Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

As we come to the end of another successful year at the MLC, I want to thank all of you for your involvement, support and dedication this year. I hope you all enjoy a well-deserved rest over the holiday season.

To our entire team of postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, graduate students, research assistants, interns, and staff, as well as our research associates and members of the English Department: it’s been fun working with you and your friendship and support mean the world. Good luck to all of our students who have applied to graduate studies programs at Ryerson and beyond. My fingers are crossed! 

To our international friends and collaborators: the world of ideas brings us all close no matter where we live. We look forward to expanding our connections in 2016 especially with the focus on the Dada centenary and the middle years of the First World War.

To our donors and sponsors: Thank you for your generosity this year. We received an exceptional donation of original letters from the First World War that we look forward to exhibiting.   

To those we have lost this past year, including the beautiful and brilliant Liba Berry and Ryerson novelist and editor Richard B. Wright: we will remember you.

Thank you to the Arts IT Team and to the Propeller team for your terrific technology and website support.

The MLC Research Centre closes for the holiday season and reopens on Monday, January 18, 2016. I look forward to seeing several of you in January at the Modern Language Association in Austin, Texas, and the Man Ray Symposium at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Once again, I wish you all wonderful holidays with your families and friends, and a very happy 2016 – the MLC’s 10th anniversary year!

Irene.

 

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Recent News

Julia Perus joins MLC

Julia Perus joins MLC

Julia is involved in exploring the modernist avantgarde, with a special focus on Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

Noor-E-Zahra Shah joins MLC

Noor-E-Zahra Shah joins MLC

At the MLC, Zahra is thrilled to immerse in research administration and communication.

Rediscovering West Chinatown

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Cat Chirvase joins MLC

Cat Chirvase joins MLC

At the MLC, Cat is thrilled about gaining knowledge of archives and preservation. She will be involved in our War Quilts project.

The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.