Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.  Books may be nominated by publishers, by members of BARS, or by authors themselves. Link to further information and to nominate a book: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?  

Professor Ross Wilson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’, a series of original critical studies devoted to literature in English from the early 1780s to the early 1830s, published by Cambridge University Press. Link to the ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ webpage: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-studies-in-romanticism/6485F1785BF8BB2BB360791BDE050CCC

Dr Beryl Pong (UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer) and her team at the Centre for Drones and Culture will be at the Imperial War Museum (IWM North) to show a VR version of their immersive film about the psychology of drone warfare, Beware Blue Skies (from 30 October – 2 November 2025). This is […]

The title of Professor Pettitt‘s lecture is ‘Groundless Empire and Grounded Resistance’ and it takes place on Friday 24 October, at 6pm Indian Standard Time / 1.30pm UK time.  It is part of UNESCO’s series of lectures on ‘The Literature of Sustainability: Reading, Writing and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’.  Professor Pettitt’s lecture relates […]

Christ’s College’s new and improved Darkness Visible Milton study site (relaunching December 2026) seeks blog posts of c.1500-2000 words relating to the works, life, times, contemporaries and afterlives of John Milton. The site is primarily a resource for studying Paradise Lost aimed at schools, university applicants, undergraduates, and anyone else interested in getting to know the poem better. The new blog […]

Humanities Exploration Day 2025 – Bradford Tue 9 Dec 2025 9:30 AM – 10:30 PM New College, Bradford, BD5 0DX The School of Arts and Humanities is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day on the 9th December 2025 at New College, Bradford. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a […]

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has recently published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities that explores the roles animals play within the technologies for and stories about human reproduction. The essay, co-written with Georgia Walton (Lancaster University), ‘Reproductive Technology’s Animal Unconscious: Multispecies Motherhood and Humanimal Horror’, is available to read online here.

The talk drew on Dr Gorji’s practice as a poet and literary critic to explore the affordances of lyric to move between multiple scales of perception, experience, and time. Link to further information about the talk: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/mina-gorji/

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The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies will welcome in-person and remotely the editors of the forthcoming Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2025), on Tuesday 28th October at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan and Matthew Hollis will be in conversation with Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke College) about […]