The Middlebrow Network
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The Middlebrow Network focuses on research about the loaded and disreputable term 'middlebrow'. To join our mailing list, contact [email protected]. middlebrownetwork.com
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mmodernity.bsky.social
Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.

Read it on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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📖 Publication alert: @AnneWetherilt's monograph British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction and decolonisation by women writers. Available at:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel
This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.
link.springer.com
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
📖 Publication alert: @AnneWetherilt's monograph British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction and decolonisation by women writers. Available at:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel
This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.
link.springer.com
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moderniststudies.bsky.social
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
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matthewlevay.bsky.social
This is a fascinating piece in modernist periodical studies, and for me a timely one. Lately I’ve been reading the early Gasoline Alley comic strips, and one storyline centers on all the characters becoming obsessed with the new crossword puzzle fad.
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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
Congratulations Missy! So exciting to hear this, after hearing your wonderful talk on the project at Glasgow lately. Faye (Middlebrow Network)
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missybradshaw.bsky.social
Stunned and thrilled that the Amy Lowell Letters Project was funded in this round with a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant!
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sealibrary.bsky.social
Congratulations! 💙 Also, I love the reference to the book by the wondrous master, Ernst Haeckel.
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tamlynavery.bsky.social
Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+.

The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
mmodernity.bsky.social
Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.

Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...

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Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team!

Read his farewell message here:
modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
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The Middlebrow Network highly recommends Recommended!
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'fascinating, gossipy and well-researched': Observer review from
@katyataylor29
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observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Recommended! by Nicola Wilson comes out this week
hhousebooks.com/books/recomm...

#books #recommended
#bookclubs
#bookinfluencers
#thebooksociety
#booksky
#publishing
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for Elizabeth von Arnim fans
noreenoconnor.bsky.social
Join The Elizabeth von Arnim Society for a ‘Day on the Town’ event to launch Elizabeth von Arnim: the Unexpected Modernist (EUP June 2025)

11 July 2025, 10-4 EDT

In New York City and online

To register and see the program please visit:

elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/conferences/...
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noreenoconnor.bsky.social
Please join members of the Elizabeth von Arnim Society for “A Day on the Town with Elizabeth”and help us launch a new essay collection, Elizabeth von Arnim: the Unexpected Modernist.

11 July 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. New York City (and streaming)

elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/conferences/...
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greenbowlerhat.bsky.social
Exciting (fully funded) PhD 📢 ! Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Keele (me!) and the British Library. Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections

www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... (see “advert and details” for full info)
USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections
www.keele.ac.uk
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
📢Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.
PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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jntod.bsky.social
Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
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🗃️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : “GLOBAL HISTORIES OF GENDER AND OLD AGE,” A Special Issue for the Journal of Women’s History

For more information on this great opportunity, go to our website: jwomenshistory.org/call-for-sub...
jwomenshistory.org
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📃Deadline extended for this call for abstracts to Friday March 21st! Submit your work on care and Modernism, broadly defined
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
Hello, Bluesky! We have a call for chapter abstracts for Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice. This edited volume will explore care in modernist culture, broadly defined. Submit a 250-word abstract & 100-word bio to [email protected] by March 14, 2025 #CFP
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
📃Deadline extended for this call for abstracts to Friday March 21st! Submit your work on care and Modernism, broadly defined
middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
Hello, Bluesky! We have a call for chapter abstracts for Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice. This edited volume will explore care in modernist culture, broadly defined. Submit a 250-word abstract & 100-word bio to [email protected] by March 14, 2025 #CFP