Naomi Milthorpe
@drmilthorpe.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania. Modernism-adjacent; reformed all-caps user. Working on Evelyn Waugh for the rest of time? She/her.
Proud of this special issue of Affirmations: of the modern, co-edited with @robbiemoore.bsky.soc2024 @drfergusedwards.bsky.social , arising from the 2024 @austmodernist.bsky.social conference, Modernism and modernity at the edge, hosted @utas.edu.au. affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up...
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Belatedly remembering to post about this publication co-written with colleagues @utas.edu.au including @drfergusedwards.bsky.social, arguing for a hass-inflected (& appropriately critical) approach to work integrated learning pedagogy for BAs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Excited to see this in print! Co-edited with my @utas.edu.au colleagues Kristyn Harman and Anna Claydon, the result of several years' labour by a group of amazing scholars!
ANU Press@anupress.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe latest edition of the 'Australian Journal of Biography and History’ emerges from a powerful convergence of history, geography, environment and lived experience unified from the theme 'Writing Tasmanian Lives’. Get your copy: doi.org/10.22459/AJB...
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Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts
The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...
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Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy! openpetition.org/!repealjrg
Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...
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Great piece on the bad things happening at my alma mater. insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...
The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts
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New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!
C20th folks, is anyone doing / can you recommend good work on Marghanita Laski?
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network exec. (which I recently joined as Treasurer) is delighted to announce a CFP for a guaranteed AMSN panel at this year’s MSA. The panel is on Southern (Infra)Structures. Details below.
Reviews by @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social, @drmilthorpe.bsky.social, Alexander Howard, Allison Nick, Lauryl Tucker, Ashley Maher, Rachel Farebrother, Brigid Rooney, and John Attridge cover a range of new books on #MeToo and modernism, British parody, Australian writer Eleanor Dark, and queer forms.
The new issue of The Space Between journal (@spacebetween.bsky.social) "Searching for the Truly Strong Man: Masculinities 1914-1945" is out! Including a brand new suite of book reviews, edited by @sarahgleesonwhite.bsky.social and myself. scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945: Volume 20 | 2024 | Searching for the Truly Strong Man: Masculinities 1914-1945
A SPECIAL TOPICS ISSUE FROM THE SPACE BETWEENLuke Seaber, University College London, Special Topic EditorSEARCHING FOR THE TRULY STRONG MAN: MASCULINITIES 1914-1945“Do Not Touch”: The...
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I'm exhausted and drained, but what a wonderful few days at AMSN 2024 was! Michelle Cahill discussing and reading from her novel, Daisy and Woolf, was such a grand way to finish, too. Congratulations and thanks to @utasenglish.bsky.social and @drmilthorpe.bsky.social and team for hosting!
Last day of "Modernism and modernity at the edge" started (depending on who you were) with a masterclass on life writing led by the brilliant @noreenmasud.bsky.social, or a wander thru the colonial house museum Narryna to ponder the ruptures of history and modernity on this island...
Day 2 of AMSN, "Modernism and modernity at the edge", opened with bracing and wide-ranging panels (Elizabeth von Arnim! Print culture! Limits!)...
Some amazing papers from day 1 of AMSN6 "Modernism and modernity at the edge", including our keynote @thomassdavis.bsky.social on aesthetic and ecological attachment... (1/)
This week @utas.edu.au! AMSN's 6th conference, "Modernism and modernity at the edge", in honour of modernism's edgy aesthetics/ extreme politics/ living in edgy times/ us being at the ocean's edge / valuing the edge/ margins/ disciplinary boundaries.
Have a look at our fabulous line-up of speakers, and register to join us at the Australasian Modernist Studies Network conference on Zoom or in Hobart in December! amsn.org.au/amsn6-modern...
Programme
University of Tasmania, 11-13 December 2024 Registration portal AMSN Draft Schedule 25 SeptemberDownload
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Research: spending several hours combing census records and land registries to find the owner of a house you mention once in a footnote and which is entirely tangential to the main thrust of your work. And when you find them, pumping your fist in the air like you're Rocky.
One *might* argue that the quotation doesn't necessarily clarify things all that much
Deadline extended to April 30! We have some absolutely brilliant international keynotes & home grown plenary events planned. Attend in person on beautiful lutruwita (Tasmania) or consider remote attendance!
Naomi Milthorpe@drmilthorpe.bsky.social · 3y agoCall for Papers for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network 2024 Conference: Modernism and modernity at the edge University of Tasmania, 11-13 December 2024 amsn.org.au/amsn6-call-f...
Call for Papers for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network 2024 Conference: Modernism and modernity at the edge University of Tasmania, 11-13 December 2024 amsn.org.au/amsn6-call-f...
Every so often, Evelyn and I agree on something. (from "A Tourist in Africa")
Back in the noughts we didn't need to go to the gym, we just carried around Norton anthologies
The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social
