Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Matthew Sangster
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Fantasy's Present Pasts is approaching fast (23rd-25th June). Really pleased with how the line-up has turned out - think it should be a sparky and convivial conference. Please do consider registering and attending if you're interested.
Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit....
Assistant Professor in English
Dublin City University
Permanent
Expertise in Children’s Literature is essential.
Proven experience lecturing in 19th-century literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
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BARS International Conference 2028: Second Call for Expressions of Interest
We received no firm responses to our initial call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the 2028 BARS conference. We’re therefore reopening the call for EoIs until June 19th:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6451
Really looking forward to this celebration of Judith Hawley: wickedly erudite and witty scholar of the #18thcentury. @royalholloway.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-celebrat...
“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
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Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social
Appointed Role Advertisements: The BARS Review Editor and BARS Postgraduate and Early Career Officers 2026-2028
BARS is currently looking to appoint new Postgraduate and Early Career Officers to replace the outgoing role-holders, and a new Editor for The BARS Review.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6454
Satirists, Bluestockings, and Gin: A Celebration of the Career and Scholarship of Judith Hawley
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
Full programme details for Fantasy's Present Pasts, the first European Conference on the Fantastic (23rd-25th June, @glasgow.ac.uk), are now up on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit....
Registration through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantasys-p....
Non-presenting delegates welcome!
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣
Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
Registration for the Fantasy's Present Pasts conference (23rd-25th June) closes on Sunday 14th June.
If you'd like to engage with a line-up including Helen Young, Sofia Samatar, Stefan Ekman and over 150 speakers and workshop leaders, registration is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantasys-p....
