This was a really lovely conversation on the research funding landscape, journeys through it, some advice on applications, & the joy of failure!
Thanks to Carmen for organising & @mjrsangster.bsky.social, @mckeever.bsky.social , & @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for speaking.
More to follow…
MERMAID BLOG My write up of @ogomproject.bsky.social
Sea Changes conference on the fairy tale gothic of mermaids, selkies and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river is now available to read on the BARS research blog bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6411
@bars.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk
Reminder: less than a month to submit your abstracts for the 2026 Wordsworth Summer Conference! ⛰️
You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!
Poster for "'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' presents Women in White and the New Gothic Cinema. A free lecture by Professor Catherine Spooner + a screening of Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak. The Showroom Cinema, 18th June, 6pm." Next to the text, the poster features a photo of a blonde woman in a white linen dress, holding a butterfly and candlesticks.
If you'll be near Sheffield on 18th June, check out this free lecture and film screening hosted by @radcliffecup.bsky.social!
Tickets and more info on their Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-w...
Join our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & other good eggs to talk about cracking applying for funding
BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding
Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...
Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature:
@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Once again sharing our upcoming EHU19 PGR & ECR conference as the abstract deadline for 1st May is looming closer! We're very lucky to have @drclaireocall.bsky.social as keynote & running a journal workshop!
Send any abstracts or queries to ehu19place@outlook.com ✨️
@ehunineteen.bsky.social
We have TWO very exciting events coming up in June - tickets out now!
Ann Radcliffe's 'St Alban's Abbey' at 200
www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/ann-ra...
Women in White and the New Gothic Cinema: Reinventing the Gothic Heroine + screening of 'Crimson Peak'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-w...
What are humanities and social sciences research good for? Consider Enslaved.org: putting names to as many of the people trafficked during the Atlantic slave trade as possible. Insisting on the dignity of every human being. #Talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences
Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.
Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....
Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.
If you're interested in early modern #philosophy and/or the history of #slavery and #abolition, you should consider attending this fabulous hybrid conference, organized by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell and Carrie Shanafelt! Schedule and registration links in first comment. #philsky #academicsky
We're in a big auditorium at UCL on Weds for Champion Black Boxers and Businessmen in 1800s London - talk, film, panel, about Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Bridgerton, A Thousand Blows!
Join Tony Warner, Roberto Nigro, Luke G. Williams, S. I. Martin & me:
FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/champion-b...
Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?
We're seeking interdisciplinary perspectives on radicalism, protest, and the political power of print, from satirical caricatures and regional newspapers to the "hidden agency" of those working within the trade. Full submission details are included in the poster 5/5
I'm running some more interactive workshops next week. We'll exploring the difficulties and possibilities of constructing queer histories and looking at early queer writing by Byron. Come join us!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/byron-que...
Looking forward to the opening of William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy at @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social (run in collab with @tate.bsky.social) next Wednesday! I contributed a piece on Blake & Irish Gothic to the exhibition catalogue & can’t wait to see the exhibition in person!
Join us for this Research and Innovation event designed to support colleagues who intend to apply for grants, including EU funding, and those who are keen to develop research collaborations. The event will link the expertise of academic colleagues with suitable funding opportunities and will support the development of meaningful partnerships to generate research income and collaborations. We welcome all members of our diverse research community at all career stages to attend. The event will include presentations from a range of successful grant winners (from the BARS Exec and further afield) with time for Q&A Speakers: Carmen Casaliggi, Andrew McInnes, Matthew Sangster, Gerry McKeever, Sophie Coulombeau, Rhona Brown
Join us on Mon 20th April, 10am-1pm BST for a free online event on applying for funding!
Register on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
ALT: a beautiful and possibly Romantic-era and otherwise significant painted image of an ornate gate and building with church spire to the side plus trees and cloudy blue sky advertising BARS 2026 ‘Romantic Retrospection’ at Birmingham 29-31 July
Exciting!
The draft programme is a thing of beauty and a joy for as long as it lasts in this form - but the NEXT draft programme will also be a thing of beauty 🖤
More information and for a draft programme, please see:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6401
To register for the conference: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-b...
Please see the conference website for details of registration fees, the conference dinner, and university accommodation.
*To clarify re Concessionary registration fees, these apply to unwaged, postgraduate, part-time and impermanent, or retired delegates*
BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.
The @bars.bsky.social Conference programme at Birmingham has been announced and we're all getting ridiculously excited about the panels and papers. As @drbeard79.bsky.social said, "So many people! So many friends!" Organisers have done a great job.
I really enjoyed writing about how Mary Shelley helped shape my poetry collection for the @bars.bsky.social blog. Mary was widowed two hundred years before me, but there are many parallels linking our experiences. Thank you very much to BARS for publishing my piece!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6367
WE NEED YOU!
Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch!
Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!
Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July
More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395