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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 24m

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

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

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 · 7h

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 · 5h

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 · 25m

Congratulations! We will miss you.

Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 8d

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 · 9h

Oh good to know! Sorry for misunderstanding.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 10h

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

Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 10h

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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

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 · 7d

Congrats again @hennefem.bsky.social!

Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Huge congratulations to you from everyone on the MSA Board!

Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 8d

Proud to have an essay in this volume. And congrats to Jon for his fabulous work as editor! @upmississippi.bsky.social

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

The runner-up for the 2025 MSA Prize for edited collections and anthologies is Jonathan Najarian, editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture.

Congratulations Jonathan and the University of Mississippi Press!

Comics and Modernism

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZEContributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Naja...

www.upress.state.ms.us

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Don't forget to register for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston, starting Oct. 9. We have an exciting schedule of panels, roundtables, workshops, seminars, and plenaries. Plus we'll be celebrating all the amazing book prize winners.

Register here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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...

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

You can read more about these books, including blurbs from the judges who worked hard to make the difficult decisions, on the MSA website: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/colle...

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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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Last but not least (in alphabetical order), on the shortlist for the MSA Prize for editions, collections, and anthologies is

Mark Whalan (ed.), The Cambridge History of American Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Congrats @markwhalan.bsky.social and @universitypress.cambridge.org!

www.cambridge.org

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Also on the shortlist for editions, collections, and anthologies:

Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Congrats Ulka, Anjali, and @oxfordunipress.bsky.social!

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

There is an amazing shortlist of books for the 2025 MSA Prize for editions, collections and anthologies:

Idurre Alonso (ed.), Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928–1978 (Getty Research Institute, 2023).

Congratulations @idurrealonso.bsky.social and @gettymuseum.bsky.social!

Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978

Edited by Idurre Alonso This lavishly illustrated volume examines the work of the Venezuelan photographer and art historian Alfredo Boulton, one of the main intellectuals of Latin American modernity. ...

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

The runner-up for the 2025 MSA Prize for edited collections and anthologies is Jonathan Najarian, editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture.

Congratulations Jonathan and the University of Mississippi Press!

Comics and Modernism

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZEContributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Naja...

www.upress.state.ms.us

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Here is the link to read more: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

www.cambridge.org

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Every other year, the MSA awards a prize for Editions, Anthologies, and Collections. This year's winner is: Oliver Herford, editor of Henry James, The Prefaces, Vol. 33 of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James.

Congratulations Oliver and @universitypress.cambridge.org!

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