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Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 23h
An exciting Gothic conference that I'm co-organising with Strawberry Hill House and a few other organisations, to be held at Strawberry Hill next June. Please circulate the CFP far and wide: www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/gothic-confe...
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Gothic Conference 2027 - Strawberry Hill House & Garden
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OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social · 12h
Dark Enchantments; Mary Shelley; Romance; Dracula; Gothic food; the Weird; Katherine Briggs Lecture; Dark Academia; fantasy * Don't miss Prof. Sharon Ruston's online talk on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and her other works tomorrow evening (see below; sorry for the short notice)....
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Dark Enchantments; Mary Shelley; Romance; Dracula; Gothic food; the Weird; Katherine Briggs Lecture; Dark Academia; fantasy
* Don't miss Prof. Sharon Ruston's online talk on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and her other works tomorrow evening (see below; sorry for the short notice). Dark Enchantments Gustave Dore, The Fairies: A scene drawn from William Shakespeare (1873) I’m very pleased that some of our brilliant OGOM researchers, along with myself, will be speaking at Sheffield Gothic’s ‘Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale’ conference at the University of Sheffield, 29–30 October. And our co-convenor Dr Sam George will be giving a keynote speech, ‘Gothicising the Fairy: Enchantment, Hybridity, Transformation, and Immortality (
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book - Images of the Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze, edited by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler "...examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities...and in Western modernity more generally." www.bloomsbury.com/us/images-of...
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Looks amazing, Cath!
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Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Book launch!
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Likewise Stephanie, looking forward to our paths crossing again!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After a short hiatus, we are now accepting applications to our visiting scholar program. More info to be found on this page: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #researchstay #RCC
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it 💚
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There are a few projects on the go, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press but don't have a date yet. I admire your work so much & would love to chat 🌿 I don't have any other conferences this year but maybe '27? - if you're ever in the UK let me know!
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Of course! It was a condensed version of this essay out in SiR: doi.org/10.1353/srm.... (hope link works, it's open access!) 💚
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had a fantastic time at Romantic Circulations in Oslo speaking about Shelley's wingèd seeds & oozy woods 🍃 Brilliant to hear @sorourke25.bsky.social on Mineral Romanticism, papers on Black Romanticism, Black Metal, & Nordic forests, Swedish Romantic entanglements, & so much more - thanks NARS! 🌌
Photo of a concrete road block painted with Sycamore seeds in front of a street lined with Sycamore trees in OsloPhoto of large greenish hued human-tree sculptures with real trees in the background at Vigeland Park, Oslo.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 28/08/2026
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
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Want to imagine a better future? Write a poem
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CFP for the Brontes and the Supernatural symposium for next September in Haworth - deadline New Year’s Eve
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Haunt me, then! - The Brontës and the Supernatural Symposium | The Brontë Parsonage Museum
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2027 special exhibition will focus on the Brontës’ fascination with the supernatural, and we invite proposals
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lawks a lumme! A permanent literary studies job in the UK! In British Romantic literature! ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair’!
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
📣New publication: The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature Edited by Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang This book reveals how Romanticism contributed to the historical formation and contemporary study of World Literature. (Continued in thread) www.k-saa.org/blog/romanti...
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New Publication: The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature — K-SAA
Edited by Emily Sun, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Orrin N. C. Wang, University of Maryland, College Park
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The 2026 Curran Symposium is coming soon! This year's theme explores Mary Shelley’s genre-defining post-apocalyptic pandemic novel & its legacies. Register 2 weeks in advance in order to attend events. 📆 September 24th and 25th 📍University of Notre Dame #Curran2026 www.k-saa.org/blog/curran2...
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2026 Curran Symposium: THE LAST MAN AT 200–Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster — K-SAA
Consider joining us for our next Curran Symposium on the topic of Mary Shelley’s  The Last Man (1826)!  The event will take place on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University ...
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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We have such talented colleagues in @bars.bsky.social Hoping Felicty James's article travels far and wide as we try to engage meaningfully with this topic.
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Studies in Romanticism @studiesinrom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Studies in Romanticism is thrilled to announce the publication of its Summer 2026 issue, a special issue titled "Mediating the More-Than-Human"! The issue is available open access via Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172.
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Thinking of you, Andy, and so glad to hear you're out of hospital!
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Hannah Catterall (she/her) @hannahcatterallwg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Had a fantastic time at #BARS2026 Day 2: manuscript editing, the Gothic, and Tolkien too. If you weren't able to attend my workshop you can access all the materials here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Email me at h.catterall@wordsworth.org.uk if you'd like to chat about your ideas!
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It was wonderful to hear about the Wordsworths' overgrown arboreal garden at Dove Cottage from Jeremy Davies, the Shelleys' Promethean collaborations from Nora Crook, & Richard Cronin's keynote on poetry of remembering, forgetting, critical pasts & future paths 🌅 See you in Derby for #BARS2028!
