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Melissa Bradshaw

@missybradshaw.bsky.social
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Feminist modernist studies, American poetry, material culture, textual studies, periodical studies, DH, and all things diva at Loyola University Chicago. President of the Modernist Studies Association, Director of the Amy Lowell Letters Project.

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Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the only thing that is happening on my academic bluesky feed is "the odyssey" discourse which is, like, cool, folks, but an entire academic organization representing THOUSANDS has been DECHARTERED by its PARENT ORG in the course of like 72 HOURS.
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In a win for the 1st Amendment, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has struck down the higher education provisions of Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act, and called the law a "breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse": www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law | American Civil Liberties Union
The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the...
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AMSN @austmodernist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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...
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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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2026
A vast network of labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy has been urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and stores Friday to protest against immigration enforcement in the state.
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Minnesota gears up for a mass anti-immigration enforcement protest despite the dangerous cold
A vast network of labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy is asking Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and stores in protest at immigration enforcement operations in the state.
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔊 There's 1 week left to apply for open positions at BAMS, including 5 roles on our committee, and 3 postgraduate representative roles. To apply, see here bams.ac.uk. For an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...
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BAMS Elections: A Representative Dialogue
20 December 2025 At the end of another year and the start of the holiday season, it is once again time for the BAMS elections. As current Postgraduate Representatives, we would like to take this ti…
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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.
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Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Deadline extended for BAMS/MSA26!
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Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Stunned and thrilled that the Amy Lowell Letters Project was funded in this round with a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant!
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⭐⭐👑 Sounderbrarian - All Cornerkicks Are Beautiful @waitingfordogot.eyeats.com · 09/05/2025
SHE WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST ACTUAL LIBRARIAN TO EVER GET THE JOB. BEFORE HER IT'S OLD WHITE DUDES ALL THE WAY DOWN
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Kate Schnur and I are co-editing a cluster for @fimassociation.bsky.social journal on accessibility and feminist modernism, or on "modernist difficulty." Abstracts aren't due until Nov. 15 so you have a long time to think about a submission. Feel free to reach out with questions. CFP is here:
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Accessibility and “Modernist Difficulty”
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
While you're watching Cory Booker's soon-to-be record-breaking oratory in Washington, here's a way to help the humanities support free thought in the future...
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Modernists, please share! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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The Middlebrow Network @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📢Call for applicants: PhD studentships at University of Glasgow with journal managing editor role for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. Supervised by Professor Faye Hammill with start Oct 2025. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date: 2 April 2025.
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PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD studentships in arts and humanities with journal managing editor role at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The MSA needs someone to take over as Treasurer this fall. Many members feel intimidated by the position, but the current Treasurer promises it's not as scary as it sounds. The organization can't run without a Treasurer! Please consider putting your name forward. Email or DM me for more details.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
MSA 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-...
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Board Nominations
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...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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agitator in chief @soit-goes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
16,000 people died from the flu this year. It was the worst flu season in 15 years. Now Trump & company are helping ensure we're not ready to keep our seniors safe next year. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html
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FDA cancels vaccine advisory meeting for choosing flu strains for next season's shots
It comes as RFK Jr., a vaccine skeptic who now leads the Department of Health and Human Services, makes moves that could affect vaccination uptake and policy.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth
A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Also featuring, from @mmodernity.bsky.social's Print Plus, Nissa Ren Cannon on borrowing practices at Shakespeare & Company and the American Library in Paris modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Gertrude Stein “was disappointed in me when I published Ulysses,” wrote Sylvia Beach in her 1959 memoir; “she even came with Alice to my bookshop to announce that they had transferred their membership to the American Library on the Right Bank.”[1] Stein’s move—from Shakespeare and Company to the American Library in Paris—has sustained the ongoing scholarly and popular
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Kristin J. Jacobson @drkj.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
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2025 SSAWW Conference
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you've tried to access the new MSA website and got an error, it's possibly because the site hasn't been fully indexed and your university/ work server is blocking it. Try again in a few weeks, or try when you're in a different location.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place. Call your reps please.
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Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So happy about this beautiful new site and grateful to Steve Nathaniel for his work making it!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The CFP for the MSA Conference in Boston (Oct. 9- 12) is now out! www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Please share widely!
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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...
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Take a look at the gorgeous new MSA website!
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