Tamlyn Avery
@tamlynavery.bsky.social
Snr Lecturer in English, Adelaide University| C19/20 lit, modernism| Regional Development of American Bildungsroman (‘23)| Ed. Women of 1922 (‘25)| ARC Discovery Grant Chief Investigator, “Australia’s Modernist Print Heritage” (26-9)| Treasurer, AMSN
Excited for AMSN-MSIA ‘26 “Intoxicating Modernism” this Nov. in Adelaide🍷 Themed or non-themed papers/panels welcome 📝 Got an abstract brewing but need more time? We’ve extended deadline ‘til 31st July! ⏰ Details 👇 Headliners: Sara Crangle, Aaron Jaffe, Chris Bush, & @annakornbluh.bsky.social 🌟
Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA)@modernism-asia.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Proposals due 24 July for "Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication" in Adelaide (Nov 19-21)!
Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA)@modernism-asia.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for: "Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication" Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
The Space Between Journal is establishing a "centenary celebration of literature" as part of the Book Reviews section! We are currently collecting short 1926 reading recommendations for the November issue. If you are interested in writing a contribution, please contact us for more details!
Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
Are Aussies weird? The modernists thought so. Uncertain we dispelled the rumours in AMSN’s panel at BAMS/MSA26, but good fun to talk about it w/ Ryan & Ben. Now, we shift from the weird to the intoxicating for AMSN/MSIA26 in Nov. Still time to submit yr abstracts, folks! See you in Adelaide! 😎
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday we also made our way to another wonderful panel, “Renegotiations of the Weird in Australian and Asian Modernist Print Culture”, with talks on Australian magazine archives, the Gothic genre,and modernist print culture in Japan pushing concerns for global modernism(s) further. #WeirdModernisms
A few years ago in the Kathleen Collins archive in New York, I started reading a heavily edited, coffee-spilled notebook. I'm honored to share an excerpt of Collins's first novel, virtually unread before now, in dream magazine @parisreview.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...
Unfinished: On Kathleen Collins’s “Blue Obstacles” by Alix Beeston
February 5, 2026 – “To reappraise women’s incomplete works can be to resist the exclusionary gestures—the refusals, rejections, and roadblocks—that all too often stymie and limit the public careers of...
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Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!
Call for Papers: Modernism in Ephemeral Print (2027 MLA Annual Convention)
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The joint @AustModernist & MSIA Conference will be held in Adelaide on 19-21 November, on the theme "Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication." Further details at the link below. Send us your abstracts! amsn.org.au/amsn-confere...
Call for Papers: Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present: JOINT AMSN / MSIA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026 ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY Bradley Forum, Hawke Level 6, CCCW Organising…
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Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21. Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷
Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA)@modernism-asia.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for: "Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication" Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
There’s flattering reviews of Saunders’ new novel ‘Vigil’ out there. Mine isn’t one of them. (If you don’t want to be let down by a novel about oil barons in this economy, just read some Upton Sinclair. The GOAT.) Thanks to @jamesley.bsky.social for his brilliant editing (and fearless headline).
James Ley@jamesley.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn which George Saunders gets a pummelling . . . theconversation.com/a-knock-off-...
This looks fascinating: a fading snapshot of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s beheld, briefly, in 1972 and then folded away until its reappearance in our own day. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Once Upon a Time in Harlem review – remarkable Harlem Renaissance documentary
A once-in-a-lifetime dinner party from 1972 is transformed into a thrilling and inspiring hang-out movie
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Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21. Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷
Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA)@modernism-asia.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for: "Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication" Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
📚 Infinite Jest is a kind of geological cross-section of a writer and a literary culture at a moment of major upheaval.
Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30
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Ever been generous? Considered the fraught ethical ways generosity shapes modernist literature/studies? Come to @moderniststudies.bsky.social session "Generous Modernisms" at 1.45pm Friday at #MLA2026! Showcasing work from three continents @amyeelkins.bsky.social @tamlynavery.bsky.social & others.
Layover in paradise (aka Vancouver), en route to Toronto for #MLA26. Pls join me — plus all 32 puffer jackets I’m rocking as an Aussie bracing her first 🇨🇦 winter 🤪! — this Fri. 145pm for a roundtable on generous modernisms w/ @jessmasters.bsky.social & excellent @moderniststudies.bsky.social folks.
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...
I’m pulling together a panel for the 2026 International Virginia Woolf Conference: “Audibility and Attribution in Woolf,” and am looking for 2 contributors and a chairperson.
Another cool thing that happened yesterday was I bumped into *the* great Honorée Jeffers in the archive. Starstruck! (Of course, had to be the one day my coffee machine exploded on me, so I was running late, frazzled and fully unkempt, wearing my daggiest outfit, etc. But I’ll count the win.)
At Emory’s Rose Library on a short-term fellowship researching c19/20 Af. Am. radical engagements w/ typewriters & white-collar literary cultures. Luck has it, Rose has curated a brilliant exhibition on cultural history of typewriters! Obligatory selfie w/ James Weldon Johnson’s Corona 🤩 #modwrite
stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on
For Bartleby day, I had students copy 19th century legal documents by hand until they appropriately protested. They made it 7 minutes. So much longer than I expected!
"The novel form, then, can function to break open categories of exclusion, reorient subjectivity, and destabilize dominant discourses through polyvocality." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Introduction
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Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · 9mo agoToday! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
My book Regional Development is just $15 in @edinburghup.bsky.social's sale. For folks in #modernism & #novelstudies, it considers how capitalism's uneven developments & regional politics informed C20 US coming of age novels. Comes with an Aaron Douglas stunner on the cover: bargain! #modwrite
The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960
The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960
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Edinburgh University Press@edinburghup.bsky.social · 10mo agoThere is only hours left in our #StAndrewsDay sale! Save 50% on all published and pre-order books. Shop away... https://edin.ac/32O7hNr
This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10mo agoPROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
In wonderful news, just found out our ARC Discovery Project '26 got up! With my brilliant colleagues Andrew van der Vlies and Benjamin Madden, I'll be co-leading a project investigating local Australian print cultures and global modernism. :)
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot
Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team! Read his farewell message here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+. The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).
Modernism/modernity@mmodernity.bsky.social · last yr.Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ave...
