Next week! Come join us in Dundee 😊 @drlaurakirkley & I are on a panel about Wollstonecraft/Mary Shelley & will both be sharing our love of Valperga, a novel published for the first time 200 years ago 📖

#OTD 1796, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft become lovers. He writes in his diary 'Chez moi, toute'

#OTD 1816 Mary Godwin writes "Shelley and I talk about my story"

If you’re teaching The Woman of Colour this year, be sure to put our ECF Special Issue on your syllabus!

🥳 We're thrilled to welcome the wonderful Andrew McInnes as BARS' new Secretary! We're very excited to work with you!! 🥳

Exciting News🎉 CFP—‘Romantic Boundaries’ Special Issue of Romantic Textualities, co-edited by Professor Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), Professor Andrew Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Yu-hung Tien (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Please submit your abstracts by 10 October for this exciting special issue!

We’re here & we are putting conference packs together! Includes bookmarks & stickers 😍 See you soon, delegates 👻GothicWomen @drlaurakirkley @drdanielcook

The British Association for Romantic Studies /K-SAA Monograph Publishing Roundtable is taking place on Sep 27 at 12 EDT/17 BST—you can submit your questions for the expert panel before Sep 18. New details about our mentorship program will also be announced then. Info/register👉bit.ly/3Ejjh96

We’re very grateful to the Lord Provost and Dundee City Council for a lovely civic reception to close out the first day of our conference, with a few words from co-organiser @drdanielcook #GothicWomen

CFP–Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities) romtext.org.uk/romantic-bound… via RomanticTextualities Deadline for abstracts: 10 Oct 2023. #Romanticism #boundaries #CFP

Check out the CfP for this Special Issue - based on our BARS ECRs & Postgraduates Conference in June, 'Romantic Boundaries'.

A reminder that we'd love your contributions for the BARS Blog!! Get in touch for details on how to get involved!

In case you missed it, here's the CFP info for the forthcoming RomanticTextualities special issue, 'Romantic Boundaries'! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4790

We have updated and revised our online course on Humphry Davy. It is free and open to all and great fun! You can enrol here (and please tell everyone you know to enrol too!): futurelearn.com/courses/humphr…

My book on Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper has just been published. If you’re interested in Mary Wells, Hannah Cowley, Mary Robinson and Charlotte Dacre, this is the book for you! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Please share! 🙂

‘Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters’ by Dr Val Derbyshire, the latest in our new Gothic Originals series, is available now! In print for the first time since 1796, The Foresters offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature. 📚uwp.co.uk/book/elizabeth…

Join us for a two-day #DigitalHumanities workshop at Cardiff University, June 30–July 1. Open to postgraduates and early career academics: it's free but places are limited. £50 travel bursary available! Please share! Cardiff University #dh blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/digital-humani…

Reform's threat to defund Bangor University because a student debating society rejected a demand to host a meeting featuring one of its MPs indicates the bullying behaviour the party would engage in if it came to power, it has been claimed✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1eJN