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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 1d

KSJ Volume 72 is now available on Project MUSE!
Read the latest issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50898

Members will receive print copies soon!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

On the BARS blog: information on applying for the @ksaacomm.bsky.social Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Grants, worth $3000. Deadline 1st November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6151

Funding Opportunity: Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants – BARS Blog

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 13d

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!

Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.

Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 15d

See the K-SAA blog for the #CFP for The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association's 2026 conference: "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación."

The proposal deadline is October 31, 2025. More info linked below:
www.k-saa.org/blog/incsa-2...

Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation: INCSA's 2026 Biennial Conference — K-SAA

Join INCSA's 2026 biennial conference "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation" in Washington, DC (July 21-24). Submit proposals by Oct 31, 2025 for this bilingual, hybrid event exploring nineteenth-ce...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 25d

Calling teachers of all levels! Email [email protected] to share short essays about how you have incorporated (or plan to incorporate!) birdsong into your teaching this year. Materials will be compiled and published on the K-SAA website. #KSAAComm

www.k-saa.org/birdsong

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch
We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period
—its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards!

- Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars

- Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture

- Award amount: $3,000

- Deadline: Nov. 1

Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

www.k-saa.org

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Aug 21

The K-SAA is pleased to announce the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients: Julia M. Wright and Richard C. Sha. Read more about these wonderful scholars and their work on our blog!
🔗 www.k-saa.org/blog/2026-di...

2026 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients: Julia M. Wright and Richard C. Sha — K-SAA

Julia M. Wright, FRSC, is George Munro Chair of Literature and Rhetoric at Dalhousie University. She was a Canada Research Chair in English and Cultural Studies (2002-05) before moving to Dalhousie to...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Aug 15

#CallforPapers
📣 Submissions are now welcome for the Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies
📝 Submit abstracts of around 500 words and a brief bio by October 15, 2025!
See the #KSAABlog for more info: www.k-saa.org/blog/cfp-tra... #cfp

CFP for Transromanticism Volume — K-SAA

CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies Editors: Elizabeth Fay (U Mass, Boston) & Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College) The Romantic period in Britain marks a shift in how ...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Are you attending NASSR's 2025 conference? Please join us tomorrow (8/15) at the K-SAA-sponsored panel "Re-collecting Stuart Curran: A Virtual Commonplace Book." Together, we will honor the work of a scholar who shaped our field and our community. DM us or email [email protected] with any questions

Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 Calling all grad students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars!
📚 Apply for a Pforzheimer Grant by Nov. 1st to help fund your research expenses for projects relating to Romantic-era literature and culture.
🔗 More info here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

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Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social · Aug 1

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

Twilight Talks: John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio

Keats meets Shakespeare: discover how the young poet inscribed his own verse into a facsimile of the 1623 folio between two great plays.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jul 28

#KSAABlog: This month's "What Are You Reading?" interview features @dilarakalkan.bsky.social! Kalkan explores the legacy of Romanticism in contemporary literature (such as Dark Academia) and runs a beautiful and well-researched Instagram account called "odetoshelley." www.k-saa.org/blog/wayr-di...

“What Are You Reading?”: Dilara Kalkan — K-SAA

This "What Are You Reading?" features Dilara Kalkan, exploring Romanticism's revival in Dark Academia. Discover her insights on Byron, Keats, and Mary Shelley's continuing influence on contemporary li...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jul 23

Published in April, "Percy Shelley in Context" brings together leading scholars to explore the poet's lasting influence from his time to ours. Read about the volume and find interviews with editor Ross Wilson on the #KSAABlog! www.k-saa.org/blog/percy-s...
#PercyShelleyInContext

New Publication: ‘Percy Shelley in Context’ — K-SAA

New publication alert: "Percy Shelley in Context" edited by Ross Wilson brings together leading scholars to explore the poet's lasting influence from his time to ours. Available through Cambridge Univ...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jul 23

#KSAABlog: tracing celebrity culture from “Byronmania” to “Beatlemania,” John Webster's new book "The Closest Thing in History" compares The Beatles to Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley! Read the press release here: www.k-saa.org/blog/closest...

New Publication: ‘The Closest Thing in History’ by John Webster — K-SAA

New publication alert: "The Closest Thing in History" by John Webster explores fascinating parallels between Romantic poets (Keats, Byron, Hunt, Shelley) and The Beatles, from Byronmania to Beatlemani...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 9

Share how you are incorporating K-SAA's public outreach theme, Birdsong, in your teaching for the fall! Contact [email protected] to share teaching materials (assignments, syllabi, readings, or student work). Learn more here: k-saa.org/birdsong #KSAAComm

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are still looking for blog contributors! Email us if interested!

Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 11

Are you an early-career academic, independent scholar, or graduate student attending the Byron Conference in Pisa this summer? We’d love you to write for our blog! Please reach out to [email protected] if interested!
#KSAABlog #KSAAComm

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 12

Interested in queer history & theory in the Romantic era? Our friends at @bars.bsky.social have an exciting digital symposium coming up! Read more on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/bars-di...

BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms — K-SAA

Join the BARS Digital Symposium on July 25, 2025, exploring queer Romanticism from theoretical and historical perspectives. Scholars discuss liminality, non-normative genders, transgressive sexualitie...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 11

Are you an early-career academic, independent scholar, or graduate student attending the Byron Conference in Pisa this summer? We’d love you to write for our blog! Please reach out to [email protected] if interested!
#KSAABlog #KSAAComm

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 9

Share how you are incorporating K-SAA's public outreach theme, Birdsong, in your teaching for the fall! Contact [email protected] to share teaching materials (assignments, syllabi, readings, or student work). Learn more here: k-saa.org/birdsong #KSAAComm

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 7

📣 Funding opportunity! 📣
The John Galt Society is now accepting applications for their 2026 Research Grant. This grant seeks to fund archival or digital projects related to the works, life or influence of John Galt. See the K-SAA Blog for more info: www.k-saa.org/blog/john-ga...

John Galt Society Research Grant (2026) — K-SAA

The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant ( of up to ₤1,000 ) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Two types of researc...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌟 🌱 New beginnings! 🌱🌟
Sponsor a promising student or colleague with a K-SAA membership this spring. Help expand our community of Romantic scholars while providing access to our journal, events, mentorship program, and virtual events. www.k-saa.org/membership#g... #KeatsShelley #KSAAComms

MEMBERSHIP INFO — K-SAA

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our latest "What Are You Reading?" blog features Dr. Shelby Johnson! Check out what's on her syllabi and her personal TBR on the #KSAABlog www.k-saa.org/blog/wayr-sh...

“What Are You Reading?”: Shelby Johnson — K-SAA

The Communications Fellows are excited to continue the K-SAA Blog’s “What Are You Reading?” series! Started by the 2019 Comms Team, this series aims to spotlight the research of our community members ...

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The Byron Society of America @byronsociety.bsky.social · May 21

An exciting Members' Meeting awaits! Join our friends on May 29th and dust off your Shelley and Keats.

Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · May 21

Have you registered for the May Members' Meeting yet? Register today! Sign up to read a stanza, or just sit back and relax while @fraistat.bsky.social and Nora Crook read to you.
www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa...

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · May 28

Don't forget to register for our annual Members' Meeting! Join us on Zoom tomorrow, May 29th, at 3:30 EST. We can't wait to see you there! 🎉
www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa...
#KSAA #KSAAComms #Romanticism

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