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Dominic Bentley-Hussey

@dombentleyhussey.bsky.social
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PhD graduate from the University of Ghent. Translation theory, the long nineteenth century, and European Romanticisms.

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Scandinavian Sonority was excellent. I esp enjoyed @dombentleyhussey.bsky.social 's work on national Romanticisms & translation, & @jorunnjoiner.bsky.social's work on sound in Blake - something I really need to get deeper into! icon @sharonchoe.bsky.social was also brilliant ❤️ #BARS2026
soundscape graph from Jorunn Joiner's paper at BARS 2026slide from Dominic Bentley Hussey's paper at BARS 2026
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
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Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.
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Dominic Bentley-Hussey @dombentleyhussey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Dr. Dom 🎉🍾🥂 Feel very happy to have successfully defended (with no required revisions) my PhD disssertation “The Making of National Culture: Pseudotranslations in Romantic Britain and France”, and to officially be a Doctor of Translation studies.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🚨 Job vacancy! 🚨 Doctoral fellow at Ghent University, working with @brechtdegroote.bsky.social on "Recovering the British-French Romantic Media Concept by Recomposing Transnational Impostures." More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6421
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Job Vacancy: Doctoral Fellow at Ghent University – BARS Blog
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Dominic Bentley-Hussey @dombentleyhussey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New A1 article out now on Orbis Litterarum! For those interested in the changing role and practice of translation during 1820s France, and what - if anything - it has to say about Romanticism and Neoclassicism, go take a look. doi.org/10.1111/oli....
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The spectre of translatio in Restoration French Romanticism: Charles Nodier's Smarra, ou les démons de la nuit as pseudotranslation
In recent years, critics have noted the significance of developments in translation practice and theory to the formulation of the Romantic movement in Europe and the decline in eighteenth-century Neo...
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here: Deadline Sunday 30 November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
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BARS Biennial Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection – Updates and Call for Papers Announced – BARS Blog
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
One for the Romantic Studies crowd...
Google AI overview: Several notable Irish poets have died at relatively young ages. One example is John Keats, who died in Rome at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Another is Rupert Brooke, a highly admired poet, who died at 27 during World War I. Brendan Behan, a celebrated playwright and poet, passed away at the age of 41.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
White smoke pours from the chimney, signalling that Reviewer 2 has finally relented
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ANOTHER ONE! Call for Papers: Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1850 See the full call/all info here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5791 And please repost/share widely!
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Call for Papers: Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1850 – BARS Blog
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