British Association for Romantic Studies

Hello again to everyone on BlueSky! We're the British Association for Romantic Studies & we promote the study of Romanticism & the history and culture of the period from which it emerged. We organise conferences, circulate news, award fellowships, support PGRs & ECRs, publish a review & much more!

Reminder: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 closes on Friday 6 November - please do get your applications in! More details at the link below ⤵️

Call for Applications: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 Open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Closes: Fri 6 Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6597

Reminder - Please submit your applications to the BARS Open Fellowship 2027 by the 6th November. More info and link to the application form are below⤵️

Call for Applications: BARS Stephen Copley Research Awards PGRs and ECRs working in Romantic Studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award. The BARS Executive has established the bursaries to fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for the Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English Literature to be taken up during academic year 2027-28. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6653

Call for Papers: Wordsworth Winter Conference March 3rd-6th 2027 in the Reading Room of the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere, UK Deadline 1st November 2026 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6650

The course is online, runs for three weeks, and all materials are provided! You can join from anywhere in the world!

BARS is pleased to announce the relaunch of its conference and seminar support scheme. Applicants may apply for up to £500 from BARS to support seminar and conference activities. Deadline: 1 November 2026 (further rounds thereafter). www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Call for Papers: Romanticism and the Sense of Place An International Conference | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan | 17–19 July 2027 For more information, see the blog post: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6636

Call for Contributions: Volcanic Materiality in Literature and Art of the Anthropocene The deadline will be November 30, 2026. Full drafts will be due February 28, 2027. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6634

delighted to announce I'm part of the 2026-7 online programme for Romanticism Across Borders! I'll be lecturing on my Scottish Romantic illustration research the evening of 9th December 💫

Reminder - this event is taking place in a fortnight's time!! Get your free tickets at the link below ⤵️

We’re excited to be hosting this event for early career researchers on Tuesday 3 November. Interested? Find out more at the link below 👇

Wonderful opportunity for PGRS and ECRs - A Day in the Literary Archive: British Academy Seminar and Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Tuesday 3rd November 2026 at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6626

BARS Digital Event: Returning to John Clare Join BARS for varied discussion focused around the poet, John Clare, including new archival discoveries, editing and class politics, global poetic legacy, and ideas of beauty in his poems. 19 October, 5pm UK Time  www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6624

Looking forward to teaching Austen’s Teenage Writings for the first time this afternoon - and delighted to have a piece on Austen’s Scottish female contemporaries published in @uk.theconversation.com this morning! theconversation.com/the-two-scot... @uccresearch.bsky.social

Call for Proposals: BARS Digital Events Series Autumn Winter 2026-27 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6621 Please share widely!!

Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Info and to submit abstracts: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6447

Book launch!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social

The deadline has been extended until the 16th Sept (this Wednesday!) Please send us an application if you're interested in assisting with the BARS social media and Blog. Stipend paid! More info ⤵️

Reminder - taking place this Weds!

Happy birthday Joanna Baillie! Thank you @asls.org.uk for sharing my talk!

New on the BARS Blog - “Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime by @rjdashwood.bsky.social and @drstephr.bsky.social While the idea of the Austen crime novel might seem odd, crime and romance share some decided similarities... Read more at www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606

REMINDER - taking place next Wednesday! BARS Digital Event: THE LAST MAN TODAY Speakers: Young-ok An, Simon Bainbridge, Daniel Cook, Fuson Wang, Omar F Miranda, and Sharon Ruston 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A new Five Questions interview is up on the @bars.bsky.social Blog: Yasmin Solomonescu on her new monograph Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org). www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6612

ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...

A new special issue of Persuasions On-Line on 'Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures' has just gone live! The issue boasts articles on Chinese translation and reception, literary tourism, fanfiction, and digital humanities projects.

The article Stephanie Russo and I wrote during my stay at Macquarie University in Sydney this year is now out on the @bars.bsky.social Blog! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606

Call for Applications: The BARS Open Fellowship 2027 The Open Fellowship is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at the forefront of Romantic studies to support research expenses of up to £2000. Closes: Friday 6 November 2026. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6598

Call for Applications: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 Open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Closes: Fri 6 Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6597

Still time to submit your applications for Comms Fellow. If you're a PGR or ECR who would like to help with the social media and blog, then check out the post below!!

Call For Papers: Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, 18-20 November 2027 Romanticism and Property For more info and the full CfP, please see the link below: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6595

Please join us for our next 1819 Social Event: "How to Shape, Revise, & Submit Articles for Publication" with Dr. Lucy Morrison and Dr. Amelia Worsley! The event will be held on Zoom on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:00pm EDT. Register using the link below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy 229th birthday to #MaryShelley 🖤 I have endless admiration for the woman whose words still inspire me and make me feel as though I’m in dialogue with her. Her voice has stayed with me in ways I could never have imagined. P.S. Apparently, Mary Shelley is for felines too!

Recital: ‘The Romantic Imagination: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Through Poetry and Song’ Wed 21 Oct | St Michael's Church, Highgate. Free admission. More info: www.marcuscoleridge.com/event-detail...

Call for Papers: Second Poznań European Romanticism Conference, to be held in Poznań, Poland, from 1–3 June 2027 ROMANTIC INTERRUPTIONS, ROMANTIC DISRUPTIONS For more information and details of how to submit an abstract, please see: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6589

Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference The University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July Website for more info: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

💻 BARS Digital Event Announcement: The Last Man Today 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

One of the best things about being Comms Officer for BARS is working alongside a wonderful Communications Fellow!! If you're interested in helping me run the BARS Blog and social media feeds for the next academic year (and receive a stipend for doing so!!!), please check out the link below ⤵️

Come and join the wonderful BARS team! 📬

Call for Papers/Workshops: Romance, Revolution and Reform Conference - Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century @rrrjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for their next conference, which will be at Royal Holloway and online on 15 Jan 2027. Abstracts due 25 Oct 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6580

Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578

CfP: "Framing the Human in the Nineteenth Century", the 48th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social (Philadelphia, PA, March 2027) Abstracts due 31 Oct 2026 Details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6576

Save the date: The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar returns on 7 October, with Miles Ogborn (QMUL) speaking on 'Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832'. We're in person at the IHR and online on Zoom. Free registration opens soon. #Skystorians