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We're in Oxford today celebrating 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk', the two-part MLO Special Collection and @VoltaireOxford book published in honour of Nicholas Cronk. @Voltairiste @drthomaswynn @OxUniEnl @magdalenoxford @OxHumanities🥳

During our 10th Anniversary, we're looking back to where MLO all began. To celebrate this, we're sharing @GerdaWielander's 2014 timely article 'In defence of Modern Languages'. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Wielander-In-D… @wminlanguages @ALL4language @OpenLanguagesHQ

📢Calling librarians! Come and join Trailblazers with @LancasterUniLib @LivUniLibrary @TheLibraryUoS to combine #OA publication with author masterclasses and support the next generation of ECRs. Contact a.welsby@liverpool.ac.uk to join Trailblazers, or visit the LUP blog for more information bit.ly/Trailblazers-b….

'“Let me go back and recreate what I don’t know”: Locating Trans-national Memory Work in Contemporary Narrative.' Read @efbond's case study of three novels with authors of heritage from the Horn of Africa #OA on MLO: bit.ly/2WLZd7s @OxfordModLangs @StHughsCollege

October is our birthday month (we're 125 this year in case you missed it!) and to celebrate we are giving away a Liverpool University Press book of your choice! To enter, sign up to our mailing list (bit.ly/SignUpLUP) and reply to this tweet with your chosen book. #LUP125

Have you read the 10th Anniversary Q&A with the MLO section editors @BruetonJoanne @uol_paris, Luisa Coelho @OxfordModLangs & Nicola Bermingham @livunilanguages yet? Read it now on the LUP blog: bit.ly/MLO-at-10-blog @Routesintolangs @charlesforsdick @LivUniOpenRes

'MLO is uniquely well positioned to exercise ground-breaking impact in its field.' Powerful words from @AnnaMKlobucka @UMassD on the transformative possibilities of MLO. Find out more online: modernlanguagesopen.org/about

This month, we're celebrating the the 10th Anniversary of Modern Languages Open!🎈To celebrate, read a Q&A with the section editors @BruetonJoanne @uol_paris, Luisa Coelho @OxfordModLangs & Nicola Bermingham @livunilanguages on the LUP blog: bit.ly/MLO-at-10-blog

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Society for French Studies, to publish the journals 'French Studies' and 'French Studies Bulletin' from 2025. Find out more on the LUP blog: bit.ly/LUP-Society-fo… @french_studies @aupresses @SFPS_UK @AUPHF2 #FrenchStudies

'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by @charlesforsdick, @svshh, @NASWells, @MarionDemossie1, @HillsZarate, @TheaPitman, @cascettara et al has been popular this week. Read it for free #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/35Ub5eU @ArtsandHums @Ethnography_LK

'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @XineYaoPhD is one of this week's most read articles. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedM… #EdgarAllenPoe @DrEmilyM_Baker @timb_m @UCLSELCS

'Anti-Gay, Sexist, Racist: Backwards Italy in British News Narratives' by Denise Filmer asks how far cultural myths influence the selection, narration and reception of Italian news reported in British newspapers: bit.ly/2pQoRJE @SimonaStorchiUK @Soc4ItalStudies

Popular article: 'Genocide, Landscape, Beauty, Taboo: Reading Anselm Kiefer’s Der Morgenthau-Plan with Walther von der Vogelweide’s Lindenlied' by @PDaviesEdin @edinburghgerman @Edinburgh_LE Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/GenLandTab

'Performing Gender, Gender as Performance: Politics, Aesthetics, and Performativity in Dacia Maraini’s ‘Barricade’ Theatre' by @DrMariaMorelli @LaStatale @uniofleicester @Asmi_org. Read it #OpenAccess now via MLO: bit.ly/PerfGend @ILCS_SAS

Popular article: 'A “Careful” Reading of Latin/x American Women’s Electronic Literature' by @TheaPitman focuses on communities of care in electronic literature created by Latin/x American self-identified women: bit.ly/TheaPitman @LCSLeeds @ResCultureLeeds @digitalgoodnet

NEW ARTICLE: 🗣️Yairen Jerez Columbié @MaREIcentre discusses Science Fiction's contribution to the transfer of perspectives from the arts & humanities to areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, disaster discourses and environmental policies. Read it #OA: bit.ly/earthquake-rel…

Have you read the new article and late addition to the Unmasking the Red Death collection yet? 'Learning During Coronavirus: “The Masque of the Red Death”' by @jbmurray is now #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/Learning-Durin… @DrEmilyM_Baker @timb_m @ALL4language

The last article in the latest Special Collection examines the value of rubbish in Francophone Chinese art installations by Rosalind Silvester (@ModLangs_QUB @QUBOpenAccess). Read it in full #OA via MLO: bit.ly/The-Value-of-R… @ILCS_SAS @AWASIA @CCA_Network @CCVAnetwork pic.twitter.com/HyrcD1wa5A

The sixth article is titled: ‘La création franco-chinoise dans sa matérialité. Le symbolisme dans l’œuvre plastique de Xuefeng Chen et son rapport à la matière’ by Guillaume Thouroude. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Lacreation-fra… @QUBOpenAccess @ModLangs_QUB pic.twitter.com/n0h581DSLv