Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

December 2017

The MLC Presents: the Top 10 of 2017

The MLC Presents: the Top 10 of 2017

It has been another exciting year for us here at the MLC, and as 2017 comes to a close, we can hardly believe how much has occurred over the...

Taking the Pissoir? The Mystery behind the Most Controversial Sculpture of the Twentieth-Century

Taking the Pissoir? The Mystery behind the Most ...

In April 1917, Marcel Duchamp wrote a letter from New York to his sister in Paris. In this letter, Duchamp explains that a “female ...

November 2017

Florine Stettheimer's Multimodal Modernism – Soirée at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Florine Stettheimer's Multimodal Modernism – Soirée ...

Soirée of Stettheimer-inspired performances at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Florine Stettheimer's Multimodal Modernism – Inaugural Symposium 2017 and Soirée at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Florine Stettheimer's Multimodal Modernism – ...

An exploration of the work of Jazz-era New York saloniere, painter, and poet Florine Stettheimer, as well as the work of her sisters

September 2017

Lucy Wowk joins MLC

Lucy Wowk joins MLC

Lucy Wowk is a BA student in Creative Industries (2014-2018), specializing in print and curatorial practices, with a particular interest in ...

August 2017

Avantgarde Artist Mina Loy

Avantgarde Artist Mina Loy

Mina Loy is a bold avant-garde poet and visual artist. Her work is being recognized with a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

Jenna McClelland joins MLC

Jenna McClelland joins MLC

An MA student in Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity Programme (2016-2017), Jenna McClelland specializes in the study of punk ...

Kailey Havelock joins MLC

Kailey Havelock joins MLC

A SSHRC-funded MA student in the Literatures of Modernity program at Ryerson University (2016-2017), Kailey Havelock holds an Honours BA in ...

July 2017

Ted Zhang joins MLC

Ted Zhang joins MLC

An MA student at Ryerson University’s Literatures of Modernity program (2016-2017), Ted Zhang holds an Honours BA in English from ...

June 2017

Modernist Salons Remixed: Photo Gallery, Spring 2017

Modernist Salons Remixed: Photo Gallery, Spring 2017

Modernist Salons Remixed was the motto for 13 students in Dr. Gammel’s CC8829 Graduate Course on May 12, 2017.

March 2017

Vicki Lee joins MLC

Vicki Lee joins MLC

A BA student at Ryerson University (2014-2018), Vicki Lee is majoring in English while also pursuing a History minor. Vicki’s enduring...

Kate Marland joins MLC

Kate Marland joins MLC

An MA student in Fashion Studies at Ryerson University (2016-2018), Kate Marland researches the effect of fashion on the audience experience...

Jaclyn Marcus joins MLC

Jaclyn Marcus joins MLC

MA student in Fashion at Ryerson University (2016-2018), Jaclyn Marcus has had a love for fashion and literature since starting her BA (...

Rozelen Carrillo Beck joins MLC

Rozelen Carrillo Beck joins MLC

Rozelen Carrillo Beck is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Criminology at Ryerson University (2017). At the ...

Alyssa Robinson joins MLC

Alyssa Robinson joins MLC

An undergraduate student in Psychology at Ryerson University (2017), Alyssa Robinson is completing a Research practicum focusing on ...

Audrey Willsey joins MLC

Audrey Willsey joins MLC

Audrey Willsey obtained her BA in Communications Studies at York University (2017), focusing on communication theory, contemporary art ...

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.