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thank you @bars.bsky.social & the B'ham #BARS2026 team for a fruitful few days; grateful to our Literary Arboretum panellists & everyone who came along to hear about Romantic trees 🌳 & was an honour to speak about PBS, plants & ooziness on the 18c Ecologies Network roundtable w inspiring scholars🍃
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Lydia Shaw @lydiashaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Had a fantastic time at #BARS2026 presenting my paper on Byron, exile, belonging and pine trees as part of the Literary Arboretum panels🌲. So brilliant to hear so many fantastic papers on such varied topics📚
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am giving a talk at Kendal Museum on Sat 29 Aug on Beatrix Potter's 'myriads of fairy fungi’. I’ll explore Potter's fascination with fungi, what attracted her to this field of study, and how imaginative & scientific approaches are intertwined in her thinking. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-...
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...
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Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The EA, the Institute of English Studies, & University English are holding an online #emergency summit for all English colleagues to address the proliferation of redundancies, restructurings, other significant challenges to our & cognate disciplines across the sector. 👇🏼 mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...
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Emergency Action On… the Situation for English (10:00 - 12:00, 16 July 2026)
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My essay, '"The sea-blooms and the oozy woods": P. B. Shelley’s Interfluous Poetics', explores the poet's 'interfluous wood' alongside his oozy ecotones, considering M. H. Abrams' 'species' of 'greater Romantic lyric' in the context of the more-than-human 🍃 doi.org/10.1353/srm....
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Lisa Vargo introduces Mary Shelley's editing of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Zucca' as a form of more-than-human mediation, considering the exotic and domestic botanical implications of the poem's namesake pumpkin 🌱 doi.org/10.1353/srm....
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Saeko Yoshikawa explores the ecoaesthetics of Dorothy and William Wordsworth's Lakeland landscape of stones and trees in light of modern and contemporary environmental awareness, revealing symbiotic relationships between the human and more-than-human 🌿 doi.org/10.1353/srm....
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Matthew Rowney explores John Clare's more-than-human vision in 'The Mores', reading Enclosure as a Miltonic Fall and foregrounding the climate crisis in the context of planetary elegy 🌅 doi.org/10.1353/srm....
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Summer issue of Studies in Romanticism is here! ☀️ It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue on 'Mediating the More-Than-Human' with Saeko Yoshikawa 🌿 Thread of essays below, all currently available open access @studiesinrom.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172
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Project MUSE - Studies in Romanticism-Volume 65, Number 2, Summer 2026
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
'The numerals in Shelley's final manuscripts offer poignant clues about the works he never lived to write.' Fascinating and illuminating new insight into the multitudes of mysterious numerals and calculations in P. B. Shelley’s manuscript notebooks 📖⬇️
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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you've got time next Tuesday 7 July), 11 am BST, feel free to attend this online lecture. Here is the link. meeting.tencent.com/dm/cRAF9nhLz...
Abstract for paper on Radcliffe's travel journals next Tuesday. Access via the link.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years
Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
✨️Job Alert✨️ Lecturer in English Literature (18-19c) 📍Liverpool John Moores University, fixed term jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Lecturer in English Literature (12 months fixed term) (5480)
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
⚡️Job Alert⚡️ 📖 Research Associate - The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley 📍Manchester Metropolitan University, fixed term Please share with ECRs! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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Research Associate (Mary Shelley) - (9237) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Please consider signing and sharing. So very many of us in the Humanities and Social Sciences are affected. c.org/RQYq55rPmk
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Review of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 4, by Ross Wilson: www.review19.org/view_doc.php... @hopkinspress.bsky.social 📖
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THE COMPLETE POETRY OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, VOLUME FOUR by Nora Crook, Neil Fraistat, and Stephen Behrendt and Stuart Curran, eds., Reviewed by Ross Wilson
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ISLE, a leading journal in the environmental humanities, is seeking 2 Associate Editors to begin on July 1, 2026. Read the call for applications (deadline June 15) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Green journal cover for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, stating journal title and featuring logo of a bristlecone pine tree.
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Job alert: Lecturer in Creative Writing, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Esp. interested in literary fiction, stage or screen writing, & poetry. #academicjobs @uofgartshums.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @univeng.bsky.social @nawewriters.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (Research & Teaching Track)
The School of Critical Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Creative Writing. Applications are invited from candidates with an appropriate record of academic...
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
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Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today. The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event... Abstracts expected by 26 June!
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Colloque: Espaces Anarchistes (c. 1870 à aujourd’hui) / Anarchist Spaces (c. 1870 to today) | Echelles
ESPACES ANARCHISTES : PRATIQUES, IDÉES, RÉSEAUX (C. 1870 À AUJOURD’HUI) 28-29 JANVIER 2027
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Blogpost revisiting hosting ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ #Rom2Uni ending with the UK HE Shrinking list and solidarity to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social in particular (on your phone you might have to scroll *quite* far down to get there!)
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Going to University with the Romantics
This post relates to the background to Issue 25 (2024) of Romantic Textualities, which has just been published (belatedly) and was guest edited by Andrew McInnes, our Digital Editor and author of t…
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Reminder! Join us for the K-SAA Members' Meeting this Friday, May 15. There will be K-SAA news, event announcements, and a lecture by Nicholas Roe. Current & future members are encouraged to attend and take part in the discussion! RSVP here: www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa... #KSAAEvents
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K-SAA May Members' Meeting 2026 — K-SAA
Join us on May 15 at 1 PM ET, for the K-SAA Members’ Meeting! Hear news, upcoming events, award winners, and Nicholas Roe as he examines the collapse of The Liberal and its aftermath, tracing how Leig...
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