Call for Paper Proposals Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies Transatlantic Studies Association annual conference Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, 8-11 July 2013 We invite proposals for 20-minute papers approaching nineteenth-century literature from a perspective combining transatlantic and ecocritical scholarship. We are particularly interested in papers that open a dialogue between transatlantic literary history and/or transatlantic literary theory and any of the following topics in the environmental humanities: ecocritical theory; critical animal studies; environmental ethics; environmental justice; indigenous ecologies; colonial and postcolonial ecologies; gender and ecology; natural history, etc. Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV by April 30, 2013, to Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>); and John Miller, University of Sheffield ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). ********************************************************* British Association for Romantic Studies http://www.bars.ac.uk<http://www.bars.ac.uk/<http://www.bars.ac.uk%3chttp:/www.bars.ac.uk/>> To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please contact Neil Ramsey <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Also use this address to register any change in your e-mail address, or to be removed from the list. Messages are held in archives, along with other information about the Mailbase at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html *********************************************************