News from the MHRA

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News

Nov 18, 2024 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Working Papers 20, Scandal and Infamy
Call for Papers: Working Papers in the Humanities 20, Scandal and Infamy. Closing date: 9 December.
Oct 14, 2024 announcements
The Path to the Writer's Nest
Barbara Burns talks to Claudia Dellacasa, whose book on Italo Calvino and Japan was published on Open Access this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.
Sep 24, 2024 interviews
The Psalms for All
Barbara Burns talks to Hannibal Hamlin, whose volume The Psalms in English 1530-1633 has just been published in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations series.
Sep 11, 2024 association
New WPH Editor Wanted
There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 14 October.
Sep 5, 2024 interviews
Collective and Convergent
Barbara Burns talks to Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug, and Giuliana Pieri about their book Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence, a new Open Access title from Legenda.
Aug 30, 2024 association
New MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher
Olivia Glaze becomes our first MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, a public policy role in association with the UCFL.
Aug 30, 2024 calls-for-papers
Call for contributions to commemorative special issue of Portuguese Studies
In 2025, Portuguese Studies will mark 40 years of publication, and we will be celebrating this with a commemorative special issue in Autumn 2025.
Aug 20, 2024 open-access
New and Open: Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies
Published as Open Access: Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies (2024), by Peter Haysom-Rodríguez.
Aug 20, 2024 open-access
New and Open: Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs
Published as Open Access: Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs (2024), by Claudia Dellacasa.
Aug 15, 2024 interviews
Can Dada Hold Up A Bridge?
Peter Zusi interviewed about his new book on the great Czech designer and theorist, Karel Teige.
Aug 14, 2024 open-access
New and Open: The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition
Published as Open Access: The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition (2024), by Peter Zusi.
Jul 15, 2024 interviews
The rose pattern driven into the dead iron-filings by the magnet
Barbara Burns talks to Stephen Romer, whose book Chaos and the Clean Line appeared recently in Legenda’s Transcript series.
Jul 8, 2024 announcements
Sustainability
The Association makes its first-ever policy statement about sustainability, and our carbon usage as a business.
Jul 8, 2024 announcements
Mara Josi Wins the Flaiano Prize
Mara Josi Wins the Flaiano Prize.
Jun 30, 2024 announcements
MHRA Critical Texts - Call for Proposals
MHRA Critical Texts - Call for Proposals.
Jun 29, 2024 videos
Mara Josi at the New Books Network
An audio interview of Mara Josi at the New Books Network.
Jun 27, 2024 association
New General Editor for Modern Language Review
Duncan Wheeler becomes the new General Editor for Modern Language Review.
Jun 17, 2024 open-access
Thirty MHRA Revivals
Thirty hard-to-find monographs published by the MHRA in years past have been revived as free Open Access books, and more are coming.
Jun 17, 2024 open-access
New and Open: Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image
Published as Open Access: Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image (2024), by Patrick Brian Smith.
Jun 17, 2024 open-access
New and Open: Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence
Published as Open Access: Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence (2024), by Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug and Giuliana Pieri.
Jun 17, 2024 open-access
Open Access Now Open
Our policies and Open Access publications are now all in one place.
Jun 11, 2024 announcements
Applications open - UCFL Postdoctoral Researcher
Applications open - UCFL Postdoctoral Researcher.
May 15, 2024 interviews
Can This Dog Be A Rabbit?
Barbara Burns talks to Chloe Paver, editor of the new edition of the MHRA Style Guide.
May 9, 2024 announcements
Seeking a new Hispanic Editor for Modern Language Review
We invite applications for the role of Hispanic Editor of the Modern Language Review (MLR), starting in summer 2024.
Apr 22, 2024 interviews
The Intermingledness of Language and World
Barbara Burns talks to Charlie Louth, whose book Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to Jaccottet appeared recently in Legenda’s Transcript series.
Apr 22, 2024 announcements
MLR Article Prize for Volume 120
MLR Article Prize for Volume 120.
Apr 22, 2024 interviews
Latin American Gothic
Barbara Burns talks to Jenny Haase and Joanna Neilly about their recent book on German Romanticism and Latin America.
Apr 16, 2024 announcements
The Kinsman's Version
Barbara Burns talks to Massimiliano Morini, whose edition The First English ‘Pastor Fido’ (1601) has just been published in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations series.
Apr 16, 2024 interviews
The Great Networker
Barbara Burns talks to Max Saunders, co-editor of The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, and Lucinda Borkett-Jones, the project’s MHRA Research Associate this year.
Feb 27, 2024 announcements
Take the Fourth
The Fourth Edition of the MHRA Style Guide, 2024, is published at last, both Open Access on this website, and as a book: and there are changes.
Feb 24, 2024 interviews
The Richest You Can Take
Barbara Burns talks to Federica Pedriali of the Edinburgh Gadda Encyclopedia, and Marco Ruggieri, the project’s MHRA Research Associate.
Jan 30, 2024 interviews
Secret Joy and Growing Awareness
Barbara Burns talks to Peter Morgan, whose book Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary has just been published by Legenda.
Jan 25, 2024 interviews
Never an Island
Barbara Burns talks to Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel, co-editors of Women on the Yiddish Stage.
Dec 19, 2023 announcements
Modern Language Review Prize: Kathryn Bryan
Lucy O’Meara interviews Kathryn Bryan, winner of the inaugural Modern Language Review Article Prize.
Dec 18, 2023 obituary
Mark Davie
We are sorry to hear of the death of Mark Davie, former Italian editor of Modern Language Review.
Dec 17, 2023 interviews
One Day in Rome
An interview with Mara Josi, author of a new book about the round-up of Rome's Jewish population on 16 October 1943.
Dec 2, 2023 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Working Papers 19, Writing the Body
Call for Papers: Working Papers in the Humanities 19, Writing the Body. Closing date: 8 January.
Oct 17, 2023 announcements
PG Editor Wanted for Working Papers in the Humanities
PG Editor Wanted for Working Papers in the Humanities.
Oct 16, 2023 announcements
Editorial Positions for MLR and YES
Deadline - 30 November. We invite applications to be English Studies editor of MLR, and to be General Editor of the Yearbook of English Studies.
Oct 16, 2023 announcements
Editorial Positions for MLR and YES
Deadline - 30 November. We invite applications to be English Studies editor of MLR, and to be General Editor of the Yearbook of English Studies.
Sep 30, 2023 announcements
Whether God Do Aggravate
Interviewing Patricia Demers about her new edition of Anne Cooke's 1548 translation of the ‘Italian Luther’, Bernardino Ochino.
Sep 13, 2023 interviews
Switzerland, but with History
Karunika Kardak talks about her new book on the historical novel in modern Uruguay, a peaceful country with a great football team.
Sep 13, 2023 announcements
Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century: Call for Papers
Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century: Call for Papers.
