✨BARS is pleased to announce that the 2024 International Biennial Conference will be held University of Glasgow. An in-person conference will take place between Tuesday 23-Thursday 25 July 2024, with online elements taking place around the in-person event.✨ See: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4830

Not sure who's still on here these days any more. But here is a little follow-up piece to my book. Includes my broader (and new) reflection on harmony in Romantic poetry, featuring the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place University of Glasgow July 23rd-25th and online August 1st and 2nd. Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference2024….

Happy to announce that my article was published with English Studies ! It tells the story of how Goethe's fictional parody of literary criticism was read and translated as serious criticism for more than 100 years: tandfonline.com/eprint/HYWPUDB…

My review of Marysa Demoor's A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 is now available on the BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review website: doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-…

Liverpool University Press Winter Sale. Musical Wordsworth is 30% off on the LUP website. Use discount code WINTER23 at checkout by 17 December. Link to my book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

We are delighted to welcome a stellar lineup of key speakers to The Shelley Conference: theshelleyconference.com/key-speakers/ A reminder that the Call for Papers closes next month! 29 January 2024. Many thanks to all who have already submitted abstracts.

Edinburgh University Press is including the journal ‘Romanticism’ (where I’m an associate editor) in its free access campaign for Jan 2024. The campaign makes all content back to 1995 available for free, for everyone. See euppublishing.com/loi/rom?expand… and euppublishing.com/literarystudies

CfP closing today!!! Please send over your abstracts using the link below!

🌳🌲CALL FOR CHAPTERS 🌳🌲 on trees for the forthcoming collection, 'Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840'. Check out the BARS blog for more details about this exciting opportunity 👇 bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5170 @ABDavis1816 Dr. Anna Burton (drannaburton.bsky.social)

This year's been rough, but it afforded me some extra time to plan out future projects. Pleased to share that my second book, George Crabbe’s Medical Poetics, is now under contract with Cambridge University Press as part of the Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections Series.

NEXT FRIDAY!! International seminar. Brecht de Groote (Ghent) on Pseudotranslation and Mediation in British Romanticism. Response: Laurent Folliot (Sorbonne). Chair: Luisa Cale (Birkbeck). 17 May 2024 at 17.30, Senate House, London. Free admission. Wine reception. ALL WELCOME.

Don't want you to forget what the Vancouver Sun wrote about the one and only Alice Munro once... this "housewife" of course went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Go well, my queen.

📢BARS NOTICE: BARS Executive Elections & Appointments 2024–2026 📢 We invite submissions of interest for posts on the BARS Executive. For more information, please see the BARS Blog here: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5291 Role descriptions: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5294

My absolute pleasure to work with @mary_fairclough and @BreeRob_Kirk on the judging panel, chaired by the one and only @kovesi1. Huge congratulations to the winner Stephanie O'Rourke sorourke25.bsky.social, and to our runners-up and honourable mention. See you at BARS!

If you think your membership is up-to-date and you did not receive the link, please do get in touch. A small number of emails bounced back unfortunately. Also please check your spam and junk folder.

Heading up today. See you all very soon!!

Our thanks to Glasgow City Council for our fantastic drinks reception at the City Chambers. Many congratulations to the winners and runners up of the BARS First Book Prize!

Very lovely to meet senior commissioning editor Christabel Scaife Liverpool University Press at #BARS24 British Association for Romantic Studies. My book is in good company among so many fascinating titles.

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier