Travels with Mina Loy

Suzanne W. Churchill is Professor of English at Davidson College. She is the author of The Little Magazine of Others & the Renovation of Modern American Poetry (2006); coeditor of Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches (2007); founding editor of Index of Modernist Magazines; and co-creator of the award-winning scholarly digital project,Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (mina-loy.com). Linda Kinnahan is Emerita Professor of English at Duquesne University. She is the author of Poetics of the Feminine: Literary Tradition and Authority in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser (1994), and Lyric Interventions: Feminist Experimental Poetry and Contemporary Social Discourse (2004), Mina Loy, Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets (2017). She is editor of the Cambridge History of 20th Century American Women’s Poetry (2017) and co-creator of mina-loy.com. Susan Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading (2007). She is co-creator of mina-loy.com.

“A thoroughly researched, beautifully written exploration of Modernist transatlantic networks, places, friendships, and aesthetic itineraries, which throws new light on Mina Loy's poems, essays, plays, designs and assemblages. A comprehensive study of a multimedia artist ante-litteram, graced by beautiful archival images and by an excellent scholarly apparatus.”

• List of Figures and PermissionsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Chapter 1Navigating the Avant-Garde with Mina LoyChapter 2Linda A. KinnahanLoy’s Italian Baedeker: Mapping a Feminist En Dehors Garde (1907-1916)Chapter 3Suzanne W. ChurchillLoy Takes the Stage: Playwriting and Publishing in New York Magazines (1914-1921)Chapter 4Susan RosenbaumLoy and the Museum without Walls (Paris 1923-1936, New York 1936-1953)CodaCollecting Mina Loy: Archives and Collections, Publications and Exhibitions, ScholarshipExhibit 1Mina Loy Bio, Map, and TimelineExhibit 2Collecting and Exhibiting Mina Loy: Timetable of Critical and Scholarly ReceptionWorks Cited