How to Contribute to the K-SAA Blog
Welcome from K-SAA Comms
Through the Blog, Twitter/X feed, Instagram, and virtual events, the Communications Team seeks to build an engaged and inclusive community focused on the immediate circles of Keats and the Shelleys, as well as many others writing in the first decades of the nineteenth century. These media are curated and managed by The Communications Team. We are a group of early-career scholars seeking to support and make vital the work of emerging voices within and without academia. Click here to see current and previous team members. The Comms Team publicizes initiatives by the Board, including newly interactive members’ meetings and virtual events such as a recent roundtable on anti-racist Romanticism; collaborates with Board members to plan outreach projects; and generates conversation through the Blog and social media.
Blog posts and other initiatives examine not only the writing and legacy of Romantic-era authors, but also their entanglements with broader historical forces such as commercial culture, the Haitian and French Revolutions, imperial conquest, and slavery and abolition. We also highlight recent essays, reviews, and interviews from the Keats-Shelley Journal here and in our K-SJ+ section of the website.
We warmly invite engagement and submissions from students, teachers, professors, independent scholars, creatives, and anyone interested in Romantic-era literature in its most capacious sense. The Communications Team is committed to anti-racist and inclusive social media practices, and we welcome your feedback on maintaining safe online spaces. Do you have any questions, concerns or comments? Write to us at ksaacomm@gmail.com!
How to Contribute
The Blog features a range of posts on Romanticism, including news items, official K-SAA business and initiatives, calls for contributions, event notices, publication announcements, and more. Alongside these regular bulletins we also run a range of blog series. Click on the links for example posts. We want to hear from K-SAA members and followers – do you want to contribute a post for the Blog? Write to us at ksaacomm@gmail.com with a brief pitch (a short paragraph).
We also highlight recent essays, reviews, and interviews from the Keats-Shelley Journal (see below)
We are introducing a new series called “My First Acquaintance with Romanticism.” The platforms through which people approach Romantic writing, or literature in general, have become more diverse over the past years. First encounters with the notion of “Romanticism” may not happen via written texts, but also through TV series, plays, songs, musicals, and other media. This may not only change how Romanticism is received, but also facilitate a redefinition of Romanticism for future generations.
In that spirit, we invite people to share with us their first encounter with what they perceive to be “Romanticism,” and with Romantic-era writing in the broadest terms. We are excited to publish a range of diverse experiences and perspectives, and therefore encourage submissions from writers from all levels both inside and outside the university.
K-SJ+
In 2023, we launched the new K-SJ+ content on the K-SAA website! The purpose of K-SJ+ will be to highlight and make more accessible aspects of the Keats-Shelley Journal (scroll to the bottom of the page for KS-J+ posts)
If you are a current or former contributor to the journal, please consider being a part of K-SJ+. Here are some ways you might share more about your work on the site:
1) A visual exhibit to accompany and highlight aspects of your article from the journal
2) Teaching strategies connected to your article from the journal and your research more broadly
3) New research directions you'd like to share in a blog, audio, or visual format
If you are interested in contributing, please contact our K-SJ+ Fellow, Kacie Wills, at ksaacomm@gmail.com.
