![]() ![]() It’s been my pleasure to serve it and work alongside such extraordinary people.ĬV: About excellent colleagues… I had almost given up on applying when Séan chased me down. With her help, and the nominations and votes of people I’d met at the conference, by the time the training day rolled around in 2018 I had been elected as a Rep, and with my excellent colleagues Séan and Ruth, had started to pay back some of the debt I owed this marvelous community. I also heard an excellent paper from then BAMS rep Helen Saunders, on Ulysses and Pathé, and afterwards she told me that the association also ran training days. I met a lot of interesting people there who were immensely helpful in getting my shit together, such as BAMS member Rod Rosenquist. Gareth Mills: I first encountered BAMS when I gave a thoroughly mediocre paper at the 2017 conference, ‘Modernist Life’. It is funny to hear you both say this, however, as it was very clear to Gareth and I that you would both be excellent candidates from the off. All of the people running were so impressive. ![]() I put my hat in the ring on the encouragement of my supervisor Andrew Thacker, but I never thought it would go anywhere. Comically voluminous, because the old reps – and Ruth Clemens, who we were joining – had achieved so much in such a short space of time. When Gareth and I ran to take over from Stephanie Boland and Helen Saunders, I felt like we had clown-sized shoes to fill. ![]() Just from preliminary impressions of the BAMS PGR network glimpsed from Twitter and the weekly Monday #ModWrite, I knew it was something that wanted to be a part of but felt completely underqualified to run for the rep role as a first-year PGR, with barely anything on my academic CV. I was starting at a new university in a different department that did not have a strong modernist focus. This was just over a month into my PhD and I felt very new to it all. Polly Hember: Like Cécile, I heard about the PGR representative role at the 2018 Networking Day in Birmingham. Everyone’s CV was so impressive, and I felt as though I didn’t have much to bring to BAMS. I was very enthusiastic about running at first, but I very quickly got overwhelmed by a massive bout of impostor syndrome. I was very impressed by what the past and current reps had achieved – the workshops were incredibly helpful, attendees and organisers alike sounded so passionate about their work, and this was the day the Modernist Review was officially relaunched. Polly and Cécile, as you were elected just this year, do you want to talk about your experience running?Ĭécile Varry: I stumbled upon the 2018 Networking Day announcements on Twitter, and learned about the call for PGR representatives at the event in Birmingham. Séan Richardson: Hi all, so we are here to discuss the upcoming BAMS elections and why people should consider applying. ![]()
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