St Bride Foundation | King’s College London

Keynote speakers

Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins) Isabel Waidner (Roehampton)

Contents

Welcome from the organisers 3 Welcome from BAMS Chair 7 Information for delegates 8 Venues, map and practical details 8 Guidelines for speakers 10 Accessibility guidelines 11 A modernist map of the area 15 Contacts 17

Programme 18 Follow BAMS on Twitter @modernistudies Tweet about the conference: #troublesomemodernisms bams.ac.uk ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/bams-2019

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Welcome

We’re delighted to welcome delegates to St Bride Foundation and King’s College

London for the British Association for Modernist Studies conference 2019,

Troublesome Modernisms. This is the fourth BAMS conference, and the biggest

yet, with contributions from scholars from across Europe, the Americas, Asia and

Australasia. We’re especially pleased to welcome panels from two of our affiliated

organisations, the Modernist Studies Association and the Modernist Studies in

Asia Network, as well as members from the Australasian Modernist Studies

Network and the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies.

The conference aims to take a fresh look at modernism’s capacity to, and

for, trouble. It seeks to spark debate about how modernisms might have troubled

contemporary writers, political thinkers, philosophers, artists and consumers;

about how modernisms might not fit with themes or ideals prescribed by

modernist studies; and about how works not immediately identifiable as

modernist might afford new analyses of the relationship between art, culture and

modernity. What can we draw for the present from modernism’s troubled

relationship with its own pasts, presents and futures, and how might we address

our troubles with those aspects of the modernist project that sit uncomfortably

with us today?

Inevitably this will include the troubling or scrutiny of the field of modernism

from within. In particular, the conference is eager to mark and reflect on the

reverberations of Douglas Mao’s and Rebecca Walkowitz’s groundbreaking Bad

Modernisms (2006), a volume that questioned the limits of modernist studies,

illuminating new avenues of critique by pressuring us to consider what and when

we believe modernity to be, and whose creative and critical disruption continues

to invigorate our field. We are delighted to welcome Douglas Mao, Russ Professor

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of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, who will give the first keynote,

‘Troubled’, on Thursday evening. The work of our second keynote, novelist and

critical theorist Isabel Waidner (Roehampton), is at the forefront of a re-energised

avant-garde that seeks to trouble the complacencies and injustices of

contemporary culture. We are fortunate to have Isabel at the conference, where

they will present a paper titled ‘We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff: Class, Queers

and the Avant-garde’ on Friday evening.

Following Isabel’s keynote on Friday, the King’s College Chapel will be

given over to The Modernist Revue, an evening of music, dance and poetry.

Highlights include the premiere of live artist Deborah Pearson’s rendition of Hope

Mirrlees’s 1919 ‘Paris: A Poem’, music from Elena Langer’s suffragette

opera, Rhondda Rips it Up! performed by Stacey Wheeler and Kate Woolveridge,

and music by Germaine Tailleferre and Claude Debussy performed by Lana Bode

of the Virginia Woolf & Music project. You can view the full programme and buy

tickets (until the day of the event) from the conference

site: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/bams-2019

In addition to the keynotes and The Modernist Revue, we are delighted to

be hosting a couple of special sessions. On Friday afternoon we will present a

programme of films at KCL, curated by Inga Fraser (Tate/Royal College of Art),

celebrating 100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919.

Particularly exciting in her ‘Bauhaus 100’ selection is a rediscovered optical sound

film by László Moholy-Nagy, Tönendes ABC (1933), considered lost until earlier

this year. For delegates interested in the feminist and modernist potential of craft,

Lottie Whalen, Jade French and Katja May will offer a crafting workshop as part of

their panel ‘Decorating Dissidence’ on Friday afternoon.

The change in venue for the conference puts us at the heart of the City of

London and we hope delegates will have chance to visit some of the modernist

sites in the area, from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, where Yeats and the

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Rhymers’ Club used to meet, to St Bride’s Church, designed by Christopher Wren,

largely destroyed in the Blitz and, less dramatically but perhaps more surprisingly,

one of the executors of Djuna Barnes’s estate. A selective map of these and other

modernist sites of interest is included in this programme (pages 15–16).

We would like to say a huge thank you to Ruth Clemens (BAMS

postgraduate representative Jan 2016–Dec 2018), who came up with the idea for

the theme of the conference. The current BAMS postgraduate representatives

(Polly Hember, Gareth Mills, Séan Richardson and Cécile Varry) have been

instrumental in the planning of Troublesome Modernisms. We are especially

grateful to them for designing and delivering the postgraduate workshops and for

putting together a special conference-themed issue of The Modernist Review, to

which postgraduate and ECR delegates are very much encouraged to submit. This

conference has been a collaborative effort and we are grateful to all the BAMS

executive committee members and conference team who contributed in the

programming and planning stages, especially Tim Armstrong, Peter Fifield, Alex

Goody, Lise Jaillant, Dan Moore, Chris Mourant, Natasha Periyan and Jeff Wallace.

Finally, and most importantly, we would like to thank the Institute of English

Studies, the English department at King’s College London and the St Bride

Foundation for coming together at a late stage to support and host the

conference. In particular we would like to thank Katy Thompson, the events

manager at the IES, who has been exceptionally resourceful, patient and

supportive in circumstances that were altogether more troubling than any of us

could have imagined at the outset. We also owe a big debt of gratitude to our KCL

colleagues Becky Dean, Janet Floyd, Anna Snaith and Harira Yusuf for stepping in

at the last minute to give the conference a new home and doing so with such

generosity and good humour.

King’s College London English department and Edinburgh University Press

are our sponsors and we are grateful to them for supporting The Modernist Revue

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(KCL) and the receptions (EUP and KCL). BAMS has a longstanding relationship

with EUP and the journal Modernist Cultures, and we are delighted to be hosting a

reception to celebrate the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture series,

edited by current and past BAMS Chairs Tim Armstrong and Rebecca Beasley.

Finally, we would like to say a huge thank you to the volunteers, without

whom the conference could not have run: Harriet Baker, Haley Bassett, Stephanie

Boland, Ruth Clemens, Natalia Fantetti, Jade French, E. A. Matthews, Gareth Mills,

Aakriti Narang, Christina Nikiforaki, Florian Kasperski, Isabelle Parkinson, Nayana

Prakash, Daniel Rhodes, Helen Saunders and Lottie Whalen.

Suzanne Hobson, Clara Jones and Sophie Oliver

Lead Conference Organisers

London 2019

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Welcome from BAMS Chair

As BAMS Chair for 2018, I would like to second the organisers’ welcome, and also

to thank them for their work putting the conference together, especially when a

change of venue was needed at short notice.

BAMS has been in existence for over 10 years now. It began to run training

days and conferences in 2010, and has formed strong links with Edinburgh

University Press and Modernist Cultures. Our regular events, such as the New

Work in Modernist Studies symposium; our postgraduate-led initiatives, like The

Modernist Review; our relationships with European and American organisations;

and our disciplinary reach all testify to the strength of the field in the UK. The

conference programme reflects that strength, and I look forward to hearing as

many papers as I can.

Tim Armstrong

BAMS Chair

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Information for delegates Venues, map and practical details The conference is taking place over two sites:

St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ

King’s College London, Strand campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

[NB see step-free access details on pages 12–14]

We ask all delegates to be aware of the following in planning their day:

• It is a 15- to 20-minute walk between St Bride Foundation and KCL Strand campus.

