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Jess Masters

@jessmasters.bsky.social

English PhD & sessional academic, U Sydney | Modernist Studies Association Grad Student Rep | Australian Modernist Studies Network exec | never not thinking about form |

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Jessica Smith@thedaybooks.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 3w ago

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Some Marvelous Experience

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Calling all contingent and indie modernist studies scholars! @moderniststudies.bsky.social has a NEW(-ish?) essay prize for contingent & indie scholars sponsored by @cupress.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions is 5/15. Go go go! Self-nom! You rock! www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin...

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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Nissa Ren Cannon@nissaren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello contingent and independent modernists! We're about 10 days out from the deadline of the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 's first annual CCIS essay prize, and we hope you'll submit! www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin...

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...

moderniststudies.org

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.

The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

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Jess Masters@jessmasters.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling all modernist grads! If you've ever stared at a draft and wondered why it can't just write itself, MSA's publication mentorship might be for you! @mmodernity.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social

Mentorship

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...

moderniststudies.org

Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are you a current grad student working with modernist texts? If so, check out the launch of the new MSA Graduate Mentorship Publication Program! The program is designed to support MSA’s graduate student members develop a draft article to submission standard with an experienced academic mentor.

Jess Masters@jessmasters.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bad Bunny's halftime show, aside from being fantastic, is a great example of how humanities education & a responsive community discourse supports people to collaboratively identify, analyse, interpret, & finally value meaning from symbolic images & storytelling. Plus, it had Ricky Martin

Bad Bunny during the Superbowl halftime show. He is surrounded by electric poles that symbolise Puerto Rico's power outages.
Jess Masters@jessmasters.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I might be slow on the uptake but apparently em-dashes are an AI thing? I—a great lover of the em-dash—refuse to let the algorithm have this. I will retain my overuse—even when unnecessary—

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don’t do end-of-year publication roundups, but I’m deeply proud of this essay cluster on “Modernism in Comics” that I edited for @mmodernity.bsky.social, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with the brilliant pieces in it.

Modernism/modernity@mmodernity.bsky.social · last yr.

"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...