News of a new PhD opportunity at ARU - come work with me and Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse on a fantastic collection of some c. 1,000 workhouse objects! aru.ac.uk/news/research-…

Come and do a PhD on the Bones of norman cross with ARU and Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Join us QMUL English & Drama for the Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture 21 May at 6:45 with speaker @ProfFarahKC (KCL and Shakespeare’s Globe) on 'The Ethics of Production: Re-casting Casting in 21st Century Shakespeare Performance'. qmul.ac.uk/sed/drama/annu…

PGRs and ECRs working in Romantic Studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. There are two rounds of the scheme in each year. The deadlines are June 1st and December 1st ✨ bars.ac.uk/main/index.php…

Come work with us at Glasgow! Note, the job alerts call for Black and Indigenous studies! As well as Caribbean Studies; the Portuguese-speaking African Diaspora. So few UK jobs in these fields, share widely gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/a…

Join us at 5pm Faculty of English tomorrow (23 May) for Dr Victoria Baena on '"Provinces of the Mind": The Politics of Scale, Revolutionary Cartography, and the Novel'. Come in-person, or email [email protected] to join online. British Association for Romantic Studies BARS ECRs & Postgraduates Cambridge Group for Irish Studies

A massive congratulations to York’s own Professor Jon Mee York Dept of English whose fantastic book ‘Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies & Machines in the Industrial Revolution’ has been short-listed for the Kenshur Prize! For more information, see: voltaire.indiana.edu/kenshur-prize.…

Literature fans, don't miss AT THE VOLTA WITH JAMES JOYCE 📖 We're excited to screen early films with musical accompaniment, inspired by the involvement of Irish author James Joyce with Dublin’s cinema Volta – one of the first cinemas in Ireland. 🎟️bit.ly/GFT_AttheVolta

Hard copies arrived today! With an intro and essays by me and David Stewart along with fantastic contributors 1/

📢 JOB ALERT📢 Teaching Fellow in English Literature Uni of Birmingham bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5332

Out today! 😍

This July’s John Clare Society Journal features work from Fiona Stafford, Laura Wells Betz, John Goodridge, David Tagnani, poems by Lola Haskins, critical bibliography by Erin Lafford and Andrew Hodgson, reviews of key books on nature & class, & cover art by Victoria Garland:

Terrific essay by Essaka Joshua, PhD FSA 'Infectious Madness’ (Chapter 2) - in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s - bit.ly/4cvrNkz

The new John Clare 2024 journal Simon Kövesi just arrived. It look great.

Full steam ahead: Professor John Gardner close-reading Romantic machines in his British Association for Romantic Studies #BARSGlasgow2024 keynote, showing how literary and engineering ambitions went hand in hand in the period (as in P. B. Shelley’s steamboat project, pictured).

Another really striking plenary at the British Association for Romantic Studies conference, this time by Professor John Gardner who masterfully weaves together vernacular scientific, technical knowledge and literature.

"Close reading is our superpower" - Professor John Gardner British Association for Romantic Studies #BARS2024

last talk of the day was Professor John Gardner's incredible plenary, weaving together Romanticism, industry, machines, memoir. I can't believe he almost left out one, beautiful quote because I wrote the whole thing in my notes

Congratulations to Matthew Sangster, whose book An Introduction to Fantasy has been announced winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies! 🌌 #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature

My article with ken kiss on thread form at the crystal palace is out open access. Full article: Thread form at the Crystal Palace tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…