We have tried to leave at least 20 minutes between panels, but this has not always

been possible and we advise leaving a panel slightly earlier than the finish time if

you need to travel between sites for the next panel.

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• The following buses run between the two venues along Fleet St: 4, 11, 15, 26, 76.

Black cabs can be hailed very easily on Fleet St (near St Bride) and the Strand.

Please consult the conference volunteers if you need any help.

• St Bride is the main site for the conference during the day. Delegates should

register there if possible. Registration will open at 12 pm on Thursday and at 8.50

am on Friday and Saturday. However, if you are speaking on or attending your first

panel at KCL you will be able to register there from 12.45 pm on Thursday, and

from 8.30 am on Friday and Saturday. There is no need to come to St Bride first.

• Lunch is not provided, but refreshments will be served in Bridewell Hall at St

Bride during the morning and afternoon breaks. See below for eating and

drinking recommendations.

• KCL is the main site for evening events, including keynotes, receptions and The

Modernist Revue. We have a reception desk in the lobby of the Strand campus

and our organisers and volunteers will be there to help you find the rooms.

• Delegates are asked to wear their badges at all times. This is to ensure speedy

access to both of the buildings.

• Breastfeeding is welcome at the conference. Please ask the organisers or

volunteers if you would like to use a quiet space.

Lunch options

There are many options for lunch around St Bride Foundation and King’s College

London Strand campus. These range from supermarket sandwiches (M&S,

Sainsbury’s, Co-op and Tesco) to chain take-away and sit-in sandwich and salad

shops (Prêt a Manger, Eat, Chop’d), and various street-food chains (Pilpel,

Chilango, Moi An, Itsu, Wasabi). Conference-organiser favourites include Pilpel

(falafel), Itsu (sushi and ramen) and Leon (‘naturally’ fast food). Fernandez & Wells

in the East Wing of Somerset House (on the Strand) is a lovely summer venue for

light food and drinks very close to our KCL conference venue.

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Most of the chains and supermarkets now offer, gluten-free, vegan and

vegetarian options. We recommend M&S, Co-op, Leon and Prêt a Manger, and

advise that you check café and shop websites for the options available elsewhere.

Please note that some outlets around the City (St Bride Foundation) will be

closed on Saturday. Please refer to the online map on our conference webpage or

consult the conference volunteers to see which will be open.

Coffee

Recommendations for independent coffee shops near St Bride include Carter

Lane Coffee House and Taylor St Baristas. Near KCL Strand campus we

recommend Fernandez & Wells (see above), The Delaunay Counter and

Lundenwic on Aldwych. Coffee, tea and refreshments are provided at St Bride

during the morning and afternoon breaks.

Pubs and bars

Historic pubs and bars with modernist connections include Ye Olde Cheshire

Cheese (Yeats and the Rhymers’ Club) and El Vino on Fleet Street (G. K.

Chesterton used to drink here). More recommendations are on the online map.

Guidelines for speakers

• Speakers and chairs are asked to arrive 10 minutes before their panels begin.

• All the rooms are equipped with a laptop and a projector. Please bring your

presentation on a memory stick and we will upload it in advance of the panel.

• The programme is full and we ask all speakers and chairs to keep to the 15-minute

limit for papers in order to ensure smooth transitions between panels.

• Unfortunately we are unable to provide printing services for delegates. There are a

number of print shops in the area. Please ask volunteers for details.

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Accessibility guidelines for speakers and chairs

• Please bring a couple of extra printed copies of your paper for audience members

who would like to follow along with you AND/OR upload your finished paper to

our shared drive (only available if you have a Gmail account):

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rDOWwQ7mJHCZdcQxdB9_N3qff_Cj20

yw?usp=sharing

• Please use the microphone where provided, regardless of the size of the room.

• When speaking, always face the audience; this is especially helpful for audience

members who are lip readers.

Slide presentations

• Do not use Prezi or other media with motion, zoom or strobe effects, as these pose

accessibility problems. PowerPoint or similar is recommended.

• Use a high-contrast colour scheme, i.e. black background with white font or the

reverse.

• Use a sans-serif font, such as Arial, and maintain a font size of 18 point or larger.

• Provide minimal text on each slide.

• Where possible, describe all images, charts, video etc. included in your slides.

Accessibility guidelines for all conference attendees

• Individuals attending sessions should feel free to stand, move about, get water or

vocalise as necessary during presentations.

• If an assistance dog is present, be sure to approach the dog calmly and ask its

human partner before addressing or touching the dog.

With thanks to the Children's Literature Association (ChLA), who compiled these accessibility guidelines from

standards provided by the American Disability Association and the Disability Studies Association.

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Step-free access to the St Bride Foundation

For step-free access to the St. Bride Foundation entrance, turn into Salisbury Court, off Fleet street, where there are Blue Badge parking bays. The main entrance to the Foundation can be found on St. Bride’s Passage, which is a short walk from Salisbury Court/Dorset Rise.

(Pic Right) The entrance to St. Bride’s Passage.

Step free access to the Bridewell Theatre is available from Bride Lane over a threshold stone with a riser height ranging between 110-150mm from right to left. Access from the threshold to the auditorium is via a stairlift (230Kg weight load) and to the theatre bar and lavatories via a platform lift (340kg weight load). We have ramps to enable this.

Step Free access to the Foundation via the workshop entrance on Bride Lane is unavailable.

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NB There is step-free access to all the conference rooms in KCL: please ask the organisers or volunteers for directions or assistance.

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A (very selective) modernist map of the area

‘As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.’ (Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out)

Places of interest, clockwise from the east: St Bride Foundation: est. 1891 to serve the print and publishing trade of Fleet St; its library opened in 1895 and is now home to one of the world’s most significant collections devoted to printing, including the original artwork for Eric Gill’s eponymous typeface St Bride’s Church: joint literary executor (along with the Authors League Fund) of Djuna Barnes’s estate 88 Fleet St: the first offices of Time and Tide Daily Express building, 120 Fleet St: 1932, Ellis & Clark; lobby by Robert Atkinson Daily Telegraph building, 135–41 Fleet St: 1928, Elcock, Sutcliffe & Tait

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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet St: meeting place of Yeats’s Rhymers’ Club 4 Clement’s Inn: first London headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union, aka the suffragettes, 1906–12 Aldwych Theatre, 49 Aldwych: Diaghilev rehearsed Le Sacre du printemps here before it opened in Paris NB for a whole Ballets Russes walking tour in the area, see: http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/177065/v-and-a-diaghilev-walkingtour.pdf Marconi House, 335 Strand: where Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company Limited operated its broadcasting station 2LO, 11 May – 14 November 1922 Façade of Zimbabwe House (formerly British Medical Association), 429 Strand: remnants of Jacob Epstein’s scandalously censored nude reliefs Bubba Gump Shrimp Company (restaurant), corner of Coventry St and Rupert St: former premises of the first Lyons’ Corner House, opened in 1909 31 Earlham Street: former location of the Cave of Harmony, nightclub and meeting place of intellectuals including H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh 4 Denmark St: once Nanking restaurant, where the Progressive Writers’ Association was formed in 1935 by Indian intellectuals, including Mulk Raj Anand YMCA Club, Great Russell Street: November 1933, first performance of At What a Price, play co-written and directed by Una Marson 44 Bedford Square: home of Ottoline Morrell The British Museum (formerly the British Library): as legend has it, the birthplace of Imagism (in the tea room in 1912) 4–5 Bloomsbury Square: British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology from 1924 40 Bloomsbury Square: home in 1902 to Gertrude Stein (who hated it, apparently) 35 Boswell St (formerly Devonshire St), now Cecil House: former premises of Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop What did we miss? Tweet us @modernistudies #TroublesomeModernisms

