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The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.... (more about the MJP)

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News & Updates

A New Introduction to The Freewoman (1/2012)
Barbara Green, an associate professor of English at Notre Dame, has composed an introduction to the MJP's edition of The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review; click here to read it. The MJP is now providing introductions to all three of Dora Marsden's magazines; see also Susan Solomon's introduction to The New Freewoman and The Egoist as well as Bob Scholes's general introduction to the three journals.
Latest Developments at the MJP Lab (12/2011)
We've now uploaded to our Sourceforge repository all of the MJP's catalogue records and text trasncript files for Poetry Magazine. We're also now making available there three plain-text datasets for each of the six journals on the site (Freewoman, New Freewoman, Egoist, Little Review, Others, and Poetry). These datasets make it easy to access the MJP's catalogue information about these journals. Click here for more information about the datasets, and here about how to use them.
A New Way to Access MJP Journals
Click here to see the new MJP Lab website and its latest feature—an interactive timeline that visualizes all 19 MJP journals with links to their collection pages.
The MJP Announces the Newest Addition to Its Staff
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.
A New Introduction to Others
Suzanne 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.
The MJP Completes Work on Its NEH Grant
The MJP, with the support of a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has now completed work on digital editions of six journals: The Crisis (1910-1922); The Freewoman (1911-1912), The New Freewoman (1913), and The Egoist (1914-1919); The Little Review (1914-1922); and Others (1915-1919).