To celebrate the release of Architextual Authenticity, we caught up with Jason Herbeck to discuss how constructions in and of literature can be used as a means to understanding French-Caribbean identity. Can you give us a summary of Architextual Authenticity? Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean is a book about understanding issues related to … Continue reading
Honourable Mention for Rhiannon Welch’s Vital Subjects
The Modern Language Association of America recently announced its ninth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies. An honourable mention was given to Rhiannon Noel Welch, of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for her book Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860–1920, published by Liverpool University Press. Rhiannon Welch said, "It is an incredible honour … Continue reading
Special Collection: Reading between the Bloodlines: Reflections on the German-Language Family Story
Modern Languages Open recently published a German Special Collection which considers German-language family novels. The guest editors of this special edition have selected "Writing as Return: A Commentary on Doron Ravinovici’s ‘Nach Wilna" by Todd Herzog and Hillary Hope Herzog as a particularly influential piece. The article is available to read open access here. When asked … Continue reading
Modern Languages Open: German Special Collection
Modern Languages Open (MLO), a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience, has published 'Reading between the Bloodlines: Reflections on the German-Language Family Story' as a Special Collection in German Studies. This special edition considers German-language family novels, which are experiencing renewed interest in … Continue reading
Digital technologies and the changing face of Modern Languages: An interview with Niamh Thornton
Our Journals Publishing Assistant Megan Ainsworth, interviews Niamh Thornton, Section Editor for Modern Languages Open. As an academic in the age of digital technologies, you will have noticed changes to the conventional way of publishing academic research. How has MLO changed the course of publishing in the Modern Languages? Digital technologies have opened up the … Continue reading
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