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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 10h

"Shall I ask them to rebuild the college on the old lines? Or shall I ask them to rebuild it, but differently? Or shall I ask them to buy rags and petrol and Bryant & May’s matches and burn the college to the ground?" —Virginia Woolf

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On Not Knowing Professors: Virginia Woolf’s Outsider Pedagogy for Common Readers

I delivered the following essay as a paper at the 2025 Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston. (There are actually a couple more paragraphs here than in the paper as delivered, since I cut...

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 10h

This is my paper from the 2025 @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, just finishing up today. It was heartening to be able to have thoughtful discussions with folks about the difficult, painful realities of higher education today.

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 1d

Today's first author pic comes from the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference where @utexaspress.bsky.social author Shiben Banerji stopped by to pose with his book, Lineages of the Global City. #msa2025

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 2d

Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · 2d

@moderniststudies.bsky.social friends, come hang on Saturday morning (10:15 in Jefferson) with the Hidden Histories of Faith and Grief roundtable!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 2d

Modernists, have you visited us at #MSA2025 in Boston? We're out here with a panoply of journals and books for your browsing pleasure!

Come visit us, say hello and treat yourself to a conference discount on all orders!

@moderniststudies.bsky.social

A conference goer browses the Hopkins Press Table at the 2025 Modernist Studies Association conference

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 2d

We have author sightings at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference...Brooks Hefner & Gary Edward Holcomb with their @yalepress.bsky.social book, Letters in Exile and also @princetonupress.bsky.social author Johanna Winant with her book, Close Reading. #msa2025

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 3d

Our @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit is open. We're front & center in the Liberty B room & have @uchicagopress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social books & more! #msa2025

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Come to this panel! It features the amazing @jessmasters.bsky.social who is the wonderful grad rep on the MSA Board.

Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social · 2d

MSA friends! Come watch me read a (too hastily-written) paper on ekphrastic accumulation at 10.15 on Friday and perhaps, if you're lucky, you may even see me butcher @glavey.bsky.social 's amazing work! The potential for fun is endless @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 2d

We’re all set up in Boston for MSA 2025! Do pop by the booth to browse our huge collection of books and journals, grab a conference discount and discuss all things modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 3d

Mod Squad! Come here me in some detail about Sedgwick and the etymology of various words at 1:00 tomorrow at MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Powerpoint slide from a presentation entitled The Well Wrecked Urn: Syllables and Sex in the Long 1993. There is a picture of a book with the title and a peach emoji on it

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 3d

Hello MSA friends in Boston! We're all ready for you at the @ModernistStudies conference exhibit hall

Stop by our table to browse our books & journals (including @CuspLate!) and take advantage of our conference discount!

An array of books and journals displayed at the Hopkins Press table at the 2025 MSA conference in Boston

A detail of the array of books and journals displayed at the Hopkins Press table at the 2025 MSA conference in Boston, focusing on a standing copy of Cusp: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Cultures

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 3d

If you're attending the Modernist Studies Association (@moderniststudies.bsky.social) annual conference in Boston, please come stop by our booth where you can browse our recent and bestselling titles in literary studies.

Take advantage of our conference discount online at bit.ly/31MSA25.

The University Press of Florida and UF Press booth at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference in Boston, MA. It features some of our recent and bestselling titles, such as GUILT AND FINNEGANS WAKE by Talia Abu, THE USUAL STAR AND THE MOMENT: STORIES by H. D., edited by Lara Vetter, and TEACHING JAMES JOYCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible.

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d

Moon lighting up the bay on the way in to Boston. See you soon @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 3d

So jealous of all the happenings lined up @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston, esp the queer modernist panels. You'll just all have to come to Loughborough next year to make it up to me!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 7d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 3d

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. buff.ly/THSpdk5 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Graphic announcing that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. It includes the book's cover and a 20% discount code with CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to seeing all the modernists (and maybe even some postmodernists!) TOMORROW!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 7d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4d

I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday

Theatre critic and novelist Mary McCarthy

Neglected Irish American playwright, George Kelly (1887-1974), Pulitzer Prize-winning uncle of Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 4d

Given the amount of drinking as well as flying in John Llewelyn Rhys, a very strong gin and tonic feels about right in an airport on my way to @moderniststudies.bsky.social in Boston to talk about his work.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations! We will miss you.

Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry to have to miss the @moderniststudies.bsky.social convening this year, but I’m incredibly honored to be in such good company on this shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book Prize!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 4d

Oh good to know! Sorry for misunderstanding.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston this week! I'll be talking about early French women movie workers and engage in conversation with my dear colleagues Rutuja Deshmukh, Palita Chunsaengchan, and Kaveh Askari! @rutuja.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 4d

Come celebrate this amazing new collection and grab your free copy at the MSA in Boston!

Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 6d

so it's making me very happy to give away the copies from the big box @princetonupress.bsky.social sent, and to plan a workshop on teaching close reading for @moderniststudies.bsky.social, and also to see contributors like @sinsleyh.bsky.social post their essays

Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 6d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 6d

Saturday afternoon at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'll be on this panel. Paper's done but I somehow need to cut 5 minutes or so. Sigh. I think I'll chop some details so I don't have to cut any of the "Burn it all down!" passages about higher ed...

Panel description from the Modernist Studies Association conference program. Black letters on white background.

Panel, Pedagogy Stream:
Pedagogies in Woolf, West, and Pound

Chair: Benjamin D. Hagen, University of South Dakota

Matthew Cheney, Plymouth State University, "On Not Knowing Professors: Virginia Woolf's Outsider Pedagogy for Common Readers"

James Dunnigan, University of Toronto, "Monumentality and Inscription in Ezra Pound's Cantos"

Maria Rossini, University of Michigan, "Different Forms of Modernist Difficulty: Anti-Generative Al Pedagogy through Patria Mia"

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