📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ

Reminder that the next Stephen Copley Award deadline is 15th November! The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

CfP: Health and Happiness / La santé et le bonheur Conference, Cardiff University, 8-10th April 2026 200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216

I feel really excited and privileged to get to speak at this, and more importantly to hear all the rich work happening amongst graduate students in Irish Studies!

Did I plan this whole social media panel announcement situation so I could post "Mourning / Melancholia / Ghosts" with Thomas Albrecht, Erin Temple, & Amber Walters-Molina on Halloween??? You decide. #NAVSA2025

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

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...

Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃

📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣 We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctorate University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ480/m... #skystorians 🗃️

Junior Research Fellowship Competition 2026- University of Cambridge - Homerton College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ169/j...

Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...

@romgothsam.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social @gothicauob.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here: Deadline Sunday 30 November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

Are you the only human being who remains uncorrupted when given power? Consider moderating a panel!

CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The Manchester Centre for Public Histories + Heritage and the Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Identity) research group is hosting this exciting screening this Thursday - do come along! mcphh.wordpress.com/film-screeni...

How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...

Delighted with the turnout for our fresher’s week trip to the ‘Turner In Light and Shade’ exhibition at Whitworth Gallery. We‘ve clearly some budding Romanticists among our new first-year cohort!

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at BPI www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

The Histories and Cultures of Conflict (HaCC) research group invites proposals from Early Career Researchers (including PGRs) for a workshop on ‘Histories and Cultures of Conflict’.  The seminar is on March, 4th 2026. Send your proposals!

Irish Studies 6-week fellowship at the University of Melbourne isaanz.org/odonnell-fel...

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Students want to create! With their own brains! UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction. As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred. Happy to answer questions; please share around. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Reminder to register for the social and intellectual highlight of the year!

Assistant Prof of Modern Ireland post at Notre Dame

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...

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

More talks going up for the Romancing the Gothic programme next year. Get your free talks here! Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive with Ishan Tripathi January 17th 10am and 4pm GMT 10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 4 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026! The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions! Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year! #skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️

Join us on Monday evening!

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...

#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

✨ 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...

#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 📚.

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

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025*** Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week. Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...

Coolest call for book proposals! #romance #power #desire #AcademicSky #booksky #academicwriting #books

conference.rs4vp.org RSVP @rs4vp.org conference in Dublin at Trinity @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2026. So exciting!

If you're interested in reviewing any of these texts for @bavs-uk.bsky.social, or any other recent releases, email us at [email protected] We're always happy to work with first time reviewers. So if you're a PGR or ECR, and you're unsure where to start, we're just an email away 😇