Call for Papers: Romantic Boundaries: BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2023

The BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference invites explorations of the theme of “boundaries” within the context of Romantic-period literature and thought. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term “boundary” as: “That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.” With this in mind, the “Romantic Boundaries” conference will unite early-career and postgraduate researchers whose work considers the concept and representations of boundaries – both tangible and intangible – from as wide a range of critical perspectives as possible. 

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Andrew Hodgson (University of Birmingham)

Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Geographical and spatial boundaries; transnationalism

• Temporal boundaries

• Dialogues between genres and disciplines

• Lived boundaries (including those pertaining to identity, such as gender, race, or sexuality)

• Digital boundaries

• Boundaries and reception; public versus private writings

• Past, present, and future limits of the field of Romantic studies and its canon

Please send 150-word abstracts for 15-minute papers to bars.postgrads@gmail.com by Monday 12th December 2022, including a 100-word biography. We also welcome 600-word proposals for pre-arranged panels, to be submitted by a panel chair, including individual abstracts and biographies from all panel speakers (3-4 papers per panel). 

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