Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

Book Launch

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At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers by Ruth Panofsky

October 28, 2008
Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre
111 Gerrard Street East, 3rd floor
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Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

May 1, 2008
Spadina Historic House and Garden
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Anne of Green Gables Events and Readings

 

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The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery

June 8, 2005
Oakham House, Thomas Lounge
Ryerson University, Toronto
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Dada Live

 

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Readings by Irene Gammel and Rene Steinke
Performance by Annie Grier
Dada Baroness Costume design by Alex Snelgrove

May 18, 2005
Hard Rock Café
279 Yonge Street, Toronto
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Mein Mund ist lüstern / I Got Lusting Palate: Dada Verse von Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

March 29, 2005
Literaturhaus Berlin
Fasanenstrasse 23 (off Kurfürstendamm)
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Book Launch and Fashion Show

 

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Dada Baroness: Das wilde Leben der Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Vivienne Westwood's graduating class presents fashion design inspired by Baroness Elsa and her era

December 1, 2003
Grüner Salon, Volksbühne
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2, Berlin
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Baroness Elsa, A Cultural Biography - The Art of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The first retrospective exhibition of the work of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

April 25, 2002
Francis Naumann Fine Arts LLC
22 East 80 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10021
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Recent News

Sana Munir joins MLC

Sana Munir joins MLC

Sana is engaged in archival research and annotating articles related to the Telling COVID-19 Stories project.

Brenda Aleman joins MLC

Brenda Aleman joins MLC

Brenda assists the MLC Research Centre director and team with arts and research administration, while also supporting the MLC archive.

Angela Larosa joins MLC

Angela Larosa joins MLC

Angela assists with social media content, researching avant-garde women and issues of creative resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jeanette LaPolla joins MLC

Jeanette LaPolla joins MLC

Jeanette provides research and support for the Lorna Stevens Collection digitizing and archiving WWI and WWII rare archival holdings.

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.