Modern Humanities Research Association

📣Event! Celebrating volume 100 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies 📆 16 October in London. All welcome. Join us in celebrating over a century of scholarship. Please share! Full details here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Articles by Kirstin Gwyer, Eric Weiskott, Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Robson, Victoria H. A. White and Dora Osborne, alongside Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55393

It exists! With MANY thanks to Graham @themhra.bsky.social, 'Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit' is out in record time @mroussill.bsky.social @gemmatidman.bsky.social Emma Herdman & I will be launching it into the world @mfoxford.bsky.social on 30/10 at 5.30pm.

📢 Postgraduate editor opportunity at our journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'. Open to UK-based first- or second-year PhD students, this role offers academic publishing experience and a chance to shape the future of the humanities. 🗓️ Apply by 5pm, 10 November 2026. shorturl.at/8nf9q

🎉 Celebrating a century of the Annual Bibliography and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies! Join us this Friday in London for a special event marking this milestone 📚 🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 to 17:00 📍Lecture Theatre, Willan House, 4 Fitzroy Square. Info & registration 👉 sl1nk.com/0nag15n

🔊 The latest volume in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 👉 'Maria Janitschek: A Modern Woman. Stories and Poems', edited by Lea Felicitas Döding. 📖 Book information 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... 🎙️ Interview with Lea 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

Please come along to this if you're in/near London! There'll be three interesting talks plus a drinks reception after (well, two interesting talks and one talk by me)

A reminder about our event in London next month, 16 October. Celebrating one hundred volumes of ABELL and thinking about the past and future of English Studies. Please share with anyone who might be interested, and come join us if you're nearby! Free but RSVP 📅 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

Spending today working on my talk on the history of the Annual Bibliography for our London event in October (join us!). It's going to be so hard compressing everything into the time available. Also I haven't given a public lecture for about 10 years... www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

We've just published a new volume in our 'Jewelled Tortoise' series! 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose. A Translated Selection', translated and edited by Colton Valentine. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

When @themhra.bsky.social was founded in 1918, it was reported in The Times, and the Minister of Education sent a letter of support and good wishes. How times have changed eh! For newspapers, politicians, and the MHRA itself...

'The Damned of Fiat and Olivetti' Barbara Burns interviews Erica Bellia, whose book 'Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading' was published this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' (@uclssees.bsky.social) is out! Special Issue 'Empires in Transition Between Land and Sea Southeastern Europe, 1815-1878', edited by Jovo Miladinović 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57552

Newly published in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Thank you to the @themhra.bsky.social for all their support during this project, and to the managing editor Graham Nelson for his vital contribution to this book. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Book launch! For our edition of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Selected Short Stories, hosted by the Writing Lab at the Université de Genève. It's on Tuesday 8 Sept but you need to RSVP today if you'd like to come along. Send us a DM and we'll pass it on. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

'The Cold War: Not Gilded, Not Golden, Just an Age' Barbara Burns speaks to Jackie Stirling, whose book 'Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War' has been published in Legenda’s Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

Call for evidence: SHAPE Research Evidence Hub from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Consider submitting a response if your work might help demonstrate the value or impact of Humanities/Arts research: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

The third review of my edition of Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA, @themhra.bsky.social, will be published shortly by The Spenser Review, and is signed by Professor Richard Danson Brown. It can be read in the OA Repository of the Open University: share.google/rjDKgWS4rPf2...

Doing some research with the first minute-book of @themhra.bsky.social, begun in 1918 — fascinating organizational history!

🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out! Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375

'A Tiger-Cat, As Uncanny As She Is Intelligent' Barbara Burns speaks to Colton Valentine, whose book 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose: A Translated Selection' is published this summer in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series. Read the interview here 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

Many congratulations to Susan Harrow and Carolin Duttlinger, respectively General Editor of Legenda and chair of Legenda's Visual Culture series, both recently elected fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Read our blog post here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

My edition of George Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social, has been reviewed in the TLS, in the same issue as Nolan's Odyssey. Chapman would have loved the coincidence and, I believe, enjoyed the film. www.the-tls.com/literature/t...

Interested in reading #TheOdyssey? Have a look at our edition of one of the greatest of all English translations! 'a profound & moving interpretation – still relevant after four hundred years – of Homer’s story of the suffering & grace implicit in the human condition' www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Recently published from our friends at @livunipress.bsky.social: Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century, ed. by Stephan Nitu and Arlene Holmes-Henderson. Open access and currently on sale in print 📖 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

It was great to write with amazing and inspiring colleagues! We offer a simple solution to the invisibility of modern languages as an academic discipline by suggesting a change to the way in which REF categorises impact case studies…

Including an article on "REF Impact and the Discipline of Modern Languages" that is worth a read.

42.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! A special issue on "Arts and Culture of Resistance in Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence", edited by Lurdes Macedo, Tom Stennett, and Elísio Macamo. ToC: www.mhra.org.uk/publications... @themhra.bsky.social

📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193

Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/

Very happy to say that I'm now on study leave and finally I can get down to doing this!

Trailblazing Austrian poet, writer and philosopher Ingeborg Bachmann was born 100 years ago #otd in 1926. You can read our special issue of @themhra.bsky.social Austrian Studies on the author, co-edited by @ibc-london.bsky.social, Marlen Mairhofer & yours truly here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

MHRA Research Fellow Amy Wilcockson was in @uk.theconversation.com back in May, talking about Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' and climate change: theconversation.com/ten-compelli...

📣 New interview: 'All the Different Germanies' Barbara Burns speaks to Malcolm Spencer, whose volume of translations, 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–53', has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

A selection of recent titles available for review. Get in touch if you're interested in reviewing any of these and you have a journal in mind! 📚

Our annual Ideas Festival is such a cornucopia of delights I can’t get it across in a single post. But in short it is a free (FREE!) festival of humanities and social sciences research with talks, exhibits, workshops, performances & more. 19/20 June London www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/ideas...

🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out! Articles by Victoria Ivleva, Mark Gamsa, Evgenii Egorov and Liz Kohn & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56918

🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

📖 Read the interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher and his mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick, on how the Languages in Policy project is helping to connect language researchers and policymakers www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...

📣 Postdoc opportunity! @ucflangs.bsky.social is recruiting a MHRA-funded postdoc to implement recommendations from the Languages & Policy report and and strengthen research–policy collaboration. Supervised by @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

Are you a modern languages postdoc looking for an opportunity to work on a languages policy project? There is a new opportunity to work on a @themhra.bsky.social funded project with myself and Charles Forsdick: university-council-for-languages.org/2026/06/job-...

Our current Special Research Grant focuses on creating a curated language policy space on the @ucflangs.bsky.social web. Here is an interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his mentors Prof Ayres-Bennett and Prof @cforsdick.bsky.social. shorturl.at/lnWkC