International Conference on Romanticism

Annual meetings and colloquia are held in the Fall (large meetings) and in the late Spring (small colloquia) and are hosted by a college or university or a group of cooperating schools. All meetings and colloquia are cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary. The annual large meeting normally includes plenary sessions, smaller presentation groups, and workshops, organized around an extended thesis. The smaller colloquia are restricted to fewer participants, and are usually organized around a more tightly conceived topic. At all ICR gatherings a wide variety of conference goers is sought, including graduate students, and a spirit of fellowship, humane intelligence, and intimacy is cultivated. Annual meetings and colloquia have been held or are scheduled to be held in Tempe, AZ; Milwaukee, WI; Athens, GA; Park City, UT; Baltimore, MD; Santa Barbara, CA; State College, PA; Lubbock, TX; Oxford, OH; Tallahassee, FL; Bloomington, IN; Colorado Springs, CO; Saint Louis, MO; Charleston, SC; Manchester, ENGLAND; Athens, GREECE; Tromso, NORWAY; and Vienna, AUSTRIA.

Upcoming conferences:
Colorado College, September 18-21, 2025

• The International Conference on Romanticism was founded by a group of scholars from America and Europe. Its purpose as a learned society is to promote, maintain, and improve teaching, research, and related endeavors in the field of Romanticism studies, and to facilitate communication among scholars and teachers through annual meetings and publications. A forum for colleagues in literature, philosophy, history, musicology, history of science, art history, and other disciplines, the International Conference on Romanticism has an interdisciplinary and international membership. Since its inception the fundamental aim of the organization has been to pursue the study of Romanticism without favoring particular linguistic, national, or political traditions, or academic disciplines, either explicitly or implicitly. The society’s meetings and publications reflect this purpose.
  
  Regular Membership fees are $65 ($20 for students and contingent faculty) for the calendar year and include a subscription to the ICR journal Essays in Romanticism, participation in elections, the opportunity to attend the annual meeting, and a membership directory. We invite you to join in helping to accomplish the goals of the conference.

  • Regular Membership
  • Student or Contingent Faculty Membership

Essays in Romanticism

Thirty years ago, a dozen scholars from several countries got together and formed the International Conference on Romanticism. Along with annual meetings, establishing academic prizes, and cultivating a spirit of humane cooperation, mutual support, and cross linguistic/interdisciplinary work, the new organization created a plan for publishing a new journal that would reflect its goals and values. Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, the first scholarly journal specifically devoted to the interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic study of Romanticism, was a success from the first. Contributions and editorial help from around the world, reflecting a membership that has drawn from every continent and from almost thirty countries, marked its seventeen-year run. In 2011 the ICR was happy to see the journal enter a new phase, with a new editor, new name, and new editorial board. Editor Alan Vardy and his colleagues continue to reflect, and even enhance, the long-held values of our organization. As has always been the case, members of the ICR will receive a copy of the new journal with annual dues.

For more information on Essays in Romanticism, including submissions and subscription details, and an archive of past essays, please visit the Liverpool University Press.

President

William S. Davis
Colorado College

Executive Director

Jennifer Law-Sullivan
Oakland University

Advisory Board

Beate Allert
Purdue University

Kathleen Béres-Rogers
College of Charleston

Miroslava Horová
Univerzita Karlova

Richard Johnston
US Air Force Academy

Teresa Raçzka-Jeziorska
The Institute of The Literary Research of The Polish Academy of Science

Richard C. Sha
American University

Ex Officio

Alan Vardy (Hunter College, CUNY), editor, Essays in Romanticism

Matthew Kershaw (Yale University), student representative

Lori Yamato (Queens College, CUNY), contingent faculty representative

Larry H. Peer (BYU), historian and assistant to the Executive Director

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