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Established in 2005, the Canada Research Chair Program in Modern Literature and Culture is housed in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University with links to the Graduate Programs in Literatures of Modernity and Communication and Culture, as well as to English, Image Arts, and Fashion.

Our mandate is to research the literary and cultural production in the modernist era (from 1880 to 1940), to preserve and advance modernist women’s heritage and to promote modern Canadian heritage within an international context.

May 8/12 - Dr. Irene Gammel's Baroness Elsa biography and thesis that Duchamp's urinal may have been conceived by the Baroness, is cited and discussed in the Huffington Post.

Apr 4/12 - The Modern Literature and Culture Centre (MLC) has recently acquired a January 1938 copy of Life Magazine featuring Berenice Abbott

Apr 3/12 - Please join us for a salon hour with a cocktail reception, small exhibition, and live performance of poetry from Freytag-Loringhoven's recently published book.

Mar 20/12 - The MLC Research Centre hosted the launch of Ruth Panofsky’s new book The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada

Mar 14/12 - The MLC has acquired an April 1952 copy of Life Magazine, featuring an article on Marcel Duchamp.

Mar 14/12 - Dr. Irene Gammel is renewed as a Canada Research Chair and continues her research into the relationship between women's avant-garde art and popular cultures.

Feb 15/12 - Join us for an information session with Intellect Founder Dr. Masoud Yazdani.

Feb 15/12 - Body Sweats reviewed by Rain Taxi Review of Books

Feb 2/12 - Ulysses fans submit quotations and reflections for a collage

Jan 31/12 - Celebrate the 90th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses and have your say!

Jan 28/12 - Event announcement — The Rise and Fall of a Canadian Publishing Icon: The Macmillan Company of Canada

Jan 17/12 - Body Sweats reviewed by London Student, Europe’s Largest Student Newspaper.

Jan 12/12 - Read Allan Graubard's review of Body Sweats in The Leonardo Review

Jan 5/12 - Read Monica de la Torre's hilarious review of Body Sweats in Bomb Magazine, written in form of an interview between de la Torre and Baroness Elsa.

Dec 19/11 - Body Sweats review for Los Angeles Review of Books by UCLA Assistant Professor of English Brian Kim Stefans

Dec 9/11 - Internship positions available at The Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Research Center.

Dec 1/11 - Original copies of intriguing periodicals donated to MLC by Dr. Karen Mulhallen

Nov 28/11 - Two of our books make New York Times’ end-of-the-year roundup of notable art books.

Nov 22/11 - Emma Doran presented her paper, "The Visual Spectacle of Dance on Stage and on Screen in the First Year of Cinema”

Nov 21/11 - Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was launched at Francis Naumann Fine Art in New York.

Nov 14/11 - MA student Valerie Velardo spent a week interning at a gallery in New York. See her account in diary form.

Oct 22/11 - Lecture on the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven by Dr. Irene Gammel on Thursday, October 27th, 2011, in New York City

Oct 12/11 - Training at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre — Summer 2011

Oct 5/11 - MLC is participating in the Modernist Studies Associations Conference at SUNY, Buffalo.

Oct 4/11 - Join us Friday, November 4, 2011 in New York to celebrate the publication of Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.