Melanie Micir

Bio

Melanie Micir is an associate professor in the English Department and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first book, The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives (Princeton University Press, 2019), was short-listed for the MSA's First Book Prize.

Contributions

Feminist Modernist Collaboration, Then and Now: Digitizing Hope Mirrlees’s Paris

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When we teach Paris: A Poem, we find ourselves repeatedly facing the same pedagogical question: what do we want our students to see when we read this poem? Hope Mirrlees’s text is at once a personal, lyric exploration of post-war Paris and a work of printed visual art. It is a modernist long poem written by a single author as well as an example of the kind of feminist modernist collaboration possible in small, independent presses. When faced with a poem like this that showcases its intentionally...

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