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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited for AMSN-MSIA ‘26 “Intoxicating Modernism” this Nov. in Adelaide🍷 Themed or non-themed papers/panels welcome 📝 Got an abstract brewing but need more time? We’ve extended deadline ‘til 31st July! ⏰ Details 👇 Headliners: Sara Crangle, Aaron Jaffe, Chris Bush, & @annakornbluh.bsky.social 🌟

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Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) @modernism-asia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Proposals due 24 July for "Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication" in Adelaide (Nov 19-21)!

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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Space Between Journal is establishing a "centenary celebration of literature" as part of the Book Reviews section! We are currently collecting short 1926 reading recommendations for the November issue. If you are interested in writing a contribution, please contact us for more details!

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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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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Are Aussies weird? The modernists thought so. Uncertain we dispelled the rumours in AMSN’s panel at BAMS/MSA26, but good fun to talk about it w/ Ryan & Ben. Now, we shift from the weird to the intoxicating for AMSN/MSIA26 in Nov. Still time to submit yr abstracts, folks! See you in Adelaide! 😎

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Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A few years ago in the Kathleen Collins archive in New York, I started reading a heavily edited, coffee-spilled notebook. I'm honored to share an excerpt of Collins's first novel, virtually unread before now, in dream magazine @parisreview.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...

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Unfinished: On Kathleen Collins’s “Blue Obstacles” by Alix Beeston

February 5, 2026 – “To reappraise women’s incomplete works can be to resist the exclusionary gestures—the refusals, rejections, and roadblocks—that all too often stymie and limit the public careers of...

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!

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Call for Papers: Modernism in Ephemeral Print (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

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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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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Breaking news: Adelaide Uni colleagues & I are hosting the landmark joint conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network & Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Nov. 19-21. Submit an abstract & come join us for some intoxicating talk of modernism in Australia’s most bewitching wine region!🍷

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

There’s flattering reviews of Saunders’ new novel ‘Vigil’ out there. Mine isn’t one of them. (If you don’t want to be let down by a novel about oil barons in this economy, just read some Upton Sinclair. The GOAT.) Thanks to @jamesley.bsky.social for his brilliant editing (and fearless headline).

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This looks fascinating: a fading snapshot of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s beheld, briefly, in 1972 and then folded away until its reappearance in our own day. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem review – remarkable Harlem Renaissance documentary

A once-in-a-lifetime dinner party from 1972 is transformed into a thrilling and inspiring hang-out movie

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/01/2026

📚 Infinite Jest is a kind of geological cross-section of a writer and a literary culture at a moment of major upheaval.

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Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

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Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ever been generous? Considered the fraught ethical ways generosity shapes modernist literature/studies? Come to @moderniststudies.bsky.social session "Generous Modernisms" at 1.45pm Friday at #MLA2026! Showcasing work from three continents @amyeelkins.bsky.social @tamlynavery.bsky.social & others.

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Layover in paradise (aka Vancouver), en route to Toronto for #MLA26. Pls join me — plus all 32 puffer jackets I’m rocking as an Aussie bracing her first 🇨🇦 winter 🤪! — this Fri. 145pm for a roundtable on generous modernisms w/ @jessmasters.bsky.social & excellent @moderniststudies.bsky.social folks.

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I don’t do end-of-year publication roundups, but I’m deeply proud of this essay cluster on “Modernism in Comics” that I edited for @mmodernity.bsky.social, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with the brilliant pieces in it.

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Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m pulling together a panel for the 2026 International Virginia Woolf Conference: “Audibility and Attribution in Woolf,” and am looking for 2 contributors and a chairperson.

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Another cool thing that happened yesterday was I bumped into *the* great Honorée Jeffers in the archive. Starstruck! (Of course, had to be the one day my coffee machine exploded on me, so I was running late, frazzled and fully unkempt, wearing my daggiest outfit, etc. But I’ll count the win.)

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

At Emory’s Rose Library on a short-term fellowship researching c19/20 Af. Am. radical engagements w/ typewriters & white-collar literary cultures. Luck has it, Rose has curated a brilliant exhibition on cultural history of typewriters! Obligatory selfie w/ James Weldon Johnson’s Corona 🤩 #modwrite

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

For Bartleby day, I had students copy 19th century legal documents by hand until they appropriately protested. They made it 7 minutes. So much longer than I expected!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"The novel form, then, can function to break open categories of exclusion, reorient subjectivity, and destabilize dominant discourses through polyvocality." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE - Introduction

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My book Regional Development is just $15 in @edinburghup.bsky.social's sale. For folks in #modernism & #novelstudies, it considers how capitalism's uneven developments & regional politics informed C20 US coming of age novels. Comes with an Aaron Douglas stunner on the cover: bargain! #modwrite

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The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In wonderful news, just found out our ARC Discovery Project '26 got up! With my brilliant colleagues Andrew van der Vlies and Benjamin Madden, I'll be co-leading a project investigating local Australian print cultures and global modernism. :)

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Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our latest issue is in the mail! This happens to be co-editor Stephen Ross's last. We are sad to see him go, but thrilled to welcome Faye Hammill to the team! Read his farewell message here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Greatly honoured to have my article published in latest issue of Modernism/modernity on Wallace Thurman. A sneak peak is up now on Print+. The essay discusses how WT grappled with the untidy politics of textual labor in the Harlem Renaissance by writing fiction ft. typewriters (machines, women).

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Sean Pryor @seanbpryor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What should contemporary criticism do with the novels of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and John Rodker, too often ignored by earlier critics? Read Simon During's review of Liz Pender's THE NEW MODERNIST NOVEL: CRITICISM AND THE TASK OF READING, just published in AFFIRMATIONS: tinyurl.com/bdd9hda3.

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Elizabeth Pender, The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading | Affirmations: of the modern

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you’ll be in Adelaide next Fri. (28th), please come along to our Dpt of English, Creative Writing, & Film research seminar, led by the brilliant Prof. Peter McDonald (St Hughes, Oxford). He’ll be discussing his recent work on book history in his “Double Life of Books.” Details in the flyer! 📚

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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Australasian Modernist Studies Network exec. (which I recently joined as Treasurer) is delighted to announce a CFP for a guaranteed AMSN panel at this year’s MSA. The panel is on Southern (Infra)Structures. Details below.

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Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Last few hours to submit for 'Generous Modernisms' -- have thoughts on the impossibility (or necessity) of generosity in academia? Read a generous modernist text? Thinking about generous scholarship? Resisting or examining scarcity? Consider submitting a paper to us! @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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