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 [...]

@ 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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

1816: Trans-Cultural Crossings in Post-Revolutionary Europe è un progetto gestito dall’Università di Warwick. Il 1816, l’anno dopo Waterloo, viene preso come momento paradigmatico per interrogare l’età dei romanticismi in chiave post-rivoluzionaria. Maggiori informazioni al seguente link.

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 [...]

Conference of the Burney Society St Chad’s College, Durham University, 4-6 July 2016 Burney and Popular Entertainments: the business of pleasure in Late-Georgian Britain Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers on the subject of ‘Burney and Popular Entertainments: the business of pleasure in Late-Georgian Britain’ Frances Burney grew up at the centre of a [...]

Call for Papers: Byron and the Regency: An International Conference Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Thursday 3 – Friday 4 December 2015 CFP

2nd International Conference of English and American Studies 5-6 May 2016 organized by Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages “Luigj Gurakuqi” University of Shkodra, Albania The Department of English and American Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international and inter-disciplinary conference to be held at the [...]