{"id":3641,"date":"2025-11-06T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:44:11","slug":"trauma-plot-by-jamie-hood-a-conversation-at-modernist-studies-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/2025\/11\/06\/trauma-plot-by-jamie-hood-a-conversation-at-modernist-studies-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma Plot\u00a0by Jamie Hood: A Conversation at\u00a0Modernist Studies Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the Modernist Studies Association conference, which had its annual meeting in Boston from October 9-12, 2025, Laura Hartmann-Villalta and writer Jamie Hood explored her newly published memoir,&nbsp;<em>Trauma Plot<\/em>. The conversation was sponsored by the Intersectional Queer &amp; Feminist Praxis Special Interest Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Trauma Plot<\/em>&nbsp;was a 2025 highly anticipated book by both&nbsp;<em>Vogue<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Vulture<\/em>&nbsp;pre-publication and earned a starred review from&nbsp;<em>Kirkus<\/em>. By turns literary and genre-defying, the memoir is deeply inspired by modernist prose aesthetics. A February 18 review in&nbsp;<em>The Rumpus<\/em>&nbsp;by Erin Vachon described&nbsp;Hood\u2019s prose: \u201cShe writes like Woolf, if Woolf was your barhopping friend from grad school, acerbic and sensitive in equal measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Modernist Studies Association conference, which had its annual meeting in Boston from October 9-12, 2025, Laura Hartmann-Villalta and writer Jamie Hood explored her newly published memoir,&nbsp;Trauma Plot. The conversation was sponsored by the Intersectional Queer &amp; Feminist Praxis Special Interest Group. Trauma Plot&nbsp;was a 2025 highly anticipated book by both&nbsp;Vogue&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vulture&nbsp;pre-publication and earned a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":3644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}