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Contacts There will be organisers and volunteers on the registration desks at St Bride and KCL during the conference (excluding keynotes and evening events). If you need to contact the organisers by telephone please call any of the numbers below and leave a message for Suzanne Hobson or Sophie Oliver. St Bride T: 020 7353 3331 IES T: 020 7862 8679 | 020 7862 8680 | 020 7862 8683

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Programme outline BOOK FAIR: St Bride Foundation, Farringdon Room, 20–22 June Thursday 20 June 9.30–10.30 am, 11 am–12 pm Postgraduate and ECR workshops (St Bride, Bridewell Hall) 12 pm Lunch for workshop participants (St Bride, Bridewell Hall) 12 pm onwards Conference registration at St Bride, Farringdon Room 12.45 pm onwards Conference registration at King’s College London (Strand campus foyer) 1.30–3 pm Parallel panels 1–6 3–3.30 pm Refreshments served in Bridewell Hall, St Bride 3.30–5 pm Parallel panels 7–12 5.30–7pm KEYNOTE: Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins), ‘Troubled’ (KCL, S-2.18, Lucas Theatre) 7pm Drinks reception sponsored by Edinburgh University Press in celebration of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture (KCL Terrace Café) Friday 21 June 9–10.25 am Parallel panels 13–19 10.25–10.45 am Refreshments served in Bridewell Hall, St Bride 10.45 am–12.15 pm Parallel panels 20–26 10.45 am–12.15 pm Lunch (not provided)

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1.15–2.40 pm Parallel panels 27–33 2.40–3 pm Refreshments served in Bridewell Hall, St Bride 3–4.15 pm Parallel panels 34–37 (early finish at St Bride) 3-4.30 pm Parallel panels 38–40 (at KCL Strand Campus) 3.15–4.30 pm Film screenings: Bauhaus at 100 (KCL, S-2.18, Lucas Theatre) 4.45–6 pm KEYNOTE: Isabel Waidner (Roehampton), ‘We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff: Class, Queers and the Avant-garde’ (KCL, S-2.18, Lucas Theatre) 6.30–8 pm The Modernist Revue (King’s College Chapel) Saturday 22 June 9–10.25 am Parallel panels 41–47 10.25 am–10.45 am Refreshments served in Bridewell Hall, St Bride 10.45 am–12.15 pm Parallel panels 48–54 12.15–1.15 pm Lunch (not provided) 12.35–1 pm BAMS OGM (St Bride, Bridewell Hall) 1.15–2.40 pm Parallel panels 55–61 2.40–3 pm Refreshments served in Bridewell Hall, St Bride 3-4.15 pm Parallel panels 62–68 4.15–4.30 pm Break 4.30–6 pm Parallel panels 69–73 CONFERENCE ENDS

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Programme in full NB abstracts and speaker bios are available on the conference webpage Thursday 20 June, 9.30–10.30 am, 11 am–12 pm Postgraduate and ECR workshops St Bride Foundation, Bridewell Hall (Lunch will be provided for participants following the workshops.) 12 pm onwards Conference registration at St Bride Foundation 12.45 pm onwards Conference registration at King’s College London (Strand campus foyer) BOOK FAIR: St Bride Foundation, Farringdon Room, 20–22 June Thursday 20 June, 1.30–3 pm 1. Staying with the Trouble: Posthuman Modernisms St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Ruth Clemens (Utrecht/Leeds Trinity) Peter Adkins (Kent), ‘Joyce, Molly and the Revenge of Gea-Tellus’ Saskia McCracken (Glasgow), ‘Virginia Woolf’s Canine Trouble’ Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes), ‘Mina Loy’s Insect Others’ Rachel Murray (Loughborough), ‘Beyond Jellyfish Diffuseness: Marine Aesthetics

in Modernist Writing’ 2. Modernist Poetry against Modern Capitalism St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Nadira Wallace (RHUL) Dominick Knowles (Brandeis), ‘Lines and Routes: Zukofsky, MacKay and the

Poetics of the Subway’ Mark Steven (Exeter), ‘Strike Writing: Toward a Poetics of the Picket’ Kristin Grogan (Cambridge), ‘Unknown Voltage: Modernist Poetry’s

Anarcha-Feminism’

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3. Troubled Times: Cultural Politics in the 1930s St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Nadine Attewell (McMaster) Charlotte Hallahan (UEA), ‘Mass-Observation and the Dream Archive’ Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute), ‘“To Pillory and Never to Please”: The

Cartoonists of the Left Review’ Lucrecia Radyk (UNRN / CONICET) ‘The London Scene and Documentary Culture’ 4. Remodelling Communities KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Tiana Fischer (NUI Galway) Peter Fifield (Birkbeck), ‘Enjoying Illness with Virginia Woolf and Winifred

Holtby’ Clara Jones (KCL), ‘Trouble in the House: Virginia Woolf and Ellen Wilkinson

Write the House of Commons’ Natasha Periyan (Kent), ‘Naomi Mitchison and Eugenics in the 1930s’ Erin Yanota (UT Austin), ‘“[B]ut the strength in it is American”: Primitivist Rhetorics

in the Transatlantic Literary Marketplace’ 5. Scottish Modernism KCL, S-1.08 CHAIR: Alex Thomson (Edinburgh) Helena Roots (Edinburgh Napier), ‘Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women

Writers and the Nature of Rural Modernity’ Scott Lyall (Edinburgh Napier), ‘Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of

Scottish Modernism’ Matti Ron (UEA), ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Troublesome Modernist and

Troublesome Proletarian’ Tara Thomson (Edinburgh Napier), ‘Paganism and Witchcraft in Naomi Mitchison’s

Historical Fiction’ 6. Sovereignty, Disorder and the Political: The Desire for Form KCL, S-1.29 CHAIR: Polly Hember (RHUL) Jake O’Leary (Bristol), ‘“That inexplicably alarming figure”: Fascism, Disorder and

Modernity in Storm Jameson’s The Mirror in Darkness’ Joseph Owen (Southampton), ‘Details, Details, Details: Lines of Anticipation in Carl

Schmitt’s “The Buribunks”’

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Will Carroll (Birmingham), ‘“An optics of depression”: National and Artistic

Sovereignty in Walker Evans’ 1930s Photography’ Thursday 20 June, 3.30–5 pm 7. The Troublesome Mid-century St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Lyndsey Stonebridge (Birmingham) Matthew Taunton (UEA), ‘1917 and the Mid-century: Doris Lessing and the

Language of Communism’ Beryl Pong (Sheffield), ‘Reading Wartime in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls (1964)’ Adam Piette (Sheffield), ‘“I wanted peace and reached out my hand for violence”:

Sylvia Townsend Warner and Storm Jameson Reflect on the Second World War’

Allan Hepburn (McGill), ‘Varieties of Extinction: Statehood in The Day of the Triffids’ MSA panel 8. Unsettling Modernism’s Boundaries: Disruptive Categories of Belonging St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Marius Hentea (Gothenburg) Elizabeth Evans (Notre Dame), ‘Colonial London, Troubling Modernism’ Edit Tóth (Penn State-Altoona), ‘Peter Lászlo Péri, Eastern European Activism and

the Permanent Emigré Experience’ Thalia Trigoni (Cyprus), ‘The Ontology of Unconscious Androgyny: Unfixing

Gender in Woolf’s Orlando’ 9. Language Troubles St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: James Alexander Fraser (NUI Maynooth) Paul Jenner (Loughborough), ‘Cavell, Ordinary Language Criticism and Modernism’ Nadira Wallace (RHUL), ‘Exploiting Magnificence: Hart Crane’s Diction and T. S.

