Reposted by Jess MastersJessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It’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 83115756
Reposted by Jess MastersBrian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026So 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...podcasts.apple.comSome Marvelous ExperienceArts 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... 87526
Reposted by Jess MastersRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Calling 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...moderniststudies.org 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... 2109
Reposted by Jess MastersNissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Hello 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...moderniststudies.org 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... 044
Reposted by Jess MastersBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Can 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:share.googleIf 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… 25880506
Reposted by Jess MastersLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚 562686776
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Calling 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.socialmoderniststudies.orgMentorshipThe 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... 086
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Just the greatest thing, and then Misty Copeland, too. 000
Reposted by Jess MastersNissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Hey modernists! Planning to go to MLA next year? Want to be part of this conversation? mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...mla.confex.comPresentation: Sustaining Modernist Studies (2027 MLA Annual Convention) 053
Reposted by Jess MastersCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote. 283058923
Reposted by Jess MastersBritish Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026We are thrilled to introduce our three new PG Reps, @hettiegarnham.bsky.social, @vedikaushal.bsky.social, and @xyzhao.bsky.social! Please give them a very warm welcome! 👏👏 0126
Reposted by Jess Mastersderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing 211152842511
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Bad 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 000
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I 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— 031
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) @modernism-asia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026We 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! 0137
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Jane Hirshfield, 'Let Them Not Say' (2014): Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw. 101
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 12/01/2026MLA, looking after the people #MLA2026 #MLA26 @modernlanguage.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Jess MastersMatthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I 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. 0113
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Ever 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. 191
Reposted by Jess MastersTamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Layover 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. 161
Reposted by Jess MastersAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/01/2026new quarter century more art more good 122344
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 31/12/2025There are worse ways to farewell one year and begin the next than having the toys from Play School serenade Australia with Auld Lang Syne. May 2026 be a kinder year to us all 0113
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Left 2019 as Grease Travolta, leaving 2025 as Pulp Fiction Travolta 010
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... 15227
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The first rule of NYC is obviously mind your business, but the second one appears to be that now it's legal to jaywalk, it's stupid not to 000
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Now that the amazing and insanely full MSA Boston conference is over, I'm just making sure the place in NYC where EE Cummings would bellow YOU ALRIGHT DJUNA to Barnes across the way is still there (it's there) @moderniststudies.bsky.social 081
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 10/10/2025MSA friends! Come watch me read a (too hastily-written) paper on ekphrastic accumulation at 10.15 on Friday and perhaps, if you're lucky, you may even see me butcher @glavey.bsky.social 's amazing work! The potential for fun is endless @moderniststudies.bsky.social 170
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Oddballs unite for a Euro summer! 062
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The CFP for next year's joint MSA/BAMS conference in Loughborough, UK is out! As a longtime oddball, am thrilled for a Euro summer, 'Weird Modernisms'-style @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social 071
Reposted by Jess MastersKaren Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 27/07/2025This graduate mentoring program designed by @jessmasters.bsky.social is a new MSA initiative, and I wish existed when I was a grad student. Pass it along to any graduate students working in modernism or modernist-adjacent fields, like the Harlem Renaissance, 20th-century studies, etc. 075
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Finally, the MSA Board is excited to announce a new graduate mentoring program! Graduate student MSA members have the opportunity to be paired with a senior faculty member for one-on-one mentoring sessions. More info can be found when you register for the conference. @jessmasters.bsky.social 023
Reposted by Jess MastersAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason. 47704203
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Further signs of crisis; www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comMarked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggestsUsage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it 010
Reposted by Jess MastersThe Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 17/05/2025We’ve run the numbers and seen all the data models. It’s not looking good. 330143
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This is why I went back to grad school (though also not thyroid) 010
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Happy democracy sausage day to all who celebrate (Australian Federal election, everyone celebrates, it's mandatory) 000
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Voting is open for several positions on the MSA Exec Board! Have your say here--- 020
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"That computer, and that software, relied on the skilled, technical, embodied expertise and labor of thousands of women, including women of color." 030
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The deadline for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston has been extended to April 15! If you've been thinking of submitting a panel, paper, or roundtable proposal, you now have more time to do so. It will feel good to gather to talk about modernism, the 20th century, and higher education. Join us! 199
Reposted by Jess MastersJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Australasian modernists, the abstract deadline for the AMSN guaranteed panel at MSA 2025 is one week away. Join us in Boston! amsn.org.au/events/ 052
Reposted by Jess MastersMatthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Nothing has made me feel more connected to my field, and more proactive in helping to preserve the things I value in it, than serving on the MSA Board. If you’re interested, I cannot recommend it enough. 093
Reposted by Jess MastersModernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025MSA Members! Are you interested in serving on the MSA Board, which runs our organization? We need you! There are four positions open: 2nd VP, Treasurer, Vice Program Chair, and Contingent Faculty Rep. Nominations are open until April 21. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-...moderniststudies.orgBoard NominationsThe 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... 055
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The Wallflower Avant-Garde by @glavey.bsky.social is one of those texts I return to, again and again, when thinking about all things shapely excess, multiplicity in motion, living paintings, and how queer ekphrasis bends our notions of word and image. If I could use it as a pillow, I would. 1122