Studies in Romanticism is thrilled to announce the publication of its Summer 2026 issue, a special issue titled "Mediating the More-Than-Human"! The issue is available open access via Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172.

Had a fantastic time at #BARS2026 Day 2: manuscript editing, the Gothic, and Tolkien too. If you weren't able to attend my workshop you can access all the materials here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Email me at h.catterall@wordsworth.org.uk if you'd like to chat about your ideas!

Thank you @bars.bsky.social & the B'ham #BARS2026 team for a fruitful few days; grateful to our Literary Arboretum panellists & everyone who came along to hear about Romantic trees 🌳 & was an honour to speak about PBS, plants & ooziness on the 18c Ecologies Network roundtable w inspiring scholars🍃

Had a fantastic time at #BARS2026 presenting my paper on Byron, exile, belonging and pine trees as part of the Literary Arboretum panels🌲. So brilliant to hear so many fantastic papers on such varied topics📚

I am giving a talk at Kendal Museum on Sat 29 Aug on Beatrix Potter's 'myriads of fairy fungi’. I’ll explore Potter's fascination with fungi, what attracted her to this field of study, and how imaginative & scientific approaches are intertwined in her thinking. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-...

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Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

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The EA, the Institute of English Studies, & University English are holding an online #emergency summit for all English colleagues to address the proliferation of redundancies, restructurings, other significant challenges to our & cognate disciplines across the sector. 👇🏼 mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...

The Summer issue of Studies in Romanticism is here! ☀️ It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue on 'Mediating the More-Than-Human' with Saeko Yoshikawa 🌿 Thread of essays below, all currently available open access @studiesinrom.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172

This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

'The numerals in Shelley's final manuscripts offer poignant clues about the works he never lived to write.' Fascinating and illuminating new insight into the multitudes of mysterious numerals and calculations in P. B. Shelley’s manuscript notebooks 📖⬇️

Paul Stephens@paulstephens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My new article, ‘Shelley’s Numerals’, is now available in The Review of English Studies. It explores the mysterious numerical notations and calculations in the poet’s manuscripts and notebooks, and considers some ways that literary critics might close read numerals. doi.org/10.1093/res/...

If you've got time next Tuesday 7 July), 11 am BST, feel free to attend this online lecture. Here is the link. meeting.tencent.com/dm/cRAF9nhLz...

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

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✨️Job Alert✨️ Lecturer in English Literature (18-19c) 📍Liverpool John Moores University, fixed term jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

⚡️Job Alert⚡️ 📖 Research Associate - The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley 📍Manchester Metropolitan University, fixed term Please share with ECRs! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

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Please consider signing and sharing. So very many of us in the Humanities and Social Sciences are affected. c.org/RQYq55rPmk

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Review of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 4, by Ross Wilson: www.review19.org/view_doc.php... @hopkinspress.bsky.social 📖

ISLE, a leading journal in the environmental humanities, is seeking 2 Associate Editors to begin on July 1, 2026. Read the call for applications (deadline June 15) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Job alert: Lecturer in Creative Writing, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Esp. interested in literary fiction, stage or screen writing, & poetry. #academicjobs @uofgartshums.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @univeng.bsky.social @nawewriters.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University

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Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today. The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event... Abstracts expected by 26 June!

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Blogpost revisiting hosting ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ #Rom2Uni ending with the UK HE Shrinking list and solidarity to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social in particular (on your phone you might have to scroll *quite* far down to get there!)

Going to University with the Romantics

This post relates to the background to Issue 25 (2024) of Romantic Textualities, which has just been published (belatedly) and was guest edited by Andrew McInnes, our Digital Editor and author of t…

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Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*Somewhere* in the ether is a blogpost I wrote for this special issue #Rom2Uni which doesn’t end so much as list all the UK universities currently facing redundancies based on this list: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Reminder! Join us for the K-SAA Members' Meeting this Friday, May 15. There will be K-SAA news, event announcements, and a lecture by Nicholas Roe. Current & future members are encouraged to attend and take part in the discussion! RSVP here: www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa... #KSAAEvents

K-SAA May Members' Meeting 2026 — K-SAA

Join us on May 15 at 1 PM ET, for the K-SAA Members’ Meeting! Hear news, upcoming events, award winners, and Nicholas Roe as he examines the collapse of The Liberal and its aftermath, tracing how Leig...

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Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) Maynooth University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL937/a...

Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth

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Lecturer in Global Environmental History Lancaster University - School of Global Affairs ´skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL786/l...

Lecturer in Global Environmental History at Lancaster University

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Funding for climate solutions! National Geographic is offering grants up to $100,000 for storytelling and science projects. Deadline Monday 25 May 2026. More info: buff.ly/XzgRchb #ClimatePledge #NationalGeographic #ResearchFunding

Illuminating Climate Solutions - National Geographic Society

National Geographic and The Climate Pledge seek to turn the power of storytelling toward illuminating climate resilience and solutions around the world.

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New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

Unearthing the Roots of Kew Gardens’ History: Images of Kew | Places, Plants and People

In this blog, Alyssa Myers reflects on her PhD placement with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Historic Royal Palaces to create a finding aid of Kew’s pre-public era history.

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DREAM postdoc for ME circa 2013 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

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