Eliot’ Ken Hirschkop (Waterloo), ‘The Trouble with Language’

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Luke McMullan (NYU), ‘Troubling Mediation: Why did Philological Poetry Take Off as Philology Declined in the Academy?’

10. Medical and other Bodily Troubles KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Peter Fifield (Birkbeck) Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Bristol), ‘“so difficult to render in colourless words”:

Modernism and Colour Vision’ Laura Cushing-Harries (Birkbeck), ‘Chronic Listeners: Hearing the Body through

Samuel Beckett’s Troublesome Patients’ Claire Class (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), ‘“Anesthesia Would Be Kinder”:

Anesthesia and Feminist Omission in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland’ Chao-Long Jin (Exeter), ‘Mrs Dalloway and the Trouble with the Human Machine’ 11. Decorating Dissidence: Textiles as Modernist Legacy (inc. Crafting/Thinking workshop) NB 3.30–5.15 pm KCL, S-1.08 CHAIR: Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College) Lottie Whalen (QMUL), ‘Hanging Fascism Out to Dry: Hannah Ryggen’s

Troublesome Tapestries’ Jade French (QMUL), ‘Layering Legacies: Familial Ageing in Fabric Works by

Louise Bourgeois and Betye Saar’ Katja May (Kent), ‘Making Quilts, Making Meaning: Womanist Legacies of

Resistance’ 12. Anti-moderns and Marginal Moderns KCL, S-1.29 CHAIR: Scott Lyall (Edinburgh Napier) Barbara Cooke (Loughborough), ‘The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: Accidental

Modernism and the Problem of Overlapping Identities’ Wayne Bradshaw (James Cook), ‘Fighting for the Soul of Fiction: Denial of the

Inner Life in the Works of Wyndham Lewis and Ivy Compton-Burnett’ Ksenia Shmydkaya (Tallinn), ‘Crooked Mirror of Modernism(s): Stanisława

Przybyszewska and the Creation of an Author’ Deborah Pike (Notre Dame Australia), ‘Minor Moderns’

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Thursday 20 June, 5.30–7 pm KEYNOTE: Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins), ‘Troubled’ KCL, S-2.18 (Lucas Theatre) CHAIR: Ruth Clemens (Utrecht/Leeds Trinity) NB step-free access via level -3 7 pm Drinks reception sponsored by Edinburgh University Press in celebration of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture KCL, Terrace Cafe, Macadam Building Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture Series Editors: Tim Armstrong and Rebecca Beasley This series is designed to reflect and extend the range of new work in modernist studies. The studies in the series aim for a breadth of scope and for an expanded sense of the canon of modernism, rather than focusing on individual authors. Literary texts are considered in terms of contexts including recent cultural histories and topics of theoretical interest but the series also re-considers more familiar routes into modernism. The works published are attentive to the various cultural, intellectual and historical contexts of British, American and European modernisms, and to inter-disciplinary possibilities within modernism, including performance and the visual and plastic arts. Friday 21 June, 9–10.25 am 13. ROUNDTABLE: Troublesome Monographs St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Alix Beeston (Cardiff) Alix Beeston (Cardiff) Jerome Boyd Maunsell (Roehampton) Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College) Sophie Seita (Cambridge) Helen Saunders (Independent) Natalia Cecire (Sussex)

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14. On the Edges of Nowhere: Women of the Post-war Avant-garde St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Beatriz Lopez (Durham) Bronaċ Ferran (Birkbeck), ‘Foreign, Female ... Fragmented’ Natalie Ferris (Edinburgh), ‘The “Wireless Voice”: Women, Creativity and

Intelligence Work’ Adam Guy (Oxford), ‘Contacts, Landings: Eva Figes, Eva Tucker and the 1960s

Avant-garde’ 15. Education and the State St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Steph Brown (Arizona) Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), ‘From Heresy and Elitism to

Statelessness: The Ethical Impetus towards a Libertarian Individualism in the Early James Joyce’

Stanislava Dikova (Essex), ‘Making the Law: Gender, Autonomy and Political Agency in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando’

Elizabeth Brunton (National Archives), ‘Men Behaving Badly: Modernism and the State’

Charlie Pullen (QMUL), ‘D. H. Lawrence’s Bad Education’ 16. Mélange adultère de tout: The Troublesome Emotional Languages of T. S. Eliot St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Tymek Woodham (UCL) Ruth Clemens (Utrecht/Leeds Trinity), ‘Eliot, Brexit and Die Einheit der

Europaischen Kultur’ Juliette Taylor-Batty (Leeds Trinity), ‘The Trouble with Translation: T. S. Eliot and

Anabasis’ Suzannah V. Evans (Durham), ‘“Philosophical obscenity rather like Laforgue”:

Eliot’s Poems 1920’ Cécile Varry (Paris Diderot), ‘The Trouble with Feeling at Home: T. S. Eliot’s

Conflicted Cosmopolite’?

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17. Deviant Origins in Modernism: Literature and Science Revisited KCL, S0.11 CHAIR: Anke Gilleir (MDRN/KU Leuven) Abigael van Alst (MDRN/KU Leuven), ‘Cosmological Time/Space Disruption in

Cendrars’ La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.D’ Fatima Borrmann (MDRN/KU Leuven), ‘The Eugenic Burden in New Woman

Narratives’ Leanne Darnbrough (MDRN/KU Leuven), ‘Temporal Concatenations in the

Historical Avant-garde: Two Egyptology-inspired Case Studies’ 18. ‘Believing doesn’t trouble her’: William James, John Middleton Murry and Modernist Varieties of Supernatural and Religious Experience KCL, S0.12 CHAIR: Mike Collins (KCL) Suzanne Hobson (QMUL), ‘“Professor James’s Plea for Theism”: William James and

the Modernist Secular Sacred’ Graham Jensen (Victoria), ‘William James, Mysticism, and the Modernist Epiphany’ Charlotte de Mille (Courtauld), “’Some curious stranger?... Some fearful madman”: Varieties of Experience after the Brothers James’ Imogen Woodberry (Royal College of Art), ‘John Middleton Murry: “Eccentric

Christianity” and the Critic as Priest’ 19. Vorticist Voices KCL, S0.13 CHAIR: Gareth Mills (Reading) Francesca Bonafede (Westminster) Jo Cottrell (Birkbeck) James Hirst (Birmingham) Nathan Waddell (Birmingham) Friday 21 June, 10.45 am–12.15 pm 20. Troublesome Objects St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Caroline Evans (University of the Arts London) Eric White (Oxford Brookes), ‘Dazzling Objects: Dazzle Ships, Intonarumori and

the Vortoscope’

