9:27 a.m., Feb. 2, 2011----Ann Ardis, a faculty member and administrator at the University of Delaware, has been appointed one of three co-editors of Modernism/Modernity, a top-tier humanities journal that is published by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press.

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Ardis, who is interim deputy dean, senior associate dean of the humanities and director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, all in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve a five-year term.

Modernism/Modernity is the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association, whose board appointed Ardis to the co-editorship. She will be responsible for at least one of the journal's four issues a year. Her co-editors are Jeffrey Schnapp, of Stanford and Harvard universities, and Lawrence Rainey, of York University in the United Kingdom.

“I am working currently on putting together a special section of the September 2011 issue on 'Modernist Studies Between the Disciplines,'” Ardis said, “and I am very excited by the opportunity I will have to involve a UD humanities graduate student in the journal's 'back of the house' operations, thanks to the funding that the JHU Press and the College of Arts and Sciences have provided for an editorial assistantship.”

Covering the period from about 1860 to the mid-20th century, Modernism/Modernity “focuses on the methodological, archival, and theoretical approaches particular to modernist studies. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and intellectual history” and “fosters dialogue between social scientists and humanists about the history of modernism and its relations to modernization,” according to the journal's website.