Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday! Do come along if you're in the area. Details here: englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...

Spending today working on my talk on the history of the Annual Bibliography for our London event in October (join us!). It's going to be so hard compressing everything into the time available. Also I haven't given a public lecture for about 10 years... www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

We've just published a new volume in our 'Jewelled Tortoise' series! 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose. A Translated Selection', translated and edited by Colton Valentine. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

When @themhra.bsky.social was founded in 1918, it was reported in The Times, and the Minister of Education sent a letter of support and good wishes. How times have changed eh! For newspapers, politicians, and the MHRA itself...

'The Damned of Fiat and Olivetti' Barbara Burns interviews Erica Bellia, whose book 'Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading' was published this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' (@uclssees.bsky.social) is out! Special Issue 'Empires in Transition Between Land and Sea Southeastern Europe, 1815-1878', edited by Jovo Miladinović 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57552

We're delighted to report that Matthew Creasy's edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man, volume 5 in our Jewelled Tortoise series, has been shortlisted for The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for scholarly editions 2026! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

Newly published in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Thank you to the @themhra.bsky.social for all their support during this project, and to the managing editor Graham Nelson for his vital contribution to this book. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War - Jackie Stirling

Modern Humanities Research Association - Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War - Jackie Stirling

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Book launch! For our edition of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Selected Short Stories, hosted by the Writing Lab at the Université de Genève. It's on Tuesday 8 Sept but you need to RSVP today if you'd like to come along. Send us a DM and we'll pass it on. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

'The Cold War: Not Gilded, Not Golden, Just an Age' Barbara Burns speaks to Jackie Stirling, whose book 'Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War' has been published in Legenda’s Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

📣Event! Celebrating volume 100 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies 📆 16 October in London. All welcome. Join us in celebrating over a century of scholarship. Please share! Full details here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

Call for evidence: SHAPE Research Evidence Hub from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Consider submitting a response if your work might help demonstrate the value or impact of Humanities/Arts research: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

The third review of my edition of Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA, @themhra.bsky.social, will be published shortly by The Spenser Review, and is signed by Professor Richard Danson Brown. It can be read in the OA Repository of the Open University: share.google/rjDKgWS4rPf2...

Doing some research with the first minute-book of @themhra.bsky.social, begun in 1918 — fascinating organizational history!

🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out! Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375

'A Tiger-Cat, As Uncanny As She Is Intelligent' Barbara Burns speaks to Colton Valentine, whose book 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose: A Translated Selection' is published this summer in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series. Read the interview here 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

Many congratulations to Susan Harrow and Carolin Duttlinger, respectively General Editor of Legenda and chair of Legenda's Visual Culture series, both recently elected fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Read our blog post here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

My edition of George Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social, has been reviewed in the TLS, in the same issue as Nolan's Odyssey. Chapman would have loved the coincidence and, I believe, enjoyed the film. www.the-tls.com/literature/t...

Golden foolery

George Chapman (c.1559–1634) is something of an enigma. Serious, learned and prolific, he is best known for his translations of Homer, but he also wrote a

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Interested in reading #TheOdyssey? Have a look at our edition of one of the greatest of all English translations! 'a profound & moving interpretation – still relevant after four hundred years – of Homer’s story of the suffering & grace implicit in the human condition' www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

George Chapman: Homer's Odyssey - Edited by Gordon Kendal

Modern Humanities Research Association - George Chapman: Homer's Odyssey - Edited by Gordon Kendal

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Recently published from our friends at @livunipress.bsky.social: Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century, ed. by Stephan Nitu and Arlene Holmes-Henderson. Open access and currently on sale in print 📖 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century

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It was great to write with amazing and inspiring colleagues! We offer a simple solution to the invisibility of modern languages as an academic discipline by suggesting a change to the way in which REF categorises impact case studies…

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📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193

Including an article on "REF Impact and the Discipline of Modern Languages" that is worth a read.

Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193

42.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! A special issue on "Arts and Culture of Resistance in Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence", edited by Lurdes Macedo, Tom Stennett, and Elísio Macamo. ToC: www.mhra.org.uk/publications... @themhra.bsky.social

📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193

Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/

Very happy to say that I'm now on study leave and finally I can get down to doing this!

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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...

Trailblazing Austrian poet, writer and philosopher Ingeborg Bachmann was born 100 years ago #otd in 1926. You can read our special issue of @themhra.bsky.social Austrian Studies on the author, co-edited by @ibc-london.bsky.social, Marlen Mairhofer & yours truly here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Reading Bachmann Now - Edited by Andrea Capovilla, Katya Krylova and Marlen Mairhofer

Modern Humanities Research Association - Reading Bachmann Now - Edited by Andrea Capovilla, Katya Krylova and Marlen Mairhofer

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MHRA Research Fellow Amy Wilcockson was in @uk.theconversation.com back in May, talking about Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' and climate change: theconversation.com/ten-compelli...

Ten compelling poems about climate change – chosen by our experts

These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.

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📣 New interview: 'All the Different Germanies' Barbara Burns speaks to Malcolm Spencer, whose volume of translations, 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–53', has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

A selection of recent titles available for review. Get in touch if you're interested in reviewing any of these and you have a journal in mind! 📚