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Have you interacted with someone on Romanticist Bluesky whose TBR you want to shamelessly peruse? We are continuing the "What Are You Reading?" #KSAABlog series soon! If you'd like to be featured or have someone in mind, DM us! In the meantime, read past features here: www.k-saa.org/blog/tag/Wha...

2025: Birdsong — K-SAA

Share how you have incorporated K-SAA’s public outreach theme, Birdsong, in your teaching! Contact kacie.wills@hancockcollege.edu to share teaching materials (assignments, syllabi, readings, student work, or pedagogical reflections). Learn more: www.k-saa.org/birdsong

🎉 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

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

#CfP: Please see the K-SAA blog for information about the upcoming Keats Conference! Paper proposals are due to the conference secretary Saturday, Feb. 21, 12 noon UK time.
www.k-saa.org/blog/keats-c...

‘The 1819 Social’ in 2025: Building Community in (and beyond) Romantic Studies — K-SAA Chris Rovee, Louisiana State University The 1819 Social – the K-SAA’s mentoring program – reimagines academic mentorship for the mid-2020s. Moving beyond the traditional vertical model of mentorshi...

New Blog Post: “‘The 1819 Social’ in 2025: Building Community in (and beyond) Romantic Studies.” Chris Rovee discusses the K-SAA’s reimagined approach to mentorship. www.k-saa.org/blog/the-181...

Grant Scott The Rediscovery of Two Manuscript Letters and a Reappraisal of His Gravestone Inscription — K-SAA — K-SAA Grant Scott The Rediscovery of Two Manuscript Letters and a Reappraisal of His Gravestone Inscription — K-SAA

New KSJ+ content: An interview with Grant F. Scott, whose article for volume 73 of the Keats-Shelley Journal details his discovery of two manuscript letters addressed to Joseph Severn and raises new questions about the origins of Keats’s gravestone www.k-saa.org/blog/scott-i...

Announcing the John Galt Society Research Grant for 2026 — K-SAA Are you exploring the works, life, or influence of John Galt? The John Galt Society is excited to share its annual Research Grant for 2026, offering up to £1,000 to to defray expenses incurred in co...

Are you exploring the works, life, or influence of John Galt? The John Galt Society is offering up to £1,000 to defray expenses associated with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Apply by Jan. 31, 2026.

Find more information on the K-SAA Blog: www.k-saa.org/blog/announc...

The deadline for the Wordsworth Winter Conference CfP has been extended to 1st December 2025!

The conference will be in Grasmere on 4th-7th March 2026, with the theme of "Romantic Ballads and Romantic Songs".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6214

The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...

Eighteenth-Century Collaborations: 2026 Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference — K-SAA Date:  Friday, February 13 to Saturday, February 14, 2026 Location:  Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, California​ Organizers:  Alina Romo and Kacie Wills Keynote Spe...

The Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, February 13-14 2026, is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme of “Eighteenth-Century Collaborations.” Extended deadline: Dec. 1, 2025. See the K-SAA blog for more info: www.k-saa.org/blog/western...

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!

Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.

Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // November 13-16, Washington DC — K-SAA Dear KSAA:  Patrick O'Malley and I write to this group to invite you all to attend the annual meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association in Washington DC next month. The confere...

You’re invited to participate in NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths//November 13-16, Washington DC. There will also be a special digital presession, happening entirely on Zoom, November 7 & 8. See the K-SAA blog for more info: www.k-saa.org/blog/navsa-2...

Looking forward to seeing so many wonderful people and papers this Friday at our annual Curran Symposium!

Can't make it live? We are pleased to offer access to our opening panel via Zoom! Register for that here: forms.gle/SxMMk7ggxTFM...

See the full program here: www.k-saa.org/events/annua...

Become a Member Today! — K-SAA Support the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Join our community of Romantic literature scholars and help us fund the Keats-Shelley Journal, symposia, grants, and diversity initiatives. Membership...

