Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 As one of the oldest and most widely practised forms of reflection on vernacular literatures, Shakespeare criticism has helped shape modern literary scholarship worldwide. The mutual… Read more »
Want to write for the BARS Blog? Get in touch with a proposal for our series ‘On This Day’. This series is about Romantic bicentenaries, and has been running since July 2015. We… Read more »
11 November 2022, Institut Français, London Kensington Why is there so much global inequality? What would an equal society look like? What do the terms liberty and equality mean to… Read more »
New Book! Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space as a Living Nightmare MultiPlay is ecstatic to announce that after the success of our Gothic Games and Disturbing Play Conference… Read more »
The “Victorian Literary Languages” network studies the multilingualism of nineteenth-century literature, examining the connections between the literary and linguistic histories of Victorian Britain and Ireland. How might critical perspectives on… Read more »
University of Edinburgh 15th – 16th June 2023 Proposal Deadline: Monday 12th December 2022 Romantic Boundaries Keynote Speakers: Professor Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh) Dr Andrew Hodgson (University of Birmingham)… Read more »
2023: The Year of Gothic Women. An interdisciplinary project devoted to spotlighting undervalued and understudied women writers The year 2023 marks the bicentenary of both Ann Radcliffe’s death and two… Read more »
FIRESIDE TALES OF TERROR: The Gothic and Winter University of Warwick, 15-16th December 2022 “Horrors belong as naturally to the fireside, as fireside belongs to Christmas” declares the narrator of… Read more »
The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to support research in Romantic-era literature and culture. The awards honor Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. (1907-1996), past president, vigorous advocate, and most generous benefactor… Read more »
The British Association for Romantic Studies Digital Events Committee are glad to invite proposals for our 2022/23 series. We’ll be looking to run fewer events this session (four or five),… Read more »