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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 18h

Our @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit is open. We're front & center in the Liberty B room & have @uchicagopress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social books & more! #msa2025

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 3h

Come to this panel! It features the amazing @jessmasters.bsky.social who is the wonderful grad rep on the MSA Board.

Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 8h

MSA friends! Come watch me read a (too hastily-written) paper on ekphrastic accumulation at 10.15 on Friday and perhaps, if you're lucky, you may even see me butcher @glavey.bsky.social 's amazing work! The potential for fun is endless @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 7h

We’re all set up in Boston for MSA 2025! Do pop by the booth to browse our huge collection of books and journals, grab a conference discount and discuss all things modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 23h

Mod Squad! Come here me in some detail about Sedgwick and the etymology of various words at 1:00 tomorrow at MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Powerpoint slide from a presentation entitled The Well Wrecked Urn: Syllables and Sex in the Long 1993. There is a picture of a book with the title and a peach emoji on it

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 22h

Hello MSA friends in Boston! We're all ready for you at the @ModernistStudies conference exhibit hall

Stop by our table to browse our books & journals (including @CuspLate!) and take advantage of our conference discount!

An array of books and journals displayed at the Hopkins Press table at the 2025 MSA conference in Boston

A detail of the array of books and journals displayed at the Hopkins Press table at the 2025 MSA conference in Boston, focusing on a standing copy of Cusp: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Cultures

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 23h

If you're attending the Modernist Studies Association (@moderniststudies.bsky.social) annual conference in Boston, please come stop by our booth where you can browse our recent and bestselling titles in literary studies.

Take advantage of our conference discount online at bit.ly/31MSA25.

The University Press of Florida and UF Press booth at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference in Boston, MA. It features some of our recent and bestselling titles, such as GUILT AND FINNEGANS WAKE by Talia Abu, THE USUAL STAR AND THE MOMENT: STORIES by H. D., edited by Lara Vetter, and TEACHING JAMES JOYCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible.

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

Moon lighting up the bay on the way in to Boston. See you soon @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 1d

So jealous of all the happenings lined up @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston, esp the queer modernist panels. You'll just all have to come to Loughborough next year to make it up to me!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 1d

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. buff.ly/THSpdk5 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Graphic announcing that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. It includes the book's cover and a 20% discount code with CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to seeing all the modernists (and maybe even some postmodernists!) TOMORROW!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 2d

I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday

Theatre critic and novelist Mary McCarthy

Neglected Irish American playwright, George Kelly (1887-1974), Pulitzer Prize-winning uncle of Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Given the amount of drinking as well as flying in John Llewelyn Rhys, a very strong gin and tonic feels about right in an airport on my way to @moderniststudies.bsky.social in Boston to talk about his work.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! We will miss you.

Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry to have to miss the @moderniststudies.bsky.social convening this year, but I’m incredibly honored to be in such good company on this shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book Prize!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good to know! Sorry for misunderstanding.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston this week! I'll be talking about early French women movie workers and engage in conversation with my dear colleagues Rutuja Deshmukh, Palita Chunsaengchan, and Kaveh Askari! @rutuja.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Come celebrate this amazing new collection and grab your free copy at the MSA in Boston!

Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 3d

so it's making me very happy to give away the copies from the big box @princetonupress.bsky.social sent, and to plan a workshop on teaching close reading for @moderniststudies.bsky.social, and also to see contributors like @sinsleyh.bsky.social post their essays

Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 3d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 3d

Saturday afternoon at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'll be on this panel. Paper's done but I somehow need to cut 5 minutes or so. Sigh. I think I'll chop some details so I don't have to cut any of the "Burn it all down!" passages about higher ed...

Panel description from the Modernist Studies Association conference program. Black letters on white background.

Panel, Pedagogy Stream:
Pedagogies in Woolf, West, and Pound

Chair: Benjamin D. Hagen, University of South Dakota

Matthew Cheney, Plymouth State University, "On Not Knowing Professors: Virginia Woolf's Outsider Pedagogy for Common Readers"

James Dunnigan, University of Toronto, "Monumentality and Inscription in Ezra Pound's Cantos"

Maria Rossini, University of Michigan, "Different Forms of Modernist Difficulty: Anti-Generative Al Pedagogy through Patria Mia"

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss this workshop and its amazing play on a childhood classic!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d

Hi @moderniststudies.bsky.social friends! We hope you'll join Friday's workshop "What Do People Do All Day (Off the Tenure Track)?" A conversation about understanding and navigating precarity (whether you're contingent or want to best support your colleagues). Workshop registration not necessary!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social later this week in Boston! I'll be giving a talk on one panel, chairing another, and participating in a really cool workshop.

My talk is on Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent, two amazing authors I'm writing about for the first time.

Panel: Queer Print Infrastructures
in Literary Modernism I
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Chair: Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University, “Queer Frenemies and the making
of Fire!!: On Infants of the Spring and Gentleman Jigger”
Eliza Browning, Princeton University, “Doubled Forms of Editorial
Collaboration in Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Poetry”
Eleonora Guidi, University of Bologna, “Adrienne Monnier’s Mesures,
from Paris, 1935”

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

And here's a link to the official program again, in case it got lost in your feed! Download it before you leave for Boston.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

Important announcement MSA conference goers! Don't forget to stop by the amazing book exhibit when you're at the conference.

scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 5d

Hey @moderniststudies.bsky.social attendees...
we've got an excellent exhibit ready for you! Stop by the Grand Liberty Foyer on the second level of the Sheraton and peruse our selection of discounted books from 23 publishers, including many award-nominated books. #msa2025 #modernism

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats again @hennefem.bsky.social!

Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 9d

I'm extremely honored that "Death by Laughter" made the shortlist for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social Book Prize!!! ☺️🎊 CONGRATS to the winners & fellow short-listers--such beautiful research here that I can't wait to read!! 📚@columbiaup.bsky.social

www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/short...

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

Huge congratulations to you from everyone on the MSA Board!

Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 9d

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for tagging @upmississippi.bsky.social! Congrats!