Saw Welsh National Opera's adventurous (& acrobatic) "Death in Venice" last night - then back to Camb today to find waiting for me an essay in the latest CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures on queer littoral desire (by Barbara Barrow), which happens to frame the opera (and Mann's novel) v nicely!

Join us for 'Disability at the Turn of the Century' Event 2024 featuring contributors to Cusp's forthcoming essay cluster on disability incl Kristin Mahoney Craig Rustici Alessandra Occhiolini Register here: event2024.org/registration/ NAVSA BAVS AVSA

Very interesting essay on Decadent literature and financialization by Signe Leth Gammelgaard and a response by Matthew Potolsky boundary2.org/2024/04/signe-…

#LondonNineteenthCenturyStudiesSeminar returns 15th May, 6pm, Senate House room G37: our final seminar, themed around Decadence. Speakers: Matt Potolsky (Utah) and Alex Murray (Queen's Belfast). 👀for our other summer events... sas.ac.uk/events/decaden… London 19C Studies Seminar ‘Grad Strand’ BAVS

"Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State," June 7/8, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Program. Please note that this event will be live-streamed.

My book has a cover and blurb! Very excited for this bringing out of Vernon Lee’s non-English writings

CFP: Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks, An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium. Online, October 16 & 17, 2024. Abstracts due May 31. thesibylblog.com/2024/03/28/cfp…

My article, 'Decadent Dinosaurs', is now out in Twentieth-Century Literature (Duke University Press). Check it out for 'directed' evolution and the railway to obsolescence in novels by Robert E. Howard, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-cent…

Calling reviewers! We're looking for a rigorous, lively 2,000-word review essay on John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger, the new docufilm. We'd love the review to reflect on the trend for exhibit films. Guidance: press.jhu.edu/journals/cusp Please email to pitch

Last week, the Center was pleased to host "Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State," a brilliant two-day conference organized by UCLA Distinguished Professor Joseph Bristow. You can watch videos of the stellar presentations on our YouTube channel now: youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs

✨CFA Alert✨ Please consider submitting an abstract for an upcoming special cluster on "Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp" for Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures. Abstracts due by 31 August. CFP link call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/07/21…

CFP: Asia as Modernist Method A special issue of CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures. Abstracts 25 Sep 2024 / Full Essays (~7k words) mid-2025. Full info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/07/16…

Only two weeks to go to submit abstracts for the CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures Special Cluster "Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp"!

Abstracts due TOMORROW for CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures special cluster on "Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp"

In the new CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures, Alessandra Occhiolini explores the paradox of multiple "arrival points" of disability within literary history studies, and reveals opportunities for collaboration across periods of study Read free on Project MUSE thru 15 Sept muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…