
(A reminder that individual paper proposals for @modernistudies’ conference, ‘Hopeful Modernisms’, are due 31 Jan!)
bams.ac.uk/conference/
@msatweet @FiMAssociation
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The 4th event in the @BACLS_official online series is happening next Friday (11th). We have @shapirostephen @sharaerua on "Neoliberalism and Contemporary World Literature" with responses from Jenny Bavidge.
Tickets Here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacls-onl…
Info Here: bacls.org/conferences/bacls-…
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Do you work on T. S. Eliot or maternity? The Modernist Review is looking for a reviewer for 'T. S. Eliot and the Mother', out this month!
Please email [email protected] stating your research interests:
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Call for Papers! We're delighted to announce the CfP for issue 9.4: World Literature and the Alter|native.
The deadline for proposed abstracts is 31st May, and the deadline for accepted articles is 30th June. More details here: alluvium-journal.org/2021/05…
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A wonderful addition to our issue on Contemporary Irish Women's Writing: here's Eva-Maria Windberger writing on "Significant Absences and the Fragility of Family in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet". Give it a read here: alluvium-journal.org/2021/05…
ModCon Durham retweeted
The owl and the pussy cat went on Zoom
At half past five tonight
They Invented the Text, inside the room
Having first booked upon Eventbrite.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-le…
ModCon Durham retweeted
Great to hear about all the #BAISDay2021 Irish Studies research. Our special issue on contemporary Irish women's writing was published last week, featuring articles on Anna Burns, Nicole Flattery, Sally Rooney, Eimear McBride, Melatu Uche Okorie and many more
Our new issue is published today! A bumper special issue of Alluvium on C21st Irish Women’s Writing – guest edited by @dsm_houston & @darling_orlaith All open access, as always. You can read all about the articles in Dearbhaile and Orlaith’s editorial here alluvium-journal.org/2021/03…
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#AcademicTwitter: If you've published research on literary fragments, let me know. I'm compiling an entry on 'The Literary Fragment' for an academic publisher. As my book was on modernist fragments, I'll be especially interested to know about work in other eras
ModCon Durham retweeted
Our new issue is published today! A bumper special issue of Alluvium on C21st Irish Women’s Writing – guest edited by @dsm_houston & @darling_orlaith All open access, as always. You can read all about the articles in Dearbhaile and Orlaith’s editorial here alluvium-journal.org/2021/03…
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The next event in our BACLS seminar series focuses on Reflections on Research. 26 March, 2-3:30 pm. Full information here: bacls.org/conferences/bacls-…. Register (free!) here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacls-202…
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How did the arts develop in the decades following Nigerian independence?
Join @LouisaEgbunike at our next @Inventions_Text and discover how writers and artists navigated their artistic inheritance.
👉 Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-louisa…
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Our next meeting begins in a couple of hours - we'll be discussing Northern working-class experience and identity. Email us (in bio) for the Teams link and invites to all future sessions. We hope to see you there! #UON #phdlife #spatiality
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Coming up at @cce_durham over the next few months. Visit dur.ac.uk/cce/01/ for more info on each talk.
Free and open to all; email for the link.
#ecology #ecocriticism #envhums #environment #sustainability #climate
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As we said in our CfP, the themes of this issue are not confined to one month of TMR. We actively encourage future abstracts relating to Black modernist studies - please email [email protected] #BlackLivesMatter
"White modernism has a troubling history of racism."
Today we publish the Modernist Review's 25th issue: Black Lives Matter and Modernist Studies.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpres…
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Some exciting sensory studies work going on here. The event's for Durham postgrads only, but follow the speakers for updates about where else to hear their work. Look at those titles! Delish.
Delighted to announce our 2 Work-in-Progress Seminar speakers & titles!
@BF_Armstrong — ‘Kisses in Motion in D. H. Lawrence’
@SuzannahVEvans — ‘Sonic Modernity: Eliot’s Debt to Laforgue’
Join us 29/09, 2-3pm for a casual collaborative discussion. Details:
modcondurham.wordpress.com/2…
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Call for Submissions: Postgraduate English Issue 41 bit.ly/3hDNv9d