The Global Modernism Project at the Center for Expanded Poetics is a collaborative project aimed to theorising and historicising global modernism. It is led by Stephen Ross (Concordia) and Alys Moody (Bard).

Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology

This project’s major product to date has been a book, Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2020), which collects 74 source texts for global modernism. The texts assembled in this volume show modernists around the world reflecting on their own practice, and offer a valuable repository of primary sources, originally published in 19 different languages, many of which are made available here in English for the first time.

Download the table of contents—and alternate tables of contents—for Global Modernists on Modernism here.

Global Modernism Event Series (Fall 2020)

In the fall of 2020, we are organising a series of events to launch this book and continue and expand the conversation about global modernism. Recordings of these events will be posted here as they’re made available.

Editing Global Modernism: A Roundtable

The first event in this series, held on October 23, 2020, featured a discussion about global modernism and collaborative research practice, with Harsha Ram, Camilla Sutherland, Kaitlin Staudt, Stephen Ross, and Alys Moody.

Poetics, Translation, and the Circulation of Global Modernism: A Reading and Roundtable

The second event in this series, held on November 12, 2020, brought together four poets and scholars, who had each contributed translations to Global Modernists on Modernism—Emily Drumsta, Klara Du Plessis, Ariel Resnikoff, and Sho Sugita—to discuss the relationship between translation, global modernism, and contemporary poetic practice.

Global Modernist Pedagogies: A WORkshop

Our final event in our Fall 2020 Global Modernism event series will be a workshop, focusing on how teaching can respond to scholarly advances in global modernism, to be held on Friday, 4 December, 2020, 12:30-2:30pm EST. For information about how to register (by 3 December), click here.