"The privileging of negativity in modernist studies is connected in various ways to the gendering of modernism." Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sim-h…

The latest entry in our Visualities forum, ed. Alix Beeston and Pardis Dabashi, is John Lurz on Barthes's 'semiographic' work. Read "A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/l…

"Bilse and I. . . there is some sort of difference between us." We are thrilled to publish Tobias Boes's new translation of Thomas Mann's "Bilse and I": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/m…

Read Tobias Boes on ensoulment as the "subjective expansion of a representation of reality" in his critical introduction to "Bilse and I" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/b…

"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes Matthew Levay in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moderni…

"Our title, “Modernism in Comics” [...] refers simultaneously to modernism’s representation in individual comics as well as the ethos of modernism that makes itself plain within so many comics produced." Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moderni…

It is the twentieth month of genocide, our planet’s second rotation around the sun, drenched in Palestinian blood, 600 days of Palestinian slaughter, and nothing is new except the finality of the massacre. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/f…

"Where does understanding modernisms as local responses to a global colonial-capitalist modernity get us? What are the affordances of this redefinition?" Mukti Mangharam has taken over the helm of our Field Reports forum! Read her introductory post here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/m…

"Palestinian literature is not literature for times of crisis, and its study is not an afterthought or a 'safe' way to show solidarity." Our latest 'field report' comes from Huda Fakhreddine. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/f…

"Two congressmen, one of them waving my syllabus and butchering my name, described me as a threat to the university and to the safety of students because I was teaching them Palestinian poetry. The complicit system was threatened not only because I was teaching Palestinian poetry

This week in our “In These Times” forum, edited by Debra Rae Cohen, read our managing editor, Harrington Weihl, on “the tension between gender conservatism and the future of [the Olympics] as a liberal institution”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/w…

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/editor…

"The modernist beachscape yields a rich cultural archive and a generative space through which to think questions of emplacement, improvisation, and relationality." From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/o…

Now live on Print Plus: Tamlyn Avery's examination of masculinity, anxiety, and textual economies via Wallace Thurman’s typewriter: modernismmodernity.org/articles/avery…

Our latest cluster, "Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris: A Poem' @ 100", edited by Nell Wasserstrom and Dr. Rio Matchett , takes a long walk along the Seine. Read more here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrlee…

In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/h…

this looks GREAT! 👇👇

Oh this is so good - Daniel is an accomplished writer with a marvellous substack too, if you're into that sort of thing! CUNY English PhD Program

Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global. Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/global-… Leah Feldman emily l Kenan Behzat Sharpe