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Faye Hammill (Glasgow), ‘The Ocean Liner in 1927: Modernity, Materiality, Monumentality’ Jane Garrity (CU Boulder), ‘Patti Smith, Vanessa Bell and the Afterlives of

Modernist Objects’ Jessica Burstein (Washington), ‘Prosthetic Skin and the Catsuit: Fashioning the Divide’ 21. Troubling Characters: Mid-century Experimental Women’s Writing St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier) Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussels), ‘Character, Interiority and

Experiment in British Women’s Fiction 1945–1960’ Victoria Walker (QMUL), ‘Anna Kavan: The Metafiction and Metaphysics of

Character’ Beatriz Lopez (Durham), ‘Fabricating Deceptions: Plausibility in WWII British Black

Propaganda and the Fiction of Muriel Spark’ 22. Nineteenth-century Legacies St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Sam Rose (St Andrews) Atti Viragh (Berkeley), ‘High Decadence and (Very) Low Modernism: Pater’s

Imaginary Portraits and Pound’s Imaginary Letters’ James Cetkovski (Oxford), ‘Henry James, Ezra Pound and Influence: Two Aspects

of Modernism’ Hannah Comer (Birmingham), ‘The Myth of Arthur: David Jones and the Pre-

Raphaelite Legacy’ Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck), ‘Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism and the Legacy of

Aestheticism’ 23. Troubling Forms: Late Modernist Responses to World War II St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Natalie Ferris (Edinburgh) William Davies (Reading/Oxford Brookes), ‘Holding the Centre: Donald Davie,

Geoffrey Hill, and the Problem with Modernist Poetics’ Hannah Simpson (Oxford), ‘Staging the Holocaust: The (Necessary?) Erasure of

Suffering’ James Brophy (Boston), ‘Empson’s Serious Jokes: Ambiguity, Complex Words, and the Second World War’

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24. Mediating and Measuring KCL, S0.11 CHAIR: Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Bristol) Elliott Mills (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Myles na gCopaleen in the Digital Age’ Shouhei Tanaka (UCLA), ‘Scale, Ecology and the Sciences of Form in Ulysses’ Kelly Krumrie (Denver), ‘Irresistible Arithmetics: Mathematical Metaphors and

Gertrude Stein’ Annabel Williams (Oxford), ‘Modernism’s Far Cry: Literary Culture, and the

Troublesome Technologies of the “black box”’ 25. In/On Retreat: Religion, Reflection and the Public Sphere KCL, S0.12 CHAIR: Iain Bailey (Manchester) Elizabeth Anderson (Aberdeen), ‘Dandelions and Roses: Urban Wilderness and

Everyday Spirituality in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Kristin Bluemel (Monmouth), ‘Rural Retreat and Rural Modernity: Beatrix Potter in

the Lake District’ Jamie Callison (Nord), ‘Bearing with Reality: Making Retreats with T. S. Eliot’ Jane de Gay (Leeds Trinity), ‘Virginia Woolf, “Religious Retreat” and the Spirituality

of the Everyday’ 26. Family Trouble KCL, S0.13 CHAIR: Ahmed Honeini (RHUL) Jenni Råback (QMUL), ‘Writing as Sisters Do: Virginia Woolf’s Kinship Trouble’ Stephanie Boland (Birkbeck), ‘Imagined Patriarchs: Lawrence, Ford and the

Presence of Modernism’s Absent Fathers’ Jess Cotton (UCL), ‘Modernism’s Unfinished Business: Motherhood’s Literary

Forms’ Virginia Richter (Bern), ‘Bad Behaviour on the Beach’ LUNCH (not provided) 12.15–1.15 pm

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Friday 21 June, 1.15–2.40 pm 27. Breakfast After Ghosts: Unruly Times of the Avant-gardes St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Sara Crangle (Sussex) Tyrus Miller (UC Irvine), ‘Merzing Metrics: Ordinality, Intermittence, Consequence

in Kurt Schwitters’ Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths), ‘Cutting through Time: Temporalities of Revolution

in Dada Montage’ Sascha Bru (Leuven), ‘The Avant-garde Monument and the Démontage of Time

and History’ 28. Strong Institutions: Weak Modernism? St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Lise Jaillant (Loughborough) Keegan Finberg (Maryland), ‘Yoko Ono, Philosopher of Modernism’ Stephen Pasqualina (Nevada), ‘Zora Neale Hurston, Weak Modernism and the

Afterlife of Slavery’ Andy Hines (Independent), ‘Black Against Criticism: Ishmael Reed’s Japanese By

Spring’ Naomi Milthorpe (Tasmania) and Eliza Murphy (Tasmania), ‘Modernism-adjacent’ Modernist Studies in Asia Network 29. Troubling ‘Late’ Woolf St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam) Montonori Sato (Keio), ‘Late Style Revisited: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves’ Emily Ridge (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Late Avant-gardism: Virginia

Woolf’s The Years’ Nan Zhang (Fudan), ‘“The Tiny Interval” Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf’s

Restaging of Civilisation’ 30. Intermedial Modernism St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Karolina Pawlik (Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, Shanghai) Adrienne Janus (Université François Rabelais, Tours), ‘Resisting Modernist

Movement: Stillness in the Midst of Revolutionary Storms, 1848–1968’

Friday 21 June, 1.15–2.40 pm 30

Imola Nagy-Seres (Exeter), ‘D. H. Lawrence: The Troublesome Path Towards “complete vision”’

Jack Quin (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Sculpture in H.D.: Classical Statues, Modernist Forms’

31. Singularity and (Un)originality KCL, S0.11 CHAIR: Benjamin Robbins (Innsbruck) Sophie Cavey (Southampton), ‘“I Belong to no Coterie”: Re-interpreting the

Inconvenient Singularity of Olive Moore’ Caroline Knighton (Independent), ‘“America’s Comfort – Sanitation”: Baroness Elsa

von Freytag-Loringhoven, Marcel Duchamp and the Richard Mutt Case’ Aaren Pastor (Penn State), ‘Bad Women Writing: Plagiarism and Influence in

Katherine Mansfield’s “The Child Who Was Tired” and Nella Larsen’s “Sanctuary””

Andrew Battaglia (Rice), ‘Quiescence or Quietism? Superannuated Modernity in Sackville-West’s All Passions Spent’ 32. Modernism, Christianity and Conservatism Between the Wars KCL, S0.12 CHAIR: Tamara Radak (Vienna) Erik Tonning (Bergen), ‘Christianity Redux? Troubling Modernist “Secularities”’ Henry Mead (Tallinn), ‘Modernists Between the Times: Heresy and Orthodoxy in

Interwar Europe’ Kazuki Inoue (York), ‘T. S. Eliot, Spiritualism and the Church of England’ Qiang Huang (Beijing Foreign Studies University), ‘T. S. Eliot’s Criterion and Its

“War of Cultures”’ 33. Looking for Trouble: Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War KCL, S0.13 CHAIR: Harriet Baker (QMUL) Mercedes Aguirre (British Library), ‘Abroad among our Kind: Sylvia Townsend

