Hi all,
The Year’s Work in English Studies (published by Oxford UP, sponsored by the English Association) is searching for a contributor to cover Romantic drama (1780-1830) for the upcoming edition (2022 publications). Reviewers are compensated and may keep the books sent for review. For more information, to express an interest, please contact Steven Lynn at lynns@sc.edu.
Thanks!
Steven Lynn
Dean, South Carolina Honors College
Louise Fry Scudder Professor
Just a little reminder to our readers that all of the past BARS Digital Events 2022-23 are available on our YouTube channel, click here to visit, and don’t forget to subscribe!
We have had some wonderful events in this series kicking off with Reconfiguring the Sublime: Romanticism’s EcoGothic Waters.
Next up was Re-Awakening the Harp of the North: New Approaches to Walter Scott.
Then our BARS Digital Burns Night returned for the third time!
The fourth event in this series was on Romantic Portraits and their Afterlives: Media Arts in Dialogue.
Finally, The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia was the final event of this series.
And don’t forget that you can also find recordings of our previous events from earlier years in our back catalogue on YouTube too!
The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) would like to invite applications for a Communications Assistant to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from June 2023. We are looking for someone with previous experience of using blogs and social media for academic purposes. This position is paid an honorarium of £750 and is open to all postgraduate students and early career researchers working in Romantic Studies anywhere in the world. This role will require around 1-2 hours per week.
Responsibilities will include:
The successful applicant will work closely with the Communications Officer, Amy Wilcockson.
This post is an excellent career-development opportunity for a PhD student or early career researcher. You will have the chance to develop valuable skills in the field of scholarly communications and to contribute to the BARS postgraduate community. You will gain valuable skills (website management, content creation and digital communications) which will be useful in academic and non-academic roles alike. We expect that this role will be held alongside other academic or professional commitments such as completing a research project and/or teaching, and we encourage flexible working.
Essential requirements:
Desirable experience:
To apply: please send an academic CV and personal statement (no more than 1 A4 page) explaining why you are best placed to undertake the duties above to britishassociationromantic@gmail.com by 5 June 2023.
Informal enquiries can be directed to Amy Wilcockson at amy.wilcockson@nottingham.ac.uk
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. In keeping with the remit of the British Association for Romantic Studies, the prize is designed to encourage and recognise original, ground-breaking and interdisciplinary work in the literature and culture of the period c. 1780-1830. The prize is awarded to the value of £300.
The BARS Executive has appointed a panel of judges consisting of: Prof Mary Fairclough (York); Dr Yimon Lo (Tübingen and Leuven); Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland (RCS and Glasgow). The panel is chaired by Prof Simon Kövesi (Glasgow).
Eligibility, Nomination and Submission
The competition is open to scholarly monographs published in English by authors who have not published a monograph before. Books can be nominated by publishers, by members of BARS, or by the author themselves, using the form below. Nominations should attest to the significance of the book’s scholarly contribution, detailing its particular strengths and describing the nature of its originality in no more than 300 words. To ensure this remains a prize for Early Career Academics, the book’s official date of publication will be no later than 10 years after the award of the author’s PhD.
Deadlines: nomination forms, accompanied by e-copies or hardcopies of the book submitted, should be received by the chair of the panel no later than 15 July 2023. The award will be announced in the autumn of 2023.
Email address for all submissions and queries: simon.kovesi@glasgow.ac.uk.
Postal address for hardcopies of books: Prof. Simon Kövesi, School of Critical Studies, 5, University Gardens (Room 304), University of Glasgow, G12 8QH, Scotland.
Postgraduates and early career scholars working in the area of Romanticism/those working on the expansive era the Romantic period covered are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award.
Deadline for this round: 15 June 2023
The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. Expenses may include but are not limited to the cost of travel and accommodation related to archival or research-focused trips, as well as photocopying, scanning, and childcare.
A postgraduate must be enrolled on a doctoral programme in the UK; an early career scholar is defined as someone who holds a PhD (from the UK) but has not held a permanent academic post for more than three years by the application deadline. Application for the awards is competitive, and cannot be made retrospectively.
Successful applicants must be members of BARS before taking up the award. The names of recipients will be announced on the BARS website and social media, and successful applicants will be asked to submit a short report to the BARS Executive Committee within four weeks of the completion of the research trip and to acknowledge BARS in their doctoral thesis and/or any publication. Reports may also be published on the BARS Blog where this is appropriate. Previous winners or applicants are encouraged to apply again.
Please send the following information in support of your application (up to two pages of A4 maximum in word.doc format):
Applications and queries should be directed to the bursaries officer, Dr Gerard Lee McKeever (gerard.mckeever@ed.ac.uk) at the University of Edinburgh.
There are two rounds of the scheme in each year. The deadlines are June 15th and December 15th.
Following the recent BARS Executive elections, the details of the incoming members are now available on the BARS website:
Our thanks to all who stood for election, and those who voted. Many thanks also to our outgoing Executive members, who will be missed.
On behalf of the newest Executive members, we look forward to working with the BARS Membership! – Amy Wilcockson, Communications Officer.
Magdalen College, Oxford
25 September 2023
Keynotes: Professor Anahid Nersessian (UCLA; author, The Calamity Form and Keats’s Odes) Dr Adam Phillips (general editor of Freud for Penguin Books)
Email abstracts (250 words) and bios (75 words) to influenceoxford@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 May.
Texts influence one another and influence us as readers. Half a century ago, Harold Bloom evolved a template for understanding the process of poetic influence in The Anxiety of Influence, which he characterized as an agonised and agonistic misreading of great precursors, by authors under the pressure of Freudian anxiety. However, the land lies differently in 2023, and the essential questions that Bloom tackled are inviting new answers and methodologies from across the discipline of literary studies.
