Yasemin Hacıoğlu is an Associate Professor in English Literature, Culture and Didactics at Volda University College. Her work encompasses feminist literature, cognitive literary theory, and queer and feminist social movements. Her… Read more »
Thank you so much to Rupsha Banerjee for writing this illuminating blog post introducing us to four women-authored Romantic-period medievalist texts! If you would like to contribute to the blog,… Read more »
Dear BARS colleagues, I am writing with news of a funded PhD position in Cork, to work as part of the nationally funded Research Ireland Rinn Artificial Intelligence network on… Read more »
The Year’s Work in English Studies is an annual review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English from 601 to the present; expert critical commentary is… Read more »
I am pleased to announce that issue 62 of the BARS Review has now been published and can be viewed here: https://www.bars.ac.uk/review/index.php/barsreview. Many thanks to all who contributed! The BARS Review publishes timely reviews of… Read more »
30th June 2026, 5pm BSTJoin meeting: https://uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/j/62337163567?pwd=JCBuA8RmtGHoRmbkLL0ovZFNzaxD2U.1#successMeeting ID: 623 3716 3567 Passcode: 651977 BARS’s TikTok account provides a platform for sharing tidbits of Romanticism with a wider audience. All of… Read more »
Dr Sarah Burdett (Cambridge) tells us about her play, ‘Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A Tragi-Comic Entertainment’. This blog post accompanies a short film, which you can watch on… Read more »
Hello everyone, We write with a few key updates about BARS 2026. Registration and Bookings (note deadlines!) Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. We’d like… Read more »
The British Association for Romantic Studies invites self-nominations from members who would like to stand for the role of President or Treasurer. Both posts have incumbents who have served one… Read more »
Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at… Read more »