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Noreen O’Connor @noreenoconnor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CFP: Literary Gardens: Cultivation, Movement, and Modernism. Online, 12–13 Feb 2027, from the Elizabeth von Arnim Society. Keynotes: Nezka Pfeifer & Karina Jakubowicz. Abstracts due 30 Nov. elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/conferences/literary-gardens-2027/ #modernism #VirginiaWoolf #ecocriticism
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Literary Gardens: Cultivation, Movement, and Modernism – Elizabeth von Arnim
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are pleased to announce that Shir Alon's STATIC FORMS is the winner of the 2026 First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association. buff.ly/PpfWCbg @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Graphic announcing Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East by Shir Alon as the winner of the 2026 First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association. The dark book cover features strips of black-and-white photographic images. Text reads: “Winner!” and “Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.”
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are pleased to announce that Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker's COSMO-MODERNISM AND THEATER IN INDIA is the winner of the 2026 MSA Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association. buff.ly/CWI2yrb @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Graphic announcing Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker as the winner of the 2026 MSA Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association. The book cover features a black-and-white photograph of costumed performers posed on stone steps. Text reads: “Winner!” and “Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.”
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Florin-Sefton's CCIS prize-winning essay is now open access through November! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And thank you again @fimassociation.bsky.social and @cupress.bsky.social for making this recognition possible!
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The recognition of loss in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE
What do modernist aesthetics offer the political and ethical project of mourning black loss? In this essay, I argue that Shola von Reinhold’s contemporary novel LOTE repurposes the Aristotelian typ...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another exciting discount has come in for an MSA First Book Prize finalist, Atreyee Gupta's Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India! Receive 25% by entering YUP25 at checkout. More details here: yalebooks.yale.edu/2026-moderni... @yalepress.bsky.social
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2026 Modernist Studies Association discount - Yale University Press
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congratulations to Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, whose book COSMO-MODERNISM & THEATER IN INDIA: WRITING & STAGING MULTILINGUAL MODERNISMS is the 2026 MSA Book Prize winner! tinyurl.com/yc6mbpcc @moderniststudies.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-ce...
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Dorothy Day’s Modernist Hospitality | Twentieth-Century Literature | Duke University Press
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
with thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for the open access.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did you know Sean Weidman's essay is open access? Read it for free, even if you don't have access to university journal databases! And read what the judges had to say about this excellent essay here: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/CCIS/
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
featured in the @culturalcritique.bsky.social book series!! CONGRATS Marta! 🎊 www.jstor.org/bookseries/1...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The University of Texas Press is offering 30% off the MSA Book Prize shortlisted winner, Shiben Banerji's Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy. Enter UTXLGC at checkout. @utexaspress.bsky.social Read what the judges had to say here:
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Clemson UP is offering 30% off the MSA Translation Prize shortlisted winner, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Morbidities's “The Concept of the New Literature,” translated from Spanish by Nicolas Fernandez-Medina. Enter 27CONF30 at checkout. @cupress.bsky.social Read what the judges wrote here:
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And check out the judges' blurbs of these wonderful books here: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/trans...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
University of Minnesota Press is offering 30% for the winner of the MSA Translation Prize, Marta Figlerowicz's translation of Maria Janion's Bad Child and Kristin Bluemel's Enchanted Wood, on the MSA Book Prize shortlist. More info can be found on their website @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Collection: Modernism - University of Minnesota Press
All books in this collection are 30% off when you order using code MN96660. Offer expires December 1, 2026.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Columbia UP is also offering 20% off Shir Alon's Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East, the MSA First Book Prize winner. Enter CUP20 at check out! And check out what the judges had to say here: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/first... @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read what the judges had to say about this groundbreaking book on the MSA website: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/short...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Columbia UP is offering 20% off Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker's Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India, this year's MSA Book Prize winner. Enter CUP20 at check out! @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We'll also have Sue Reid, @nicdarwood.bsky.social, Melissa Dinsman & Heather Robinson. Here's the book URL: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
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Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek
The cover of Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and early-twentieth-century British literature.  At the top, the title is in white on dark blue, with the subtitle below in dark yellow.  The image is a hand taking a blank-spined book from a shelf; the other spines have the names of classic novels crossed out.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With thanks to @cupress.bsky.social for sponsoring the new MSA essay prize for Contingent and Independent Scholars. This recognition is important as contingent and independent scholars often publish without institutional support. Thank you for supporting this work!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congrats again! Come celebrate Static Forms and all the MSA Prize winners on Sept. 30 at 9 am EST by registering here:
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Select tickets – Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom
Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom, Wed Sep 30, 2026 - All are welcome to join at the start of the event, when the MSA, and Second Vic...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come celebrate all the winners at the virtual MSA Prizes celebration during the Modernist Crossings Symposium sponsored by Modernism and Pedagogy on Wed., Sept. 30 from 9 am- 11 am EST. Registration is free: www.tickettailor.com/events/msamo... Congratulations again to all the winners!
