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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Going to BAMS/MSA2026 #WeirdModernisms? Join our seminar Caring Modernists? on care as a relational experience in literary works, artistic forms and cultural traditions & how modernist scholars might better perform care in our own communities. Sign up here: bit.ly/42PQGo6

Caring Modernists?

Modernist creative production was characterised by networks and relationships among friends, partners, family, editors, and authors (Micir, 2019; Phillips and Vorano, 2025). However, the care work, care ethics, and caring relationships which underpin modernistnetworks remain under-theorised. We invite explorations of how modernist works are related to care, and how care ethics can alter our interactions with modernist texts.
Questions we will explore include:
• Can we call modernists caring?
• How do avant-garde experiments capture experiences of care?
• How is literary production embedded in/indebted to practices of care?
• How does modernist literary production resist insularity? How might care be a form of disruption in modernist literary depictions?
• How do these definitions of care and inter-relationality chime with or challenge modernist aesthetics?

This seminar will explore care as a relational experience in literary works, artistic forms and cultural traditions. We are also interested in how modernist scholars might better perform care in our own communities.

Rather than a traditional position paper, we invite participants to bring an archival document, an extract, a poem, an object, or a photograph that captures some of the questions/themes of the seminar. From this, we ask for 1-2 pages of provocation/context to begin our conversations on the day.

We invite participants to think about: modernism, care and: networks of cultural production, affect and emotion, thing theory, ecology and the environment, ethics, labour rights, precarity, and the posthuman.

Feel free to write to the organisers with any questions:

Milena Schwab-Graham m.schwab-graham@leeds.ac.uk
Jade French J.E.French@lboro.ac.uk
Paula Maher P.MAHERMARTIN1@universityofgalway.ie
Emily Bell E.Bell@lboro.ac.uk

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Update: we've extended the CfP deadline for 'Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice' to 21 March 2025. Send your 250-word abstract and 100-word bio to caremodernism@gmail.com. CfP Google doc here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our third university of the day getting into trouble is Birmingham City University, where all the staff have been offered severance terms. It's a tsunami now I'm afraid. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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Birmingham university offers all staff a golden handshake to quit

The Vice Chancellor of Birmingham City University has invited any staff who don't want to work there to quit, with a golden handshake, as he seeks to bring change

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

CfP alert!📣 We're looking for contributions to Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice, co-edited by @jadefrench.bsky.social, Emily Bell, Paula Maher Martin and I. Send your abstract (250 words) and bio (100 words) to caremodernism@gmail.com by 14 March 2025. CfP below⬇️

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social for this really engaged, thoughtful review of Some of Us Just Fall, and for putting it to carefully in context. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Really enjoyed writing about @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'Some of Us just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (2023) & how nature writing can call for feminist disability justice for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Big thanks to the editors for facilitating conversations like this 🌿

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hello! A brief intro as I'm new here - I'm a postdoc whose research spans modern & contemporary lit, especially in relation to intersectional feminism, environment, embodiment, health & affect. Some of my previous research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Are you curious about nature writing? Join me to read and talk about all things literature and environment on the online course I'm teaching at the Uni of York Centre for Lifelong Learning from 28th January 🌱 www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...

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Natural Wonders: Discovering Nature Writing - Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York

An 8 week online literature course

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