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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🔊 The latest volume in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 👉 'Maria Janitschek: A Modern Woman. Stories and Poems', edited by Lea Felicitas Döding. 📖 Book information 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... 🎙️ Interview with Lea 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A reminder about our event in London next month, 16 October. Celebrating one hundred volumes of ABELL and thinking about the past and future of English Studies. Please share with anyone who might be interested, and come join us if you're nearby! Free but RSVP 📅 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

A cropped photo of the title page of the first volume of the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. It reads 'Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920: Compiled by members of the Modern Humanities research Association'

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday! Do come along if you're in the area. Details here: englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...

A painting of a group of hands in a rainbow of different colours

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We've just published a new volume in our 'Jewelled Tortoise' series! 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose. A Translated Selection', translated and edited by Colton Valentine. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'The Damned of Fiat and Olivetti' Barbara Burns interviews Erica Bellia, whose book 'Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading' was published this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' (@uclssees.bsky.social) is out! Special Issue 'Empires in Transition Between Land and Sea Southeastern Europe, 1815-1878', edited by Jovo Miladinović 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57552

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Read more about the edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

A portrait of George Moore, looking self-consciously melancholy

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're delighted to report that Matthew Creasy's edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man, volume 5 in our Jewelled Tortoise series, has been shortlisted for The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for scholarly editions 2026! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

The front cover of Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore, edited by Matthew Creasy

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Book launch! For our edition of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Selected Short Stories, hosted by the Writing Lab at the Université de Genève. It's on Tuesday 8 Sept but you need to RSVP today if you'd like to come along. Send us a DM and we'll pass it on. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

The front cover of Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament: Selected Short Stories by Ella Hepworth Dixon, edited by Valerie Fehlbaum, volume 12 in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'The Cold War: Not Gilded, Not Golden, Just an Age' Barbara Burns speaks to Jackie Stirling, whose book 'Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War' has been published in Legenda’s Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

📣Event! Celebrating volume 100 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies 📆 16 October in London. All welcome. Join us in celebrating over a century of scholarship. Please share! Full details here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Call for evidence: SHAPE Research Evidence Hub from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Consider submitting a response if your work might help demonstrate the value or impact of Humanities/Arts research: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

A stock image of a pile of hardback books

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out! Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

'A Tiger-Cat, As Uncanny As She Is Intelligent' Barbara Burns speaks to Colton Valentine, whose book 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose: A Translated Selection' is published this summer in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series. Read the interview here 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Many congratulations to Susan Harrow and Carolin Duttlinger, respectively General Editor of Legenda and chair of Legenda's Visual Culture series, both recently elected fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Read our blog post here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

The outside of the British Academy building in London

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/

Pages from the edition. The book is open in the middle of the text of 'The Shadows of Night'

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

📣 New interview: 'All the Different Germanies' Barbara Burns speaks to Malcolm Spencer, whose volume of translations, 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–53', has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A selection of recent titles available for review. Get in touch if you're interested in reviewing any of these and you have a journal in mind! 📚

The covers of four books: Ella Hepworth Dixon's Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament, Thomas Mann's The Later Stories, Carl Sternheim's A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century, and Ramon del Valle-Inclan's Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out! Articles by Victoria Ivleva, Mark Gamsa, Evgenii Egorov and Liz Kohn & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56918

Cover of Slavonic & East European Review, Volume 104, Number 2 (April 2026).

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Read more about the series here in this interview with Simon, who is also one of the General Editors of the series: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...

A page from the manuscript known as The Book of Taliesin (MS Peniarth 2)

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Two proud authors with their books! From a successful joint book launch last week for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series📕 The books are Children & Parents in Medieval Welsh Law by Sara Elin Roberts and An Old Welsh Reader by Simon Rodway Congratulations to both! 🥂

Sara Elin Roberts and Simon Rodway holding up copies of their books.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The author of the second of those titles, along with another series author, will also be speaking at an event at Aberystwyth on Celtic Lexicography the following day (Saturday 6 June) that may also be of interest to those in the field. Both events free and open to all.

Flyer for the event featuring the names of the speakers: Simon Rodway, Bernhard Maier, Andrew Hawke, David Stifter, Karen Jankulak, Alexander Falileyev, Joan Luis García-Alonso, Ranko Matasović, David Mandić, Christopher Lewin. The event is to be held at the Dialogue Centre at Aberystwyth University on 6 June.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This Friday! A double launch event for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, 5.30 pm at Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social All welcome. Read more about the series, and these books, here: www.mhra.org.uk/series/LMWL

Flyer for the event featuring the covers of the two books.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fascinating article in Volupté about the fin-de-siécle fashion for real-life jewelled tortoises -- by Lea Felicitas Döding, shortly to publish volume 13 in our own Jewelled Tortoise series! 🐢✨ journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/vo... Read about Lea's edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Nineteenth-century illustration of a jeweller's shop showing a woman selecting from a display of jewelled tortoises

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Now published in MHRA New Translations: Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–1953 Translated by Malcolm Spencer Brand-new translations of a collection of stories that make up some of Mann's greatest achievements in short fiction. Available now! All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Cover of the volume Thomas Mann, The Later Stories, featuring a photo of Thomas Mann

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We're very excited to be partnering with @livunipress.bsky.social Subscription Services for our subscription journals from July of this year. Read our news item about the partnership here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...

