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November 23, 2019

Victorian Boys in Dresses: A Talk by MLC Fellow Ingrid ...

What can we learn from the codes of fashion? This was the key research question of “Boys in Dresses and Other Fashions of the ...

October 29, 2019

Call for Papers — Modernisms, Inside & Out

Modernisms, Inside & Out: The 4th conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Toronto, 20–22 August 2020. A ...

October 29, 2019

Book Launch: Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in ...

Reception on Oct. 19, 2019 for Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism.

September 14, 2019

Domestic Music-Making: From Parlour Music to Digital ...

Opening Reception for Domestic Music-Making: From Parlour Music to Digital Sound, September 12, 2019.

August 16, 2019

Call for Student Docents

Get involved at the MLCRC Gallery at Ryerson as a Gallery Tour Guide or Docent.

April 16, 2019

Attention Students — Call for Student Volunteer ...

Your chance to get involved with the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre Gallery at Ryerson as a Gallery Tour Guide or Docent.

March 4, 2019

Research Assistant Position Available

Ryerson Undergraduate Work Study (Summer 2019) position available for support, planning of the Modernist Studies Association Conference

January 29, 2019

Dr. Laura Cameron joins MLC

Dr. Laura Cameron holds a PhD in English from McGill University (2015), where she specialized in Canadian modernist poetry and literary ...

December 17, 2018

The MLC Presents: The Top 10 of 2018

We invite you to join us as we reflect on our Top 10 achievements of 2018.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.