Sep 3, 2023 interviews
A Hiding Place, a Forest, or an Ocean
An interview with Doriane Zerka, author of Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature.
Aug 1, 2023 funding
MHRA Funding Schemes for 2024-25
MHRA Funding Schemes for 2024-25.
Jul 22, 2023 interviews
250 Noble Endeavours
An interview with Derek Connon, author of the 250th Texts and Translations volume: Michel-Jean Sedaine's play in praise of the Enlightenment.
Jul 8, 2023 interviews
Tiger-Leaps Into the Past
Barbara Burns talks to Martin Brady and Helen Hughes, co-editors of The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Jul 8, 2023 interviews
Creating Connections through Theatre from Uruguay
Barbara Burns speaks to Sophie Stevens, author of Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice.
Jun 14, 2023 interviews
An Enviable Liberty
Barbara Burns interviews Mairéad Hanrahan, author of the recently published Legenda volume Genet's Genres of Politics.
Jun 13, 2023 interviews
The Lantern and the Wolf
Barbara Burns talks to Marco Faini, whose book Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy recently appeared in Legenda.
Jun 1, 2023 interviews
ABELL's New Editor
Meet Anke Schumacher, ABELL's New Editor.
May 26, 2023 interviews
Sensations, Emotions and Experiences
Barbara Burns interviews Adriana X. Jacobs and Claire Williams, co-editors of After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century.
Mar 26, 2023 interviews
Borrowings
Barbara Burns speaks to Mark Towsey, director of the project ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic’, and Rita Dashwood, the project’s MHRA Research Associate.
Mar 15, 2023 interviews
The Incendiary Breath
Barbara Burns interviews Jane Hiddleston, whose book on the remarkable Frantz Fanon - psychiatrist, philosopher and anticolonial firebrand - is just out.
Mar 8, 2023 interviews
The Mysteries of Ann Radcliffe
Barbara Burns speaks to Professor Angela Wright, one of the General Editors of the new CUP edition of the works of Ann Radcliffe, and Dr Rosie Whitcombe, the project’s MHRA Research Associate this year.
Mar 4, 2023 announcements
Eight new Legenda ebooks
Eight new Legenda ebooks.
Feb 28, 2023 interviews
The Scripture at his Ploughbeam
An interview with Alex Davis, co-editor of Erasmus in English 1523-1584, the first two volumes of which are now published.
Feb 15, 2023 interviews
Trissotin Speaks
Barbara Burns interviews Dick Andrews, author of Classical Comedy 1508-1786: A Legacy from Italy and France.
Feb 15, 2023 interviews
Fear of a Blank World
Barbara Burns speaks to Joanna Raisbeck, author of Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic.
Feb 6, 2023 announcements
UTREES Growing, And Going On
The annual growth of University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies, whose editorship passes on from Gregory Walker to Olga Topol.
Feb 6, 2023 events
Anthropocene Austria: Book Presentation Online
Anthropocene Austria, Austrian Studies volume 30, has an online book presentation on 17 February.
Feb 1, 2023 publications
Twenty-Two New Student-Priced Paperbacks
Twenty-Two New Student-Priced Paperbacks.
Jan 19, 2023 business
New journal distributor Intermedia
MHRA journals are now distributed by Intermedia Brand Marketing Ltd.
Jan 16, 2023 announcements
The Open Secrets of Stefan George
Announcing Peter Morgan's new book 'Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary'.
Jan 10, 2023 association
New WPH Editor, Rachel Hayes
We welcome our newest Postgraduate Representation, and Working Papers editor, Rachel Hayes.
Jan 9, 2023 announcements
Into the Vernacular
Announcing a major collection of essays by the great Italian scholar Mirko Tavoni, available in English for the first time.
Jan 4, 2023 announcements
Our Unspeakable World
Announcing Gabriella Addivinola's new book on the medieval world of Alan of Lille and Dante.
Jan 3, 2023 announcements
Rounded Up
Announcing Mara Josi's new book on the novelisations of the Jewish round-up in Rome, on 16 October 1943.
Jan 3, 2023 announcements
Counter-Archives
Announcing 'Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture', out in Legenda later this year.
Jan 3, 2023 announcements
A dyalekt mit an armey un flot
Announcing Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, a new collective volume edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler, and Godela Weiss-Sussex.
Jan 2, 2023 announcements
Contested Spaces
Contested Spaces.
Dec 14, 2022 prizes
Not All of the Books Are in German
We warmly congratulate Alexander Stillmark on completing a hat-trick: his edition with us of Hofmannsthal's The Incorruptible Servant has won the Austrian Federal Chancellor's prize for translation, a major award he has now won three times.
Dec 14, 2022 announcements
From Antropofagia to Global Lusophone Studies
Launch of Portuguese Studies 38.2, the first in a series of special themed issues co-edited by Young Scholars.
Dec 3, 2022 videos
Quim Monzo at Estudios Ibéricos
Quim Monzo at Estudios Ibéricos.
Nov 21, 2022 announcements
Henry Hall of Hereford Returns
Henry Hall of Hereford Returns.
Nov 11, 2022 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Working Papers 18, Voyages
Call for Papers: Working Papers in the Humanities 18, Voyages.
Oct 6, 2022 prizes
Annie Ernaux, Nobel Laureate
Annie Ernaux, Nobel Laureate.
Oct 4, 2022 interviews
Uploading the Wooden Boy
Barbara Burns interviews Georgia Panteli, author of From Puppet to Cyborg: Pinocchio’s Posthuman Journey.
Sep 13, 2022 announcements
The Diffusion of Italian Film
Announcing Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, a new collection edited by Damien Pollard and Edward Bowen for Moving Image.
Sep 6, 2022 videos
Valente in Manchester
Valente in Manchester.
Sep 6, 2022 interviews
At the Centenary of the Apocalypse
Barbara Burns interviews James P. Leveque, author of Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound.
Jul 10, 2022 interviews
Bridges
An interview with Alice Loda, author of The Translingual Verse: Migration, Rhythm, and Resistance in Contemporary Italophone Poetry.
Jul 5, 2022 announcements
The Selfish Plot
Andrew Watts's new book Darwinian Dialogues is forthcoming in Transcript.
Jul 4, 2022 announcements
Legenda Author Becomes Film Producer
David Trotter, FBA, finds himself on the poster for Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War, now playing in cinemas.
Jun 29, 2022 announcements
Organist, Jacobite, Poet, Friend
Oliver Pickering's new book The Poems and Songs of Henry Hall of Hereford is forthcoming in Legenda (General Series).
Jun 28, 2022 announcements
Dreaming and Gardening
Francesca Southerden's new book Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language is forthcoming in Italian Perspectives.
Jun 28, 2022 interviews
Christoph and Caesar
An interview with Christoph Pretzer, whose book Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century has recently appeared.
