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Robert Higney

@roberthigney.bsky.social
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english @ cuny | VP @moderniststudies.bsky.social | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, uva press (bit.ly/inst-char)

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Misha @the-goblin.bsky.social · 15h
Come on up to CCNY this upcoming Friday (10/9) for a talk by the outstanding developer and human being @apthomson.bsky.social for a talk on "how to make Titanium Court", the game that earned them their second Seumas McNally Grand Prize in two years.
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Gaming Pathways @ CCNY Presents Guest Speaker AP Thomson
AP Thomson will speak on the process they used to design and develop awarding winning Titanium Court.
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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 18h
Author copies! It’s great to see The Collective Voice in the flesh.
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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 · 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
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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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to Shir Alon, whose book, STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST is the winner of the 2026 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize! bit.ly/46EHCFm #ModernistLatitudes @moderniststudies.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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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
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
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
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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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...
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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎾🤠👍
Arthur Ashe Stadium
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Edit MSA's incredible journal!!!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi friends! Do you have experience working with tech AND writing programs? My department is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist. We're great people to work with and it's a cool job for those with a foot in both these worlds careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...
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Academic Technology Specialist
Work with faculty to integrate technology into teaching, learning, and/or research activities.
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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Publication day! Thank you, @stanchion.bsky.social for bringing The Moose Lottery out into the world.
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The English Department @lborouniversity.bsky.social recently welcomed 400 academics from around the globe to explore works of Weird Modernism, bringing together @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social and led by our own Emily Bell, Jade French & @profsarahparker.bsky.social.
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English Department hosts major international conference on Weird Modernisms
Loughborough University recently welcomed over four hundred academics from around the globe to explore, celebrate and study works of Weird Modernism.
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Picking up my life after four solid months of essentially living, sleeping and breathing this conference. I think I know how Harry Kane feels today (not something I ever thought I'd say...).
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
MSA 2027 Modernism, Expanded Universe Tallahassee, Florida. Black and white images of expanding folded sheets.
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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This week we are with @hopkinspress.bsky.social at the joint BAMS/MSA Weird Modernisms conference! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social If you're in Loughborough too, don't miss our display of #modernist books & journals. Treat yourself with a special conference discount!
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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The website for SNS 2027, hosted by Janice Ho at UBC, just launched with a fabulous lineup of keynote speakers, keyword seminars, and novel seminars. Check it out! And please submit abstracts for panels or single papers on any novel-related topic (deadline Nov. 15): snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
up and at 'em
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In "After the University," @chadwellmon.bsky.social traces the relationship between higher learning and the institutions that claim to protect it, asking whether universities can still nurture intellectual desire—or if we must find new homes for the life of the mind. tr.ee/M58FcD
The book "After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work" by Chad Wellmon on a blue linen background.
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
up and at 'em
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Registration closes in THREE days! Don't wait any longer to register for Weird Modernisms.
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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My new book "The Collective Voice" is forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in November. I'll post more about it soon, but it's exciting to see that it now has a web page! www.sup.org/books/litera...
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The Collective Voice | Stanford University Press
While collective speech can seem a disparate set of practices—from prayers to protest chants, and from football songs to oaths of allegiance and national anthems—Matthew Taunton argues that we can thi...
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HiddenHistories1920sNYC @newyork1920s.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
June 7 (6/7, oy) book launch at #CityReliquary! Jonathan Ezra Goldman discusses "Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange" w/ Briallen Hopper ("HARD TO LOVE"). @briallenhopper.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social @nyitlibraries.bsky.social
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Sun, Jun 7 - Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: Jonathan Ezra Goldman with Briallen Hopper by The City Reliquary
Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: Jonathan Ezra Goldman with Briallen Hopper by The City Reliquary on Sun, Jun 7 at 6:00pm at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, New York. Get tickets and event details...
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Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A new issue of Modernism/modernity is on its way! Read the Editor's Note here: modernismmodernity.org/editors And explore the full table of contents here: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hello 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...
