Meet the New K-SAA Communications Fellows 2019-20
Each academic year, the K-SAA appoints two Communications Fellows. These Fellows assist the Director of Communications (Anna Mercer) and the K-SAA Secretary (Kate Singer) in engaging with, and creating online content for, academic and non-academic communities interested in the Romantic period – especially those interested in the second generation of Romantic authors. They help to run the K-SAA social media accounts (Twitter and Facebook) and the Blog.
Today we are delighted to announce that two new Fellows have been appointed. We received an unprecedented amount of excellent applications this year, and would like to thank all those who applied.
The new K-SAA Communications Fellows 2019-20 are:
Eleanor Bryan. Eleanor is an Associate Lecturer and PhD student studying Gothic adaptations at the University of Lincoln. Her research primarily concerns dramatic adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Polidori’s The Vampyre, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula; tracing the alterations made to Shelley, Polidori, and Stoker’s plots in the process of modifying them for the stage and assessing the reasoning behind these alterations and their resonance in contemporary culture. Her wider research interests include Romanticism, fin de siècle literature, adaptation theory, and literary representations of monstrosity. Eleanor is active in the dissemination of her research, presenting papers at national and international conferences and organising and contributing to literary public engagement events in Lincoln.
She was recently awarded the Stephen Copley Award for Research by the British Association for Romantic Studies for the second year in a row, and she is curator of the association’s blog series on “Romantic Reimaginings”. Eleanor hopes to transfer some of her experience from this role to her new position as a Communications Fellow for the K-SAA. During her time working for the K-SAA, she intends to share and produce content that explores not only the lives and writings of Keats and Shelley, but also their contributions to Romanticism as a whole, their influence on (and ways in which they were influenced by) other Romantic writers, and the resonance and relevance of their writings to this day.
Carly Yingst. Carly is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University, where she primarily studies long eighteenth century and Romantic literatures. She’s currently at work on a dissertation that explores the ways in which novelists from Defoe to Shelley, from Richardson to Radcliffe, register and theorize the complicated and shifting—unsettled, and unsettling—relations between historical and temporal consciousness across the long eighteenth century. She’s also interested more broadly in the history and theory of the novel to the present, as well as in critical theory and philosophy (especially German idealism); and she teaches widely—on Gothic fiction and film, on the twentieth century American novel, and most recently for a course running from Homer to Joyce, with much (including Shelley and Austen) between them.
As a K-SAA Communications Fellow for 2019-20, Carly will be working to find ways to make social media’s shared resources and insights more accessible, by regularly collecting and synthesizing Twitter and Facebook’s ephemeral and scattered ideas, announcements, discoveries, and news regarding the circles of Keats and Shelley. On the Blog, running alongside a course on Romanticism she’s currently developing, she plans to write about the second-generation romantics’ wide readings, exploring corners of the reading lists of Shelley’s, the library of Byron, and the marginalia of Keats, to think about the ways they engaged with the earlier eighteenth century, with the classics, with science and philosophy, and a bit of everything in between.