Dr. Elysia Balavage
@drgreasefire.bsky.social
Transnational modernist working on 'nothing', modernist readings of nihilism, and working-class food culture
Book Review Editor for The @spacebetween.bsky.social Journal.
Book Review Editor for The @spacebetween.bsky.social Journal.
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MSA Members, it's time to vote for new board members! Please visit this link: vote.press.jhu.edu/msa/election...
Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!
Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!
Election | MSA Elections
vote.press.jhu.edu
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
MSA Members, it's time to vote for new board members! Please visit this link: vote.press.jhu.edu/msa/election...
Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!
Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!
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Why is the Eliot Summer School ALWAYS FUN? We think it's thanks to Director Cuda and all the students! Sign up, join, come or come again to nerd out at Eliot Camp this summer 💪🤓🌻
Why is this mysterious woman ALWAYS RIGHT? She's the skeleton key to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land... register for the 2026 International Summer School and let's talk about why! tseliotschool.com.
@intleliotsociety.bsky.social @tseliotfoundation.bsky.social thanks @benjuhmuhn.bsky.social art,
@intleliotsociety.bsky.social @tseliotfoundation.bsky.social thanks @benjuhmuhn.bsky.social art,
January 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Why is the Eliot Summer School ALWAYS FUN? We think it's thanks to Director Cuda and all the students! Sign up, join, come or come again to nerd out at Eliot Camp this summer 💪🤓🌻
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In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology."
“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”
— @drleonardbright.bsky.social
“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”
— @drleonardbright.bsky.social
‘Censored’: Texas A&M cancels course under new ‘race and gender ideology’ policy
Texas A&M’s government and public service department alleges a professor refused to submit information about his class for review.
www.star-telegram.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology."
“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”
— @drleonardbright.bsky.social
“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”
— @drleonardbright.bsky.social
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PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
2PM EST next Wednesday, 17 December, if you're interested in what will definitely be an outstanding event on all things spiritual, ethical, and social in T. S. Eliot's work!
EICSP - Online Zoom Forum: Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work, 17 December 2025
The EICSP is an events-led Scottish charity, which works with the world's spiritual traditions, both in Scotland and internationally.
eicsp.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
2PM EST next Wednesday, 17 December, if you're interested in what will definitely be an outstanding event on all things spiritual, ethical, and social in T. S. Eliot's work!
If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
A bit of a ways off, but if T. S. Eliot is your jam: I'm speaking on this cool Zoom panel in December on "The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work." Check it out if you can!
eicsp.org/events/event...
eicsp.org/events/event...
EICSP - Online Zoom Forum: Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work, 17 December 2025
The EICSP is an events-led Scottish charity, which works with the world's spiritual traditions, both in Scotland and internationally.
eicsp.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A bit of a ways off, but if T. S. Eliot is your jam: I'm speaking on this cool Zoom panel in December on "The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work." Check it out if you can!
eicsp.org/events/event...
eicsp.org/events/event...
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In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
My review of The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke, is now live in English Studies! Such an important, timely provocative volume.
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My review of The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke, is now live in English Studies! Such an important, timely provocative volume.
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“College campuses have historically been the places where these kind of conversations, these kind of robust debates and dissent take place in the United States.”
“It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”
“It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”
University protests blast Trump's attacks on funding, speech and international students
University professors and students have led protests on campuses against what they say are broad attacks against American higher education.
apnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“College campuses have historically been the places where these kind of conversations, these kind of robust debates and dissent take place in the United States.”
“It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”
“It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”
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I used the template. Fast, easy. The more of us write, the more of a chance it has being effective.
I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
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April 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I used the template. Fast, easy. The more of us write, the more of a chance it has being effective.
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Modernists! Elioteers! Please send in your abstracts in any way related to Eliot by April 1 2025.
We are offering travel support in the form of $400 grants to two grad students with accepted proposals. If you are a full-time grad, please mention in your submission.
Please RT and tell friends 🙏
We are offering travel support in the form of $400 grants to two grad students with accepted proposals. If you are a full-time grad, please mention in your submission.
Please RT and tell friends 🙏
CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
March 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Modernists! Elioteers! Please send in your abstracts in any way related to Eliot by April 1 2025.
We are offering travel support in the form of $400 grants to two grad students with accepted proposals. If you are a full-time grad, please mention in your submission.
Please RT and tell friends 🙏
We are offering travel support in the form of $400 grants to two grad students with accepted proposals. If you are a full-time grad, please mention in your submission.
Please RT and tell friends 🙏
Consider checking out our fiery @moderniststudies.bsky.social CCIS-sponsored roundtable on The New Precarity! Via Zoom on 14 March!
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Consider checking out our fiery @moderniststudies.bsky.social CCIS-sponsored roundtable on The New Precarity! Via Zoom on 14 March!
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CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
January 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
2–5 July 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳
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Remember our extended deadline for conference abstracts!
And grad students, we welcome you - so tell us about your dissertation and scholarship, whether or not it sparked the fury of the worst parts of internet culture. 😉
And grad students, we welcome you - so tell us about your dissertation and scholarship, whether or not it sparked the fury of the worst parts of internet culture. 😉
December 3, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Remember our extended deadline for conference abstracts!
And grad students, we welcome you - so tell us about your dissertation and scholarship, whether or not it sparked the fury of the worst parts of internet culture. 😉
And grad students, we welcome you - so tell us about your dissertation and scholarship, whether or not it sparked the fury of the worst parts of internet culture. 😉
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The story of Arthur Blair, Relieving Assistant Commissioner in Calcutta, who died of the same disease which would later claim his nephew, throws more light on the importance of understanding #Orwell's Anglo-Indian ancestry on his outlook! www.darcymoore.net/2024/11/24/o...
Orwell’s Uncles: George & Arthur - Darcy Moore
Why did George Orwell join the Indian Imperial Police? He told Sonia Brownell – who was curious as to why her husband pursued this career rather than ‘Oxbridge’ – that it was a ‘long and complicated s...
www.darcymoore.net
December 1, 2024 at 8:56 AM
The story of Arthur Blair, Relieving Assistant Commissioner in Calcutta, who died of the same disease which would later claim his nephew, throws more light on the importance of understanding #Orwell's Anglo-Indian ancestry on his outlook! www.darcymoore.net/2024/11/24/o...
My article, Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier, is now live in English Studies!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), George Orwell's social exploration of poverty in England's industrial North, illuminates the damaging impact of capitalism on all facets of working-class life, includ...
doi.org
November 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM
My article, Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier, is now live in English Studies!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
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Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected!
go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1
go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected!
go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1
go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1
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The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!