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Alana Murphy is an English PhD student at the University at Buffalo, was the Digital Managing Editor for Modernism/modernity, and is transcriber for the Amy Lowell Letters Project. She traveled to present her paper "From the Desk of Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot" at our conference

We also started a Graduate Student Travel Award pilot program this year. All grad students applying to our conference were automatically eligible and awardees picked by committee based on travel distances.

Our inaugural Eliot Society Travel Award winners are: Alana Murphy & Maria Rossini

Nicholas Smart is a Junior Research Fellow in English at New College, Oxford. His PhD thesis, “T. S. Eliot and the Making of Reputation” examined Eliot’s approach to, and anxieties about, matters of self-fashioning. He has also published on TSE’s theories of the archive in ELH

Gabriela Minden is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University, where she is researching the role of dance in the development of modern verse drama. She is the author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre (OUP, 2025)

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and Matthew Hiscock contributes a research note - "The Cupidons in The Waste Land: Their Origin and its Possible Implications"

and book reviews galore!