British Association for Romantic Studies

BARS News: BARS President’s Fellowship 2026 awarded to Shruti Jain (Binghamton University), with her project ‘The Race and Regency Pod’.

For more information, please see the BARS Blog post: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6284

So are we! 🥰

Very excited to be speaking along with the other wonderful 2025 Chawton House Visiting Fellows on 11th Feb at a BARS digital event! My first time chairing too as I was lucky enough to be the BARS fellow, so extra exciting!

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BARS Digital Event Announcement with our friends @chawtonhouse.bsky.social!

Join us on 11th Feb at 6pm on Zoom for this event celebrating New Research in Women's Writing!

Register to join: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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We'd love you to get involved with our popular blog and TikTok pages!

Drop us an email if you have an idea for a post or video!

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6286

Charles Ignatius Sancho - A Black British man of Letters and His World Join us for a deep dive into the life and times of Charles Ignatius Sancho - a fascinating journey through history and culture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-ig...

If you want to be on the TikTok, please email us at britishassociationromantic@gmail.com. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to edit videos; we can do that for you.

OTD 1826: The Last Man by Mary Shelley is published!

David Taylor (@davidftaylor.bsky.social) tells us all about it on the TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRSeUxUP/

Save the Date: 14th International Walter Scott Conference in Edinburgh, 2027

Details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6280

Poster for a PGR/ECR networking event. 30 January 2026, 12pm-2pm (CET), 11am-1pm (UK). This event affords the opportunity for ECRs and PGRs working on research projects relating to literary studies in any language to build their research community. The event will include two short academic talks, opportunities to network, good conversation, and signposting to exciting opportunities in the future! Schedule: 5 Minutes Opening Remarks 20 Minutes: Presentation from James Dowthwaite 25 Minutes: Zoom room meet and greets in breakaway groups (with a primary text to inspire discussion and break the ice) 20 Minutes: Second Presentation TBC 10 Minutes: Contact exchange, open room for discussion, plus the circulation of a list of opportunities in the future that might be open to PhDs and MA graduates 5 Minutes: Closing remarks, and information on a follow up meeting If you would like to join the event, please email Roslyn Irving at rirving@uni-mainz.de

Mainz University are organising an online networking event for ECRs and PGRs, which may be of interest to our members! Contact Roslyn Irving (rirving@uni-mainz.de) to join.

On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

Taking place today!! Get your tickets at the link below!

The front cover of The Byron Journal is on the left hand side, on a background of an eighteenth-century landscape painting upon which is written: 'On behalf of The Byron Society, London, the journal publishes scholarship on all aspects of Byron's writings and life.'

Lord Byron was born on this day, 22nd January, in 1788 🎉
Celebrate by reading ‘'The Controlless Core of Human Hearts’: Writing the Self in Byron's Don Juan' by Michael J. Plygawko #OpenAccess! 🔐
Read it online for free: bit.ly/BJ-Plygawko
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✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨ Professor Michael Gamer's edition of Ann Radcliffe's 'The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents' is now available for pre-order!! This is a landmark moment for our project and, for a limited time, get 20% off with the code 'GAMER2026'
www.cambridge.org/ag/universit...

A gentle reminder that this takes place tomorrow! We'll be talking about our favourite Minerva Press novels and why you should read them, too!

Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture | A lecture by Professor Michael Gamer | The University of Sheffield Player Discover Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels and lasting influence on Romantic literature in this podcast episode with Professor Michael Gamer.

Prof Michael Gamer’s wonderful lecture ‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture’, delivered at the University of Sheffield and at Keats House, is now available as a special episode of our free podcast series: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/ann-r... @radcliffecup.bsky.social
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Check out our very first ECEN newsletter! It's brief, fun to read, and there are a couple of exciting opportunities inside too!

If you haven't already subscribed but would like to, you can sign up on our website or simply email/DM myself or @calsutherland.bsky.social 🍃

Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org

Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London
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@bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
please spread the word

Reminder: New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

You are warmly invited to join us. We are delighted to welcome Prof. Manu Chander (Georgetown University), who will discuss: "Unnoticed Passages and Intermediate Shades": Race, Beauty and Flow in the Long Eighteenth Century' Paper presentation: The paper 'discusses the emergence of brownness as a racial category in Enlightenment anthropology. I explore the relationship between natural history and aesthetic theory in order to show how ideas of mixture, flow, and subtle gradation associated with neoclassical ideals shaped efforts to organize human diversity into a knowable whole. These same ideals, I suggest, would inform romantic discourses of cosmopolitanism, which inherit both the problems and promises of eighteenth-century raciology'. You will find the Zoom link to the event at the end of the email. We hope you can join us for this exciting event! Best wishes, The RAB team https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/81163870966? pwd=eui3jxEj9wyAooc7|gX3jFJKS33461.1 Meeting ID: 811 6387 0966 Passcode: 828410

apparently the zoom link is public, no need to reach out, come say hi if you’re free! it’s 12:30 eastern on 1/21

u-paris.zoom.us/j/8116387096...

Issue 8: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century Issue 8 of Romance, Revolution and Reform.

It's here!

We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.

We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!

www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8

We're now accepting applications for our 2026 Patrick Leary Resource Development Grants and Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Both awards offer 💵 for tools and research relating to the #19thC periodical press. More information about each award can be found in the thread below.

Very much looking forward to next Thursday's event! Join us!

And our next digital event is on 22 Jan, on 'Rereading the Minerva Press'!

Registration: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

Que(e)ry Points

Still thinking about last night’s @bars.bsky.social digi event on the joyous, collaborative, creative, queer-eco-crip project Que(e)ry Points, walking with Dorothy Wordsworth & Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

@pollyrowena.bsky.social chaired it brilliantly and it was great to hear her read her poetry!

BLAKETY BLAKE! Wed 21 Jan, 19:30 (UK) on zoom. A new heaven is begun: the Eternal Hell revives! It must be the return of the world’s greatest (and only?) William Blake online quiz! This free event will emphasise fun and enthusiasm over academic prowess. Join us!
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Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.

Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

#18thCentury #18C #18thC

Poster for the Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network Seminar Series 2026, Heslington Hall, University of York, and Online: "Based at the University of York's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the long eighteenth-century and Romantic periods. Through a regular seminar series beginning in early 2026, we aim to present the latest research in our field, allowing scholars from across the eighteenth-century humanities to engage with diverse and cutting-edge research from established and emergent scholars in the field. We thus hope to produce a network of mutually informed and engaged scholarship, with an eye always to the climate crisis. Visit us at: https://hzjs20.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e"

New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social)

More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273

On the blog: a whole host of notices and calls for papers from the Byron Society! Including the Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, the Student Byron Conference in Missolonghi, and the International Byron Conference in Keele.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271