Warner Spanish Civil War Love Poems’ Laura Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown), ‘”Intimations of Possible Miracles”:

Josephine Herbst in Spain’ Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (Bristol), ‘Modernism Interrupted: Muriel Rukeyser’s

Savage Coast and the “fifties thirties”’

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Friday 21 June, 3–4.15 pm (St Bride), 3–4.30 pm (KCL) 34. The New Modernist Studies at Twenty St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Aaron Jaffe David James (Birmingham), ‘Amnesties for Close Reading’ Sara Crangle (Sussex), ‘Rebellious Archives’ Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins), ‘Context’s Perfume’ 35. Reading War and Justice at Mid-century St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Beryl Pong Katherine Ebury (Sheffield), ‘Shell Shock, Murder and the Death Penalty in Sayers’s

Late Interwar Fiction’ Samraghni Bonnerjee (Sheffield), ‘“You will be court-martialed if you don’t

behave!”: Court-martial, Imperial Language and Means of Dissent in Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters’

Adam Piette (Sheffield), ‘Rebecca West and the Double Agent: Treachery and the Subject at Mid-century’

36. Troubled Boundaries: Virginia Woolf and Her Contemporaries St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Rebecca Bowler (Keele) Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria) Alexandra Peat (Franklin University Switzerland) Eret Talviste (Northumbria) 37. The Trouble with Photography: A Conversation in Images St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Lorraine Sim (Western Sydney) Alix Beeston (Cardiff) Louise Hornby (UCLA)

Friday 21 June, 3–4.30 pm 32

38. Displacement and Disorientation KCL, S0.11 CHAIR: Stephanie Boland (Birkbeck) Katherine Kruger (Sussex), ‘The Pastime and Its Objects in Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout’ David Vichnar (Charles University Prague), ‘Troubles in the City of Thresholds:

Prague’s International Avant-gardism, 1920–1950’ John Greaney (University College Dublin and Maynooth), ‘Troubling Irish

Modernism: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September’ Sara Ceroni (UMass Amherst) and M. G. Sanchez (writer, Gibraltar), ‘Disorienting

Modernism: James Joyce and the Andalusian/Gibraltarian Cosmopolis’ 39. Nationalisms/Transnationalisms KCL, S0.12 CHAIR: Saskia McCracken (Glasgow) Ahmed Honeini (RHUL), ‘An American Trait: “Pantaloon in Black”, Lynching and

William Faulkner’s Troublesome Letter of 1931’ Matt Martin (Birkbeck), ‘“it doan sounn like briggflatts”: Basil Bunting as a

Caribbean Poet’ John Lowney (St John’s, New York), ‘Langston Hughes and 1940s Black

Transnationalism’ Kiron Ward (Sussex), ‘“Eternal gratitude”: G. V. Desani, Nirad Chaudhuri and

Encyclopaedia Britannica’ 40. ‘Fed up on gynocracy’: Historicising Feminist Modernisms KCL, S0.13 CHAIR: Claire Class (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Clare Hutton (Loughborough), ‘Behind the Scenes at the Little Review, 1918–1920’ Scott McCracken (QMUL), ‘Jean Rhys’s Strange Defeat: Good Morning,

Midnight and the Shadow of Fascism’ Chris Mourant (Birmingham), ‘“The Cabaret bit”: Colette and Katherine

Mansfield’ Helen Saunders (Independent), ‘James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield’

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Friday 21 June, 3.15–4.30 pm FILM SCREENINGS: Bauhaus at 100 KCL, S-2.18 (Lucas Theatre) Curated and introduced by Inga Fraser (Royal College of Art/Tate) NB step-free access via level -3 Friday 21 June, 4.45–6 pm KEYNOTE: Isabel Waidner (Roehampton), ‘We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff: Class, Queers and the Avant-garde’ KCL S-2.18 (Lucas Theatre) CHAIR: Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes) NB step-free access via level -3 6.30–8 pm The Modernist Revue King’s College London Chapel Saturday 22 June, 9–10.25 am 41. What Kinds of Trouble Does D. H. Lawrence Cause? St Bride, Bridewell CHAIR: Tim Armstrong (RHUL) Fiona Becket (Leeds), ‘D. H. Lawrence and the Ecological Turn’ Beatrice Monaco (Open University), ‘The D. H. Lawrence in Us: Masculinity,

Personality and Populism in the 21st Century’ Laura Ryan (Manchester), ‘”[A] polarized connection”: (Re)reading D. H. Lawrence

and Zora Neale Hurston’ Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan), ‘“(T)he great mass of humanity should never

learn to read and write –never”’ 42. Art under Siege: World War II St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Samraghni Bonnerjee (Sheffield) Zachary Hope (Chicago), ‘Interrupted Literacies, or How to Read a Book Under

Bombing’

Saturday 22 June, 9–10.25 am 34

Andrew Gaedtke (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), ‘Provisional Networks and Eccentric Forms in Blitz Fiction’

Robin Styles (Leicester), ‘Wars I Have Seen: Gertrude Stein in Vichy France’ Michael Williamson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), ‘Troubling the Holocaust:

Interwar Yiddish Literature and Literary Theory’ 43. Travel and Travelogues St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Matthew Griffiths (Independent) Aidan Tynan (Cardiff), ‘T. E. Lawrence, Isabelle Eberhardt and the Modernist

Desert’ Stephen Hills (UCL), ‘The Discriminating Reader in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and

Grey Falcon’ Helen Rydstrand (New South Wales),’Troublesome Travelogues: Warburg,

Lawrence and West in Mexico’ Michael Molan (Independent), ‘“Out of Europe”: Allen Upward, Modernist Travel

Writing and European Thinking’

Italian Thought Network 44. Modernism/Italian Theory St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Aleksandr Prigozhin (Denver) Vittoria Borsò (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), ‘Beckett and Blanchot:

Rewriting Nihilism – at the Threshold of an Affirmative Poetology of Life’ Tim Christiaens (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven), ‘Bare Life’s Redemptive

Potential from Agamben to Grossman’ Mena Mitrano (Loyola, JFRC), ‘Re-reading Poggioli’ 45. The Troublesome Popular KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Claire Warden (Loughborough) Mollie Eisenberg (Princeton), ‘The Case of the Self-conscious Detective Novel:

Detection, Metafiction and the Terms of Literary Value in and around Transatlantic Modernism’

Rae Gaubinger (Connecticut College), ‘Modernism’s Embarrassing Uncles: The Uncertain Legacies of Edwardian Family Fictions’

Francisco Robles (Notre Dame), ‘Edna St. Vincent Millay is Better than Ezra Pound, and Anzia Yezierska is Better than F. Scott Fitzgerald: Or, How Modernism Taught Us to Hate Popular Women’

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Ann Rea (Pitt-Johnstown), ‘The Vulgarity of Spiritualism amidst Privileged Discourses in Rachel Ferguson’s The Brontës Went to Woolworths’

46. Troublesome Monuments: The Poetic Legacy of the Spanish Civil War KCL, S-1.04 CHAIR: Bárbara Gallego Larrarte (Oxford) Eleanor Careless (Sussex), ‘Reading me through Guernica: The Spanish Civil War

Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn and Nancy Cunard’ Matthew J. Holman (UCL), ‘A Little Elegy for Antonio Machado: Frank O’Hara,