Jun 27, 2022 prizes
Joanna Raisbeck wins the Novalis Preis 2022
Our author Joanna Raisbeck has won the 2022 Novalis Preis for her thesis, now in production as a Legenda book.
Jun 15, 2022 interviews
Points of View
Barbara Burns interviews Joanne Brueton, whose book Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject was published earlier this year.
Jun 12, 2022 events
Quim Monzó in Birmingham
The University of Birmingham, sponsored by the institut Ramon Llull, is holding a launch on 22 June for Guillem Colom-Montero's new Legenda book Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975-2018).
Jun 12, 2022 events
The Latest Radical
David McCallam, translator of André Chénier, is interviewed by Radical Translations.
Jun 11, 2022 events
Humanizing Childhood at the Instituto Cervantes Manchester
The Instituto Cervantes Manchester's Ex Libris series is holding an online launch for the paperback of Anna Kathryn Kendrick's prize-winning book Humanizing Childhood on 21 June.
Jun 7, 2022 interviews
The Stones of Venice
An interview with Ronnie Ferguson, whose survey of Venetian Inscriptions has recently appeared.
Jun 6, 2022 interviews
Mightier
Interviewing Joanna Barker, who has recently edited The Pen and the Needle: Rousseau & the Enlightenment Debate on Women's Education.
Apr 6, 2022 interviews
The Streets for Themselves
Barbara Burns interviews Brigid Lynch, author of Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina: Cultural Dialogues of the Post-Crisis Era.
Mar 31, 2022 videos
Modern Language Review Article Prize, 2023
A new prize is to be awarded for an outstanding article published in volume 118 of our flagship journal Modern Language Review.
Mar 18, 2022 videos
Georgia Panteli on Pinocchio at the World Service
The BBC World Service's The Forum programme on The Adventures of Pinocchio, featuring our author Georgia Panteli.
Mar 18, 2022 events
Orrery Show
Launching Ritchie Robertson's Festschrift.
Mar 9, 2022 videos
An Uncanny Launch
Video of the launch of Austrian Studies 29, Uncanny Valleys: Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium.
Mar 6, 2022 interviews
From Chaucer to Godwin
Interviewing two MHRA Research Associates, Laurie Atkinson and Jenny McAuley, and two project directors, Julia Boffey and Pamela Clemit, working on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Godwin.
Feb 23, 2022 interviews
Much More Than Alice and Harry
Barbara Burns interviews Professor Eugene Giddens of Anglia Ruskin University, General Editor of The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English, and Dr Sarah Pyke, the project's MHRA Research Associate this year.
Feb 22, 2022 events
Welcome to Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valleys, Austrian Studies 29, has an upcoming online launch on 3 March.
Feb 22, 2022 calls-for-papers
Desire is Here
Volume 16 of our online journal Working Papers in the Humanities, Desire, is now published.
Feb 21, 2022 association
Membership Changes
The Articles of Association have been amended to make membership easier.
Feb 21, 2022 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - On Forgetting
Call for papers for volume 17 of our online journal Working Papers in the Humanities, which will have the title On Forgetting.
Feb 7, 2022 interviews
Molière and his Doubles
Barbara Burns interviews Suzanne Jones, author of The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in Flux 1663-1732.
Jan 23, 2022 utrees
UTREES update adds record number of theses
UTREES, our bibliographical database for university theses in Russian and East European studies, makes its annual update.
Jan 21, 2022 interviews
A German Childhood
Barbara Burns interviews Alex Lloyd, author of Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture.
Jan 11, 2022 association
Proposed Membership Changes
The MHRA committee is considering changes to our constitution to make membership easier.
Jan 10, 2022 prizes
Anna Kathryn Kendrick wins the Kovacs Prize
Anna Kathryn Kendrick wins the Kovacs Prize.
Dec 24, 2021 association
New Postgraduate Editor - Emily Di Dodo
Emily Di Dodo joins the Executive Committee as one of the two postgraduate editors of Working Papers in the Humanities.
Dec 1, 2021 interviews
Feisty Fearless Francisca
Barbara Burns interviews Cláudia Pazos Alonso, author of Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: Pressing for Change.
Oct 31, 2021 videos
Paul J. Smith interviewed by Pleibéricos
Paul Julian Smith talks about his imminent new book Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media.
Oct 28, 2021 funding
Research Scholarships for 2022-2023
Applications are now open for research scholarships to be held in 2022-2023.
Sep 30, 2021 interviews
Unmasked
Barbara Burns interviews Elisa Segnini, author of Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the fin-de-siècle Imagination.
Sep 14, 2021 interviews
The Cicada
Jamie McKendrick on Mandelstam, Racine, and tragedy.
Sep 14, 2021 interviews
Jamie McKendrick on Art and Translation
The poet, translator and critic Jamie McKendrick interviewed at Juxta Press.
Sep 14, 2021 videos
Contemporary Galician Women Writers
Catherine Barbour online with Pleibéricos.
Sep 9, 2021 interviews
Fact-Fantasy in Franconia
Robert Craig talks about his new book on the disruptive German novelist Alfred Döblin with Barbara Burns.
Sep 8, 2021 interviews
Happy Places
Anja Tröger, author of our new book on migration and literture, talks to Barbara Burns.
Sep 6, 2021 publications
Big News in the Balearics
Guillem Colom-Montero's Quim Monzó book picks up some press attention.
Aug 20, 2021 interviews
Monzonià! An interview with Guillem Colom-Montero
Barbara Burns interviews Guillem Colom-Montero, author of a new monograph on the playful Catalan writer Quim Monzó.
Aug 17, 2021 association
Modern Humanities Research Association Chooses Project MUSE to Host Journals
Electronic hosting for MLR, SEER, YES, Austrian Studies, and Portuguese Studies will move from JSTOR to MUSE in January 2022.
Aug 15, 2021 interviews
Fierce Iambics: An Interview with David McCallam
Barbara Burns interviews David McCallam, translator of the French Revolution poet André Chénier.
Aug 4, 2021 association
New Company Secretary
Barbara Burns becomes our first Company Secretary.
Jul 8, 2021 association
New General Editor for Modern Language Review
Lucy O'Meara becomes the new General Editor for Modern Language Review.
Jul 4, 2021 prizes
Joanna Raisbeck wins the Klaus Heyne-Preis
Joanna Raisbeck wins a major Romanticism prize for her first book, which is forthcoming in Legenda.
Jun 28, 2021 prizes
Prismatic Translation Shortlisted for Major European Prize
Prismatic Translation shortlisted for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research.
Jun 28, 2021 announcements
Meet the Visual Culture Editors
With a new series comes an entirely new editorial committee.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Zola and His Painters
We announce Robert Lethbridge's new study on Zola's Painters.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Triangular Translation
Peiyu Yang's new book for Transcript looks at the triangular world of translations between China, Europe and the Middle East.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Transitional Justice
Mohamed-Salah Omri and Philippe Roussin present an international view of justice in nations coming out of oppression.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
The Colours of Federico Garcia Lorca
Jade Boyd on Lorca's dramatic use of colour is coming soon to SHLC.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Teige, Teige
The second of five launch titles for Visual Culture is Peter Zusi's study of the legendary designer and art theorist Karel Teige.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Spanish Visual Culture
The first of five launch titles for Visual Culture is Paul Julian Smith's Reimagining History.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Spain's China
Delphi May's new monograph on the depiction of Chinese culture in Spain.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Seeing in Tongues
Rounding out the five launch titles for Visual Culture is an ambitious collective volume, Seeing in Tongues, which brings modern linguists and visual-art scholars together under the editorship of J. J. Long and Edward Welch.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Rivera, Rulfo and Revolution
The third of five launch titles for Visual Culture is Lucy O'Sullivan on Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo, artists of post-Revolutionary Mexico.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Memories of the Future
The fourth of five launch titles for Visual Culture sees Silke Arnold-de Simine look at holograms and digital simulations, the memory of the future.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Enter Matilde de la Torre
Deborah Madden's new book on the rise of women's suffrage in Republican Spain.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Luxuriate on Film
Alice Blackhurst on the sensation of luxury in film.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
The Journey of David Fram
Hazel Frankel's new study of the extraordinary Lithuanian/South African poet David Fram will be our next title in Studies in Yiddish.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Italian Commitment
Alessandra Diazzi's new book charts psychoanalysis and political ideology in post-war Italy.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Into the Infranovel
Helena Duffy on the Holocaust in French postmodern fiction.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
The Intermediality of Peter Dayan
Our newest Selected Essays volume to be announced is by Peter Dayan, and is themed around intermediality: art, music and literature.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Intermedia in Italy
Intermedia in Italy looks at the creative explosion in new visual media in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Huillet and Straub, Straub and Huillet
Announcing a new collection on one of cinema's most remarkable double-acts, the directorial team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
History and Fiction in Uruguay
Karunika Kardak on how Uruguay portrayed its past after transitioning to democracy in 1985.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Germany and Latin America
A new collection, edited by Jenny Haase and Joanna Neilly, spotlights Germany's explorations of Latin America in the age of Romanticism and beyond.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
German Medieval Iberia
Doriane Zerka looks at the German medieval vision of Iberia, a religious and cultural crossroads.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Frantz Fanon the Reader
Jane Hiddleston's forthcoming book looks at the great postcolonial thinker Frantz Fanon, and his deep engagement with literature.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Dying in the Night
We announce Jessica Goodman's new collective volume on the dramatic portrayal of death.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Bringing Videogame Theory to Dante
In Katherine Powlesland's forthcoming book, neuroscience and videogame theory meet Dante's Divine Comedy.
Jun 27, 2021 announcements
Always Troy
A forthcoming collective volume on the enduring image of Troy, edited by Francesca Rayner and Janice Valls-Russell.
Jun 10, 2021 announcements
Legenda Announces New Visual Culture Series
A new book series for Legenda opens in 2021.
May 28, 2021 association
New Slavonic Editor for MLR: Muireann Maguire
Muireann Maguire of the University of Exeter joins us as the new Slavonic editor for Modern Language Review.
Apr 15, 2021 videos
Spanish Childhood Launch
Anna Kathryn Kendrick online with Pleibéricos.
Apr 13, 2021 publications
Peter Haidu and Me
Matilda Bruckner, who edited Peter Haidu's posthumous book The Semiotics of Evil, remembers Peter the man.
Apr 12, 2021 videos
New Generation Thinker
Our author Julia Hartley has been named one of the ten BBC New Generation Thinkers.
Apr 12, 2021 videos
Jo Labanyi Launched
Jo Labanyi launched at the King Juan Carlos Center, NYU.
Mar 16, 2021 videos
Judie Newman on Alison Lurie on Radio 4
Radio 4's Last Word recently covered the death of the American novelist Alison Lurie, and our author Judie Newman was interviewed.
Mar 15, 2021 obituary
Gar Yates 1938-2021
We are sad to report the death last week of W. E. (Gar) Yates, distinguished scholar of Austrian literature and long-serving MHRA Trustee.
Mar 4, 2021 announcements
Lorca's Clown Hat
Announcing Miguel García's forthcoming study of the great Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.
Mar 2, 2021 videos
Previewing the Poetry-Film Nexus
Ben Bollig and David Wood speak at a Pandemonio 2021 Symposium organised by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
Mar 2, 2021 videos
The Late Mary Shelley
A digital event held by the British Association of Romantic Studies presenting our book Mary Shelley and Europe.
Mar 1, 2021 videos
Colombian launch of Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis
A book launch at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia, for Luis Castellví Laukamp's book.
Mar 1, 2021 videos
Luis Castellvi in conversation with Akemi Herráez
An English interview between our Luis Castellví Laukamp and the art historian Akemi Herráez, Curatorial Fellow at the Meadows Museum.
Mar 1, 2021 videos
Before After Clarice: Celebrating the Lispector Centenary
Contributors to our forthcoming Clarice Lispector volume come together to celebrate the centenary of her birth.
Mar 1, 2021 videos
Marianna Deganutti at ICI London
A presentation of Marianna Deganutti's book Fulvio Tomizza: Writing the Trauma of Exile, now available in paperback.
Mar 1, 2021 videos
Cecilia Muratori presents her book in three minutes
Speaking on the Hypotheses website, as part of the History of Philosophy Books in 3 Minutes programme, Cecilia Muratori outlines her new book on Renaissance Vegetarianism.
Mar 1, 2021 interviews
Andrew Hines on Metaphor and Truth
Jonathon Catlin interviews Andrew Hines, author of Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche: An Intellectual History.
Feb 25, 2021 announcements
Heroical
A new edition of the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton.
Feb 25, 2021 announcements
Gaping
Announcing the forthcoming A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry.
Feb 25, 2021 announcements
Bonnefoy the Essayist
Announcing Layla Roesler on the essays of the great French writer Yves Bonnefoy.
Feb 9, 2021 obituary
Barry Nisbet
We are sad to report the death on 6 February of Barry Nisbet, former President, and distinguished Germanist.
Feb 1, 2021 announcements
Three Hearts
Lucia Brandi on indigenous Mexican culture.
Jan 25, 2021 association
Enter Guillem
We are very pleased to welcome Guillem Colom-Montero as our new Communications Officer.
Jan 21, 2021 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Desire
Call for papers for volume 16 of our online journal Working Papers in the Humanities, which will have the title Desire.
Jan 18, 2021 utrees
UTREES database now records over 6000 theses
UTREES, our bibliographical database for university theses in Russian and East European studies, now records over 6000 theses.
