Excited about day 3 of #NASSR2025! Looking forward to "Romanticism &/as World Literature", "Global Romanticisms", and "Word & Image Poetics/The Natural World". #Romanticism #GlobalRomanticism NASSR #poetry #dh

Exciting #NASSR2025 paper by Tara Lee on digitally mapping the world of Romantic epic. The project draws on a dataset of 230 epics (1787-1837) and employs topic modelling to explore the corpus' semantic space as well as its genre geography. #DigitalHumanities #GlobalRomanticism

Big shout-out to the fabulous panel on Global Romanticisms at #NASSR2025! Insightful discussions and inspiring perspectives on Late Colonial Romanticisms in India, Juliusz Slowacki and Melville's Moby Dick, and Shelley and Xu Zhimo’s Love Poems! #GlobalRomanticism #Romanticism

Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy. #18thC #Romanticism #ThomasGrayArchive

Many thanks to the program committee and organizers, and to the NASSR executive for a fantastic #NASSR2025! #NASSR #Romanticism #GlobalRomanticism NASSR

#AI #LLMs "if something swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then we should assume that it probably is a duck, rather than inventing abstruse arguments to otherwise explain its behaviour." - Summerfield, "These Strange New Minds"

#AI #LLMs "The assertion that LLMs cannot ever 'think' or 'know' because they lack some vital human spark is just [...] a spurious justification of our own uniqueness." - Summerfield, "These Strange New Minds"

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhibit…

We have added three pre-1800 editions of Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive: thomasgray.org/about/history.… The poems of Mr. Gray. London: Kearsley, 1786. [ESTC T42615] Poems by Mr. Gray. [London: 1787?] [ESTC T490245] Poems by Mr. Gray. Parma: Bodoni, 1793. [ESTC N21109] #c18th

Are you teaching a rare MS or out of print book? Why not make a digital edition of it, or even better, ask your students to collaborate! Our training course is free and the edition can be published #OA in the digital editions platform #PRISMS: prisms.digital/training/ #DSE #DH

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive participates in the #SemanticWeb of literatures and literary studies. Its ontologically-underpinned database of contextuality contributes to the wider knowledge base on the global Romantic period. romanticperiodpoetry.org #GlobalRomanticism #DH

Join us in Paris for our 2026 international symposium on “Solidarities and Shifting Alliances.”

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

Today we mark the birthday of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), writer, lexicographer, and towering figure of 18th-century London. His work, wit, and dedication to literature continue to influence generations. Visit Dr Johnson’s House to explore his life and legacy.

All welcome at the next ASLE-UKI Online Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford) Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin... Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

The Keats-Shelley & Young Romantics Prizes 2025-26 are open! This year’s theme is inspired by the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, and the focus is “Dystopia” and “Utopia”. Deadline is 2 Feb 2026   Enter the competition: bit.ly/3KdIurO

While many universities are asking students not to use AI in the academic work. Oxford University became the first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students. It is better to adopt the technology early & use it to your advantage rather than banning it.

See the K-SAA blog for the #CFP for The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association's 2026 conference: "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación." The proposal deadline is October 31, 2025. More info linked: k-saa.org/blog/incsa-202…

It's Banned Books Week! Proclaim your freedom to read. 📖 Get a “Read Banned Books” pennant and show your support for the right to read: on.nypl.org/4pLFaV9