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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here:
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‘I am feminine, morbid, perverse’ Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) was a more engaging memoirist than a writer of fiction. But although he produced several volumes of autobiography over the course...

'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent'
A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗
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The title page of volume one of the Modern Language Review, published in 1906

Read a review of the very first issue of Modern Language Review (formerly published by CUP), from 1905:

'the first number of a new quarterly periodical — or, as it is called, journal — devoted to the study of mediæval and modern literature and philology'

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Front cover of Bassnett's book.

'After the Great Theory Wars'

Barbara Burns speaks to Susan Bassnett, whose book 'Tales of Travellers and Translators: Essays on Comparative Literature' was published recently in Legenda’s Selected Essays series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...

Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!

'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'

Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.

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Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395

Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies

In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue.

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MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
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Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies Our journal Portuguese Studies celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a special issue.

New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London.
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Announcing our new MHRA Member Benefits We have a new online membership platform, making it easier than ever to join, and many new benefits too.

We're delighted to announce a range of new benefits of being a member of the MHRA, beginning this year: see our blog post for more details. We'd love to have you as a member!
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Article by Derek Connon and Barbara Burns.

The MHRA in the Oxford Magazine

Our Chair, Derek Connon, and Company Secretary, Barbara Burns, have recently published this article in the Oxford Magazine! 📝

Founded in 1883, the Oxford Magazine is a sort of literary and commentary supplement to the official University of Oxford Gazette.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.

Languages Research Database | University Council For Languages A free, searchable resource of concise, impact-focused research summaries in the field of languages, created specifically for policymakers.

Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
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'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'

Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

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'A Better Bristol is a Better World'

Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394
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'Contributing'

Barbara Burns talks to Aggie Fanning, Co-Editor of the MHRA online PG/early-career journal 'Working Papers in the Humanities'.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

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'Struggling since 1859'

Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez Modern Humanities Research Association - George Chapman, The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense - Edited by Zenón Luis-Martínez

Newly published after eight long years of work! Thank you to the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social for its confidence in this demanding project, and to its publishing manager, Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social for his invaluable contribution to making this book a better one: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.

The front cover of the volume, featuring a painting of Actaeon and Diana by Lucas Cranach

📣Now published! A monumental new edition of George Chapman's early poems 'The Shadow of Night' and 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense'

Volume 74 in our Critical Texts series. All info here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

#EarlyModern

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... And two more in Critical Texts, with covers still in preparation!

- 'Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, Tragedia de la destruyción de Constantinopla', edited by Aaron M. Kahn

- 'Zachary Coke, The Art of Logic Education, Freedom of Speech, and Liberty in the English Republic', edited by Emma Wilson

Frontcover of Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953

Frontcover of Berthe Morisot’s Journals Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle

🔈🔈🔈 We're delighted to announce four forthcoming books!

Two in New Translations...

- 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories. 1925–1953', translated by Malcolm Spencer.

- 'Berthe Morisot’s Journals. Art, Literature, and her Impressionist Circle', translated by Claire Moran.

Cover of the Slavonic & East European Review, Volume 103, Number 3, July 2025.

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

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Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.

Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

'Are Adjectives a Match for God?'

Barbara Burns talks to Gabriella Addivinola, whose book 'Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century' has just been published in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/12...

Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens

Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Article is behind a paywall/spywall]

Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective

Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
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The UCFL ECA SIG is looking for new reps! We have openings in German, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, and Middle Eastern Studies. Details below, and the application deadline is 15 December. Get in touch with the SIG co-chairs @oliviaglaze.bsky.social & @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social with questions 🥳