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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 8d

'A Call from the Wild'

Barbara Burns speaks to Laura Linares (@lauralinares.bsky.social), whose book 'Translation Landscapes: Contemporary Galician Fiction in English' recently appeared in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 9d

'Midnight on the Western Front'

Barbara Burns speaks to Elizabeth Drumm, whose edition of Ramón María del Valle-Inclán’s 'Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War' has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 9d

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' with a painting titled 'After breakfast' by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1890.

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 13d

Hit me up if you'd like to review any of these!

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 13d

These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch 📚

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 13d

These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch 📚

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 13d

🔈 The latest book in our 'New Translation' series is out!

'Carl Sternheim, A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century', translated by Fred Bridgham.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14d

'For it is autumn I love most of all, that time when everything withers and dies, blossoms and wilts, glows and pales in the same blink of an eye. When you’ve lived through autumn you’ve lived through life.'

– from Mirdja by L. Onerva
#autumn 🍂

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 19d

📚Looking for a new book to read? Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, includes a review essay and 10 book reviews. 👀
- @iciberlinpress.bsky.social
- @undpress.bsky.social
- @uclpress.bsky.social
- @themhra.bsky.social
- @psupress.bsky.social
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Cover of Italica, Volume 101, Number 4, Winter 2024
Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian
Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 29d

New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!

'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 29d

New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!

'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · Aug 29

We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun 😀

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

📅Event: Book launch for MHRA Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
23 Oct at 18:00, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, free 📖
Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman

A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship.

The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works.

Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026.

📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025

Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

'The Eloquent Picture'

Barbara Burns talks to Andy Stafford, whose book 'Photo-texts From Below: Collectivist Dispatches from the 21st-Century French Margins' has just been published in Legenda’s Visual Culture series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/08...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' 132.2, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles by Stefan Baghiu, Catriona Kelly, Donald Ostrowski, Maria Grazia Bartolini, Balázs Apor & Book Reviews.

@projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55383

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

📅Event: Book launch for MHRA Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
23 Oct at 18:00, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, free 📖
Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman

A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 13

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by
@uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

Titled 'Crossing Boundaries: Human-Animal Relationships in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union', the Special Issue has been edited by Helena Holzberger & Timm Schönfelder.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Henriette Partzsch @hpartzsch.bsky.social · Aug 13

"the first English translation of Mirdja (1908), a remarkable work of Decadent literature by Finnish author L. Onerva ( 1882–1972). Onerva was one of the most versatile literary figures of her generation. her novel Mirdja is among the most important works of Nordic fin-de-siècle literature." Yeah!

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗣️ Our latest book in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out now!

'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'. Translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction and notes by Viola Parente-Čapková.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @jstor.bsky.social 👉 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Very pleased to see this out. It's an absolutely wonderful novel, highly recommended (Zola-esque, I would say, with a slightly more modernist tint). (Of course I would say that, but honestly it's one of my fav works that we've published) 📘
'This is a game out of hell, this life of ours...'

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗣️ Our latest book in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out now!

'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'. Translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction and notes by Viola Parente-Čapková.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @jstor.bsky.social 👉 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...

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Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · Aug 1

41.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out!
'Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures", special issue edited by @doboulanger.bsky.social & Andrzej Stuart-Thompson.
ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275
@themhra.bsky.social

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 31

'A Tapestry of Nordic Decadence'

Barbara Burns talks to Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-Čapková about their work on 'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman', which has just appeared in the MHRA’s Jewelled Tortoise series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗣️ Our latest book in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out now!

'L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'. Translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction and notes by Viola Parente-Čapková.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @jstor.bsky.social 👉 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 28

🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!

Articles by David J. Bailey, Shaun Regan, Ronnie Ferguson, Sabine Köllmann & Book Reviews.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55097

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Jul 28

'Deus absconditus'

Barbara Burns talks to Clive Scott, whose book 'The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)' has recently appeared in Legenda’s Transcript series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...