Jan 15, 2021 open-letters
The Erasmus+ Scheme: An Open Letter
The UK is withdrawing from the Erasmus+ programme, and our learned societies in the modern Humanities have written to the government to express their grave concerns.
Dec 7, 2020 association
New Postgraduate Editor - Alma Prelec
Alma Prelec joins the Executive Committee as one of the two postgraduate editors of Working Papers in the Humanities.
Dec 6, 2020 obituary
Roy Wisbey
David Wells on the life of Roy Wisbey, for many years a leader of the MHRA, who died on 21 October.
Nov 25, 2020 calls-for-papers
Portuguese Studies – Editing Call for Young Scholars
A call for Early Career Researchers, doctoral and postdoctoral students interested in editing a special issue of our journal Portuguese Studies.
Nov 23, 2020 association
New General Editor of Moving Image
We welcome John David Rhodes as the new General Editor of our Moving Image film series.
Nov 12, 2020 publications
Poetry from the Portuguese
The new number of Portuguese Studies, on modern poetry, is also available in book form.
Nov 9, 2020 publications
Crackanthorpe's Travels
Our Decadent series Jewelled Tortoise releases an edition of Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Nov 9, 2020 obituary
Susan Tilby, née Wharton
We must record the death of Susan Tilby, née Wharton, one of our longest-serving editors.
Nov 1, 2020 announcements
Concrete
Rachel Robinson on the vibrant world of Latin American concrete poetry.
Oct 20, 2020 association
New WPH Editor Wanted
Applications are open to become a new postgraduate editor for our journal Working Papers in the Humanities.
Oct 10, 2020 announcements
Catalan Walls
Emily Jenkins on the visual art of a resurgent Catalonia.
Oct 4, 2020 publications
Legenda at JSTOR
109 new Legenda ebooks published.
Oct 3, 2020 funding
Research Scholarships for 2021-2022
Applications are now open for research scholarships to be held in 2021-2022.
Sep 23, 2020 announcements
The Looming Shadow
David McCallum uses a bilingual edition to re-examine the last poems of the Revolutionary poet André Chénier.
Sep 22, 2020 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Austrian Travel Writing
Papers are invited for a conference on Austrian travel writing, to be published as Austrian Studies 31 (2023).
Sep 17, 2020 website
Website Migration
After a few days of disruption, the site has successfully migrated to a new technology stack.
Aug 30, 2020 events
Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis Returns to Video
A Spanish-language interview on film between our author Luis Castellví Laukamp and UNAM, Mexico's leading university.
Aug 29, 2020 announcements
From La Mancha to Stockholm
Announcing two new Legenda books: B. W. Ife on Cervantes, Anja Tröger on Scandinavian fiction.
Jun 18, 2020 announcements
Announcing Contemporary French Poetry
A flurry of recent Legenda announcements continues with Daisy Sainsbury's new book "Contemporary French Poetry: Towards a Minor Poetics", due out in 2021.
Jun 17, 2020 events
Bertha von Suttner: A Champion of Peace
Barbara Burns, editor of our new English edition of Bertha von Suttner's pacifist novel Lay Down Your Arms, joins a panel on the BBC World Service to discuss von Suttner, the remakable woman who inspired the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jun 16, 2020 announcements
Announcing Three Centuries of German Literature
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Festschrift, for Ritchie Robertson, on the subject From the Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature.
Jun 15, 2020 announcements
Fragments and Figuration
Announcing two new Studies in Comparative Literature: Lin Li on Beckett and Giacometti, Elisa Segnini on mask-making in the fin de siècle
Jun 14, 2020 events
Prismatic Translation on Video
Our recent volume "Prismatic Translation" was this week's Book at Lunchtime at TORCH. Matthew Reynolds, the editor, joined a panel to talk about the book, and here's the presentation at YouTube.
Jun 14, 2020 events
Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis on Video
In three recent videos, Luis Castellví Laukamp talks about his work on early modern Spanish writing in the New World.
Jun 14, 2020 calls-for-papers
Call for papers: Anthropocene Austria
Austrian Studies 30 (2022) will examine the implications of the now well-established theoretical paradigm of the Anthropocene – the current geological epoch, in which humans are leaving an indelible trace on the fabric of the planet – for research on Austrian literature and culture.
Jun 14, 2020 prizes
2019 AAIS Book Prize Winner
Our warmest congratulations to Paola Cori, whose recent book on Leopardi has won the American Association for Italian Studies's Book Prize for titles published in 2019.
Mar 25, 2020 business
JSTOR Free eBook Collection
With many scholars self-isolating and away from libraries, MHRA is part of an international group of major academic publishers making titles available freely until 30 June .
Feb 11, 2020 obituary
Trevor Dadson 1947-2020
All who work in Hispanic studies have been deeply saddened by the news of the sudden death of Trevor Dadson, a Trustee of the MHRA, whose contributions to the history and literary study of Golden Age Spain have been highly influential, and whose energy and dynamism made him a very effective leader of his profession.
Jan 30, 2020 utrees
UTREES launches links to full thesis texts
UTREES, our bibliographical database for university theses in Russian and East European studies, is now providing links to the full text of many of the theses listed.
Sep 26, 2019 funding
Research Scholarships 2020
The Research Scholarships support early career researchers who, having completed a Ph.D., are developing their thesis into what will become their first book.
Mar 31, 2019 utrees
Record Number of Theses Added to UTREES
This year’s annual updating of the UTREES database of theses in Russian and East European studies saw a record number of new entries. The bibliographic details of 242 doctoral theses have been added, bringing the total number on the database to 5,638.
Mar 31, 2019 announcements
Discovering Livingstone's Travels
David Livingstone's Missionary Travels (1857) now appear in a beautiful new digital edition, six years in the making, which MHRA helped to support through a Research Associateship.
Feb 23, 2019 association
MLR Germanic Editor Sought
Modern Language Review, our flagship journal since 1905, is edited by a team of language-area editors, and vacancies on this team are filled by open competition. We now welcome applications for the position of Germanic Editor, to succeed Prof. Mary Cosgrove.
Jan 2, 2019 publications
101 Not Out
It's the first business day of our 101st year, and we publish two journal issues: MLR 114.1 and WPH 13.
Dec 18, 2018 association
Membership 2019
Time for the annual round of membership renewals - details for 2019 are on our Membership page. New members always welcome.
Dec 18, 2018 obituary
Edward Timms 1937-2018
We were sad to hear of the recent death of Edward Timms, FBA, a distinguished and humane voice in the Humanities, and one of the founding editors of our Austrian Studies yearbook.
Dec 18, 2018 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Reframing Exoticism in European Literature
This is the call for papers for volume 14 of our online journal Working Papers in the Humanities, which will have the title "Reframing Exoticism in European Literature".
