From The TLS of October 28, 2022: Helen Vendler (1933–2024) on The Waste Land at 100 the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-w… 🔓

Helen Vendler on Eliot. RIP. Thank you. International T. S. Eliot Society T. S. Eliot Foundation T. S. Eliot Summer School

Right now the constant beeping in the electric closet outside my office is out noised by the church bells playing joyful joyful and what fresh hell is this?!?

And in Modernist Studies Today, Prof. Nico Israel will moderate a panel of NYC-area modernist scholars (listed on the flyer below) to discuss research, publishing, pedagogy, job prospects, student/faculty organizing, and more.

You know, how could we resist with a track called manuscript. Villanova CLAS Villanova English

Grab 'em by the pursey!

A good day for The Snow Man.

My latest column for Atlas Obscura is up, and it's on Terror Camp ❄️, a truly fascinating intersection of fan con + academic conference! ❄️ Featuring a group of absolutely brilliant (and extremely enthusiastic) interviewees, led by Allegra Rosenberg: atlasobscura.com/articles/the-t…

We’re back! Save the date for Woolf Salon No. 26: Faces and Voices —where we will spend some time with Woolf & that (in)substantial territory between prose & poem & prose poem & sketch & draft & experimental collaboration. For more info see our latest invite! #VirginiaWoolf

Click for my covid voice, stay for Paul's account of why we read poems at all...

Proposal deadline for the 33rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf has been pushed to the end of the month. Get those proposals in!

More here on the IVWS website (which includes a link to the main conferences site):

v-woolf-society.com/woolf-modernit…

#VWoolf2024 #VirginiaWoolf

How does poetry remind us that part of what it is to be human is to be a thing? What can poetry teach us about death? Paul Fry, who forever changed the way I read this poet, joins the podcast to discuss William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Anyone willing to explain to me whether they write fanfiction or fanfic in scholarship? I did read this. Open to more thoughts Fan Studies Network Fansplaining fansplaining.com/articles/fan-f…

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Worth popping back to pass this along--Eliot Summer School! Always such a wonderful rush of poetry, readings, lectures, trips. Participants of every age and from around the world. Scholarships available for you or your students. Join me! International T. S. Eliot Society T. S. Eliot Summer School MSA (Modernism)

Donate? Cradles to Crayons. Coats in the cold. one.bidpal.net/c2c23/browse/d…

7 pm EST tonight MSA Intersectional Feminist and Queer Practice SIG hosting a work/life balance mentoring event. Will 'stay off of this site' be part of it? Tune in to know. MSA (Modernism) British Association for Modernist Studies

Attendees of our Boston 2023 conference - we miss you already. Look at these intrepid presidents (incoming/outgoing) asking for your feedback! Please send us your favorite photos + fill out our post-conf survey? Links in your email 👀🙏

I am not on here. I am not on here. But look, who I got to teach a seminar at the Houghton with? What joy! Kamran Javadizadeh

I’ll be there!