modernist studies

Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, OH, November 2018

Although the phenomenon of World War I trauma, particularly shell shock, greatly influenced both British and American literary modernism, the trauma, and its reception, was different on each side of the Atlantic, both in its scale and its quality. This panel seeks essays on both British and American literary and cultural representations of World War I trauma, particularly shell shock. Essays that compare and contrast the American and British experiences and representations of shell shock are particularly welcome, and will be given special consideration.

Some authors to consider include:

2018 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

“Consuming Cultures”

November 15-18

Kansas City, MO

Permanent Section Call for Papers: Irish Studies

The proposed panel aims to explore modernist techniques and perspectives as they might appear in any form of fact-based discourse in the early twentieth century. Much work has already been done on modernism and nonfiction literary forms such as (auto)biography and travel writing, but what about less evidently literary genres and fields—economics, chemistry, history, policy, mathematics, and so on? Among many questions this panel might investigate, a central one is this: what happens to facticity when it is presented through modernism’s disorienting multiperspectivism, unreliability, ambiguity or fuzzy logic?

This panel examines the role of avant-garde women in confronting models of gender, domesticity and political practices safeguarded by patriarchal society. From the margins of vanguardism women effectively engaged in syndicalist and anarchist movements that reacted to state politics, while urging the importance of launching social reforms and radical art. This panel will thus provide an overview of artists who participated in a variety of experimental trends such as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Dadaism and Surrealism, among others.

Call for Papers:  New Directions in David Jones Research

Inaugural Research Seminar of the David Jones Research Center

7-8 June 2018

Join us this June to inaugurate the David Jones Research Center, housed within the Honors College at Washington Adventist University.  Designed to be a collaborative space for scholars interested in the work of artist and poet David Jones, the center seeks to: