2 June 2026, 5pm UK Time https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QLieh1WDSbSXqk36mtO5tg With support from the Centre for Theatre Research and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies at the University of Essex Well… Read more »
‘Rowley’s Ghost’ is an online text resource, cataloguing as many creative responses to Thomas Chatterton and examples of his influence as can be identified, from 1770 to the present day…. Read more »
The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association have announced the winners of the 2025-2026 Keats-Shelley Prizes at a special awards ceremony held on 16 April 2026 at 50 Albemarle Street, the former home… Read more »
The British Association for Romantic Studies is currently looking to appoint new Postgraduate and Early Career Officers to replace the outgoing role-holders, Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman, Kate Nankervis and Zooey Ziller,… Read more »
Dear BARS members, We received no firm responses to our initial call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the 2028 BARS conference, and after exploring possibilities with a number of… Read more »
Postgraduate researchers and early career scholars working in Romantic Studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award. The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help… Read more »
2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary… Read more »
The judges of the BARS 2026 First Book Prize received a large number of excellent nominations for this year’s prize. Discriminating amongst such a strong field was necessarily very challenging… Read more »
Lucy Andrew discusses how she transformed Austen’s Harriet Smith into a feisty detective in her new novel A Very Vexing Murder. As a huge fan of both Jane Austen and… Read more »
Dr Hannah Wilson discusses 2026’s excess of Regency adaptations and reworkings, and discusses why this is a bumper year for Austen. The BBC’s recent TV adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s The… Read more »