I was fortunate to be awarded the 2025 President’s Fellowship from the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), which enabled me to spend time in Oxford researching the presence of… Read more »
I’m writing to update members on the outcome of the first Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which we inaugurated at this year’s BARS ECR/PGR Conference in Cambridge. Our keynote speakers… Read more »
You are warmly invited to submit proposals for the BARS digital events series for spring 2026! We are particularly interested in 90-minute roundtables that bring together four or five speakers, presenting for about 10… Read more »
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (including literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary. The purpose… Read more »
Listed below are calls for panel contributions for the 2026 Conference. If you would like to send out a similar call for contributions, please write to the conference organisers at:… Read more »
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. The prize will be… Read more »
As BARS’s Communications team, we are writing to you to inform you of a change that will be made to the processing of messages sent to the BARS Electronic Mailbase. As… Read more »
During the summer of 2025, as part of my Stephen Copley Research Award, I was able to further investigate the friendship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Hebrew scholar Hyman… Read more »
I am pleased to announce that issue 61 of the BARS Review has now been published and can be viewed here: https://www.bars.ac.uk/review/index.php/barsreview. The BARS Review publishes timely reviews of new monographs, editions, essay collections, biographies… Read more »
Voting in the BARS 2025 Elections concluded on Monday. The returning officers, Matthew Sangster and Mary Fairclough, have checked and validated the ballots and are now pleased to announce the… Read more »