Our next will be another reading and discussion session, we look forward to and prepare for the upcoming visit of Tom McEnaney (Comparative Literature, Berkeley), this semester’s invited speaker, who will be here on Tuesday 5 March. More details to follow, but please mark down the date. For this next session, we will be reading […]

Tom McEnaney (Comparative Literature, UC-Berkeley) “Lordy I Hope There are Tapes: Sound and Literature from the Cuban Revolution to Pop Art” Tom McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies. He has contributed articles to Cultural Critique, La Habana Elegante, Representations, Revista […]

In anticipation for our visiting lecture of this term, Luca Somigli (Italian Studies, Toronto) has asked that we read the first chapter of Lawrence Rainey’s now-classic-but-still-debated Institutions of Modernism (Yale, 1998): a scan of “The Creation of the Avant-Garde: F.T. Marinetti and Ezra Pound” is attached. We have reserved the Silverman Room (Clemens 318) for […]

Luca Somigli is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His publications include Per una satira modernista: la narrativa di Wyndham Lewis (Cadmo, 1995); Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885–1915 (Toronto, 2003), which was awarded the prize for best book by the American Association for Italian Studies; and Valerio Evangelisti […]

The Modernisms Research Workshop will be holding its final event of the semester this afternoon, when we host Charles Davis (Architecture) for a work-in-progress presentation on “Building a Post-Frontier California: Race, Pageantry and the Architectural Management of National Identity.” He provides this abstract to his ongoing research: “I would like to discuss the contents of […]

As a lead-up to Nico Israel's April 7 visit, the Modernisms Research Workshop will hold a reading group session. Refreshments will be provided.

In anticipation of Patrick Bray's April 24th talk, the Modernisms Research Workshop will meet for a reading group session. Refreshments will be served.

Patrick Bray (French, University College London)