This conference invites papers which consider influence as an Anglophone literary phenomenon over the last five centuries. It is concerned with the theory of influence, specific examples of it, and new methods in criticism and research, whether imaginative, technical, or speculative. Approaches from neighbouring disciplines such as history, philosophy, and anthropology are welcome. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes long and are invited on all aspects of literary influence, including:
❖ ‘Influence’ as a critical or historical concept
❖ Influence beyond the canon
» Recovering forgotten or marginalized influences
» Post-colonial influence
» Influence across borders
» Queer influences
» Influence between social divides
❖ Influence between eras
❖ Influence between genres, or between non-‘literary’ and ‘literary’
❖ The influence of non-authorial agents on the shape of a text
❖ Memory, mistakes, misreading, and misremembering
❖ Theoretical approaches to influence, such as ‘paranoid reading’, deconstruction, and intentionalism
❖ The problems of revision, multiple authorship, or anonymity
❖ The influence of critical schools and the academy
Papers might also treat the anniversary of Bloom’s book as a springboard, approaching topics such as:
❖ Renaissance influence. Bloom believed that the early moderns, the ‘giant age before the flood’, were influenced differently to later eras. How, then, did Renaissance writers make sense of influence and influence once another, and how has their influence subsequently been felt?
❖ The ‘apocalypse’ of influence studies? How are the digital humanities rethinking ‘source hunting’ and ‘allusion counting’ in the 21st century? Has there been a noticeable shift ‘from scholars to computers’ – the move Bloom thought would spell the ‘apocalypse’ of the industry?
❖ Psychologising influence. How far is it true that literary influence is a psychological process, tapping into fears, memories, or prejudices beyond the aesthetic? What about the tension between outside influence and the self? Can influence be a form of self-fashioning?
Either way, it seems like an appropriate tribute on the fiftieth anniversary to wrestle free of the great original; swerve away from it; do something different.
Convenors: Lewis Roberts (St John’s College, Cambridge); Jacob Ridley (University College, Oxford); Roddy Howland Jackson (Magdalen College, Oxford); Ruby Hutchings (Queens’ College, Cambridge). Email: influenceoxford@gmail.com; Twitter: @influenceoxford
Register for the conference at this link.
The conference fee will be £100 for salaried delegates or £55 for unsalaried delegates (at the early bird rate). When you register for the conference, you will also be able to sign up for conference excursions and events, including the conference dinner.
The draft programme is available on our website: https://gothicwomenproject.wordpress.com/conference-the-year-of-gothic-women/
We have a limited number of £100 PGR / ECR / unwaged bursaries, kindly sponsored by BSECS and BARS. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please send an email to gothicwomenproject@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Bursary Application’, giving your name and paper title and your current funding / salary status.
The Charles Brockden Brown Society is pleased to announce that registration for its next biennial conference is now open. The conference will be taking place at the University of Nottingham from 14th to 17th September 2023.
The full programme alongside registration link can be found here: The 14th Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society – The University of Nottingham.
The conference will be operating in hybrid format so non-speaking delegates attending remotely are welcome (and can enjoy a slightly discounted rate).
Please note the following: all registration fees will rise by £30 after June 1st; all attendees are also required to be members of the Brown Society (membership running for two years from the conference date) so will need to pay the required membership fee in addition to the registration fee; and finally, there are options during the registration process to pay in advance for the two field trips taking place during the conference and also to indicate whether you’ll be attending the conference dinner and/or the post-conference field trip (payment for these last two items will be arranged later).
School of Arts PGR Conference: ‘Reimagining World Views Across Space and Time’
Saturday 18th November 2023, University of Leicester
Art represents, re-presents, misrepresents, subverts and reimagines the world. Philosophies,
ideologies and epistemes are disseminated, deconstructed and re-constructed through literature,
film, painting, sculpture, digital art, and other media.
This conference will explore how researchers in the Arts, and those working across disciplines,
examine creative works and ideas to identify world views – both old and new – and discover radical
or reformative approaches.
This is a call for all post-graduates undertaking a PhD, as well as post-doctoral researchers or early-
career researchers. We invite submissions that explore the theme ‘Reimagining World Views Across
Space and Time’. This topic refracts into several sub-topics, including:
● The role of art in building bridges in a diverse world
● Re-presenting, re-reading or re-imagining works and their creators
● Literary devices and/or genres
● History and the shape of time
● Intersectionality, unconscious bias and/or shared struggles
● Exploring gender and sexuality
● Decolonisation, power and space
● Neurotypicality, neuroatypicality, specific learning difficulties and different abilities
● Inter-disciplinarity and crossing boundaries
● Context and intertextuality
● Multimodality, ekphrasis and intermediality
● Theoretical refractions and re-interpretations of art
● Metafiction, self-reflexivity, fragmentation, incoherence or playfulness
If you would like to participate in the conference, the following options apply:
● Deliver a 20-minute oral presentation (and optional Q&A)
● Participate in a panel discussion (and optional Q&A)
● Present research in another creative format, such as a poster or showcase
Please upload your proposal, including a 150-word abstract and 100-word biography here. If you
have any issues, please email your submission to uolartspgrconference@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m.,
Friday 12th May 2023.
We are hoping to be able to offer modest travel bursaries for speakers living outside Leicester.
Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for this. Registration to attend the
conference will open mid-May 2023. The conference will be free to attend. We aim to provide a
safe, non-judgmental and inclusive environment for all attendees and participants. If you have any
questions, please contact us via the email address as above.