“Border Boundaries. British Romanticism, Gender and Sexuality”

Aula VI - Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne Bologna , Emilia Romagna, Italy

16 aprile 2014, ore 11.45 Conferenza presentata da Anne K. Mellor (Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California Los Angeles) Aula VI, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne di Bologna

CFP “Byron and Italy”

The Byron Centre University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

The Byron Centre, University of Manchester: Thursday 4 - Friday 5 December CFP Deadline 15 September 2014 Call for paper

CFP: John Keats’s Early Poems, 1814-1817

Keats-Shelley House Rome, Italy

An Academic Seminar organized by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation, and supported by the British School at Rome 31 October 2014 at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, Rome In order to mark the bicentenary of the composition of ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), John Keats’s earliest known poem, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats [...]

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination

The British Library 96 Euston Road, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom

@ The British Library 3 October 2014 – 20 January 2015 Two hundred rare objects trace 250 years of the Gothic tradition, exploring our enduring fascination with the mysterious, the terrifying and the macabre. From Mary Shelley and  Bram Stoker to Stanley Kubrick and  Alexander McQueen, via  posters, books, film and even a vampire-slaying kit, [...]

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants. Application Deadline: November 1.

The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to defray travel expenses incurred in pursuing archival and/or special-collections research related to British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. Preference is given to projects involving authors featured in the bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Association’s annual publication. Advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars working outside [...]

Being Human – Festival of the Humanities

Link to the website Being Human is the UK’s first national festival of the humanities. Between 15 and 23 November 2014, the festival will engage people across the UK with innovative research. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, [...]

PhD Studentships in Romanticism

AHRC funding for UK/EU arts and humanities doctoral research students The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in conducting research into British literature and culture of the Romantic period. The DTP, a collaboration between the universities of Birmingham, Birmingham City, De Montfort, Leicester, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent, provides research [...]