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…

Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 2w 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

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

Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 2w 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!

Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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! 📚

Our annual Ideas Festival is such a cornucopia of delights I can’t get it across in a single post. But in short it is a free (FREE!) festival of humanities and social sciences research with talks, exhibits, workshops, performances & more. 19/20 June London www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/ideas...

British Academy Ideas Festival (formerly Summer Showcase)

The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencin...

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🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out! Articles by Victoria Ivleva, Mark Gamsa, Evgenii Egorov and Liz Kohn & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56918

Two proud authors with their books! From a successful joint book launch last week for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series📕 The books are Children & Parents in Medieval Welsh Law by Sara Elin Roberts and An Old Welsh Reader by Simon Rodway Congratulations to both! 🥂

🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

📖 Read the interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher and his mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick, on how the Languages in Policy project is helping to connect language researchers and policymakers www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...

Policy and Belonging

Interviewing Dr Rob Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his Cambridge-based mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick.

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📣 Postdoc opportunity! @ucflangs.bsky.social is recruiting a MHRA-funded postdoc to implement recommendations from the Languages & Policy report and and strengthen research–policy collaboration. Supervised by @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

Postdoctoral Researcher — Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages

A new postdoctoral researcher is sought for policy work, in association with the UCFL: applications close 30 June.

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Are you a modern languages postdoc looking for an opportunity to work on a languages policy project? There is a new opportunity to work on a @themhra.bsky.social funded project with myself and Charles Forsdick: university-council-for-languages.org/2026/06/job-...

Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher - Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages | University Council For Languages

Thanks to the very generous award of a Special Research Grant by the MHRA, UCFL is in a position to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to take forward

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Our current Special Research Grant focuses on creating a curated language policy space on the @ucflangs.bsky.social web. Here is an interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his mentors Prof Ayres-Bennett and Prof @cforsdick.bsky.social. shorturl.at/lnWkC

Policy and Belonging

Interviewing Dr Rob Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his Cambridge-based mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick.

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This Friday! A double launch event for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, 5.30 pm at Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social All welcome. Read more about the series, and these books, here: www.mhra.org.uk/series/LMWL

A film about Thomas Mann's return to Germany after the War premiered at Cannes last week; looks like it will be well worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDL...

FATHERLAND | Official Clip | Coming Soon

YouTube video by MUBI

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Fascinating article in Volupté about the fin-de-siécle fashion for real-life jewelled tortoises -- by Lea Felicitas Döding, shortly to publish volume 13 in our own Jewelled Tortoise series! 🐢✨ journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/vo... Read about Lea's edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Now published in MHRA New Translations: Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–1953 Translated by Malcolm Spencer Brand-new translations of a collection of stories that make up some of Mann's greatest achievements in short fiction. Available now! All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

We're very excited to be partnering with @livunipress.bsky.social Subscription Services for our subscription journals from July of this year. Read our news item about the partnership here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...

We have just published a new book in the series 'MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature'! 'An Old Welsh Reader', edited by Simon Rodway. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Two more interviews with our authors and collaborators! In 'Canetti Out of the Boxes', Barbara Burns talks to Julian Preece (co-editor, The Complete Works of Elias Canetti) and Mélissa Pires Da Silva (MHRA Research Fellow). 👉https://www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/04/28/canetti-out-of-the-boxes.html

You can now purchase books from our Texts & Translations imprint directly from our website. The quickest, cheapest, & most environmentally friendly way to order our titles! 📚 The option will be coming to our Legenda monograph imprint in due course. Browse the catalogue here: www.mhra.org.uk/texts/

🗣️ We have just signed a new volume for our 'Critical Texts' series! 'George Psalmanazar, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa', edited by Alice Wickenden (@awickenden.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...