Welcome! Come in and look around. There are some links here to places at Brown University, and to some of my work on modernist literature and art. At the bottom of this page, there is also a place from which you can send me comments or questions about what you have found here.
I have taught courses in modernism, modern literature, art, opera, and thought, but I retired from full-time teaching in 1999. Now, as a Research Professor, I direct dissertations and undergraduate theses, and teach formal courses rarely. I also lecture and teach at other universities, for example a course in the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon in the spring of 2001.
The main thing I am doing at present is directing the Modernist Journals
Project, which is becoming a major resource for students of modernism. A few years ago
the MJP completed an online edition of The New Age magazine, edited by A. R.
Orage from 1907 to 1922. We now have all of these thirty volumes up in the form of
PDF Searchable Image files, all of them with introductions and links to our archive
of artists mentioned the journals we edit, and to biographical sketches of
contributors. With the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, we completed this project in 2005. We have also added a digital edition
of Dana, an Irish magazine edited by John Eglinton in 1904 and 1905, and one
of Blast, the Vorticist magazine edited by Wyndham Lewis in 1914 and 1915
.
We recently added an edition of Rhythm, edited by John Middleton Murry and
katherine Mansfield from 1911 to 1913, The Blue Review (a continuation of
Rhythm), The Owl, edited by Robert Graves from 1915 to 1923, and
The Tyro, Wyndham Lewis's magazine of 1921 and 1922. A list of
periodicals of interest operating between 1890 and 1922 is available on our
site.
In 2003 the Brown MJP was joined by the University of Tulsa.. Tulsa's McFarlin Library holds many of the periodicals the MJP will be editing in the coming years. Sean Latham has joined me as Tulsa's co-director of the MJP. The MJP intends to continue providing searchable image files for journals influential in the rise of modernism from 1890 to 1922. In the next few years, with the help of a second grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we will add The English Review, under the editorship of Ford Madox Ford from 1908 to 1910, Poetry, from its founding by Harriet Monroe in 1912 through 1922, and Scribner's Magazine, from 1910 to 1922, to our archive. The original issues of Scribner's will be provided by the Princeton University Library, and those of Poetry by the University of Chicago Library, supplemented by Tulsa's McFarlin Library. In 2006 Clifford Wulfman became Technical Director of the MJP, and the entire site has been redesigned under his direction. A revised site is now up and running but revisions will continue. Dr. Wulman is a Senior Research Programmer/Analyst with Brown's Scholarly Technology Group as well as Technical Director of the MJP and a Senior Research Associate of the Department of Modern Culture and Media.
During the month of October, 2005 a show of art from The New Age was held at Brown. A version of this show areappeared atGrinnell College in the spring of 2005 and another was held at the University of Tulsa in the fall of 2006 during the meeting of the Modernist Studies Association there. Here is the on-line version of the Brown show.
I have also written an Afterword for a book on little magazines that pertains to my work on the MJP.
In the fall of 2003 I taught a graduate seminar in the theory and practice of literary history. Here is the home page for that course, (Comparative Literature 265).
During the spring semester of 1998-99, I taught a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature, CO 282.1, called "What Was Enlightment?," and emphasizing the work of W. A. Mozart and Jane Austen. Here is a schedule for that course..
I also taught a course in MCM, MC
150.6, called "The Rise of the Private Eye." Here is
the course schedule.
Here is
information about possible paper topics.
During the fall semester of 1998-99, I taught a course in British writing of
the 1930's, called A Low Dishonest Decade. .
In 1997-98, I worked with Faye Halpern on a course in writing, called
"Textuality," which was being offered in two sections during the second
semester of 1997-98. Here is more
information about this course.
My latest book, Paradoxy of Modernism, was published in March, 2006, by the Yale University Press. Here are the Table of Contents and Preface.
And this is the cover:
I will provide links to reviews below:
A book of mine, The Crafty Reader, was published Yale University Press in September 2001. Here is the Introduction to this book.
Another book of mine, The Rise and Fall of English, was published in March of 1998 by the Yale University Press. In this book I attempted to
Some years
ago I completed an essay, with illustrations, called Inside the Whale Inside. In this
hypertextual essay I examine the way an image of a whale in a work by the Spanish
painter El Greco is introduced into modernist prose and has a strange career there.
Among the modernist writers discussed are Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, Henry
Miller, Anais Nin, and George Orwell. This essay has not been published--and will not
be published--in any other medium. I will be happy to get your comments on this essay
at the email address below.
Another essay of mine is also available from this point. It is called "In the Brothel of Modernism: Picasso and
Joyce." This has been published, but never with the color images that
this format allows. I no longer see the problem of gender in modernism in quite this
way, but I think there is enough "stuff" in the essay for it to be useful
even so. At the end of Part 3 you will find a place for responses on Joyce, Picasso,
gender, and modernism (with at least one already there) and a way to submit your own
thoughts for addition to this file.
To send e-mail to Robert Scholes click on the address Robert_Scholes@brown.edu
Created: April 17, 1995. Updated: March 6, 2008..