British Association for Romantic Studies

British Association for Romantic Studies

Website of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

How to Join

How to Join

BARS memberships run from 1st January to 31st December each year.  Subscriptions are due on January 1st, regardless of the month of joining BARS.  The annual subscription costs £25 (waged) or £10 (unwaged and/or postgraduate).  Joint BARS-North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) memberships are also available (see below).

Members will be subscribed to the BARS Electronic Mailbase, will be eligible for BARS funding in the form of grants and bursaries and can attend BARS International Conferences, Early Career and Postgraduate Conferences and other events that the association organises.  BARS dues support the open-access publication of The BARS Review and BARS’ continuing work connecting Romanticists in Britain, Europe, the United States, Australasia and the wider world.

New members may pay using the PayPal links below; you will receive an email from the BARS Membership Secretary, Dr Yimon Lo, once your subscription fee has been received. If you are a new member who would like to pay using a cheque, standing order, banker’s order or an online bank transfer, please contact the Membership Secretary by email: bars.memberships@gmail.com.

Current members renewing their subscriptions can use any of the payment methods listed below.

Payment Options

PayPal/Credit Card

You can subscribe or renew your subscription using PayPal.  You can either make payments separately each year using single payments, or you can set up a recurring annual subscription that will debit your card or account every year on the date that you set it up. To set up a recurring subscription using these links, a PayPal account is required, but a one-off payment can be made using the ‘Pay with Credit or Debit Card’ option after clicking through.  To set up a recurring payment without a PayPal account, see the section ‘Standing Orders, Banker’s Orders and Online Payments’ below.

The BARS subscription year begins on January 1st, so if possible, we prefer recurring subscriptions to be set up around this date.  If you’d like to subscribe to BARS later in a year, we ask that you use one of the single payment options below and then set up a recurring payment for the next year at a time between December 1st and January 31st.

Recurring Subscriptions

£25: Waged – Recurring Subscription

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£10: Postgraduate/Retired/Part-Time or Impermanent Position/Unwaged – Recurring Subscription

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Single Payments

£25: Waged – Single Payment

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£10: Postgraduate/Retired/Part-Time or Impermanent Position/Unwaged – Single Payment

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Cheques

Alternatively, subscriptions may be renewed with cheques made payable to ‘British Association for Romantic Studies’.  Please contact Yimon Lo (bars.memberships@gmail.com) if a cheque is the only viable payment option for you.

 

Your Data

Your data (name and email address) will only be used for the purposes of the BARS membership record, mailing list, and other member communications.  We will never give your data to third parties.  When you join using PayPal, the email address you use will be added to our Mailing List.  You can contact our Membership Secretary to request that your email address not be added or that we use a different email address to contact you.  Every email from BARS will include an option to unsubscribe from the mailing list.  You can ask us to delete your data at any time.

BARS-NASSR Combined Membership

BARS and North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) collaborate on offering a combined option that provides a reduced-cost membership of both organisations.  This can be paid for yearly or set up as a recurring subscription using the buttons below.

The benefits of NASSR membership are as follows:

  • Subscription to European Romantic Review. 
  • Access to NASSR conferences and event registration.  
  • Automatic membership in the German Society for English Romanticism (GER). 
  • Eligibility for travel bursaries (graduate-student members/postgraduate students). 
  • Inclusion in and access to the member directory.
  • Invitation to run and/or vote in board elections. 
  • Invitation to submit items to the biannual Newsletter.  
  • Eligibility to join one or more caucus. (Caucus).  
  • Subscription to the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE).

More information on NASSR can be found on its website.

BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership (one year; full time waged) – £62


BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership (one year; postgraduate/retired/part-time or impermanent position/unwaged) – £40


BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership (subscription; full time waged) – £62/year


BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership (subscription; postgraduate/retired/part-time or impermanent position/unwaged) – £40/year