Whether you are looking for old articles on Hemingway, such as Scott Donaldson's 1983 "Woolf vs. Hemingway" in the Journal of Modern Literature . . .
. . . or Virginia Woolf's own 1927 essay on Hemingway, "An Essay in Criticism"; . . .
whether you're interested in ephemera, like Hemingway's Christmas cards to Fanny Butcher, . . .
. . . or obscure articles from New York city magazines that put Hemingway in a new light, . . .
or articles from historical avant-garde magazines, such as the Danish monthly, Klingen; . . .
whether you would like to create and share a classroom lesson on Hemingway . . .
or propose a digital edition of one of his works . . .
we invite you to visit Modernist Networks.
David Chinitz and Pamela L. Caughie, both former presidents of the Modernist Studies Association, launched Modernist Networks in 2015. A federation of digital projects in modernist literary and cultural studies, ModNets, as it is familiarly known, provides a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship through peer review, of both content and technical design, by a board of (ahem) distinguished scholars in the field.
Meet our eminent Advisory and Editorial boards here.
The site facilitates access to modernist digital scholarship by aggregating peer-reviewed projects in a central database. Aggregation enables a conversation among projects included in the ModNets search index, allowing for more interesting connections to be drawn among them.
In addition to our two main services, peer review and aggregation, ModNets provides a Classroom feature and an Exhibit builder, where scholars can create and share lessons and demonstrations using materials on ModNets. (While visiting the Exhibit feature, have a modernist cocktail on us—including some of Hemingway's favorite drinks.)
Always looking to expand our database, we are currently adding two new digital projects to our federation: African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. We welcome more such projects. The more projects, the more robust our search index is. The more exhibits, the more valuable our community becomes. Materials on Ernest Hemingway, of all kinds, would greatly enrich our federation so that we can better serve the needs of modernist scholars and students. Please consider joining us.
Pamela L. Caughie (she/her) is Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. A modernist scholar and a former president of the Modernist Studies Association, Professor Caughie is Co-Director of Modernist Networks, Co-Editor of Woolf Online, and Project Director for the Lili Elbe Digital Archive.