Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

December 2010

Call for Papers - Literatures of Modernity Symposium

Call for Papers - Literatures of Modernity Symposium

Attention scholars, students & artistsCall for Papers for the Second Annual Literatures of ...

Karen Correia Da Silva

Karen Correia Da Silva

Karen Correia Da Silva completed her MA in Ryerson's Literatures of Modernity program in 2011. Under...

Student Voices on Course 8829

Student Voices on Course 8829

Here are a few of the things our students had to say about Course 8829 Modernist Literary Circles: A...

 Modernist Soiree

Modernist Soiree

On November 29th the MLC held a modernist soiree to open the exhibition "Celebrating Modernist Salon Culture”. This exhibition is organiz

November 2010

Crystal Flowers

Crystal Flowers

Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto. By Florine Stettheimer, edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo

Lori-Ann Muenzer, Olympic Gold Medal Winner (cycling)

Lori-Ann Muenzer, Olympic Gold Medal Winner (cycling)

One Gear, No Breaks: Achieving a Gold Medal MindCo-sponsored with Ryerson Athletics & ...

anne's world

anne's world

Edited by Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre, University of Toronto Press

October 2010

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University Poesis of the Long Poem: Autobiography of a ...

Marta Braun

Marta Braun

    Ryerson University professor Marta Braun has an M. A. in Media Studies from ...

Anne's World

Anne's World

Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables Edited by Irene Gammel and...

August 2010

The Second Sex

The Second Sex

Irene Gammel`s The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir, as published in the Globe and Mail.During ...

April 2010

Modernity Unbound: Inaugural Literatures of Modernity Symposium

Modernity Unbound: Inaugural Literatures of Modernity ...

Modernity Unbound: Inaugural Literatures of Modernity Symposium, March 29, brought together 35 presenters and artists and over 120 visitors

Modernity Unbound: Inaugural Literatures of Modernity Symposium

Modernity Unbound: Inaugural Literatures of Modernity ...

DATE: April 5, 2010, Toronto By: Dr. Irene GammelTheodor Adorno asserted that modernity is a ...

Ryerson News

Ryerson News

Toronto Life, The Ryerson Revolution. April, 2010.

The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

MLC Themes

The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

MLC Themes

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, considered by many to be the mother of Dada, was a daringly innovative poet and an early creator of junk sculpture. “The Baroness” was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances.

Modernism in the World

MLC Themes

Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

MLC Themes

Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.

Canadian Modernism

MLC Themes

Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.

Modernist Biography and Life Writing

MLC Themes

Modernist Biography and Life Writing

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.