North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Like many other scholarly associations, NASSR welcomes and appreciates donations from those members who are in the position to make them. As with all revenue generated by NASSR, donations will be used for a number of worthy causes, including supporting graduate student travel, supporting conference organisers, compensating student RAs, and contributing to awards and prizes. There are no salaried workers at NASSR; all Board members are volunteers. As such, 100% of your donation is invested in the Society.  

European Romantic Review (ERR) is published six times per year by Taylor and Francis, and is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, philosophy and art. Each year, it publishes a NASSR Conference Issue and awards the Frederick Burwick Article Prize (formerly called the ERR-NASSR Essay Prize). All NASSR members receive ERR as one of the benefits of membership.

European Romantic Review can be accessed online. 

ERR is pleased to publish conference issues, developed from the annual NASSR conference, as well as special issues, such as recent ones dedicated to Robert Bloomfield and to Maria Edgeworth. We are also pleased to publish themed issues, such as Women and Protest. Enquiries about special issues should be directed to the co-editors.

In 2004, NASSR and European Romantic Review instituted an annual prize for the best essay published in European Romantic Review.  Each competition considers all of the essays published in that year's volume of ERR. The 2021 awardee is Lisa Ann Robertson (U of South Dakota) for “‘Kindred Forms’: Erasmus Darwin’s Posthuman Ethics of Relationality” (32.5-6)

Winning articles can be accessed freely here. 

Submitted manuscripts must comply with the MLA Style Manual and, to facilitate anonymous peer review, should indicate the author’s name only on a cover sheet. Submissions should be made through the "Manuscript Central" (or "Scholar One") system accessible at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gerr. This website includes detailed directions to guide authors through each step; the co-editors remain available to answer questions at [email protected] or [email protected]. Book reviews are commissioned and mostly multi-book reviews; inquiries about reviews may be directed to the Book Review Editor at [email protected]. Tables of contents for recent issues are available through the Taylor & Francis website.

Editors' Addresses:

Consulting Editor:

Regina Hewitt | English Dept. | University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | USA 33620 

Co-Editors:
Benjamin Colbert | Department of Humanities| Housman Bldg. | University of Wolverhampton  | Camp St. | Wolverhampton | WV1 1AD UK
Lucy Morrison | Kayser 208 | University of Nebraska at Omaha | 6001 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68182 USA

Review Editor:
William D. Brewer | Department of English | ASU Box 32052 | Sanford Hall | 225 Locust Street | Appalachian State University | Boone, NC 28608 | U.S.A.

Editorial Board:

Christoph Bode
Angela Esterhammer
Jeffrey Cox
Joel Faflak
Timothy Fulford
Kelly Grovier
Susan Gustafson
Raimonda Modiano
Robert Morrison
Cecilia Powell
Tilottama Rajan
Alan Richardson
Lisa Vargo
Joseph Viscomi
Alexandra Wettlaufer

International Advisory Board:

William Christie
Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Rosa E. Penna
Marc Poree
Malabika Sarkar
Grant Scott
Gerold Sedlmayr
Kasahara Yorimichi     

NASSR offers a three-year membership option for a one-time payment of $195 USD. As with annual memberships, you will receive a renewal reminder when your account is about to expire. Beyond duration, multi-year membership is identical to annual membership in all ways.

In an effort to offer more financial help to under-supported members of NASSR, we invite people to consider donating to the Precariously Employed Scholar Fund. This fund is intended to support graduate students as well as instructors with precarious or no employment (eg. post-doctoral students, adjunct professors, unwaged, and independent scholars) to attend NASSR conferences and to defray costs of events/sessions at the conference organized to support these members.

The fund was established by vote of the Advisory Board and Executive Council in 2018.

Please note: a donation to this fund does not include a NASSR membership. 

All NASSR members will receive the NASSR Newsletter, information about NASSR conferences, access to the Members Directory, access to Discussion Forums, and a subscription to the interdisciplinary journal European Romantic Review (published by Routledge).  

To join NASSR and pay your NASSR dues, please create an account by filling out the information requested on this page, below, and clicking the "Continue to PayPal" button. Use this account to access member-only content, such as the forums and member directory. Membership is valid until 31 December of the year in which it is purchased. Three-year memberships are valid for the year in which they are purchased and two subsequent years, terminating also on 31 December of the third year. BARS-NASSR bundled memberships are valid for one calendar year but can be purchased for the subsequent year from 1 December of a given year; BARS-NASSR bundled memberships can be purchased either singly or on a rolling subscription.

Once your account is created and dues are paid, you will receive reminders via email to renew in the future. To ensure you receive these reminders, please opt in to receiving email when you're setting up your account. (If you have already created your account, you can opt in at any time).

It is possible to create an account and be designated a "supporter" without being a member proper. To become a member, one must pay the membership dues via this site. So, if you believe you have signed up but cannot access the members-only content, this may be the issue.

To renew your account rather than create a new account, please follow the link contained in the email renewal reminder or expiry notice.

Members of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik and the Japan Association of English Romanticism are invited to contact NASSR in order to secure complimentary membership. 

Options and Rates:

One-year NASSR Membership:

• Full time waged (eg. assistant, associate, full professor): $65 USD
• Part time (un- or partial waged) (eg. postgraduate/retired/part-time or impermanent position/unwaged): $45 USD
• Please scroll down to make your purchase. 

Three-Year NASSR membership:

• $195 USD
• Please click here for the three-year membership option. 

One year BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership: 

• Full time waged (eg. lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, professor): £62 GBP
• Part time (un- or partial waged) (eg. postgraduate/retired/part-time or impermanent position/unwaged): £40 GBP 
• Please Click here for BARS-NASSR bundled membership options (NB: you will be re-directed to the BARS website for this transaction) 
• NB: as this option requires memberships to be entered into the NASSR system manually, there may be a delay accessing paywalled content on the NASSR website. 

If you have any questions about membership, please contact Chris Bundock

Please consider an additional DONATION to NASSR. 

Like many other scholarly associations, NASSR welcomes and appreciates donations from those members who are in the position to make them. As with all revenue generated by NASSR, donations will be used for a number of worthy causes, including supporting graduate student travel, supporting conference organisers, compensating student RAs, and contributing to awards and prizes. There are no salaried workers at NASSR; all Board members are volunteers. As such, 100% of your donation is invested in the Society.