News and Notes from K-SAA
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Becoming a member of the K-SAA supports all the projects below and much more, as well as providing you with a personal printed copy of the Keats-Shelley Journal. Thank you to all our members.
Award Winners
We were delighted to announce our two Distinguished Scholars for 2024: Deidre Lynch and Karen Swann. The awards were presented at the K-SAA Reception and Awards Banquet, which takes place every year during MLA. This year our convivial dinner and raffle (complete with live music and a cash bar) was held at the Notary Hotel in Philadelphia. Congratulations also went to the 2023 winner of the K-SAA Essay Prize, Lily Gurton-Wachter, who won for the essay "Reading by Firefly.” (Studies in Romanticism, Vol 62, number 1, Spring 2023: 77-102). An Honorable Mention went to Eric Tyler Powell. See the list of past winners here. We also celebrated the 2024 Pforzheimer Research Grant winners: Diana Little (Princeton University) for her project Imperial Erosions, and Paul Stephens (Oxford University) for Romanticism and the Cost of Living. Read more about the winners and their projects (and how to apply for the next round!) here. We hope to see you at the next Reception and Awards Banquet at MLA 2025 – all are welcome!
Curran Symposium
Save the date: the next symposium is ‘Byron’s Global Legacies’, Oct. 24 and 25, 2024. To mark the bicentennial of Byron’s death, the K-SAA will collaborate with the Byron Society of America to present a symposium and a reading of Sardanapalus in New York City. Please look out for further details as the date approaches. Our collaboration on Byron also includes the “Uncloseting Byron” Public Art Project. Beginning with a line selected from one of Byron’s plays as a writing prompt, participants will create short mixed-media closet dramas and share them via social media. More info can be found on this website.
Commonplacing
We invite you to participate in K-SAA’s public outreach initiative (Sept. 2023-May 2024). In this initiative, we explore the ancient scholarly practice of commonplace book-keeping along with its vibrant modern descendent, scrapbooking. We are seeking contributions from teachers of grades 6-12, community college instructors, university faculty, librarians, and students. See the full cfp here and learn more about the project here.
Podcast
We are glad to launch our new podcast series, Global Mapping of Romanticism, curated and directed by K-SAA Communications Fellow Yu-Hung Tien. One of the primary goals of this series is to create a warm community that welcomes anyone who is interested not just in Keats and the Shelleys but also in Romanticism in its broadest sense. Our first episode features a conversation with Alex Watson, who is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. If you'd like to interview for this podcast or otherwise contribute to our blog, please get in touch.
