BARS Open Fellowship 2024 – Applications Welcome
We are delighted to announce that, in addition to our established BARS funding streams – most of which are limited to early career and postgraduate applicants – this year we… Read more »
Author Archives: Amy Wilcockson
‘Am I a Woman or a Slave?’ A formidable event supported by BARS President’s Fellowship Scheme – Ifemu Omari
Two decades ago, I discussed the idea of doing a PhD on Mary Prince with a Senior Lecturer from a Russell Group university. “It’s already been done.” he retorted. And… Read more »
Stephen Copley Research Report: Fiona Doxas on Mary Shelley’s Manuscripts
As has been done for Percy Shelley, Coleridge, Kant, Keats and others besides, my doctoral dissertation at Oxford assembles a comprehensive metaphysical system out of its various and sometimes fragmentary… Read more »
BARS Executive: Secretary Vacancy
Dear Members, The BARS Executive is looking to appoint a new Secretary, following Jennifer Orr’s election to Vice President. The role will be co-opted in the first instance with the… Read more »
Stephen Copley Research Report: Yu-Hung Tien on John Keats’ Afterlives
Here we have the latest report from Yu-Hung Tien, the most recent winner of the Stephen Copley Research Awards, for more information about how to apply, please see here. I’d firstly… Read more »
CfP: NASSR 2024 Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections
August 15-18, 2024 Georgetown University, Washington D.C. We convene the 30th Annual NASSR Conference in Washington D.C., a city that witnessed on January 6, 2021 an insurrection, which Padma Rangarajan… Read more »
Event: John Clare’s Fens
9th September 2023 In October 1849, the poet John Clare wrote to his son Charles from Northampton asylum about all the things he was missing back in Northborough, and in Helpston,… Read more »
Contributor Needed: Year’s Work in English Studies
Hi all, The Year’s Work in English Studies (published by Oxford UP, sponsored by the English Association) is searching for a contributor to cover Romantic drama (1780-1830) for the upcoming edition (2022… Read more »
Call for Applications: BARS Communications Assistant 2023-24
The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) would like to invite applications for a Communications Assistant to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year… Read more »
BARS 2023 First Book Prize: Call for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. In keeping with the… Read more »