Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

1.

Advancing Arts and Humanities Scholarship

The MLC team published 2 monographs, 27 articles and book chapters, and 24 conference papers. Despite the move from 111 Gerrard to 415 Yonge, it’s been a productive year with many supporters and visitors! See the MLC Impact Report 2021–2022.

2.

Awards and Reputation Building

Our book I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton won the C.P. Stacey award for best Canadian military book and The Baroness Elsa Project won the Galeries Ontario Galleries (GOG) award in the top category. Allison Kinahan was the Global winner at the Undergraduate Annual Summit in Dublin.

3.

New COVID-19 Research

We received a new SSHRC Insight grant on Telling COVID-19 Stories and published Creative Resilience and Covid-19, edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang. The book launch was moderated by CBC anchor Kelda Yuen.

4.

Our Research Fellows

MLC Research Fellow Dr. Ingrid Mida published Dressing and Undressing Duchamp, a new book on Duchamp’s avantgarde use of dress, along with her podcast interview. She was named editor-in-chief of the periodical Dress.

5.

MLC Student Training

We welcomed MITACS UK fellow Katie Hall and students Aurelia Wilson, Griffen Horsely, Siobhan Spera, and Julia Tomasi; Dante Christopher-Alphonso, Erica Amata, Natasha Fomenko, Leila Kazeminejad, Alex Lapsker, Adriana Mota, Molly McBride, Sam Sakaluk, and Madeleine Sweenie.

6.

Donation Highlights

The MLC Archives are grateful for a donation of avantgarde periodicals related to the work of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. For ongoing updates, follow us on @MLC_Archive launched by MLC archivist Anna Krentz.

7.

Operation Canada

You can now browse the 1916 Clarence Booth Shell Shock Diary on our Operation Canada website, or browse our new research posts on the diaries. Read about our SSHRC-funded Operation Canada Digital Project as featured in the Military Service Book of the BC Legion.

8.

MLC’s Teaching Innovations

We launched new experiential courses including ENG 417: Special Topics in American Literature: Sex, Power, and #MeToo, and CC8836: Topics in Media and Culture: The Pandemic, Modernity, and the Everyday, with public colloquia, international speakers, and published brochures.

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Thank you to our Donors, Sponsors, and Partners

We are grateful for the support of SSHRC, CFI, TMU University, and the Faculty of Arts. Thank you to our partners including the AGO, Carleton University Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, and CBC. We are grateful to our donors and love hearing from you. To donate, click here.

10.

Community and Advocacy

Thank you to all of our loyal Twitter and Facebook followers, as well as to the many participants who have attended our virtual events or visited the centre. To work with us on advocating for arts, humanities, and social justice, sign up for our newsletter.

 

To become involved, contact me at gammel@ryerson.ca.

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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

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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.
Modernism in the World

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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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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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.
Canadian Modernism

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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.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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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.