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‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime. Modernist Cultures, 19(1), 128 - 151. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2024.0421%29

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here, I argue that his po... Read More about ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, September). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. Presented at 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, University of Brighton, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in orde... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’..

Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2024, August). Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need. Paper presented at ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland

Idra Novey’s third novel, Take What You Need (2023), depicts the complexities of a contemporary America whose divisions are often crudely defined. Through a story of ex-step-parenthood, it portrays individual traumas of separation and loss from the n... Read More about Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need.

Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and Early Twentieth Century British Literature (2024)
Book
Frayn, A., Jones, K., Faro, L., & Penda, P. (Eds.). Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and Early Twentieth Century British Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing

This collection seeks an alternative history of British literature from 1890 to 1945; it has no essays on canonical British literary modernists. Instead, contributors reflect through the lens of less familiar authors, othered by genre, gender, faith... Read More about Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and Early Twentieth Century British Literature.

To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance. In Nan Shepherd: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press

The Scottish Literary Renaissance is one of the main contexts for understanding Nan Shepherd’s work. As her correspondence shows, Shepherd was friends with many of the renaissance’s chief protagonists, and, at the renaissance’s highpoint in the 1920s... Read More about To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance.

900 Voices (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Irvine, Z. (2024). 900 Voices. [Sound]. 2 August 2024 - 19 October 2024

900 Voices is a participative sound art project by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. It has been commissioned as part of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral’s momentous 900th Anniversary celebrations.

900 Voices is a sound art installa... Read More about 900 Voices.

The First World War in the 1920s (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (in press). The First World War in the 1920s. In T. Bényei, S. Boskani, & N. Hubble (Eds.), The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing

A survey of First World War literature in the 1920s.

Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, A. (2024). Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing. Postcolonial Text, Vol 19(1 & 2),

This chapter explores how Shubhangi Swarup’s novel Latitudes of Longing (2018) breaks out of the developmental narrative of nation-time into an exploration of the impressions of deep time in which events impact human consciousness on a planetary scal... Read More about Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.

Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2024, July). Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance. Paper presented at The World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham, England

This paper suggest that Lewis Spence’s work – or some of it: specifically, some of his poetry in Scots – evokes the sense of 'The Weird' as defined by Mark Fisher; that is, as Fisher writes in his Introduction to The Weird and the Eerie (2016): ‘the... Read More about Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance.

From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies. Paper presented at Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece [online]

Contribution to roundtable on ‘H.D. and Richard Aldington: “It was you who taught me to love those things…”.’
Other participants: Prof Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College, USA), Dr Caroline Zilboorg (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Conference: Emerging Per... Read More about Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies.

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL

In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone... Read More about UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers".

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antira... Read More about Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland.

'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry. In Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions & Revisions. Brill Academic Publishers

Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) considered himself an atheist, but his poetry attends to religious and spiritual themes and concerns. This chapter sets MacDiarmid’s work in the context of New Modernist Studies’ approaches to literature a... Read More about 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry.

Norman Nicholson and rural wartime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Norman Nicholson and rural wartime. Presented at Cultural Landscapes, University of Cumbria, Ambleside

A different version of this paper is published as ‘Rural modernity and wartime in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.’ Modernist Cultures. See corresponding entry.

The RESIST Project Videos. Online Findings Launch: Mapping Anti-Gender Politics (2024)
Digital Artefact
Lynch, S., Titley, G., Filep, E., Kulpa, R., & Browne, K. (2024). The RESIST Project Videos. Online Findings Launch: Mapping Anti-Gender Politics. [Video recording]

Video recording of “The RESIST Project Events: Online Findings Launch. Mapping Anti-Gender Politics”, an output from the Work Package 1 (WP1) of the RESIST Project. The event introduced the project, outlined the scope of the WP1, presented the findin... Read More about The RESIST Project Videos. Online Findings Launch: Mapping Anti-Gender Politics.

"Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (in press). "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose. In A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press

This chapter addresses the use of various forms of typographical ellipsis. In it I argue that ellipses represent failures of communication which are characteristic of early-twentieth-century writing, pointing to limit experiences which could be desc... Read More about "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose.