Lise Jaillant

As Liaison Officer for SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), it is my role to organise our annual sessions at the Modern Language Association convention. The next MLA convention will take place in Toronto (7 to 10 January 2021). This time,  SHARP  is sponsoring three sessions: 1) A guaranteed session: "Towards sustainability for digital archives and projects" Book historians and other scholars rely on digitised and born-digital archives. How can we make digital archives and digital projects more sustainable? Environmental sustainability; longevity, permanence, availability, Open Access. 300-word abstracts + CV to Lise Jaillant. E-mail Address: l.jaillant [at] lboro.ac.uk Submission Deadline: March 1, 2020 2) A joint session with the Modernist Studies Association "Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains" Impact of early 20th-century works coming out of copyright; Archives now publicly open, includi...

I am organising a panel at the next MSA conference in Boston . Speakers will include Gail McDonald, Bethany Hicok and myself. Here is a short description: Revolutionizing Academia: Modernism, Pedagogy and the Ivory Tower The relationship between modernism and pedagogy has long been a central concern of New Modernist Studies. As MSA members, we are well aware of the effect of pedagogy on “modernism” and its canon. At the 2013 conference in Brighton, the seminar led by Peter Howarth also invited us to think of modernism as a kind of pedagogy. The experience of teaching and having works taught profoundly affected the imagination of modernist writers – including, of course, Ezra Pound. This panel will further the discussion by focusing on academia, an institution that many modernists regarded as hopelessly traditional and isolated from real life. “By the time their formal educations were complete, Pound and Eliot dreaded the deadening lives academia seemed to hold out of them” – as...

I am very pleased to go to Brighton in late August to participate in a seminar on Modernism as Pedagogy at the Modernist Studies Association conference. Description: As MSA members, we are all aware of the effect of pedagogy on modernism (canons, New Modernist Studies). But can we see modernism itself as a kind of pedagogy? How did the experience of teaching / having works taught affect modernists’ imaginations? Are works interventions in the feedback loops between reputation and the academy (performance works which resist close reading, for instance)? Conversely, can we think about modernist pedagogies; institutions or ideas which embed modernist aesthetics into teaching, intentionally or not (Montessori, progressive education, Bauhaus, the AntiUniversity)? This seminar aims to stimulate thought and further collaboration, with eventual published results. List of participants: Rebecca Beasley (University of Oxford) Angus Brown (University of Oxford) Richard Cole (Univ...

The Modernist Studies Association conference is organized in Victoria from November 11 to 14. This is excellent news for those who live in Vancouver: last year, I had to fly to Montreal but this time, the trip will be much shorter. My paper is entitled "The Modern Library, Academia, and the Canon of Modern Literature" and is based on archival research at Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript library.