drmilthorpe.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania. Modernism-adjacent; reformed all-caps user. Working on Evelyn Waugh for the rest of time? She/her.
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Reviews by @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social, @drmilthorpe.bsky.social, Alexander Howard, Allison Nick, Lauryl Tucker, Ashley Maher, Rachel Farebrother, Brigid Rooney, and John Attridge cover a range of new books on #MeToo and modernism, British parody, Australian writer Eleanor Dark, and queer forms.
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Thank you! So many memories of reading this book for the first time in Iain Wright's Modern Novel course, which might have been when we met properly?
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So many big wet gulps, blergh
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We're completely honoured that you came here & talked & shared your research so brilliantly!! 💚
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Big kudos to @fergusedwards.bsky.social and @robbiemoore.bsky.social , the dream team co-organisers! 👏 🥳
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... and a great reflection on 15 years of the AMSN from co-founder Lorraine Sim. It's been a pleasure hosting the Network's 6th conference & having so many amazing scholars and writers come to @utas.edu.au!
(though I definitely needed a bucket of 🍷 this evening)
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& then a wonderful reading by @michellecahill.bsky.social from her 2023 novel Daisy & Woolf...
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Before a morning of banging panels on Joyce, immunity, and work, time, & the event of art; & afternoon panels on politics, fashion, & modern girls...
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Thanks to all the presenters whose papers I saw, and I just wish I'd been able to see all the others. I'm looking forward to what day 3 has in store!
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Before ending with a splendid plenary conversation with writers working experimentally, here, now, chaired by Jane Rawson from Island magazine (if you haven't picked up any of these books, you should!).
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... to afternoon panels on black women poets, more Von Arnim!, psychosocial limits, writing back to Modernism, and a little bit (!) of Waugh...
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Moved to an amazing keynote talk from @noreenmasud.bsky.social who brilliantly considered flatness, political and aesthetic engagement, and private experience in Olive Schreiner's writing about the Karoo...
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Literally towering! And giving great scholarship as always!
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... and at the end, over beers, some great high winds giving southern sublime. Onwards to day 2!
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Plus panel sessions on movements, hauntings, cross-cultural collision, flops, and travellers, including Mark Byron zooming in from afar with characteristic aplomb.
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... & Pacific Literature, marking an important new book from @maebhlong.bsky.social & Matthew Hayward...
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plenary sessions on Modernism in Antarctica featuring @widewhitestage.bsky.social, Elle Leane & Carolyn Philpott (& penguins!)
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If you're keen to zoom in, there are still tickets available! Registration here: payments.utas.edu.au/Register/boo...
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We've got a brilliant lineup of speakers in-person and over zoom including plenary talks from Noreen Masud, Thomas S. Davis, a panel on Antarctic Modernism, and so much more. I'm excited that so many fabulous folk are braving the journey south (or the zoom interface)!
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I posted this at the other cursed place but I think I'll hang out here from now on
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Scholars but also students. I went with writing a note for it :)