Robert Motherwell and the Spanish Republic’ 47. Modernists, Artists, Activists KCL, S-1.06 CHAIR: Eleni Loukopoulou (Kent) Patricia Novillo-Corvalan (Kent), ‘Mistral and Woolf: Transnational Pacifist

Networks’ Steph Brown (Arizona), ‘Troubled Masculinity’ Rehnuma Sazzad (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), ‘Writing as Witness: Native

Canadian Poetry as a Pathfinder for the Modernist Art and Activism’ Kitty Gurnos-Davies (Oxford), ‘Troubling the Divide: Spatial Experimentation and

Women’s Social Criticism in the Repertoire of the Pioneer Players’ Saturday 22 June, 10.45 am–12.15 pm ROUNDTABLE 48. Staying with the Trouble: Editing Global Modernism St Bride, Bridewell Hall Harsha Ram (Berkeley) Kaitlin Staudt (Oxford) Camilla Sutherland (Groningen) Alys Moody (Macquarie) Stephen J. Ross (Concordia) 49. Troubled Form St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Naomi Milthorpe (Tasmania) Benjamin Robbins (Innsbruck), ‘“A cannibalistic public”: The Negotiation of

Scandal through Modernist Form in Norman Douglas’s South Wind (1917)’

Saturday 22 June, 10.45 am–12.15 pm 36

Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Abject Epiphanies in Joyce, Lewis and Sinclair’ Tamara Radak (Vienna), ‘Troublesome Endings: Modernist Aporias of Closure’ Brooke Clark (Rice), ‘“Yet I carry a whole waste-paper basket of ideas”: Waste in

Modernist Narrative Practices’ 50. Modernism Outdoors, from Landscapes to Lawns St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Peter Adkins (Kent) Iida Pöllänen (Oregon), ‘Rural Resistance: Modernist Narratives of Migration and the Countryside’ Hattie Walters (Birmingham), ‘Tell-tale Shapes: The Arts and Crafts Garden and

Modernist Historical Narrative’ Matthew Griffiths (Independent), ‘Unnatural Pastoral: The Persistence of an Anti-

modern Mode in the Era of Modernism’ Noreen Masud (Durham), ‘D. H. Lawrence’s Flat Landscapes’ 51. Modernism’s Afterlives/After Modernism St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Suzannah V. Evans (Durham) Alexander Bell (UEA), ‘Intermedial strategies in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of

Red’ Tiana Fischer (NUI Galway), ‘Modernisms’ Troublesome Revisionaries: Moore’s

Real Toad in Riley’s Lyric Garden’ Xiaofan Xu (Beijing Foreign Studies University), ‘Modernist Afterlife in Troubled

Times: T. S. Eliot and the Politics of Contemporary Poetry in China’ 52. Disobedient Women: The Transgressive Writings of Nella Larsen, Jane Bowles and Iris Tree KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Steph Brown (Arizona) Hannah Huxley (Kent), ‘Indulgent Evasiveness and Non-Conformity in Nella

Larsen’s Passing’ Deborah Snow Molloy (Glasgow), ‘Disorderly Conduct in Jane Bowles’s Two

Serious Ladies’ Sarah Parker (Loughborough), ‘Iris Tree: Troublesome Modernist Muse’

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53. Labour and the Working Class KCL, S-1.04 CHAIR: Helen Carr (Goldsmiths) Ameya Tripathi (Columbia), ‘Class Impostor: Working-class Volunteers,

Instrumental Affect and the Spanish Civil War’ Nadine Attewell (McMaster), ‘Claude McKay’s Marseille: Labouring Lives, Queer

Black Possibility and the Limits of the Archive’ Conrad Steel (Cambridge), ‘Free Verse, Office Work and Giving Up: The Poetry of

F. S. Flint’ 54. Modernist Trouble: Queering Censorship KCL, S-1.06 CHAIR: Helen Saunders (Independent) Rio Matchett (Liverpool), ‘The Lesbian Trials of James Joyce’s Ulysses’ Holly James Johnston (Independent), ‘Despised and Rejected and Palatable

Censorship’ Isabella MacPherson (The University of Law, London), ’Troubling the Waters:

Sapphism, Squibs and The Well of Loneliness’ Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Oxford), ‘Keeping Queer Company: Oxford’s Phi

Collection’ LUNCH (not provided) 12.15–1.15 pm 12.35–1 pm BAMS OGM St Bride, Bridewell Hall Saturday 22 June, 1.15–2.40 pm 55. ROUNDTABLE: Troublesome Archives St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Jamie Callison (Nord) Faith Binckes (Bath Spa) Santanu Das (Oxford) Scott McCracken (QMUL)

Saturday 22 June, 1.15–2.40 pm 38

Emily Ridge (Education University of Hong Kong) Nicola Wilson (Reading) RESPONDENT: Erik Tonning (Bergen) 56. Print Cultures St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Chris Mourant (Birmingham) Eleni Loukopoulou (Kent), ‘James Joyce and the Modern Scots’ Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent), ‘Modernist Magazines: Where Next?’ Marius Hentea (Gothenburg), ‘Pound’s Four Pages: Propaganda from the

Bughouse’ Lise Jaillant (Loughborough), ‘Publishing Modernist Poetry: From Faber to

Carcanet Press’ 57. Trouble at the Border: Modernist Interventions in Interwar Discourses of Nationalism and Internationalism St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Mena Mitrano (Loyola, JFRC) David Ayers (Kent), ‘De-imperialisation, Nationalism and Supra-National

Governance’ Asiya Bulatova (Warsaw), ‘“Charlie is ours”: Chaplin as Russian Modernism’s

International Proletarian’ Isabelle Parkinson (QMUL), ‘The Trouble with Woodrow Wilson: Everyday

Questions of Democracy and Gertrude Stein’s Popular Nationalism’ 58. New Trajectories of Modernism St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Rehnuma Sazzad (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Sophia Sherry (Chicago), ‘Ethnography of Loss, 1951: Global Genealogies for

Fumiko Hayashi’s “Modernist” Ukigumo’ Maebh Long (Waikato), ‘Modernist Archipelagos and Pacific Islands Literature’ Mark Byron (Sydney), ‘Steppe Modernism: The Grassland as Spatio-Temporal

Dislocation’ Samitha Senanake (Wisconsin Madison), ‘The Possibility of a Modern Indifference

to Individuality: A Reading of Martin Wickramasinghe’s Novel Viragaya’

Saturday 22 June, 1.15–2.40 pm 39

59. Postwar Interrelations KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Luke Roberts (KCL) Nicholas Beck (Southern California), ‘Jane Bowles, Coterie Aesthetics and the Trouble with Goony Friends in Postwar American Modernism’ Tymek Woodham (UCL), ‘Personne! Mais des bruits, des vagues particulières’: Frank O’Hara and the Radio’ Sam Ladkin (Sussex), ‘The New York School Agon: the “energy of contradictory

actions”’ Alexander Jones (Trinity College Dublin), ‘“Enemy and image of ourselves”:

Re-evaluating Modernist Inheritance in the War Poetry of Eliot and MacNeice’

60. After History, Beyond the Human KCL, S-1.04 CHAIR: Jessica Burstein (Washington) Aaron Jaffe (Florida State), ‘Administrating Modernism Against Humans: J. G.

