Libbie Rifkin discusses Stein’s Tender Buttons & pandemic teaching; situating Stein w/in Disability Studies, Rikin argues that Stein offers a necessary critique of academic ableism in a time when disabled students are disproportionately left behind. Georgetown English Department Georgetown Humanities Initiative 2/

In her essay, Beryl Pong looks to Blitz-era British World War II writing as offering a precedent for the chronological disorders of pandemic time. Beryl Pong Future Intelligence 3/

Dania Dwyer discusses why calls by administrators to offer care to students during the pandemic placed a disproportionate burden on Black faculty who were left reeling from the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, & Breonna Taylor in "Running Toward Reprieve." Dania Dwyer 4/

Also addressing faculty burnout, Lynn Deboeck outlines a series of proposals for improving the lives of precarious faculty in "Precarious Adjuncthood and Care-Giving Solutions" Honors College @ UU 5/

Lastly, Eleanor Russell describes finding solace in the “cool” aesthetics of Ottessa Moshfegh in a time of caretaking and unemployment. 6/

And of course, don't miss the collaborative wonderful introduction written by Emily Bloom & myself (Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences).

The picture is from my essay :)

We are looking for a new co-editor, beginning July 2025, to work with the wonderful Anjali Nerlekar. Applications are due September 30: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/c…

For #Visualities Modernism/modernity, ed. by Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی 🇵🇸 🍉 and me, Elizabeth Alsop is characteristically brilliant on the playful, suggestive art of Marie Menken, exhibited earlier this year The Noguchi Museum: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/a…. Please read and share! #FilmTwitter

The latest post in Alix Beeston and Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی 🇵🇸 🍉's "Visualities" series, "Woman with a Movie Camera," is live now! Read Elizabeth Alsop on Marie Menken's "liberating influence": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/a…

At long last, M/m 31.1 is headed to your mailboxes! Read Anjali Nerlekar's editorial note here in the meantime: modernismmodernity.org/editors/abunda…

Did you know that from 1912 to 1948, artists could win Olympic medals? Miles Osgood explores the history of the “Pentathlon of the Muses” “to explain the modernist attraction to Olympic Art Competitions alongside the reluctance of ‘Olympism’ to reward modernist aesthetics.”

"If orientalist scholarship constituted epistemic violence, this volume represents a trove of epistemic resistance." Read Shaj Mathew on Zeynep Çelik's recent edited collection, "Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient," here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/m…

"If we were to attempt a history of the end of history . . . we would do well to look at the history of the modern weather forecast." So begins Barry Sheils' article on weather predictions and the modernist novel. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/sheil…

Welcoming the weekend in celebration that my double gallery review of the Women Printmakers of the WPA at the Baltimore Museum of Art & the Lange exhibit National Gallery of Art has been published in Modernism/modernity...and to my personal delight, with the beautiful SCW cover. ❤️💛💜

Lil review out now, in the latest Modernism/modernity!

she's hereeeee Modernism/modernity, with many thanks to the many generous people who helped her on her long road to print!