New book series: Global Literary Modernisms

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new book series Global Literary Modernisms, edited by Professor Alex Davis and Professor Lee Jenkins of University College Cork and Professor Gregory Castle of Arizona State University.

Global Literary Modernisms provides a platform for literary scholarship on modernism across genres and geographies. We invite studies that link national literary traditions with extensive global and transnational contexts. The series engages with transnational, postcolonial, canonical and marginal modernisms as well as the legacies of modernism itself. If you’d like to read a more detailed synopsis, please click here.

http://baftss.org/awards/awards-2016/

Gregory Frame’s The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation, was selected as the Runner-up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Award in 2016. The award ceremony took place at the BAFTSS annual conference in April 2016.

The award panel had this to say:

‘An assuredly deft and engaging exploration of how presidential figures function in American film and television, Gregory’s book is anchored in textual readings and it hits the right note …’

Read more on the BAFTSS website. For more information about the book have a look here.