Modernism/modernity
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The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
The latest installment of the "Letters from the Field" by Caroline Hovanec and Anne Raine continues to ask how we study modernism in an era of climate crisis, ecological loss, and ongoing catastrophe? Read the letters on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
How do photographs shape what we rememberand what they erase? Beeta Baghoolizadeh reflects on photography, visuality, and the histories of Black enslavement explored in The Color Black. Read it here on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In "Conservatism as Modernism: The Aesthetics of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In Praise of Shadows in Global Context," Brian Hurley offers a fresh reading of Tanizaki's celebrated work. Read the essay on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/articles/hur...
From our latest print issue: Virginia Jackson's review of Kimberly Quiogue Andrews’s The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
We're delighted to celebrate the open-access publication of Ocean Liners and Modern Literature by our editor, Faye Hammill. Read the book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/.../97818355...
Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 2mo agoPublishing today | Ocean Liners and Modern Literature by Faye Hammill writes the literary history of the ocean liner for the first time. Read this #OpenAccess book here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #AcademicSky #MaritimeSky #BookSky
A new issue of Modernism/modernity is on its way! Read the Editor's Note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors And explore the full table of contents here: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
How does modernist elegy create spaces for collective grief, dissent, and remembrance? Featuring essays that engage poetry, memory, affect, and the politics of loss, explore our cluster on "Modernist Elegy and Grief's Counterpublics" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Mantra Mukim (University of Oxford) as incoming Book Reviews Editor from Sept 1, 2026. We thank Dr Stefanie Sobelle & Dr Martin Harries for their dedicated work as Book Reviews Editors over the past three years.
In her review essay, “Paper Processors and Poetry’s Data,” Emily Christina Murphy offers a compelling double review that rethinks how poetry circulates through systems of inscription, computation, and mediation. Read it now on Print: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
New on Print Plus: Robert Spoo's article "The Dispossessing of Sylvia Beach: Property, Autonomy, Personhood" which revisits the life and legacy of Sylvia Beach to consider the entanglements that shape women’s lives and labor. Read the article here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/spo...
New on Print Plus: check out Anjali Nerlekar's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/editors
In Vincent Hiscock’s new article on Print Plus, “Mystic Realism & Collage: Robert Duncan’s THE WAR (1968)”, explores how poetry, collage, and political imagination converge in Robert Duncan’s response to the Vietnam War. Read more: modernismmodernity.org/articles/his...
In the latest post on the "Orientations" blog on Print Plus, Laura Hartmann-Villalta writes on "Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library." Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In a teaser article from our latest print issue, “The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening,” Emilie Morin moves between sound, lyric form, and modernist experimentation asks what it means to hear literature rather than simply read it. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/mor...
The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Distant listening—a practice born with radio amateurism, known as DXing among American radio enthusiasts—was the term used to designate an essential dimension of radio during the interwar period: the capacity to listen to radio stations far away. What this involved was not just the fine-tuning of a wireless set, but educated guesses about foreign identification signals,
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Now on Print Plus, check out Faye Hamilll's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
New on Print Plus: Allan Hepburn reviews Rachel Bryan’s Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War, examining how literary form registers the lingering afterlives of conflict. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Now on Print Plus, check out Faye Hamill's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
In the latest post on the "Visualities" blog on Print Plus, Michael Allan revisits how Islam is represented in cinema and offers a fresh lens for thinking about mimesis, visuality, and religious embodiment on screen. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Saba Pakdel’s essay, “Black Migrants and Climate Change Vulnerability Amid the Great Smog of London in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners,” reads postwar London through race, migration, and environmental crisis. Read here on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Earlier this month, Modernism/modernity was delighted to win the 2025 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Best Digital Feature award for "Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100" You can check out the award-winning feature on Print Plus here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029). The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+. Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026 Please share widely.
Congratulations also to Modernism/modernity, who took home the CELJ Best Digital Feature award for "Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100" Read the feature for free at M/m Print Plus: modernismmodernity.o... 2/2
New on our Field Reports blog series at Print Plus: Amit Baishya writes on "Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics." Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
New on Print Plus: Stephanie J. Brown writes on the deployment of images that depict and enact surveillant mechanisms in her article, "Suffrage Journalism against State Brutality: Surveillance Art in Votes for Women and The Suffragette, 1910–1914": modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...
For another teaser from our latest print issue, check out Edward Mitchell's review of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey by Sarah-Neel Smith, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In her Afterword to our new special issue, "The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” Rebecca Walkowitz writes about accepting the challenge of language, and rising to it. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wal...
We are thrilled to call your attention to our new special issue, titled “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” guest-edited by the wonderful Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow! Read Anjali Nerlekar’s note introducing the issue here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/spec...
New on Print Plus As a part of our "Visualities" blog series, Jane Frances Dunlop explores Gertrude Stein's visual thinking, the simultaneity of perception, and interdisciplinary approaches to seeing. Read the piece here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
New on Print Plus: In their post "“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion" in the "Orientations" blog series, Bracken et al trace a missed connection between James Joyce and Samuel Seward. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
New on Print Plus: H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
