We received a number of very high quality applications for the BARS Communications Assistant 2024-25 position. The Executive Committee are delighted to announce that there will be a new Assistant working on the BARS Blog and social media in the next academic year:
Dr Adam Neikirk
Adam Neikirk is a poet, scholar, and teacher with research interests in British Romantic poetry, philosophy of literature, biography, and literary immersion. In 2023 he received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Essex. Adam has written three books of poetry and several critical essays, which have appeared in the Coleridge Bulletin, Forum, the Charles and Mary Lamb Journal, and elsewhere. In fall of 2024 Adam will join the English and Philosophy departments at Westfield State University as an Adjunct Lecturer. You can follow Adam on X here.
Adam will be assisting Comms Officer, Amy Wilcockson, with the social media (X, Facebook, BlueSky), plus facilitating the creation of original content for the BARS Blog and TikTok accounts.
More on our plans for this academic year very soon! Keep an eye on our social media pages for how you can be involved and contribute to the BARS Blog.
With huge thanks to Isabelle Murray and Dr Rosie Whitcombe, our outstanding Communications Assistants for 2023-24.