British Association for Romantic Studies

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...

🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲

Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...

And it’s followed by a poetry workshop on the 15th - come write with us! ☄️

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📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0

Submitted my #BARS2026 abstract yesterday AND YOU SHOULD TOO!! You have until the 30th Nov! 9 days! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

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Book Cover: The Trembling Hand

Picture of Mathelinda Nabugodi

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The Race and Regency Pod:

New Episode featuring Mathelinda Nabugodi

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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
17 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social

@glasgowburns.bsky.social’s conference exploring the life, work, & legacy of Robert Burns. This year’s theme is the Burns Supper, a global phenomenon marking its 225th anniversary in 2026
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Looking forward to this!

Registration is open for 'Critical Canons: Rethinking Aesthetics in a More-Than-Human World', a symposium organised by National Chengchi University on December 6–7 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.

More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6230

🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable

8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT

6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social

More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228

There's still (just) time to register for our talk with Christopher Bucklow tonight. More info and FREE registration below👇

Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025

Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

BARS Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (including literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189

Reminder: BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. More info at the link:

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

Please share widely!

Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.social’s blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

Do share widely!

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Most Read | Essays in Romanticism
'Deaf Education and the Rise of English Melodrama' Terry F. Robinson
Read it online: bit.ly/EiR-Robinson
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Just a reminder that the deadline for #BARS2026 is approaching for papers, and we are just *one* panelist away from having a full creative-critical panel!

Also a reminder to myself to write my abstract for my own creative-critical paper...

Please reshare! I'd love to hear from potential candidates with research interests in disability studies and the arts...

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Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

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So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!

TODAY 🍂 Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social 🎟

TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!

You just need to submit a proposal for the @bars.bsky.social conference before 30 Nov and write a *short* application note to apply for the bursary.
Of you're a historian, filmmaker, lawyer, architect, consultant, teacher, librarian - or anything else - share your new #romanticism insights with us!

BSECS Conference Registration Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.

Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
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#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Also a reminder that @bars.bsky.social are offering a new conference #bursary this year, for professionals outside academia (not only teaching, heritage, alt-ac but any job) who are interested in #Romanticis and want to present their research.

Details on BARS website

#funding #IndependentScholars

Łukasz Mokrzycki's paper was titled “The Ecological (Un)Consciousness of the Campagna Romana in Shelley and Leopardi” and Andrin Albrecht's was “For in This Sea What Dreams May Come: Exploring the Aqueous Romantic Unconscious”.

Huge congratulations to the winner, Łukasz Mokrzycki, and runner-up, Andrin Albrecht, of the Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which was open to those who presented at the BARS PGR/ECR Conference in September. 🥳

More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212

CfP: Health and Happiness / La santé et le bonheur Conference, Cardiff University, 8-10th April 2026

200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216

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Reminder that the next Stephen Copley Award deadline is 15th November!

The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...