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If you’re headed to Chicago January  3-6 for the annual MLA conference (or if you’re keenly following for the live tweets!) over here at the K-SAA we’ve done a round-up of panels that might be interesting to our readership. Come one, come all Romanticists. Also, join us for the annual KSAA dinner and cash bar – more details on our home page! First up, the K-SAAs sponsored panel: 593: Masks of Anarchy Now: . . .

We hope you’re looking forward to the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago! The K-SAA’s panel, ‘Masks of Anarchy Now: Sites of Struggle’ will take place on Saturday 5 January, 5:15-6:30pm at Columbus CD (Hyatt Regency). Presentations: ‘Improvisation is a Human Right’, Julie Ann Carlson (U of California, Santa Barbara) ‘#MeToo: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Gender, and t . . .

As we continue to celebrate Romantic bicentenaries, here’s a Q&A with Eric Eisner discussing the 1818/2018:“The Tax of Quick Alarm” Symposium that took place on October 13 at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. This event was part of the K-SAA Romantics200 events programme, and aimed to ‘gather distinguished scholars of Romanticism to explore the complex literary, cultural and political devel . . .

This post is the third of three celebrating Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852). Daughter of Lord and Lady Byron and regarded by many as the first computer programmer, these posts explore the current and future role of Ada Lovelace in literary studies and the classroom. This post is written by Aaron Ottinger for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Since the inauguration of Ada Lovelace Day in 200 . . .

A message from David Chandler (Retrospect Opera): In their Longman edition of Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews and Kelvin Everest state that: “S.’s title [Queen Mab], designed to camouflage the poem’s atheism and radicalism, probably derives from the numerous children’s stories in the eighteenth century which employed the Queen of the Fairies as a character; see for example Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess D’Aulnoy, Quee . . .

Thank you to all who took part in our #KeatsOdes2019 competition!  The competition is a celebration of the upcoming bicentenary of Keats’s 1819 Odes, and we were delighted to receive a wide variety of excellent entries.  It was a challenge to choose a winner; therefore, we have chosen one winning entry and two runners-up: Runners-up: ‘Ode to Cupid’ by Laila Sumpton Psyche leans by The Castle, swiping till he la . . .

‘Extraordinary Women in Bath’ is a new exhibition opening at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) on 5 January 2019 and featuring artworks by Louisa Albani. **Update: the exhibition has now been extended until 2 March 2019** Around the historic city of Bath there are few plaques commemorating women. Only eleven out of eighty placed by Bath Heritage recognise women and their achievements. . . .

This interview with Roger Whitson, Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, is the second of three posts celebrating Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852). Daughter of Lord and Lady Byron and regarded by many as the first computer programmer, these posts explore the current and future role of Ada Lovelace in literary studies and the classroom. The series is curated by Aaron Ottinger . . .

This interview with Roger Whitson, Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, is one of three posts celebrating Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852). Daughter of Lord and Lady Byron and regarded by many as the first computer programmer, these posts explore the current and future role of Ada Lovelace in literary studies and the classroom. The series is curated by Aaron Ottinger for th . . .

Today we’re thrilled to present this summary of a superb Frankenstein-themed conference in Italy. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Circuits and Circulation took place in September 2018 in Bologna. Valentina Pramaggiore reports… Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1818-2018: Circuits and Circulation  by Valentina Pramaggiore The two-day Joint International Conference dedicated to “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 181 . . .