We want to give a warm welcome to Jeff Drouin, who joins the MJP this fall as its new Associate Director. Jeff is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Tulsa, and has a background in both modernism and computing.
Read MoreSuzanne W. Churchill, Professor of English at Davidson College, has composed an introduction to the MJP’s edition of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse. And Bob Scholes, co-director of the MJP, has composed a general introduction to the three journals at the MJP edited by Dora Marsden: The Freewoman, The New Freewoman, and The Egoist.
Read MoreSusan Solomon, a doctoral student at Brown, has just completed an introduction to the second and third of Dora Marsden’s journals; click here to read it.
Read MoreLast year, the MJP was hard at work creating digital editions of six journals—an effort funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. That work is now complete and includes the following: The Crisis (1910-1922): the first thirteen years (and 146 issues) of the house journal of the N.A.A.C.P., edited by W….
Read MoreAll five volumes of Others (1915-1919) are now online. Among the great poems that appear in this journal are Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” and Mina Loy’s “Songs to Joannes.”
Read MoreAll six volumes of The Egoist (1914-1919) are now online, which include T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and all 25 installments of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Read MoreAll 146 issues from the first thirteen years of The Crisis are now online. Among these pages can be found Langston Hughes’s early poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” Jessie Fauset’s story “Emmy,” and innumerable pieces by the magazine’s editor, W. E. B. Du Bois, including a history of the black man in the first world war.
Read MoreWe’ve now uploaded the first nine volumes of The Little Review (1914-1922), which include 23 installments (and the first 13 episodes) of Joyce’s Ulysses, among many other famous works of modernism. We have also completed all 47 issues of The Freewoman (1911-1912) as well as all 13 issues of The New Freewoman (1913).
Read MoreWe’ve expanded the teaching and research pages on the MJP website, so we can now offer more guidance to teachers and students about using the MJP archive and its resources. As part of this expansion, we’ve also introduced an instructional wiki, which should make it easier than ever for members of our community to share their insights and…
Read MoreThe National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded us a grant to create digital editions of the following periodicals: The Crisis from 1910 to 1922 (organ of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois, editor), The Little Review from 1914 to 1922 (Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors), The Freewoman/New Freewoman/Egoist (1911-1919, Dora Marsden and Harriet Weaver, editors), and Others: A Magazine…
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