British Association for Romantic Studies

Closing date now Friday 8th August - please do send in your applications!

BARS Executive Elections 2025: Call for Nominations – deadline 22nd August
BARS invites self-nominations from those who would like to stand for positions on the Executive.

More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6083
Description of roles: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6081

BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086

Twilight Talks: John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio Keats meets Shakespeare: discover how the young poet inscribed his own verse into a facsimile of the 1623 folio between two great plays.

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

Closing date now Friday 8th August - please do send in your applications!

Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference

See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071

Please share widely!!

Taking place TODAY:
BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST.

Members should have received an email containing Zoom links to attend!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

#CfA Joint Fellowship

📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism

Deadline: 26 September 2025

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Our three-volume Cambridge History of the Gothic, a monumental labour of love that we worked on for many years, has just come out in paperback! @angelawright1794.bsky.social @catherinespooner.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Taking place TODAY!
BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ Programme – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST)

Programme below!

BARS Members - you should have received Zoom links to your emails!

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052

This Friday, seeing in the weekend with a fascinating programme from @bars.bsky.social

This Wednesday!
Happy to share that I'll be presenting on how the Taiyu（台語）translation of P&P opens up new ways to explore Austen's cross-cultural engagement ✨

Now available on the BARS Blog:

BARS President's Report 2025

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6068

Now on the BARS blog: Event: 2025 Hazlitt Society Annual Lecture and Day-School

See all the details and follow links to register here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6065

And please share widely!

Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26

BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.

Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062

Also taking place next week:
BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST.

Links to follow in an email to BARS Members.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

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BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ Programme – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052
Links to follow on Monday 21 July - keep an eye on emails!

Closing date today!

@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social tells us about another Romanticism-related TV hit to watch!
Check out the vid below!
Follow us on TikTok @BARS_Romanticism

Job advert:
Please see the following link for information on 6 jobs at the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University.

www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/the-dfll-tea...

Job advert:
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

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Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen - 11 month funded postdoc at University College Cork Insight Centre for Data Analytics/ School of English and Digital Humanities

Please see the jobs board, and search 'ladies' in the keyword box:
www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

In Writing: Keats and Fanny Brawne's Relationship Reimagined Join Kit Freeman to find out more about the collaborative relationship between John Keats and Fanny Brawne.

Fabulous events happening at Keats House, London - check out the link below!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-writing...

Yale University Press' stand at the Global Jane Austen conference, University of Southampton

We are celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen at The Global Jane Austen conference with @bars.bsky.social!

We have 30% off our selection at the stand and online (some restrictions apply). yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...

#c18th #Austen250 #janeausten250 #skystorians

btw, if any of you who are going to Romantic (Un)Consciousness in Sept want to make a little TikTok for @bars.bsky.social briefly discussing your research or something, pls do hmu!!

Now on the BARS Blog: The Byron Journal Essay Prize

... which "aims to promote scholarly work that provides new perspectives on Byron, his circle, and second-generation Romantic-period writers."

See all details and info here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6059

And please repost/share widely!

Now on the BARS Blog: Registration is Open for Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870

A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025

See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056

Please repost/share!

Keats House Welcome to Keats House, the beautiful Regency villa where Romantic poet John Keats found inspiration, friendship and love.We are currently open on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, 11am - 1p...

KEATS HOUSE EVENTS:
Please click the link for details of events at Keats House, London, which include theatre, talks, and an under 5s day.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/keats-hous...

A notice from the John Clare Society -

I'm so excited to share that I'll take a part in BARS Digital Symposium Global Romanticism with Byron's Ottoman Impressions