BARS Postgrad Rep: Call for Expressions of Interest
Please see below for a call from BARS’ President, Nicola Watson, for expressions of interest in the role of postgraduate representative on the BARS Executive. As a former postgrad rep,… Read more »
Author Archives: Matthew Sangster
Programme for Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830
Please see below for the programme for Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830. For registration information, keep an eye on the conference site. — Making, Breaking and… Read more »
Five Questions: Mark Sandy on Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning
Dr Mark Sandy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. His research focuses primarily on Romantic poetics and legacies, paying particular attention to… Read more »
The Royal Literary Fund and the Perils of Authorship Timetable
Please see below for the timetable for the Royal Literary Fund and the Perils of Authorship symposium, which will be taking place next Friday (May 9th) at the British Library. … Read more »
Five Questions: Georgina Green on the Majesty of the People
Georgina Green is currently a Research Fellow at the University of York; prior to taking up this appointment, she completed her PhD at the University of Oxford and conducted research… Read more »
CfP Extension: Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830
Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830, which will take place in Newcastle on the 15th of July, has extended its Call for Papers until May 7th,… Read more »
1814: Two Hundred Years On
On the bicentenary of the first defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the arrival of ‘peace’ in Britain and Europe, Nicola Watson (Open University) and Ian Haywood (Roehampton University) are… Read more »
Wordsworth Trust Blog
The Wordsworth Trust have recently started a new blog on Wordsworth and Romanticism; posts already published include Seamus Perry on Coleridge and spring, Pamela Woof on Dorothy Wordsworth and Stephen… Read more »
Five Questions: Peter Kitson on Forging Romantic China
Peter J. Kitson is currently Professor of English at the University of East Anglia; previous to this, he taught at the University of Dundee and the University of Wales, Bangor. … Read more »
Stephen Copley Bursaries
A reminder that the deadline for BARS’ Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Awards is May 1st. If you are a postgraduate scholar who needs to access research collections at a distance… Read more »