Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman

Call for Papers for the 41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society on "Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond", Sorbonne Université, Paris, 6-9 July 2027. Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2026 ecsss.org/wp-content/u...

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

Happy Gulliver 300 everyone. With thanks to @barryosullivan.bsky.social for explaining big- and little-endianness and much more to me!

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...

IASSL event coming soon! On Friday 23 October at 8.30 pm (UK time) on Teams, we're hosting our second online webinar on "Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature". Find more about this here: scotlit-iassl.org/author/scotl...

The deadline for the Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now conference that is to be held at Sheffield next June has been extended by a month. Do put in an abstract! www.annradcliffe.org/conference/ @radcliffecup.bsky.social @angelawright1794.bsky.social

We have 3 funded places for students available to attend our annual conference! Find out more and apply: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/works...

The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen Mary Brunton and Susan Ferrier did outsell, inspire, and benefit from Austen, @drcleoocy.bsky.social writes on @theconversation.com.

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

Here's a quick reminder that the CfP for the 14th International Walter Scott Conference (University of Edinburgh, 28-30 June 2027) is out. The topic is "Politics, Place, and Print Culture". Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2026.

Meet Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social: IASSL's Membership Secretary for the current tenure. Here's what she has to say about her current role.

Beautiful evening on campus ☀️

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...

UCC Library invites you to "Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History" one day conference on 18 September. Explore the legacy of this remarkable medieval manuscript with expert speakers from UCC, Oxford and Edinburgh. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4589456

From 2024: @drcleoocy.bsky.social examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton From Reading Scotland at @unimainz.bsky.social #C18 #C19 #WomenWriters www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OK...

Infinite Women: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier In this episode of the @infinite-women.com podcast, @drcleoocy.bsky.social & @kateferrier.bsky.social discuss Susan Ferrier’s life & work #C18 #C19 #WomenWriters www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHj...

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels – 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, & 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 – are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious… A 🎂🧵 #C18 #C19 #WomenWriters www.nls.uk/collections/...

After a long embargo, it is finally out: my ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu has been funded. The 5-year project on creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century starts in Jan 27 at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz. For news, follow us at @erc-nudgers.bsky.social.

A pleasure to speak with Lithuanian National Television and Radio (LRT) recently about historical attitudes towards novel reading and how these are changing in light of the UK’s #NationalYearofReading in 2026. Our interview (for any Lithuanian-speaking friends!) is here: www.lrt.lt/radioteka/ir...

✍️The Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide is a major output of ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project. Read Dr @drcleoocy.bsky.social article 👇 @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social

The Book of Improvement is available for preorder! Please consider asking your librarians to purchase a copy. Cover still TK. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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.

First night in my new city 🇮🇪

We asked our Executive Committee members what IASSL means for them. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing their answers. Follow the link below to learn more about them: scotlit-iassl.org/about/the-ex...

My last day @glasgowburns.bsky.social and what a year it’s been - 1 map, much haggis, and many Burns Suppers later! Excited to begin a new chapter next week but first special thanks to @paulinemackay.bsky.social, and all my friends and colleagues @uofgartshums.bsky.social, for such a convivial time!

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

Thrilled to share that Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation received an Honorable Mention for the @bars.bsky.social's First Book Prize! Congrats to Yin Yuan on winning for Alimentary Orientalisms, & to Colleen Taylor, my fellow Honorable Mention! 🎉🥳👏🏼

A really interesting and intellectually stimulating day at Romantic Retrospection online, following up the excellent in-person days in Birmingham last week. Congratulations and many thanks to the organisers for a smart, well-run, inclusive and convivial @bars.bsky.social conference.

some #bars2026 highlights, as promised. Overall, an incredible conference. In general, everyone was so kind & generous with their time & conversation. Despite a precarious job market, ECR work was the highest standard I've witnessed, & there was a deep, comforting community spirit amongst us.

Fabulous few days in Birmingham for #BARS2026 (in person) with friends old and new. So many fantastic panels and a pleasure to present research from my new project on Bentley’s Standard Novels. Thanks to all who came along and offered feedback. Roll on next Thursday for the online day!

Pleased to see this piece published in @theconversation.com yesterday. Thoughts I’ve had for a while made timely by our #NationalYearofReading: theconversation.com/from-moral-d... @uofgartshums.bsky.social

BARS PGR and ECR Representatives 2026–2028 Announced Please welcome @19thcenturyem.bsky.social as our PGR Representative and @laurabrook.bsky.social and @serenaqihuipei.bsky.social as our ECR Representatives!! For more information please see the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6543

Conference week is in full swing! A fun 48 hours in Liverpool for #BAVS2026 and shortly onto Birmingham for #BARS2026… @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Thinking of all my @bars.bsky.social people as this years wonderful looking Birmingham conference kicks off today with @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social shenanigans! Missing you all from hospital 😭 Gimme some of that sweet sweet live sleeting #BARS26

📣 CfP - @rrrjournal.bsky.social Conference 2027 📣 Submissions are open for @rrrjournal.bsky.social conference on the theme Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth-Century! Held at beautiful RHUL, this is not to be missed!!

📣CfP Alert📣 We are delighted to announce that our CfP for the 2027 RRR conference is now open! The deadline for abstracts is the 25th of October. The focus will be on ecosystems of the long nineteenth century 🌱 We can’t wait to read your submissions!

CFP: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference 28–30 June 2027 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Papers invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026 #C18 #C19 #romanticism #bookhistory llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

Following the 225th anniversary of the first ever Burns Suppers yesterday (21st July) we’re thrilled to share that the new Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide is now LIVE and available here: burns-supper-map.gla.ac.uk#2.25/37.70/-... 1,000+ events in 2026 alone, 75 countries and 7 continents

To mark the occasion CRBS has also launched new webpages, offering fresh insights into the Burns Suppers as Living Heritage, and the individual categories of Living Heritage encompassed in this originally Scottish, and now global, tradition. Learn more and explore here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit...

The global survey of the Burns Suppers will continue to accept new submissions on a rolling basis. Map updates are scheduled for March and August each year. Please continue to #sendusyoursuppers and help grow this archive of the Burns Suppers as Living Heritage! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌍 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near… Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final #poem in his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) #romanticism #C18 1/4

Tomorrow!!

“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…” In Susan Ferrier’s 1818 novel MARRIAGE, #romantic English notions about the Highlands meet cold, damp reality… #BookWormSat #C18 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...