<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">HI, Woolfians,<div><br></div><div>The link for the Modernist Studies Association conference in November is now live.  Anne and I are running a seminar on #MeToo modernisms (description below) and would love for you to join us.  </div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:15px"><strong><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2Fmbb8nb%2Fmjpc7b%2Fig0rie&data=02%7C01%7Cmegan.m.quigley%40villanova.edu%7Cf02a26460a8842ec7e9308d70b80a2b2%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C636990519443852955&sdata=fwZKiVqhhwOKdrj8RFqkaveoGqt6TVfo%2BFpU2mfqS7A%3D&reserved=0" style="font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(36,82,215)">https://msa.press.jhu.edu/membership/conference</a></strong></span></h3></div><div><span class="e2ma-style" style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div>all the best,</div><div>Megan </div><div><br></div><div>Megan Quigley</div><div>Associate Professor of English </div><div>Villanova University</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-fl-accordion-button" id="gmail-fl-accordion-5cf95bbf1e4d8-tab-0" tabindex="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-size:15px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:15px 20px;vertical-align:baseline;display:table;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-fl-accordion-button-label" tabindex="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:table-cell;width:1089.875px">#MeToo Modernisms</div><span class="gmail-fl-accordion-button-icon gmail-fl-accordion-button-icon-right gmail-fas gmail-fa-minus" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:table-cell;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Font Awesome 5 Free";font-weight:900;opacity:0.5;padding-left:15px;vertical-align:middle"></span></div><div class="gmail-fl-accordion-content gmail-fl-clearfix" id="gmail-fl-accordion-5cf95bbf1e4d8-panel-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-size:15px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 40px 15px 20px;vertical-align:baseline;zoom:1;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:700;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Organizers:</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Megan Quigley - Villanova University</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Anne Fernald - Fordham University</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">How have reading and teaching early 20</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">th</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">-century texts changed in light of the #MeToo movement? How might our scholarship need to think more carefully about sex, gender, and power? Feminist scholarship has a rich history in literary modernism building on influential works such as Hazel Carby’s </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Reconstructing Womanhood</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> (1989), Bonnie Kime Scott’s </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Gender of Modernism</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> (1990), Rita Felski’s </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Gender of Modernity</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> (1995), Sianne Ngai’s </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Ugly Feelings</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> (2005), and Sara Ahmed’s </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Promise of Happiness</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> (2010). In the #MeToo Era, feminism has been revitalized, even as it interrogates its own historical shortcomings and theoretical limitations. Post-structuralism, complicity in the neo-liberal ravaging of global economies and the environment, racism, classism, and homo / transphobia, have all challenged feminism’s reputation, and, often rightly, complicated its effectiveness while divorcing feminist scholarship from pragmatic applications. “But,” as Jessica Bennett declares in </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The New York Times</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, “the #MeToo moment has become something larger: a lens through which we view the world, a sense of blinders being taken off.” In what ways does our modernist scholarship still have on blinders that the energies of Tarana Burke’s intersectional and empathetic feminism may remove? We ask for papers that consider: Whose voices do we believe in texts and why? How has our scholarship silently condoned scenes of assault (such as Rachel Vinrace’s kiss in </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Voyage Out</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, Leda’s rape in “Leda and the Swan,” Fern’s “easy” sex in </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Cane</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">) by focusing on modernism’s celebrated difficulty, experimentalism, and desire to </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">make it new</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">? How are our professional and academic institutions (in everything from mentoring through peer review and promotion) similarly imbricated in gendered power relations? From the recent scandal in James Joyce circles to the article in chronical of higher education which asks, “Should we still cite the scholarship of serial sexual harassers?” the #MeToo movement makes us question our research and our profession—our seminar seeks papers examining its ramifications. We are particularly interested in papers that examine the complex and confounding ways in which institutional structures and deep-seated patriarchal patterns of thought collide with our scholarship.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>