Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

December 2021

MLC Top 10 of 2021

MLC Top 10 of 2021

Irene Gammel, Director, is pleased to present the Top 10 accomplishments of the MLC Research Centre of 2021.

Diamond  Carvalho Rocha joins MLC

Diamond Carvalho Rocha joins MLC

Diamond will be involved in Operation Canada, transcribing First World War diaries and learning about archival research.

Renee Leblanc Proctor, MLC Coordinator joins MLC

Renee Leblanc Proctor, MLC Coordinator joins MLC

At the MLC Research Centre, Renée LeBlanc Proctor provides administration, event, and grant support for the Director Dr. Irene Gammel...

Yifan Kong joins MLC

Yifan Kong joins MLC

Yifang will be engaged in projects sush as the SSHRC Storyteller initiative contributing to heritage-focused projects like Operation Canada.

Pandemic Webinar #21: Human Rights, Freedom and COVID-19

Pandemic Webinar #21: Human Rights, Freedom and COVID-...

This webinar examines the impact, and the backlash, to this redefining of personal freedoms in the midst of COVID-19.

October 2021

Rose Maagdenberg joins MLC

Rose Maagdenberg joins MLC

A BA student (2018-2022) majoring in Creative Industries with specialization in Curation, Print, Publishing, and Business, while minoring in...

September 2021

Pandemic Webinar #20: Dating, Sex and COVID-19

Pandemic Webinar #20: Dating, Sex and COVID-19

This webinar explores the shifts in intimacy in the wake of COVID-19.

Emi Nishimura joins MLC

Emi Nishimura joins MLC

At the MLC Research Centre, Emi Nishimura provides administration, event, and grant support for the Director Dr. Irene Gammel and her team ...

August 2021

MLC Annual Report — May 2020 – 2021

MLC Annual Report — May 2020 – 2021

The MLC Research Centre is proud to present a summary of its annual achievements. Read the MLC Annual Report 2020-21: The COVID-19 Year.

Sara Shields-Rivard joins MLC

Sara Shields-Rivard joins MLC

A doctoral student in the joint Ryerson/York University Communication and Culture program (2021-2025), Sara Shields-Rivard’s research ...

Olivia Trono joins MLC

Olivia Trono joins MLC

Olivia Trono holds a BA in Indigenous Studies and Literature and Critical Theory from the University of Toronto (2014-2018) and an MA in ...

Pandemic Webinar #19: COVID-19 Book Talk

Pandemic Webinar #19: COVID-19 Book Talk

This virtual book talk features four international authors and editors in conversation.

Joanna Cleary joins MLC

Joanna Cleary joins MLC

As an MLC Research Fellow, Joanna Cleary provides support with research articles, grant applications, the Pandemic Webinar Series, and more...

July 2021

Modernisms Inside & Out: Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference

Modernisms Inside & Out: Canadian Women Artists History...

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative is dedicated to examining the idea of the modern as a cultural force in Canada.

June 2021

The Baroness Elsa Project

The Baroness Elsa Project

This exhibition positions Freytag-Loringhoven as a conduit for exploring embodied ways of making art in the present.

Pandemic Webinar #18: Post-Pandemic Leisure & Recreation

Pandemic Webinar #18: Post-Pandemic Leisure & ...

This webinar investigates the changes in sports, tourism, and leisure in the wake of the pandemic with four renowned experts.

Curating Social Change — Graduate Symposium on Exhibition, Curation, and Literary Cultures

Curating Social Change — Graduate Symposium on ...

Join us as we explore themes and processes of social change through the theory and praxis of exhibition, curation, and literary cultures.

May 2021

Pandemic Webinar #17: Post-Pandemic Office Design

Pandemic Webinar #17: Post-Pandemic Office Design

This webinar explores the future of workplace design with three renowned experts.

Job posting: Research and Arts Administration

Job posting: Research and Arts Administration

ATTENTION GRADUATING STUDENTS — A CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Research and Arts Administration

External Fellowships — Call for Expressions of Interest in Researching Arts and Culture

External Fellowships — Call for Expressions of ...

Are you interested in researching the modern arts, literature, and culture? Submit an expression of interest for externally funded ...

Lauren Seto joins MLC

Lauren Seto joins MLC

Lauren Seto explores the social, cultural, and creative solutions of COVID-19 through arts, humanities, and social sciences research.

April 2021

Pandemic Webinar #16: Pandemic Xenophobia

Pandemic Webinar #16: Pandemic Xenophobia

This webinar panel considers the enduring roots of anti-Asian racism, manifested as prejudice, hate and violence.

March 2021

Pandemic Webinar #15: Pandemic Comics and COVID-19

Pandemic Webinar #15: Pandemic Comics and COVID-19

This webinar explores the importance of comics in our understanding of and artistic response to COVID-19.

February 2021

Pandemic Webinar #14: Pandemic in an Aging World

Pandemic Webinar #14: Pandemic in an Aging World

This webinar explores issues of aging and ageism during pandemic and post-pandemic times with three experts in the field.

Natalie Ilsley joins MLC

Natalie Ilsley joins MLC

Natalie Ilsley is a Ph.D. student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester (2018-2022). She researches postcolonial ...

January 2021

Pandemic Webinar #13: Pandemic City

Pandemic Webinar #13: Pandemic City

We explore the conditions of public space and urban life amidst the second wave of COVID-19 with three experts in the field.

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.