Job alert! PERMANENT full-time Lecturer in English Literature, specialising in literature of the Romantic period. Come work with me CUEnglishCommPhilos! Also hiring 3 more Lecturers in Eng Lit and 2 Lecturers in Creative Writing. Please share far & wide: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

📢CfP closing tomorrow - get your abstracts in now!! Make sure to also check out the session calls to see if your paper would fit there! 📢

This morning, we read Hester Musson's Five Favourite Gothic Heroines on the Waterstones blog, and were delighted to see that Emily St Aubert of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, is at number one: waterstones.com/blog/hester-mu…
Can't wait to read Hester's Gothic tale The Beholders!

Great news that access to the physical books, manuscripts etc., in the British Library will be restored from 15 January. Hoorah! Many congratulations and thanks to British Library staff for their hard work in restoring these core services: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…

📣EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15th JAN!

Do you work on Scottish women writers (c.1782-1854)? Join us in Edinburgh for this brilliant symposium and send us your abstracts!

The journal Gothic Studies is free and open access during the month of January! Check it out for a range of excellent essays on Gothic across the centuries, including some great work on Radcliffe, of course! Gothic Studies : euppublishing.com/loi/gothic

Happy New Year to all of our followers! 2024 should be a good year for our edition, with (fingers crossed) the first volumes due for submission to Cambridge University Press. We're looking forward to this after the years of foundational work.

Help spread the word? Excellent news for advancing #PublicHumanities --a new journal. I'm looking forward to serving on the Adv Board & joining the venture. Grateful to co-eds Jeffrey R. Wilson & Zoe Hope Bulaitis & Cambridge University Press for the vision & work to make it happen. #AcademicTwitter

This is a wonderful opportunity for Early Career Researchers offered by BARS and the Wordsworth Trust, and in such a place!

Happy birthday John Keats! On 14th March 1818, writing to Reynolds, Keats famously wrote: “for I am going among scenery whence I intend to tip you the Damosel Radcliffe—I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and water-fall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you'

Part of our University's Halloween thread of spooky reads: I chose The Italian which I have been teaching of late:

Caroline Helstone comes across Rose reading Radcliffe's The Italian: ‘It seemed to open with such promise, – such foreboding of a most strange tale to be unfolded.’
          ‘And in reading it, you feel as if you were far away from England – really in Italy, . . . '

A memorial prize for one of the great mentors and colleagues in the world of Gothic Studies, Professor Justin Edwards.

DROP EVERYTHING and hurry, hurry, hurry to submit a paper or panel proposal for the 53rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies - to be held in Oxford on 3-5 Jan 2024. The deadline for proposals is Monday 30 October 2023. bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…

📣 Exciting conference news! We’re finalising the schedule and sending it off to our lovely speakers today so keep an eye on your inbox. Non-speakers; tickets will be available very soon so watch this space 🎟️