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A message from Professor Grant Scott, K-SAA Board of Directors and Pforzheimer Grants Administrator: Dear Colleagues, I write to announce that as in previous years the Keats-Shelley Association of America will award two Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grants of $3,000 each to advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, or independent scholars. The purpose of the Grants is to defray travel expenses incurred in pu . . .

The Teach-In summarized here took place on August 6th, 2020, as professors of the long eighteenth century at a number of U.S. Universities prepared to begin the semester. We found the content and approach very helpful, and we hope you will too.  Organizers: Shelby Johnson (Florida Atlantic University); Misty Krueger (University of Maine, Farmington); Kate Ozment (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona); Kris . . .

CALL FOR PAPERS: Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference in March 2021, fully online, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada, coordinated by the SFU Center for Educational Excellence (CEE), and co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association (IGA) and others.  Deadline for propo . . .

DISCOVERY The 42nd Annual Virtual Conference Nineteenth Century Studies Association March 11-13, 2021 Proposal Deadline: October 31, 2020 Website: https://ncsaweb.net/current-conference-2021-cfp/ NCSA welcomes proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and special sessions that explore our theme of “Discovery” in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). Scholars are invited to interrogate the trope of “discovery” by . . .

Here at K-SAA we love a good book. Luckily for us, so does Sarah Dent, who has reviewed for the blog Emily Brand’s game-changing family study of the Byrons. Here Sarah gives us an insight into the exploits of Lord Byron’s ancestors, including naval heroics, advice for young ladies, and rebellion… George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron was one of the most notorious literary figures of the early nineteenth ce . . .

On 16 August, two hundred years ago, John Keats penned a letter to fellow poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in which he detailed his thoughts on poetry. Although Keats was not to know it, it was his last to Shelley, and the pair were never to meet again. To mark the key bicentenary of what is considered as one of Keats’ most significant letters, the Keats Letters Project have published the manuscript of this letter o . . .

Table Talks 1: New Approaches to Romanticism and the Natural World Wednesday 16th December 2020 Edmund J. Sullivan, “On the proposal for a cast-metal king”. Sartor Resartus, p. 41, 1898 Scanned image and text by George P. Landow http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/sullivan/17.html   Call for Participants ‘Table Talks’ were a famous genre of literature in the early nineteenth century, recording the conversati . . .

In January of 1818, at the age of 19, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Her first published novel, it would prove to be one of the most iconic ever written, a classic of the Romantic period and Gothic form. Given the immediate and enduring popularity of her first novel, one might expect her subsequent completed novel—Mathilda, composed in the latter half of 1819—to be welcomed enthusiast . . .

After much deliberation, delight in reading the entries, and thanks to the many who submitted, we are thrilled to announce the winner and runners up of the Chatterton250 Ode and Elegy Contest, held jointly by the K-SAA and the Thomas Chatterton Society as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Chatterton’s death. While the commemorative event at Keats House, Hampstead has unfortunately been postponed, we . . .

Lectures in Literature via Durham University presents the first of its Late Summer Lecture Series, with a focus on “Romantic Wellbeing”. The lecture will take place on Wednesday 19 August 2020, 5.30pm to 7pm (BST) via Zoom. To kick off the theme of “Body and Mind” for this year’s Late Summer Lecture series, the first two papers will be discussing physical and mental wellbeing as seen thr . . .