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Future Pasts

Mar 11, 2018 By: J. Matthew Huculak

Volume 3, Cycle 1

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What Is a Modernist Archive?

J. Matthew Huculak

The past twenty years, along with the promises and perils of the digital turn, have seen a robust engagement with the modernist archive. One can map nearly point for point the rise of the New Modernist Studies and the Modernist Studies...

Finding the Modernist Archive: Why UX Matters

Amy Hildreth Chen

Using the modernist archive requires finding it first. The modernist archive does not live in one collection at one repository, such as a single university special collections department or one pivotal private library. Rather, the modernist...

Cancelled in Purple: Alice Walker’s Virginia Woolf Calendar

Amanda Golden

Alice Walker began 1982 with Virginia Woolf. Walker would spend the year recording events, plans, and phone numbers in spiral-bound pages of a calendar she had acquired filled with photographs of Woolf and her contemporaries. As Walker crossed...

In and Out of the Archive with the Letters of Mary Butts

Joel Hawkes

Located in Special Collections at the University of Victoria is a little studied folder that contains fifty-one letters written by the British modernist author Mary Butts (1890-1937) to friend and fellow British modernist Douglas Goldring (1887-...

The “eBay Archive”: Recovering Early Women Type Designers

Lauren Elle DeGaine

Southern Vancouver Island’s 100-kilometer-long BC-14 Highway slides predominantly east to west along British Columbia coastline through traditional Coast Salish territory. Beneath the old-growth trees that are the marrow of this lush ecosystem is...