Welcome to BARS

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) was set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period. Since then, BARS has organised eight International conferences at various locations in the UK, has published the BARS Bulletin and Review twice-yearly, and currently has more than 350 members.

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BARS Postgraduates

Welcome to the BARS Postgraduate page. Here you can find details of how to contact your representative, Daniel Cook. If you have any questions, or there are issues you would like to raise, please get in touch via the addresses below. We aim to be an approachable point of contact for BARS postgraduates. Our role is to provide a voice for postgraduate members at the BARS committee meetings and to ensure that their interests are reflected in any decisions made by the executive. During our two years' tenure, we will also contribute the postgraduate column to the BARS newsletter and organise a one-day conference for postgraduates.

Postgraduate Representative: Daniel Cook , Queens' College,University of Cambridge

email: daniel.cook@cantab.net

As a postgraduate, joining BARS means becoming part of a community of fellow researchers. Apart from joining the largest UK body of Romanticists, the benefits of BARS membership for postgraduates include:

  • A twice-yearly newsletter, with news and reviews of conferences and publications
  • Regular e-mails with details of publications, conferences, websites, and jobs
  • Use of the BARS website resources, including links and back issues of the newsletter
  • A bi-annual postgraduate day conference, providing a relaxed forum in which to present and hear research and to socialise with your peers
  • BARS postgraduate bursaries

News

Don't forget to check the news and events page for stop press news on events of interest to postgraduates.  Two conferences of current interest are listed  under Postgraduates > Conferences - see the drop-down menu to the left of this page.

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Grants and Prizes for postgraduates:


NASSR Conference Student Essay Prize
British Association for Irish Studies Postgraduate Bursaries Scheme
Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize
Sheila Birkenhead Memorial Bursaries
NCSA Emerging Scholars Award
Nottingham Trent Studentships
Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Annual Prize Competition - click here for KSMA Noticeboard  (Awards) and here for poster for the 2008 Competition

CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS - CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN SOCIETY

Travel Support for Graduate Students:
Two travel subventions of $500 each for graduate student participation will be awarded, funded by the Brown Society. Criteria for these travel subventions will favor students at the dissertation stage (over those in earlier stages of degree work) and those who have not previously presented at a CBBS meeting. Graduate students applying for a subvention should indicate their interest in a cover letter and provide information about whether or not they are ABD. See conference call for papers

Publishing Opportunities:


Postgraduate English - Online Journal, University of Durham

Back issues of the Postgraduate Column in the BARS Bulletin & Review:


Postgraduate Column from Bulletin Issue 25
Postgraduate Column from Buletin Issue 24


Other important postgraduate information:

ASEC maintains a Graduate Student caucus, which publicizes details of events, fellowships, publishing opprtunties, and many other items of special interest to postgraduate students in the US and elsewhere - to sign up, go to:

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Seminars

North East Postgraduate Forum in the Long Eighteenth Century - for further details click here