Nov 3, 2018 prizes
2017 Best Article Prize - Sonia Gollance
Sonia Gollance's piece in Austrian Studies 24 has won the 2017 Best Article Prize awarded by the Coalition of Women in German in the USA.
Oct 23, 2018 association
Postgraduate Editor Wanted
We are looking for a second editor for our online journal Working Papers in the Humanities. Applications by 5 November, please.
Oct 14, 2018 funding
MHRA Research Scholarships 2019
In 2018-19, the MHRA expanded its Research Scholarship programme, making four awards in total. Applications are now open for academic year 2019-20.
Oct 14, 2018 business
100 @ Books @ JSTOR
This week we're proud to announce that MHRA now has one hundred titles online as ebooks at JSTOR, the world's largest non-profit digital library.
Sep 18, 2018 centenary
Susan Bassnett Centenary Lecture
The MHRA Centenary Lecture by Susan Bassnett, which had to be cancelled when heavy snow closed the University of Glasgow in the Spring, has now been rescheduled for Thursday 11 October.
Aug 20, 2018 announcements
Georg Hermann, Coming Soon
We are pleased to announce a new biography of the German novelist Georg Hermann, coming soon to Legenda.
Aug 20, 2018 announcements
Clarice Lispector, Coming Soon
A new Legenda collection on the 21st-century heritage of the great Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector is coming soon.
Aug 6, 2018 publications
Occult Wales
Arthur Machen's classic novella The Great God Pan (1890), along with other stories, non-fiction and critical responses, appear in a new edition edited by Dennis Denisoff.
May 25, 2018 website
Happy GDPR Day
Today, 25 May, the new General Data Protection Regulation came into force. This brief note explains how MHRA is complying with the new rules.
May 19, 2018 events
Beauty in Hell: Culture in the Gulag
Andrea Gullotta's well-received book on the Solovki gulag now has an accompanying virtual exhibition, courtesy of the Hunterian.
May 16, 2018 association
New Century, New Hon Chair
Following our Centenary Dinner and Annual General Meeting, Barbara Burns (Glasgow) succeeded Malcolm Cook (Exeter) as Hon. Chairman of the Association, and Alison Fell became the new Hon. Secretary.
May 13, 2018 publications
Last and First
The last book sent to press in MHRA's first century is also the first to be published in its second century: Francis Lamport's masterly translation of two plays by Goethe and Schiller.
Apr 21, 2018 funding
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
MHRA provides funding to the British Academy to increase the number of BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants available to modern linguists. Here are some recent projects, as a guide for future applicants.
Apr 18, 2018 announcements
Harlequin Subject of Critical Edition
We are pleased to announce that volume 67 in our Critical Texts series will be Aphra Behn's Emperor of the Moon and Its French Source, edited by Judy A. Hayden and Daniel J. Worden.
Apr 12, 2018 events
The Italian Renaissance at the Warburg
All are welcome to attend a presentation at the Warburg Institute, on Mionday 23 April, of two Legenda books on the Italian Renaissance. The speakers are Marina Warner, Brian Richardson and Michel Jeanneret.
Apr 11, 2018 association
Annual General Meeting 2018
This year's Annual General Meeting will be held in the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, on Saturday 12 May 2018 at 12.30 p.m.
Mar 21, 2018 announcements
Soon to Confess
We announce the fifth title in our series of Decadent literature editions: George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man (1888), in a new edition by Matthew Creasy.
Mar 17, 2018 announcements
New New Woman
Announcing "A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage", by Enza De Francisci.
Mar 15, 2018 announcements
Maya Goded's Mexico
We announce a new study of the Mexican documentary photographer Maya Goded.
Mar 10, 2018 interviews
Haunted by Presences: Interview with Eleanor Dobson
An interview with Eleanor Dobson, cultural historian of the exotic.
Feb 16, 2018 funding
Research Scholarship Applications Open
In 2018-19, MHRA is expanding its Research Scholarship programme: up to four awards will be made, and applications are now open.
Feb 16, 2018 publications
An Austrian Jubilee
Our yearbook Austrian Studies publishes its 25th number, on the appropriate subject of Celebrations.
Feb 12, 2018 prizes
The Ruskin Society Book Prize
We congratulate Keith Hanley and Caroline Hull on winning the Ruskin Society Book Prize for their edition of Ruskin's 1835 travel diary, published by Legenda.
Feb 12, 2018 website
The Human Face of the MHRA
Modest announcement: This website's committee page now has faces and email addresses.
Feb 12, 2018 interviews
To the Alps with Ruskin: An Interview with Keith Hanley
Jan 22, 2018 utrees
Ten years of updates to UTREES thesis database
The UTREES online database, which lists British and Irish university theses in Russian and East European studies, has been given its tenth annual update, with 227 new entries added. The total number of theses recorded now stands at 5,396.
Jan 22, 2018 interviews
Béarnaise Sources: Interview with Damien Mooney
An interview with Damien Mooney, a specialist in the sociolinguistics of regional French.
Jan 16, 2018 centenary
The Centenary Lectures 2018
Announcing the MHRA Centenary Lectures programme: ten lectures across the UK and Ireland to celebrate our jubilee year.
Jan 15, 2018 publications
Symons in the Supplement
Our two editions of Arthur Symons are reviewed by the lead article in this week's Times Literary Supplement.
Jan 15, 2018 funding
Conference Grants 2018
Applications are now open.
Jan 9, 2018 interviews
Long live the Intellectuals! Interview with Jack Boas
An interview with Jack Boas, historian of the Writers’ Congress.
Dec 15, 2017 association
Claudia Dellacasa joins as new Postgraduate Editor
Claudia Dellacasa of Durham, who works on links between Italian and Japanese culture, joins the MHRA team as one of our Postgraduate Editors, and will co-edit our innovative journal Working Papers in the Humanities from 2018.
Dec 7, 2017 publications
PS 33.2 Constituted
Portuguese Studies volume 33.2 is now out.
Nov 15, 2017 funding
Applications Open for Research Associateships 2018-19
The Association intends to make up to three research awards of £23,000 for the academic session 2018–2019 (with a start date on or after 1st October 2018). The awards are designed to hasten the completion of research projects of special importance through the provision of part-time research assistance.
Nov 7, 2017 association
Postgraduate Editor Wanted
We invite applications to be one of the editors of Working Papers in the Humanities, a journal aimed at early career researchers and edited by postgraduates. The successful candidate will also attend the MHRA Executive Committee and advise on postgraduate issues, with a two-year term of office.
Nov 3, 2017 announcements
Goethe's Daughter, Schiller's Bride
Announcing Francis Lamport's new translation of two related plays from 1803: Goethe, The Natural Daughter, and Schiller, The Bride.