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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Indian photographer Raghu Rai has died at 83. He's best known for his black and white photography from the 1970s-80s, much of it showing street life and transit in modernizing India. Motion and stillness. Some stunning images at the retrospective below: raghuraifoundation.org/retrospectiv...
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RETROSPECTIVE B/W
Visit the post for more.
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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Looking forward to Lisa’s new book 👀
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Did you miss the deadline for submitting an abstract for the BAMS/ MSA Weird Modernisms conference in Loughborough but wish you could still attend? It's not too late! Registration for seminars are still open! More info here at the top of the page: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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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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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
good morning
winnie, a medium size brown and white pitbull mix dog, sticking her tongue out
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/04/2026
Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of staff & faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance. Donate to the community-led Emergency Relief Fund to provide direct financial assistance for laid off workers' immediate needs, including housing, food, and other essentials ⬇️
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Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today
Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.
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Clemson University Press @cupress.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Clemson University Press is proud announce that we are sponsoring the new Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Essay Prize for Contingent and Independent Scholars! You can read more below on our blog and on the Modernist Studies website:
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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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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New MSA contingent / independent scholar essay award h/t @nissaren.bsky.social and @cupress.bsky.social ! libraries.clemson.edu/press/2026/0...
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Announcing MSA’s Inaugural Essay Prize for Contingent and Independent Scholars, Sponsored by Clemson University Press – Clemson University Press
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HiddenHistories1920sNYC @newyork1920s.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork Pre-order with 30% off discount code "SNWS26" at checkout. The publisher tells me to tell my friends that "pre-orders are love." #NYChistory #Newyorkhistory sunypress.edu/.../Hidden-H.... @sunypress.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social @nyitlibrary.bsky.social
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🧵 Registration for BAMS/MSA 2026 is now open! If you're joining us in Loughborough in July, the BAMS PGR reps are hosting 2 events and we'd love to see you there (full details below). Sign up for both events using the conference's new additional programme form here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
The Fool from Pamela Colman Smith's 1909 Rider-Waite Tarot Deck. The Fool is standing on a cliff or ledge, dressed in a colourful tabard, with the sun at their back and a white dog yapping at their feet.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey MSA Members! Travel grant applications for the BAMS/ MSA conference are now open. All are welcome to apply but priority is given to advanced grad students, contingent faculty, and those without institutional funding. You can find the application on our website: www.moderniststudies.org
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just a reminder that proposals for “Modernism in Ephemeral Print,” an MLA 2027 panel co-sponsored by @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org, are due by Friday!
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Call for Papers: Modernism in Ephemeral Print (2027 MLA Annual Convention)
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Graduate students! Are you planning to attend the BAMS/ MSA conference in Loughborough. See below for a great opportunity.
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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hardback and an affordable (but beautifully produced) paperback on the same day… it’s the latest in our Literature & Politics series from @academic.oup.com. Doug Mao and @duncanbell.bsky.social arrive at Utopia via different routes. It’s a fascinating read!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”
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The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029). The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+. Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026 Please share widely.
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Very proud of @dhersh.bsky.social, whose NEH grant will help graduate student writing flourish at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m saddened to have learned of the death of Mark Mirsky, who passed in December. The founding editor of Fiction magazine, he was a tremendous friend to writers, and even more to literature students. He taught for over 50 years, until literally his final days. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
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MARK MIRSKY Obituary (1939 - 2025-12-05) - Sharon, MA - Boston Globe
View MARK JAY MIRSKY's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
MSA Members! Do you have any interest in helping out on the MSA Board? Do you want to take over this Bluesky account next fall? Run for a board position! More information is here: www.moderniststudies.org/about/board-... The MSA needs you!
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Board Nominations
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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 24/12/2023
Fans of Christmas are in for a treat tomorrow
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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 21/12/2025
ohhhhhhh hell yeah its the fuckin solstice !!!!! fuck the equinox its #solstice the god damn #Solstice ‼️‼️
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