The K-SAA depends on members like you. Your support enables us to host symposia, fund grants, publish the Keats-Shelley Journal, and create opportunities for the next generation of Romantic scholars. Read more about our community and join us today!
www.k-saa.org/blog/support...

KSJ Volume 72 is now available on Project MUSE!
Read the latest issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50898

Members will receive print copies soon!

On the BARS blog: information on applying for the @ksaacomm.bsky.social Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Grants, worth $3000. Deadline 1st November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6151

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!

Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.

Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation: INCSA's 2026 Biennial Conference — K-SAA Join INCSA's 2026 biennial conference "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation" in Washington, DC (July 21-24). Submit proposals by Oct 31, 2025 for this bilingual, hybrid event exploring nineteenth-ce...

See the K-SAA blog for the #CFP for The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association's 2026 conference: "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación."

The proposal deadline is October 31, 2025. More info linked below:
www.k-saa.org/blog/incsa-2...

Calling teachers of all levels! Email kacie.wills@hancockcollege.edu to share short essays about how you have incorporated (or plan to incorporate!) birdsong into your teaching this year. Materials will be compiled and published on the K-SAA website. #KSAAComm

www.k-saa.org/birdsong

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards!

- Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars

- Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture

- Award amount: $3,000

- Deadline: Nov. 1

Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

2026 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients: Julia M. Wright and Richard C. Sha — K-SAA Julia M. Wright, FRSC, is George Munro Chair of Literature and Rhetoric at Dalhousie University. She was a Canada Research Chair in English and Cultural Studies (2002-05) before moving to Dalhousie to...

The K-SAA is pleased to announce the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients: Julia M. Wright and Richard C. Sha. Read more about these wonderful scholars and their work on our blog!
🔗 www.k-saa.org/blog/2026-di...

#CallforPapers
📣 Submissions are now welcome for the Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies
📝 Submit abstracts of around 500 words and a brief bio by October 15, 2025!
See the #KSAABlog for more info: www.k-saa.org/blog/cfp-tra... #cfp

Are you attending NASSR's 2025 conference? Please join us tomorrow (8/15) at the K-SAA-sponsored panel "Re-collecting Stuart Curran: A Virtual Commonplace Book." Together, we will honor the work of a scholar who shaped our field and our community. DM us or email ksaacomm@gmail.com with any questions

📣 Calling all grad students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars!
📚 Apply for a Pforzheimer Grant by Nov. 1st to help fund your research expenses for projects relating to Romantic-era literature and culture.
🔗 More info here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

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...

“What Are You Reading?”: Dilara Kalkan — K-SAA This "What Are You Reading?" features Dilara Kalkan, exploring Romanticism's revival in Dark Academia. Discover her insights on Byron, Keats, and Mary Shelley's continuing influence on contemporary li...

#KSAABlog: This month's "What Are You Reading?" interview features @dilarakalkan.bsky.social! Kalkan explores the legacy of Romanticism in contemporary literature (such as Dark Academia) and runs a beautiful and well-researched Instagram account called "odetoshelley." www.k-saa.org/blog/wayr-di...

New Publication: ‘Percy Shelley in Context’ — K-SAA New publication alert: "Percy Shelley in Context" edited by Ross Wilson brings together leading scholars to explore the poet's lasting influence from his time to ours. Available through Cambridge Univ...

Published in April, "Percy Shelley in Context" brings together leading scholars to explore the poet's lasting influence from his time to ours. Read about the volume and find interviews with editor Ross Wilson on the #KSAABlog! www.k-saa.org/blog/percy-s...
#PercyShelleyInContext

New Publication: ‘The Closest Thing in History’ by John Webster — K-SAA New publication alert: "The Closest Thing in History" by John Webster explores fascinating parallels between Romantic poets (Keats, Byron, Hunt, Shelley) and The Beatles, from Byronmania to Beatlemani...

#KSAABlog: tracing celebrity culture from “Byronmania” to “Beatlemania,” John Webster's new book "The Closest Thing in History" compares The Beatles to Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley! Read the press release here: www.k-saa.org/blog/closest...