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Select tickets – Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom
Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom, Wed Sep 30, 2026 - All are welcome to join at the start of the event, when the MSA, and Second Vic...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And congratulations to the CCIS Prize Runner-Up, Sean Weidman, for “Dorothy Day’s Modernist Hospitality,” Twentieth Century Literature 71.3 (2025): 199–234.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The winner of the inaugural Caucus for Contingent and Independent Scholars Essay Prize is Mia Florin-Sefton for “The Recognition of Loss in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE,” in Feminist Modernist Studies 8.2 (2025): 112–33. @fimassociation.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also on the short list for the translation prize is Ailton Krenak's <Ancestral Future,> edited by Rita Carelli, translated from Portuguese by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias @politybooks.bsky.social
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Ancestral Future
Ancestral Future, Introduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex BrostoffIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On the short list for the translation prize is Ramon Gomez de la Serna, <Morbidities and “The Concept of the New Literature,”> translated from Spanish by Nicolas Fernandez-Medina @cupress.bsky.social
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Morbidities and “The Concept of The New Literature” – Clemson University Press
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The winner of the 2026 MSA Translation Prize (for a translation published in 2024 or 2025) is Marta Figlerowicz, for her translation of Maria Janion’s <The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader> with @uminnpress.bsky.social
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The Bad Child
Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism   How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last but not least on the MSA First Book Prize short list: Sebastian P. Klinger's <Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature 1899-1929> also with Johns Hopkins UP
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Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Atreyee Gupta's <Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third-World Project in India> with @yalepress.bsky.social also made the MSA First Book Prize short list!
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Non-Aligned
A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art’s role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South   Modernism’s peak in th...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also on the MSA First Book prize short list: Maria Farland's <Degraded Heartland: Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature> with Johns Hopkins UP.
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Degraded Heartland
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congrats as well to those on the MSA First Book prize short list: Nicoletta Asciuto, Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry with Johns Hopkins UP
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Brilliant Modernism
Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 MSA First Book Prize: Shir Alon for <Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East> with @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/static-...
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Static Forms | Columbia University Press
What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern litera... | CUP
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And last but not least, also on the MSA Book Prize short list is Anna Snaith's <Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound> @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
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Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound
Abstract. Interwar Britain—called the ‘age of noise’—witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with ‘unwanted’ sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congrats to Kevin Ohi's <Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction> @oxfordunipress.bsky.social for also making the MSA Book Prize short list!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize: Kristin Bluemel's <Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain> @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
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Enchanted Wood
How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities of Depression-era publishing in Britain, urb...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was a strong pool of shortlisted books as well: Shiben Banerji's <Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy> @utexaspress.bsky.social utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331408/
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Lineages of the Global City
2026 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers (AAP) The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the e...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 MSA Book Prize winner Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker for <Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms> published by @columbiaup.bsky.social! You can order her book here: cup.columbia.edu/book/cosmo-m...
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Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India | Columbia University Press
Finalist, 2026 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher EducationUrban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex f... | CUP
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Modernist Crossings Poster. Explains event is online and organized by several modernist orgs.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Registration is now open for Modernist Crossings, a series of free online events co-organised by seven international associations of modernists. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/d...
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Digital Programming
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MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join our "Modernist Crafting" series online, part the Modernist Crossings Symposium [Oct 2, 8, 13, + 21st!] Info and registration links (free): thttps://sites.google.com/risd.edu/modernism-and-environment/crossing-the-material-digital-divide @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It hasn't been announced yet. Are you on the MSA listserv? It will be announced there: groups.google.com/g/msa-member...
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MSA Members - Google Groups
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf
The ubiquitous photo of the staff, nurses and patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital on the lawn outside the historic front of the building, from 1917.  The men are in their khaki uniforms, with hats, and the women are in their nurses's uniforms and headdresses, flowing white.
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What are you working on, reading, or thinking about this #ModWrite Monday? Let us know using the hashtag! 🌞
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Edit MSA's incredible journal!!!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Modernism/modernity is looking for a new co-editor! Could this be you? If you're interested, applications are due Nov. 16. It's a four-year term, and you'll be working with one of the current editors. More info about how to apply here: @mmodernity.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
✨ New Essay! ✨ Why are climate justice & public services always labeled "unaffordable" while the status quo gets a blank check? In this brief meditation, @robbhawkes.bsky.social argues that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than we've been taught. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌
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Money Is Weird
by Rob Hawkes Isn’t it strange that social inclusion and climate justice appear unaffordable, but not the status quo? In July, I presented at the Weird Modernisms conference at Loughborou…
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
One last reminder to publish a shortened version of your Weird Modernisms conference paper, organized by BAMS!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
MSA doesn't really keep this info. We simply don't have the staff for any data collection!
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MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Modernism and Environment enthusiasts! Check out the TWO latest installments of our “Letters from the Field" blog series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print+ "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog! Do read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Letters from the Field: #2 and #3 | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I write from Tampa, Florida, where last year’s back-to-back hurricanes have subsided into this year’s drought, and where I have been thinking obsessively about the university as environmental infrastructure. Like Virginia Woolf’s narrator Mary Beton in A Room of One’s Own, I have “sat down on the banks of a river” on a university campus. I’ve thought about how this place
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