About the Keats-Shelley Association of America

The Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA) emerged from a coalition of scholars, critics, bibliophiles, editors, students, teachers working to enhance and deepen the study and appreciation of Keats, the Shelleys, and their circles. We do so by supporting scholarship and producing a dynamic series of programs focused on these writers and their times to engage existing and new audiences, both from the academy and the public.

At the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, the K-SAA organizes a panel on current work in Romanticism. We also come together as a community at our famously convivial banquet, to celebrate our Distinguished Scholar recipients, to present an award for the best new essay in Romantic studies, and to honor the winners of the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants, which help graduate students, early-career professors, and independent scholars pursue research in archives and collections. We continue to launch across a variety of media a series of engaging programs, such as Romantic Bicentennials, Frankenreads, and the Anti-Racist Pedagogies Colloquium, as well as the upcoming Romantic Futures, public humanities initiatives for high schoolers, and virtual seminars.

Our association manages a unique Mentoring Program to connect early-career scholars of Romanticism with experienced and generous colleagues. We maintain a vibrant social media presence and collaborate with other associations to sustain and stimulate interest both within and outside the academy in the extraordinary generations of writers of the Romantic era, to foster literary study, to understand from multiple perspectives the Romantic-era responses to the long history of slavery, empire, and colonialism, and to advocate for the vital importance of the humanities in our world today.