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MLO is a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience from @LivUniPress.

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As of today, we plan to step back from this account so won't be checking notifications as often. Our account will continue to exist but all future activity will be shared on other platforms, including Bluesky. Go and give us a follow👉 @modlangopen.bsky.social

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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🥳

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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: https://t.co/VCjgq9x2rG @wminlanguages @ALL4language @OpenLanguagesHQ

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📢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 [email protected] to join Trailblazers, or visit the LUP blog for more information https://t.co/CElv7lWkzI.

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'“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: https://t.co/vpHdTSItqk @OxfordModLangs @StHughsCollege

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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 (https://t.co/XerLdTF2mJ) and reply to this tweet with your chosen book. #LUP125

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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: https://t.co/Dtsu0oMVR4 @Routesintolangs @charlesforsdick @LivUniOpenRes

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'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: https://t.co/dlkIiOcgGF

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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: https://t.co/Dtsu0oMVR4

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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: https://t.co/PgyaH3VYUF
@french_studies
@aupresses @SFPS_UK @AUPHF2 #FrenchStudies

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'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: https://t.co/vfQj2i5fWK
@ArtsandHums @Ethnography_LK

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'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: https://t.co/Jpm6ghJFBS #EdgarAllenPoe @DrEmilyM_Baker @timb_m @UCLSELCS

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'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: https://t.co/g2jfCxMwkg @SimonaStorchiUK @Soc4ItalStudies

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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: https://t.co/FhZkyQeb4j

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'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: https://t.co/j5dfZ9bH9x @ILCS_SAS

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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: https://t.co/7Rz4gaZlW5 @LCSLeeds @ResCultureLeeds @digitalgoodnet

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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: https://t.co/RMJVUGiEOa

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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: https://t.co/ExL6ggX9W1 @DrEmilyM_Baker @timb_m @ALL4language

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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: https://t.co/4pgYfpJBBK @ILCS_SAS @AWASIA @CCA_Network @CCVAnetwork https://t.co/HyrcD1wa5A

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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: https://t.co/rhd2WX0adY @QUBOpenAccess @ModLangs_QUB https://t.co/n0h581DSLv