Established in 2005, our mandate is to research the literary and cultural production in the modernist era (from 1880 to 1945), to preserve and advance modernist women’s heritage and to promote modern Canadian heritage within an international context, with a current focus on World War 1. We advance our studies and outreach through digital culture innovations.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This exhibit highlights a unique chapter in Canadian history featuring quilts made by Canadians to help survivors during the London Blitz.
Irene Gammel is the author and editor of thirteen books including Baroness Elsa - A Cultural Biography, and is currently embarked on a study
Become a docent at the MLCRC exhibition Threads of History: Repatriating World War II Quilts at Toronto City Hall.
Payton is involved in providing grading support for the course ENG 240: Contours of Creativity.
The MLC Research Centre is proud to present a summary of its annual achievements.
We welcome papers that engage with any aspect of life writing during the pandemic.