Oct 31, 2017 interviews
A Sort of Glorious Posterity: Interview with Jess Goodman
In the first of a new series of interviews with Humanities scholars, we talk to Jess Goodman, a specialist in early modern French drama.
Oct 22, 2017 events
Jane Everson's Festschrift in Rome
Our recent Festschrift for the distinguished Italianist Jane Everson will be marked by an event at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome on Monday 30 October 2017.
Oct 21, 2017 announcements
Therapy Exotic
We announce a forthcoming title in our Transcript series: "Making Masud Khan: Psychoanalysis, Empire and Modernist Culture", by Benjamin Poore.
Oct 20, 2017 announcements
Petzold Work
Announcing "Screening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold", a forthcoming study by Stephan Hilpert and Andrew J. Webber, which will be volume 10 in our Moving Image series.
Oct 16, 2017 announcements
Prophecy Forthcoming
We are pleased to announce volume 50 in Studies in Comparative Literature: James Leveque's study Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound.
Oct 12, 2017 publications
Bluebeard meets William Tell
We are pleased to publish Mark Darlow's new edition of two Revolutionary plays by Michel Sedaine: Raoul, Barbe-bleue (1789) and Guillaume Tell (1791).
Oct 6, 2017 announcements
Laforgue, a Little Longer in Red
Our Research Monographs in French Studies series, a collaboration with the Society for French Studies, is expanding, and today we can announce the first of the longer titles to appear in it: Sam Bootle's forthcoming monograph Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness.
Sep 29, 2017 publications
Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England
We are pleased to present a new edition by Marie-Alice Belle and Line Cottegnies of two Elizabethan translations of Roman plays by the French playwright Robert Garnier: Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius and Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia.
Sep 28, 2017 prizes
Arthur Serena's Medal
We congratulate our author and editor Martin McLaughlin on being awarded the Arthur Serena medal by the British Academy.
Sep 23, 2017 publications
MLR + SEER + YES
It is nearly October, and we are pleased to publish new issues of our quarterly journals Modern Language Review and Slavonic and East European Review, and also this year's Yearbook of English Studies, on Sir Walter Scott.
Sep 23, 2017 publications
Boethius in 15th-century French
Announcing a new critical edition of Boethius's Consolatio in its anonymous 15th-century French translation, Un Dit moral contre Fortune, edited by Glynnis M. Cropp in association with John Keith Atkinson.
Sep 7, 2017 business
Institutional Subscriptions for 2018
For 2018, institutional subscriptions to five of our journals will be handled by Turpin Distribution: Modern Language Review, Austrian Studies, Portuguese Studies, the Slavonic and East European Review, and the Yearbook of English Studies.
Aug 31, 2017 publications
Noa Noa Now
We are pleased to announce publication of Claire Moran's edition of two important writings on art by Paul Gauguin: Noa Noa, a collaboration with Charles Morice, and Manuscrit tiré du Livre des métiers de Vehbi-Zumbul Zadi, making its debut in print form.
Aug 10, 2017 utrees
Trends and Realities from UTREES
Gregory Walker, editor of UTREES, recently presented a paper, 'Doctoral Research in Russian and East European Studies: Trends and Realities from the UTREES Database', to a specialist Slavonic conference. He has kindly written this up, and we present it here.
Aug 8, 2017 publications
At the Symonsposium
Our edition of Arthur Symons's poems was launched at the recent Symposium in his honour. Decadently, there was cake.
Aug 8, 2017 events
Sri Lanka to the Western Front: Farrer's Buddhism
The author of our forthcoming book on Reginald Farrer, Michael Charlesworth, is speaking at the British Library on 21 August.
Aug 4, 2017 publications
Remember Mirabeau
Jessica Goodman's edition of plays commemorating Mirabeau, a totemic figure of the French Revolution, is now out in Critical Texts.
Jul 5, 2017 announcements
Marmontel and Demoustier
We announce Critical Texts 65, an edition of two completions of (or, if you prefer, sequels to) Molière's celebrated Le Misanthrope, by Jean-François Marmontel and Charles-Albert Demoustier.
May 22, 2017 website
The MHRA Style Guide Online
The full text of the MHRA Style Guide is now online. See this announcement for more, and click "Style" in the website menu to visit the new home page for MHRA Style.
May 16, 2017 publications
Imaginary, but Available in Hardback
Lene Østermark-Johansen's edition of Walter Pater's Imaginary Portraits inaugurated our series, Jewelled Tortoise, of decadent fin-de-siècle texts. First published in 2014, to great acclaim, it now appears in a hardback edition as well.
May 6, 2017 publications
Portuguese Studies 33.1
Portuguese Studies 33.1 is now published.
Apr 27, 2017 publications
A Faint Smell of Patchouli
Our new selection of Arthur Symons's verse, edited by Chis Baldick and Jane Desmarais, has been published as Jewelled Tortoise 3.
Apr 25, 2017 events
AGM 2017
The nineteenth Annual General Meeting will be held in Room 347, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, on Saturday 13 May 2017 at 2.00 p.m. All members are welcome to attend.
Apr 19, 2017 publications
Les Veuves créoles now out
Julia Prest's new edition of Les Veuves créoles, a comedy of the 1760s which is the first play known to have been written in Martinique, is now published.
Apr 18, 2017 prizes
Spanish Prizes
We're pleased to announce new Legenda books by two winners of the AHGBI's annual prize for the best PhD theses in Hispanic studies.
Apr 15, 2017 website
One Thousand Reviews
When our books are reviewed in journals and newspapers, we like to record a citation on this website. Well: the 1000th citation has just gone up, a nice notice by Clive Scott of Valentina Gossetti's book on Gaspard de la Nuit.
Apr 7, 2017 association
President for 2017, Judith Ryan
Professor Judith Ryan of Harvard will serve as our President for 2017.
Apr 4, 2017 publications
A new translation of Ingénue Saxancour
We are pleased to publish Mary Trouille's new translation of Rétif de la Bretonne's 1789 novel Ingénue Saxancour.
Apr 4, 2017 publications
MLR 112.2 Now Out
Modern Language Review 112.2 is now published.
Mar 30, 2017 publications
What are you reading?
What Maria Delgado is reading, according to the THES, is our revived Spanish bestseller Thursdays with Leila.
Mar 11, 2017 announcements
Symons's Spiritual Adventures
We are pleased to announce publication of Arthur Symons's Spiritual Adventures, an edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series of decadent editions.
Mar 11, 2017 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers: Scrutinising Beauty
A call for papers for a themed issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities.
Mar 11, 2017 funding
Applications for Research Scholarships in AY17/18 are now open
Applications for an MHRA Research Scholarship in AY 2017/18 are now open.
Feb 17, 2017 calls-for-papers
Call for Proposals - The Sacred in the Secular in European Literature
MHRA is pleased to announce its Postgraduate and Early Career Conference for 2017, to be held on 13 October: "The Sacred and the Secular in European Literature". Proposals to give papers are now invited.
