News

Monday 10 February 2025

We are pleased to announce a new collaborative doctoral award in partnership with the National Trust on At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist.

Thursday 23 January 2025

Warm congratulations to Alison O'Byrne on the publication of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700–1830.

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Warm congratulations to Sophie Coulombeau on the publication of her book, Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance.

Saturday 25 May 2024

Warm congratulations to Chloe Wigston Smith on the publication of her book, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Friday 24 May 2024

Congratulations to Professor Jon Mee!

Tuesday 15 August 2023

On Saturday 10 June, the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CECS) celebrated 25 years since its foundation. More than 50 students and staff, past and present, gathered to mark the occasion in the King's Manor, where CECS has been located since its establishment.

Tuesday 12 April 2022

Dr Omar F. Miranda is this year's winner with the article 'The Global Romantic Lyric'.

Tuesday 28 September 2021

CECS Director Professor Gillian Russell is co-winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

Wednesday 15 September 2021

The interviews uncover everything from contemporary working lives to romantic relationships.

Tuesday 20 July 2021

Gothic Woman is an ongoing, collaborative project supported by the British Association of Romantic Studies. The project’s central focus is on women writing during the Romantic period, particularly those who have been neglected by history and academic study.

Monday 19 July 2021

Congratulations to Holly Day and Sharon Choe who have been awarded doctoral fellowships with the Humanities Research Centre for 2021-22.

Thursday 13 May 2021

CECS is happy to announce the winner of the Bigger6/CECS article award, a prize for the best article from 2020 in Romantic studies by an emerging scholar of colour.

Sunday 9 May 2021

The University of York's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the University of Melbourne's Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture Research Unit is excited to reveal a call for papers for a postgraduate conference this summer.

Sunday 2 May 2021

Today marks the bicentenary of the death of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi (27 January, 1741 or 16 January, 1740 – 2 May, 1821).

Wednesday 28 April 2021

The ‘Gothic Women’ team are pleased to invite applications for the position of ‘Gothic Women’ Events Fellow, for a period of one year, starting in June 2021.

Thursday 22 April 2021

Did you study with us for a Masters degree or a PhD? We'd love to hear from you!

Thursday 8 April 2021

Former PhD student Yusuke Wakazawa has been appointed in permanent role at Keio University as an Assistant Professor of English.

Monday 22 March 2021

As part of her research into Blake’s legacy in the realm of independent and self-publishing, PhD student Caroline Ritchie recently spoke to photographer, publisher, and activist Max Reeves.

Thursday 4 March 2021

Congratulations to Katie Crowther and Gemma Shearwood, winners of this year's Nuttgens award!

Wednesday 3 March 2021

For those who missed the Zoom seminar, or would like to listen again, the recording from Prof. Stacey Sloboda's talk on 2 March can now be viewed online.