Modern Humanities Research Association Explained

The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) is a United Kingdom–based international organisation that aims to encourage and promote advanced study and research of humanities. It is most notable for producing the MHRA Style Guide.

History

The MHRA was founded in 1918 in Christ's College, Cambridge. After an early change of name to MHRA in 1918, the unincorporated charity became an incorporated company with the same name on 2 October 1997. Its declared aim is to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, which include the modern and medieval European languages, literatures and cultures. The current chair of the MHRA is Professor Derek Connon of Swansea University.

Publications

As well as the MHRA Style Guide, the MHRA publishes six scholarly journals:

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• The Modern Language Review
• Austrian Studies
• Portuguese Studies
• The Slavonic and East European Review
• The Yearbook of English Studies

and a number of book series:

• Legenda
• MHRA Critical Texts
• MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations
• MHRA Jewelled Tortoise
• MHRA European Translations
• MHRA New Translations
• MHRA Texts & Dissertations
• Publications of the MHRA
• MHRA Bibliographies

Directors

• Andrew Gurr

1987–1997^[1]

• Nicola Bradbury

1998–2005^[2]

Further reading

• Wells, David A. 2003. "The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)". Diogenes 50 (2): 130–135.

Notes and References

1. M.H.R.A. Annual Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association 1999, p. 16 : "At the end of 1997, Professor A. J. Gurr relinquished the English Editorship of the Review and the Editorship of the Yearbook, both of which he had held since 1987. He is succeeded by Dr Nicola Bradbury, also of the University of Reading."
2. Web site: Nicola Bradbury Research. reading.ac.uk. 27 December 2017.