Blogs

A forum for reflections that live in the creative space between disciplines, languages, media, and categories.

Critical, speculative, and imaginative forays into modernism’s relationships with energy systems, ecological change, and the nonhuman world.

A space for reorienting ourselves as scholars, teachers, writers, and practitioners of interdisciplinary modernist studies to the feminist, to the queer—and also a space for sustained orientation to feminist and queer modernisms.

Excursions into irreconcilable and therefore alluring dimensions of innovative Black writing, filmmaking, and analysis.

Critical and creative engagements with modernism's cultures, objects, and problems of sight.

This blog concerns itself with the messy, multidisciplinary spaces of the archives—both real and imagined. It brings together everyone involved in the creation of archives to discuss how these spaces shape, have shaped, and will shape the study of modernism.

In These Times is a space for our community to explore issues of social justice, teaching, and research in uncertain times.

“Aesthetic Turns” makes connections between modernist visual art (including film, dance, theater, etc.) and contemporary theoretical and political concerns.

The assignment for this column is “process” or, the writing life. How does interesting and inspiring work come to be?

"The Discipline" explores untold histories of literary study in the twentieth century. What futures for our discipline do these new pasts make possible?

“Field Reports” will approach modernisms as local responses to a capitalist and colonialist modernity as it voraciously expands all over the globe. Our blog posts will focus on a wide range of languages, nations, and regions, illuminating a global, interconnected, and uneven reality as well as the varied responses that arise in relation to it. Aimed at a non-specialist audience, individual posts might introduce tribal and indigenous poetry, protest literatures, a newly discovered archive, a recent cluster of groundbreaking articles or books, climate fiction novels, an art exhibition visited, or a major translation.