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The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture. www.bars.ac.uk/main

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures
Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wonderful opportunity for PGRS and ECRs - A Day in the Literary Archive: British Academy Seminar and Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Tuesday 3rd November 2026 at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6626
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A Day in the Literary Archive: British Academy Seminar and Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers – BARS Blog
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BARS Digital Event: Returning to John Clare Join BARS for varied discussion focused around the poet, John Clare, including new archival discoveries, editing and class politics, global poetic legacy, and ideas of beauty in his poems. 19 October, 5pm UK Time  www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6624
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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to teaching Austen’s Teenage Writings for the first time this afternoon - and delighted to have a piece on Austen’s Scottish female contemporaries published in @uk.theconversation.com this morning! theconversation.com/the-two-scot... @uccresearch.bsky.social
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The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen
They are practically unknown today ,but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Proposals: BARS Digital Events Series Autumn Winter 2026-27 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6621 Please share widely!!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Info and to submit abstracts: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6447
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Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes – BARS Blog
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Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Book launch!
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The deadline has been extended until the 16th Sept (this Wednesday!) Please send us an application if you're interested in assisting with the BARS social media and Blog. Stipend paid! More info ⤵️
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reminder - taking place this Weds!
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Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy birthday Joanna Baillie! Thank you @asls.org.uk for sharing my talk!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New on the BARS Blog - “Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime by @rjdashwood.bsky.social and @drstephr.bsky.social While the idea of the Austen crime novel might seem odd, crime and romance share some decided similarities... Read more at www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
REMINDER - taking place next Wednesday! BARS Digital Event: THE LAST MAN TODAY Speakers: Young-ok An, Simon Bainbridge, Daniel Cook, Fuson Wang, Omar F Miranda, and Sharon Ruston 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A new Five Questions interview is up on the @bars.bsky.social Blog: Yasmin Solomonescu on her new monograph Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org). www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6612
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Five Questions: Yasmin Solomonescu on Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature – BARS Blog
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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.
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Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...
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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832
"The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.
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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A new special issue of Persuasions On-Line on 'Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures' has just gone live! The issue boasts articles on Chinese translation and reception, literary tourism, fanfiction, and digital humanities projects.
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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The article Stephanie Russo and I wrote during my stay at Macquarie University in Sydney this year is now out on the @bars.bsky.social Blog! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606
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“Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime – BARS Blog
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call for Applications: The BARS Open Fellowship 2027 The Open Fellowship is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at the forefront of Romantic studies to support research expenses of up to £2000. Closes: Friday 6 November 2026. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6598
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call for Applications: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 Open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Closes: Fri 6 Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6597
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Still time to submit your applications for Comms Fellow. If you're a PGR or ECR who would like to help with the social media and blog, then check out the post below!!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call For Papers: Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, 18-20 November 2027 Romanticism and Property For more info and the full CfP, please see the link below: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6595
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Call For Papers: Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, 18-20 November 2027 – BARS Blog
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please join us for our next 1819 Social Event: "How to Shape, Revise, & Submit Articles for Publication" with Dr. Lucy Morrison and Dr. Amelia Worsley! The event will be held on Zoom on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:00pm EDT. Register using the link below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"1819 Social Upcoming Event! "How to Shape, Revise, & Submit Articles for Publication" with Dr. Lucy Morrison and Dr. Amelia Worsley on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:00pm EDT on Zoom.
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Dilara Kalkan @dilarakalkan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy 229th birthday to #MaryShelley 🖤 I have endless admiration for the woman whose words still inspire me and make me feel as though I’m in dialogue with her. Her voice has stayed with me in ways I could never have imagined. P.S. Apparently, Mary Shelley is for felines too!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Recital: ‘The Romantic Imagination: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Through Poetry and Song’ Wed 21 Oct | St Michael's Church, Highgate. Free admission. More info: www.marcuscoleridge.com/event-detail...
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Call for Papers: Second Poznań European Romanticism Conference, to be held in Poznań, Poland, from 1–3 June 2027 ROMANTIC INTERRUPTIONS, ROMANTIC DISRUPTIONS For more information and details of how to submit an abstract, please see: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6589
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Call for Papers: Second Poznań European Romanticism Conference, to be held in Poznań, Poland, from 1–3 June 2027 – BARS Blog
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference The University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July Website for more info: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
💻 BARS Digital Event Announcement: The Last Man Today 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the best things about being Comms Officer for BARS is working alongside a wonderful Communications Fellow!! If you're interested in helping me run the BARS Blog and social media feeds for the next academic year (and receive a stipend for doing so!!!), please check out the link below ⤵️
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Laura Brook @laurabrook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Come and join the wonderful BARS team! 📬
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Call for Papers/Workshops: Romance, Revolution and Reform Conference - Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century @rrrjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for their next conference, which will be at Royal Holloway and online on 15 Jan 2027. Abstracts due 25 Oct 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6580
CfP poster for Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century, 15th January 2027, Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid). “We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating” (Erica
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This conference examines the long nineteenth century as the birth of the Anthropocene. As scientific developments reconfigured what it meant to be human, global ecosystems had already been permanently altered. Fossil fuels, cash crops, forest decimation, and hunger for imperial commodities left scars on ecosystems, communities, and bodies. Artists, exhibitors, and writers found new homes in the bustling ecosystems of steel and smoke, while others sought ‘gleams of a remoter world’ (Shelley, 1816) in pockets of “untouched” nature.
Ecosystems encourage us to reflect on the networks between humans and the “more than human” in the long nineteenth century.
We welcome 15-20 minute papers and creative workshops for our in-person conference. We especially encourage submissions from PGRs and ECRs.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578
Cover for The Last Man at 200: Mary Shelley, Postapocalyptic Politics and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Eileen M. Hunt.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
CfP: "Framing the Human in the Nineteenth Century", the 48th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social (Philadelphia, PA, March 2027) Abstracts due 31 Oct 2026 Details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6576
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CfP: Framing the Human (19th-C. Studies Assoc. Conference, 2027) – BARS Blog
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Save the date: The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar returns on 7 October, with Miles Ogborn (QMUL) speaking on 'Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832'. We're in person at the IHR and online on Zoom. Free registration opens soon. #Skystorians
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British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Have research to share? The 2027 ASECS Annual Meeting is now accepting individual abstract submissions through September 18, 2026. Join the conversation in April 2027 and submit your proposal today! #ASECS2027 asecs.org/call-for-pro...
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ASECS 2027 Call for Papers – ASECS
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Manchester Met is currently inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme Early Career fellowships. If you're an early career researcher interested in proposing a long C19 project, please get in touch. The deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October. www.mmu.ac.uk/research/fel...
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Fellowship opportunities
We're committed to the development of early career researchers and support outstanding candidates to apply for externally funded research schemes.
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...
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Lecturer in British Romantic Literature at University of Glasgow
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in British Romantic Literature. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve had so much fun in this role!!! It’s been such a lovely way to feel more involved in the Romanticist community (and Amy is a wonderful Comms Officer) <33
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
BARS Election Results 2026 - We are happy to announce that @mjrsangster.bsky.social and @maryfairclough.bsky.social will continue in their roles as President and Treasurer of BARS respectively for the coming two years! BARS’ next round of elections will be in 2027. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6565
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BARS Election 2026: Results – BARS Blog
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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social and I have been planning an event! Wednesday 16th September 2026 - 6pm BST Along with Erin Edwards, we're talking queer Austen sequels & Miss Darcy's sapphic HEA! Tickets are free (unless you'd like a signed book!) Link to sign up here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/queering-g...
For fans of Jane Austen, a queer Pride and Prejudice sequel online author event!!

