Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
@abdavis.bsky.social
Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature https://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/amanda-blake-davis/
Pinned
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
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🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Submit an abstract for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 🖤
To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Submit an abstract for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 🖤
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
We would love YOU to write for the BARS Blog! If you have an idea for the blog or for our TikTok/Instagram channel, then please do get in touch! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/
More info ⤵️
More info ⤵️
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
TODAY 🍂 Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social 🎟
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
TODAY 🍂 Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social 🎟
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
‘Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ Volume 4 — K-SAA
The K-SAA is excited to share about this digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more informa...
www.k-saa.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions"
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
www.ukri.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions"
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
events.bl.uk/events/the-w...
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
The Wordsworth Lecture: Romantic Ecology Rebooted | British Library
This year’s Wordsworth Lecture is given by author Jonathan Bate, sharing his hugely influential work on Wordsworth and sustainability, Romantic Ecology.As
events.bl.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
events.bl.uk/events/the-w...
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
The full @qmucu.bsky.social list provides an important overview of UKHEI now 👇
UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...
UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The full @qmucu.bsky.social list provides an important overview of UKHEI now 👇
UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...
UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...
It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - rom: Vol 30, No 1
www.euppublishing.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
BARS Independent Scholar bursary is now open: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
BARS Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
BARS Independent Scholar bursary is now open: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments
conferences.leeds.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...