BARS Executive Role Descriptions for Elections 2025
Please see below for descriptions of the six roles for which BARS is holding elections in the summer of 2025. Details of the self-nomination process can be found here. Vice… Read more »
Please see below for descriptions of the six roles for which BARS is holding elections in the summer of 2025. Details of the self-nomination process can be found here. Vice… Read more »
This has been a very difficult year for BARS members working in universities, with every day seeming to bring news of new cuts and threats of redundancies. BARS is keen… Read more »
Ross Wilson is Professor of the History and Theory of Criticism at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of literary criticism and on… Read more »
Gerard McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His research is particularly concerned with discourses of improvement; space, place and regionalism; and book history and… Read more »
Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Her research examines theatre and performance from the late seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century, with… Read more »
Omar F. Miranda is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco. His work examines literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially their transnational, global… Read more »
Jacob Lloyd is a Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. His work focuses on relationships between poetry and politics, as well as questions of influence, transmission and transformation in… Read more »
Matthew Ward is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. His work focuses on British Romanticism, poetic traditions and intellectual history – he is especially interested in the… Read more »
Pamela Buck is Associate Professor of English at Sacred Heart University. She is a scholar of British Romantic literature whose work focuses particularly on gender, empire, and material culture. Recent… Read more »
James Armstrong is an adjunct assistant professor at City College of the City University of New York. He has published extensively on drama in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries,… Read more »