Ballard’s Ecoplexy’ Max Saunders (KCL), ‘Future Trouble: The To-Day and To-Morrow series (1923–

31)’ Louis Armand (Charles University Prague), ‘The Ends of Modernity: After “History”,

the Anthropocene’ Yu Nagashima (KCL), ‘Spiritual and Supernatural Voices in BBC Radio Features

during the Second World War’ 61. Between Words and Music: Ambience, Tone, Identity KCL, S-1.06 CHAIR: Tim Armstrong (RHUL) Sue Reid (Independent), ‘“Between speech and music”: Ezra Pound, Rachel

Annand Taylor and D. H. Lawrence’ Justin Griffin (Penn State), ‘Slow Modernity: John Cage and the Ambient Speeds of

the Soundscape’ Brendan Gillott (Cambridge), ‘The Trouble with “Tone”: Reading John Cage’s I-VI’ D. Mortimer (Roehampton), ‘“I have the feeling of becoming a Bruce Springsteen”:

Trans Mythologies of Becoming in Springsteen, Woolf and Hyacinths’

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Saturday 22 June, 3–4.15 pm 62. Editing Woolf St Bride, Bridewell Hall CHAIR: Zachary Hope (Chicago) Jane Goldman (Glasgow), ‘Jacob’s Troubling Textual Paternity: David Bradshaw

and the Troubling of Modernist Literary Onomastics’ Josh Phillips (Glasgow), ‘Narrative Hauntologies: Transcribing the Holograph

Drafts of The Years’ Bryony Randall (Glasgow), ‘The Butcher, the Spinster and the Naval Officer: The

Trouble with Editing Woolf’s “Ode”’ 63. Pop-up Modernism St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute) Beci Carver (Exeter), ‘Wyndham Lewis Evaporating’ Matthew Chambers (Warsaw), ‘A Good Bookshop is Being Opened This Month by

a Promethean’ Michael McCluskey (York), ‘The Charnaux Venus: “Art and Commerce” and the

Modernist Intervention’ 64. Taste and Reception St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Conrad Steel (Cambridge) Iain Bailey (Manchester), ‘H.D., Connoisseurship, Catastrophe’ Lillian Hingley (Oxford), ‘Adorno’s Troublesome Modernisms: The Failure to Read

Beckett Therapeutically’ Len Diepeveen (Dalhousie), ‘When Good Modernism Goes Bad: Picasso’s Portrait

of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler’

65. The Longest Journey: Towards a ‘New Modernist’ E. M. Forster St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Suzanne Hobson (QMUL) Howard J. Booth (Manchester), ‘Re-viewing E.M. Forster: Forster the Liberal’ Gemma Moss (Birmingham City), ‘Women In and Out: E. M. Forster’s Maurice and

Social Purity’ Bárbara Gallego Larrarte (Oxford), ‘“Young people keep me young”: Homosocial

Networks and E. M. Forster’s Public Turn’

Saturday 22 June, 3–4.15 pm 41

66. Troubled Legacies: Modernisms after ‘Modernism’ KCL, S-1.01 CHAIR: Rio Matchett (Liverpool) Eleanor Green (Manchester), ‘”Banal, desirous states”: Queer Boredom in

Beckett’s Late Prose’ Liam Harrison (Birmingham), ‘Two Paths for the Novel? Modernist Legacies in Tom

McCarthy and Claire-Louise Bennett’ Martin Schauss (Warwick), ‘After Kafka, After Beckett: Unmaking Modernisms in

László Krasznahorkai’s Fiction’ 67. Shanghai’s Unobtrusive Modernism of the Revolutionary Times KCL, S-1.04 CHAIR: Matthew Taunton (UEA) Linda Johnson (Independent), ‘From Skyline to Mass Line: Shanghai in Mao Period

Posters’ Susie Gordon (Liverpool), ‘Mao’s Green Utopia: Shanghai as Urban Palimpsest

Post-1949’ Karolina Pawlik (Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, Shanghai), ‘“Hide and

Seek” – Looking for Modernism in Post-1949 Shanghai’ 68. Toil, Trouble and Taboo: Writing the First World War KCL, S-1.06 CHAIR: Alexander Jones (Trinity College Dublin) Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier), ‘“Without sexual intercourse, frequent and

pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero’ Rebecca Bowler (Keele), ‘Funk, Spunk and Exaltation: May Sinclair’s War’ Katherine Cooper (UEA), ‘Troubling Women: Storm Jameson and Breaking the

Rules of War Writing’

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Saturday 22 June, 4.30–6 pm 69. Overloaded, Numbed and Suffocated: Troubled Senses in Post-WWI British Fiction St Bride, Bridewell CHAIR: Sophie Oliver (Liverpool) Anna Snaith (KCL), ‘High Decibel Modernism: Writing Industrial Noise in Interwar

Britain’ Kevin Tunnicliffe (Victoria), ‘(An)aesthetic Narrative Form in Malcolm Lowry’s Under

the Volcano and Virginia Woolf’s The Waves’ Amy Tang (Victoria), ‘The Technology of Air: Interwar Aesthetics of Suffocation in

British Fiction’ 70. ROUNDTABLE: Joyce’s Non-Fiction: Modernism’s Abject Texts St Bride, Passmore Edwards CHAIR: Sara Crangle (Sussex) J. T. Welsch (York) James Alexander Fraser (NUI Maynooth) Katherine Ebury (Sheffield) Helen Saunders (Independent) Sara Crangle (Kent) 71. Feeling Otherwise St Bride, Salisbury CHAIR: Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan) Anna Lindhé (Independent), ‘Excess of Otherness, Troubled Affects and the Ethics

of the (Modernist) Novel: The Case of Henry James and Joseph Conrad’ Ellen Ricketts (Hull), ‘“Feeling Sideways”: Structuring the Lesbian Love Triangle in

Gertrude Stein’s Q.E.D.’ Aleksandr Prigozhin (Denver), ‘Troubled Matter: Media, Affect and the Politics of

Modernist Form’ Lorraine Sim (Western Sydney), ‘Happy Modernisms’ 72. Modernism on the Markets St Bride, Layton CHAIR: Faye Hammill (Glasgow) Jana Baró González (Barcelona), ‘A Reception in the Hall of Fame: Literary

Celebrity in Interwar British Vogue’

Saturday 22 June, 4.30–6 pm 43

Alice Wood (De Montfort), ‘Modernism, Celebrity and Domesticity: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in Harper’s Bazaar (UK)’

Rod Rosenquist (Northampton), ‘The Trouble with Prestige: American Literature, Advertising and Post-Truth’

Sam Waterman (Pennsylvania), ‘Schlegel Capitalism: Modernist Adventure and the Female Professional in Howards End’

73. Russian Encounters KCL, S-1.04 CHAIR: Martin Schauss (Warwick) James Williams (Exeter), ‘Alekhine’s Defence: Vladimir Nabokov and the

Grandmaster Mystery’ Aurelia Cojocaru (Berkeley), ‘Andrei Bely’s Petersburg: “Bad” Symbolism or

Modernist “Method”?’ Sasha Dovzhyk (Birkbeck), ‘Gender Trouble: Aubrey Beardsley, Mikhail Kuzmin

and the Queer Little Grove’ Rebecca Beasley (Oxford), ‘Yeats and the Russian Revolutions’

CONFERENCE ENDS