After the events of Pride and Prejudice, Lizzie and Darcy got their happy ever after, but what about Darcy's sister, Miss Georgiana? Well, her HEA is sapphic, of course!

Join authors Lindz McLeod and Erin Edwards on 16th September (6pm, BST), authors of The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley and The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy, in conversation with Emma Butler-Marr, Austen nerd & nineteenth-century literature PhD researcher (19thcenturyem) talking queer Austen sequels, with a focus on a certain Miss Georgiana Darcy, with her respective lovers, Caroline Bingley and Kitty Bennet.

Not only chatting with each other and Emma, Lindz and Erin will take questions from the audience. There's also an opportunity to grab yourself a signed copy of each novel! Click the eventbrite link to grab your ticket for what is sure to be an evening full of queer, Austenian fun! Free to attend unless you are quick enough to grab yourself a signed book ✨️

Who said that historical romance is dead?? Not us 🏳️‍🌈
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📚 The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances 21 September Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4gcpiXM This event aims to advance conversations on how historical connections to the slave trade within library collections can be communicated to the public
The politics of rare books
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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A new Five Questions interview on the @bars.bsky.social Blog: @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social on her new book Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading, out next month from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
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Five Questions: Emily Wing Rohrbach on Codex Poetics – BARS Blog
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/08/2026
📢 It's Curran Fellowship time! These awards support research on #19thC periodicals as objects of study in their own right. Multiple awards of up to $6,000 (USD) are given each year, thanks to the generosity and enduring legacy of Eileen Curran. Apps due 15 Oct. Full guidelines here: buff.ly/Vw4Q3Tr
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Curran Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…
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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&nbsp; The Last Man (1826)! &nbsp;The event will take place&nbsp;on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University ...
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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📣 GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27 📣 ANZSECS is excited to announce three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships for postgrads and ECRs to support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and use digital humanities methodologies.
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Laura Brook @laurabrook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very excited to work with the @bars.bsky.social team!
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Roll up, roll up! I've got some new online courses starting soon at the University of Liverpool for Continuing Education! First up, Rise of the Gothic! Come and explore the early Gothic with me, from poetry to prose, short stories, ballads and chapbooks! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
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The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool
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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
magnificent work by Felicity James, which quite literally gets to the heart and lifeblood of the point of writing off the heels of #Bars2026, proves again that Romanticists are bringing brilliant new commentary to the issue of gen ai in the arts & humanities www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The Wild Essay, Or, the Essayist responds to the University Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
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