Feb 10, 2017 publications
Austrian Studies 24, on Jewish Difference, now out
We are pleased to publish Austrian Studies 24, now being shipped in paper form and available electronically at JSTOR.
Feb 2, 2017 publications
SEER 95.1: Innovations in Corruption Studies
This quarter's number of Slavonic & East European Review, now out, is a special issue entitled 'Innovations in Corruption Studies'.
Feb 2, 2017 utrees
Over 5,000 entries now on UTREES thesis database
The ninth annual update to the UTREES online database listing British and Irish university theses in Russian and East European studies has added a further 224 entries from a record number of 67 institutions, taking the total of thesis titles listed up to 5,160.
Feb 2, 2017 announcements
Announcing Newton's Cicero
Tudor & Stuart Translations 25 will be a volume of four treatises of Cicero, translated by Thomas Newton.
Jan 21, 2017 announcements
Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms
Announcing a new edition of the English translation of Bertha von Suttner's bestselling pacifist novel Die Waffen nieder! (1889).
Jan 21, 2017 announcements
Elyot's The Image of Governance
Announcing a new title in Tudor & Stuart Translations, Thomas Elyot, ‘The Image of Governance’ and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533–1541).
Jan 5, 2017 publications
A Moral Fabletalk
Our edition of Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk and Other Renaissance Fable Translations is now published.
Jan 5, 2017 publications
MLR 112.1 Published
Modern Language Review volume 112 number 1 is out now.
Dec 16, 2016 publications
ABELL 90 Published
Volume 90 of the The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, surveying 2015, is now out.
Nov 16, 2016 publications
Watching Bullfights and Reading Corín Tellado
Thursdays with Leila, coming soon from New Translations, is the first English edition of the bestselling novelist of the 20th century.
Nov 16, 2016 publications
Just Published: Legouvé's Mort d'Abel
Paola Perazzolo's edition of Gabriel-Marie Legouvé's 1792 play La Mort d'Abel has been published in Critical Texts.
Nov 2, 2016 events
Solovki at the Pushkin House
On 15 November, our author Andrea Gullotta will speak at the Pushkin House in London on the subject of his forthcoming book: a prison camp on the frozen archipelago of Solovki, converted from an ancient monastery, which became in a curious way also an artistic centre.
Nov 1, 2016 publications
Launching Translating Myth
We are pleased to announce that the British Centre for Literary Translation, based at the University of East Anglia, will be holding a symposium and launch for our book Translating Myth on the afternoon of Wednesday 16 November.
Nov 1, 2016 association
The Modern Humanities Research Association: A Brief History
A brief history of the MHRA by David Wells.
Oct 24, 2016 obituary
William Rothwell
We are sad to hear of the passing of William Rothwell, who died on 15 October. He was the General Editor of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, now an important and ambitious online project but at one time an MHRA publication.
Oct 13, 2016 calls-for-papers
Call for Papers - Austrian Studies 26 - Austria in Transit
A call for papers for Austrian Studies 26 (2018): Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation State.
Oct 11, 2016 publications
Just Published: Portuguese Studies 32.2
The autumn 2016 issue of Portuguese Studies is now published. This special issue, entitled ‘Authoritarian States and Corporatism in Portugal and Brazil’ is guest-edited by Paula Borges Santos and Luciano Aronne de Abreu.
Oct 3, 2016 publications
Just Published: SEER 94.4
The Slavonic & East European Review for October 2016 is now published.
Sep 28, 2016 publications
Just Published: Chapman's Odyssey
Gordon Kendal's edition of George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey has been published in Tudor and Stuart Translations.
Sep 13, 2016 events
MHRA Conference 2016: Have you Heard?
Announcing Have you Heard? Navigating the Interstices between Public and Private Knowledge, the MHRA Conference 2016, to be held at the IMLR on 14 October 2016.
Aug 17, 2016 association
New General Editor for Legenda
The Legenda Management Committee is delighted to announce that in succession to Professor Colin Davis, who steps down on 1 January 2017, Professor Jonathan Long will be the next General Editor of Legenda.
Aug 9, 2016 business
Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies now published by Brill
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies is now published by Brill.
Dec 18, 2015 events
From the Guadalajara Book Fair
An interview with Ana Clavel.
Dec 3, 2015 events
¡Son Yambú!
Our thanks to the Instituto Cervantes in Eaton Square, London, for hosting a truly memorable book launch. Katia Chornik presented her new study Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text as part of the Instituto’s series of lectures on winners of the Cervantes Prize.
Jul 29, 2015 publications
El Universal
Recent coverage of Jane Lavery's new book on Ana Clavel.
Jun 17, 2015 prizes
Echo's Voice Heard
We congratulate Mary Noonan, author of our 2014 book Echo’s Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude, on being shortlisted by TaPRA, the Theatre and Performance Research Association, for their big annual prize.
Jun 9, 2015 obituary
A Farewell to Zapf
The legendary font designer Hermann Zapf died last week at the age of 96.
May 12, 2015 publications
Ah… la magia digital
Ana Clavel on how the Legenda book about her came to be written.
May 3, 2015 publications
Less Loved, More Read
Maria Scott’s acclaimed Stendhal’s Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom and the Female (2013) has just been published in French by Classiques Garnier as Stendhal, la liberté et les héroïnes mal aimées (2015).
Apr 26, 2015 publications
Postcard from Little Mexico
Jane Lavery, author of our new book on Ana Clavel, sends us a postcard from this year’s London Book Fair, which had an impressive focus on Mexico.
Apr 25, 2015 publications
Breaking News in Panama
Ana Clavel, the Mexican writer and multimedia artist, was for a while the youngest major cultural figure listed in the database that drives the Legenda website...
Apr 22, 2015 publications
The Cavalry of 1870
Hannah Scott, author of our forthcoming Broken Glass, Broken World: Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870, got me leafing through a lurid yet nobly-minded magazine of that year called L’illustration Européenne.
Jul 21, 2014 events
Adapting the Canon Conference
Announcing the 2014 Legenda conference, Adapting the Canon.
Dec 1, 2006 open-letters
Academic Image Reproduction Fees at the V&A
A response to the Victoria and Albert Museum's decision to abolish reproduction fees for scholarly use of images.
Nov 30, 2006 open-letters
Strategically Important Subjects: Modern Languages
A letter to the THES on government plans to designate some subjects as strategically important.
Sep 14, 2005 open-letters
RAE 2008: Response to Consultation
MHRA's response to a call for consultation on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Nov 29, 2002 open-letters
British Academy Review: Creativity and the Economy
An open letter from MHRA to the British Academy to contribute to its review, 'Creativity and the Economy: The Contributions of the Arts and Social Sciences'.