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The Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium is no longer active. Many thanks to all who supported and participated in this group over the years. This page exists as a record of the group’s programming.<\/p>\n

In Spring 2021, we co-hosted with the University at Buffalo a series of conversations convened by Patricia A. Matthew: “Race, Blackness, and Romanticism: Dialogues.”<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/a> These featured conversations with Simon Gikandi (Princeton) and Lisa Lowe <\/em><\/a><\/em>(Yale); Peter Brathwaite (Actor\/Baritone) and Paterson Joseph <\/em> (Actor\/Playwright\/Writer); Christienna Fryar (Goldsmith’s University, London) and Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins); and April 21: Marcos Gonsalez (Adelphi University) and Travis Chi Wing Lau (Kenyon College).<\/p>\n

These conversations were related to an upcoming Special Issue Prof. Matthew is editing for Studies in<\/em> Romanticism<\/em>, which came out in Spring 2022. At the time of the “conversations,” Patricia A. Matthew was 2020-2021 Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar University at Buffalo and Associate Professor of English Montclair State University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Past BARC events have included a two-day symposium, Romanticism In a New Key: A Symposium in Honor of Jerome McGann<\/a>; a one-day symposium, Romanticism in the Atlantic World<\/a>; lectures by Patricia A. Matthew<\/a> (Montclair State); Anahid Nersessian<\/a> (UCLA); Ian Duncan<\/a> (UC-Berkeley); Alan Richardson<\/a> (Boston College); Deidre Shauna Lynch<\/a> (Harvard University); seminars led by Emily Rohrbach (U-Manchester) and Sara Guyer (U-Wisconsin); a roundtable, “Teaching Romantic Lyric,” with Charles Mahoney (University of Connecticut), J. Jennifer Jones (University of Rhode Island), Emily Sun (Barnard College), and Carmen Faye Mathes (University of South Florida); and lunch-time lecture and conversation by Prof. James Uden<\/a> (BU, Classics) about his recent book Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BARC was a friendly organization of teachers, scholars, and other interested parties who meet regularly to discuss Romantic Literature and its legacies. BARC was organized by a team of local Romanticists:<\/p>\n

Joseph Rezek<\/a>, Boston University<\/h5>\n
Charles Rzepka<\/a>, Boston University<\/h5>\n
Jonathan Mulrooney<\/a>, The College of the Holy Cross<\/h5>\n

For more information about the history of this group, please email jrezek@bu.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Studies in Romanticism<\/em>, the Boston University Department of English, the College of the Holy Cross, and Boston College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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