The logos of the MHRA and Liverpool University Press

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We have just published a new book in the series 'MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature'! 'An Old Welsh Reader', edited by Simon Rodway. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

And in 'Troy: An Interim Assessment', Barbara speaks to Francesca Rayner and Janice Valls-Russell, co-editors of 'Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes', which was published recently in Legenda’s Transcript series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...

Front-cover of Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Two more interviews with our authors and collaborators! In 'Canetti Out of the Boxes', Barbara Burns talks to Julian Preece (co-editor, The Complete Works of Elias Canetti) and Mélissa Pires Da Silva (MHRA Research Fellow). 👉https://www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/04/28/canetti-out-of-the-boxes.html

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

You can now purchase books from our Texts & Translations imprint directly from our website. The quickest, cheapest, & most environmentally friendly way to order our titles! 📚 The option will be coming to our Legenda monograph imprint in due course. Browse the catalogue here: www.mhra.org.uk/texts/

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🗣️ We have just signed a new volume for our 'Critical Texts' series! 'George Psalmanazar, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa', edited by Alice Wickenden (@awickenden.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🔉 A new book is out in Legenda's Transcript series! 'James Joyce’s Music Performed. The ‘Sirens’ Fugue in Experimental Re-Translation', by Arianna Autieri. Book info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Blog post 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/04...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

April is National Poetry Month: we have 252 titles in our list on the subject of poetry — editions, critical studies, and journal articles/collections 📚 Browse the cover gallery here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications... #NationalPoetryMonth

A selection of book covers from the MHRA's list of titles related to poetry

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out! Special Issue 'Legacies of Cultural Resistance Across the 1989 Divide' featuring 8 articles, edited by Balázs Apor and Krzysztof Rowiński. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A reminder that the closing date for applications to the MHRA conference grant fund is 27 April 📆 The grant is for conferences/colloquia the field of medieval & modern European languages and literatures, including English, in the UK or Ireland. Details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/ Please share!

A lecture theatre. Photo by crystal710 on Pixabay.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

'Astronomy, Praise, and Ruin' See this great interview by Barbara Burns with Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth University) about the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...

Image of the interview, including title, Simon's photo and the first question.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Spanish early modernists: Madrid Early Modern Seminar are hosting a launch event for our new edition of George Chapman's early poems on 27 April, with a talk by the editor, @zenon-l-m.bsky.social. Full details at the link. All welcome! #earlymodern madrid-ems.com

Poster for the launch event, titled 'The Poetry and the Poetics of Difficulty'

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Publishing in May: a brand new translation of Thomas Mann's last short stories 📘 Available now for review – journals are welcome to get in touch Details here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

The front cover of the MHRA edition of Thomas Mann's later stories

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles on Marlowe, Balzac, Dadaism, and more, plus the usual book reviews 📚 Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56632

The front cover of Modern Language Review, volume 121, Part 2, April 2026

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🔉The latest Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articleson literature and history, plus the usual book reviews 📚 Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56599

The front cover of Slavonic & East European Review, volume 103, Number 4

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Answer: they all produced translations of the Psalms. All these authors and many more are included in this volume, edited by Hannibal Hamlin, of #earlymodern English translations of the Psalms in all their many & various forms: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Front cover of the MHRA edition titled The Psalms in English 1530 to 1633, edited by Hannibal Hamlin

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

'Romantic Deliveries' A great interview by Barbara Burns with Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London, Co-Editor of 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley' (OUP) and Amy Wilcockson (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social), the project’s MHRA Research Fellow this year. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Read a review of the very first issue of Modern Language Review (formerly published by CUP), from 1905: 'the first number of a new quarterly periodical — or, as it is called, journal — devoted to the study of mediæval and modern literature and philology' academic.oup.com/nq/article-a...

The title page of volume one of the Modern Language Review, published in 1906

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

'After the Great Theory Wars' Barbara Burns speaks to Susan Bassnett, whose book 'Tales of Travellers and Translators: Essays on Comparative Literature' was published recently in Legenda’s Selected Essays series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out! 'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century' Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02... Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝 Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.

Article by Derek Connon and Barbara Burns.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

'An Eternizement of the Savoursome' Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

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