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MLO is a peer-reviewed platform for the Open Access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience from @livunipress.bsky.social. Find us at: modernlanguagesopen.org.
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NEW ARTICLE: 📣 'Linguistic Blind Spots in Platform Content Moderation in Ethiopia: The Case of Facebook' by @yohannes-ayalew.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social
Read it freely, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Ayalew
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November 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: 'Pirates, Slave Traders or Patriots? Imperial Exceptionalism, Maritime Tensions and the Emergence of the Spanish Sea Novel, c. 1830-1870' by @booksonspain.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social
Read it #OA online: bit.ly/MLO-Hooper
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October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Celebrating #OpenAccessWeek: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
MLO is an #OA platform from @livunipress.bsky.social publishing leading peer-reviewed research from across the modern languages.
@copim.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social @eve.gd @oipassoc.bsky.social
Find out more: modernlanguagesopen.org/en
'MLO is one of the most important initiatives for modern language research in the past decades. It transforms the nature of publishing, explicitly encouraging interdisciplinarity, ensuring that high-quality and original work is published in a timely way...'
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: 'La Sierra and La Costa: Socially Motivated Intra-Speaker Variation in Peruvian Vowel Spaces' by Alden McCollum @nyulinguistics.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-McCollum
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'La Sierra and La Costa: Socially Motivated Intra-Speaker Variation in Peruvian Vowel Spaces' by Alden McCollum
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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We're thrilled to share that we have partnered with the University of Liverpool to deliver a master’s degree in Publishing, commencing September 2026.
Read our full announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/09/l... @sotauol.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📣 NEW: 'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by @ralexm.bsky.social examines Zionism within multinational empires and the performative nature of national demands within this economy.
Read it #OA: bit.ly/Marshall-MLO
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'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by Alex Marshall written in white text on a series of light blue and mid blue banners atop the MLO grey transparent line drawing of classical human figures. The MLO logo is at the bottom right with an Open Access orange lock logo.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Popular this week ⬇️
'“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain' by David Miranda-Barreiro @bangormodlangs.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Julio-Camba-Travelling-Spain
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'Minoritised Languages and Travel' written in white on a teal background with an image in black and white to the right - ATTRIBUTION for the illustration which introduces the collection: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales . Title: Foreign correspondent that specializes in broadcasting visiting Caernarfon. Author: Charles, Geoff 1909-2002. License: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/.
September 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Institutions & libraries can become members of MLO for £3,000/$3,900, allowing scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975! 💰
Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership @ilcs.bsky.social
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September 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' by Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty has also been popular this week.
Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BodofEv
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'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' written on a light blue banner with the authors names on a blue banner beneath: Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty.
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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'Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries' by Nicola Bermingham and Paul O’Neill is popular this week.
➡️ Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/BerOn
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'Language and Education in the Lusophone Countries: Theory and Practice – Língua e educação nos países lusófonos: teoria e prática' written in white text on a blue background with a child's illustration of the alphabet featured to the right.
September 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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James Rann asks an important question this week from the special collection guest edited alongside @victoriadonovan.bsky.social & @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social.
He asks: 'Does Impact Reinforce the Boundary Between the Academy and the World?'
Read it #OpenAccess, only on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Rann
'Slavic Studies Goes Public: Who? What? Why? Where? When?' written in white overlaying a photograph of seven people stood on a cloudy beach.
September 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Popular article on MLO this week⬇️
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
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'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Katie Jones on a purple and lilac banner.
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Popular this week on #MLO 📣
'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @xineyaophd.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedMasques
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UNMASKING THE RED DEATH: A special collection from Modern Languages Open written in white over a red tinted surrealist image of a girl floating on a theatre stage with red floating lampshades.
August 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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MLO Membership Explained 🔐
Once a library purchases an MLO membership (£3,000), this allows their scholars to publish 5 Open Access articles for the price of 4, saving £750!*

Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership
*subject to rigorous peer review
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August 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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'Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna offers a corpus-assisted lexical semantic/semiotic analysis of the noun eresia “heresy":

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Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna is written in white text on top of a purple and blue set of horizontal banners.
August 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Popular this week: 'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by @naswells.bsky.social, @cforsdick.bsky.social, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, @svshh.bsky.social, Shirley Jordan, @theapitman.bsky.social & Georgia Wall ⬇️
'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by Naomi Wells, Charles Forsdick, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Shirley Jordan, Thea Pitman, and Georgia Wall on a series of light and mid blue banners.
July 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: Un, Dos, y Juntos: Interpretation, Incommensurability, and Linguistic Evolution in Juana Adcock’s “Thirteen Ways of Inhabiting a Language” by Calum MacLean Esler @sgsah.bsky.social @clairesquires.bsky.social
Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Esler
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July 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Popular article: 📣 'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland asks what happens when music and comics are created and experienced together?
Read the article #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Pitman-MLO
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'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland written in purple and blue banners with the MLO banner at the bottom of the graphic.
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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📣 NEW ARTICLE: '“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli @livunihss.bsky.social‬ @livunilanguages.bsky.social
Read it OA via MLO: bit.ly/MarcoPaoli-MLO
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June 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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'Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation' by Jessica Zychowicz discusses definitions, challenges and opportunities of research on post-Soviet Ukraine. Read the #OpenAccess article for free via MLO: bit.ly/Zychowicz-MLO @victoriadonovan.bsky.social @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social
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June 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Learn more about extended reality linguistics in @aalsayed.bsky.social 's work on 'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' available #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/4aL2HOK @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social @ucldh.bsky.social
'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' by Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed in blue banners.
June 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by @marzmac.bsky.social is popular this week. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/Maccaferri-MLO @psa-italian.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by Marzia Maccaferri on a blue and pink banner.
June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: 'Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and Drift' by Gareth Hughes. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Hughes-MLO @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social‪ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬
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June 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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'Contemporary British Travel Writing on Italy and British Broadsheets: Tobias Jones, John Hooper and Tim Parks' by Kate Willman is popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Willman-MLO @ilcs.bsky.social @psa-italian.bsky.social
'Contemporary British Travel Writing on Italy and British Broadsheets: Tobias Jones, John Hooper and Tim Parks' by Kate Willman
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM