Modernist Crafting: Crossing the Material-Digital Divide | MSA/BAMS Collaboration | Kick off and Wrap up: Oct 2 & 21 , 10 am - 12pm EST / 3 - 5pm BST | Two drop in craft in community sessions on Oct 8...

Join us on September 18th at 11am ET to discuss Matt Hooley’s book, Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities (Duke UP 2024). The author will join us for the second hour of the conve...

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

We welcome you to join the Modernism & Environment Reading Group on Wednesday, April 29th at 11AM EST, when we will be discussing Joel Duncan’s book Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automob...

Please join us on February 20 at 11am EST for a reading and discussion of a recent article from Modernism/modernity: Ann Ang's "Ecological Modernist Poets of Singapore: Wong May and Ho Poh Fun" (2025)...

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...

I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

Critical, speculative, and imaginative forays into modernism’s relationships with energy systems, ecological change, and the nonhuman world.

I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

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...

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...

Call for Participants in “New Voices in Environmental Modernisms” Roundtable MSA Boston 2025 (Submissions due March 23, Sunday) The urgency of climate change politics and struggles for environmental j...

Call for Participants in “New Voices in Environmental Modernisms” Roundtable MSA Boston 2025 (Submissions due March 23, Sunday) The urgency of climate change politics and struggles for environmental j...