The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) was established in 1991 to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of theoretical approaches to Romantic works of all genres and disciplines.  NASSR members from North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia work in a wide range of disciplines, including History, Art History, Women's Studies, Philosophy, Music, Political Economy, and Literature; their interests encompass American, Canadian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Russian, Scottish, and Spanish Romanticism. 

NASSR sponsors regular conferences on subjects relevant to the international and interdisciplinary study of Romanticism, and is particularly eager to forge interdisciplinary and international ties through associations with other academic societies. Its inaugural conference, "Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre" (Western Ontario, August 1993), was followed with equal success by conferences at Duke University, University of Maryland-Baltimore, University of Massachussets-Boston and Boston College, McMaster University, St. Mary's University College, Dalhousie University, the three campuses of the University of Arizona, and the University of Washington.  Recently, NASSR's 10th annual conference was held at the University of Western Ontario (2002), "Placing Romanticism:  Sites Borders, Forms" (2003) at Fordham University (New York), and "Romantic Cosmopolitanism" (2004) at the University of Colorado.  Upcoming conferences will include the second NASSR conference to be dovetailed with the International Gothic Association's biannual meeting, "Deviance and Defiance" (Montreal, 2005), the first NASSR conference to be dovetailed with the North American Victorian Studies Association (Purdue University, 2006), and the second joint NASSR/British Association for Romantic Studies conference (Bristol, 2007).

The Executive Committee consists of Angela Esterhammer (Western Ontario), the secretary-treasurer Joel Faflak (Western Ontario), Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario), Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie), Frederick Burwick (UCLA, ex officio), Jeffrey N. Cox (Colorado-Boulder, ex officio), and Dino Felluga (Purdue, ex officio).  2005 Advisory Board members include Alan Bewell (Chair; Toronto), Julie Carlson (California-Santa Barbara), David Ferris (Colorado-Boulder), Timothy Fulford (Nottingham Trent), Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts), Michael Macovski (Fordham), Thomas Pfau (Duke), Jan Plug (Western Ontario), and Karen Weisman (Toronto).

Members will receive the NASSR Newsletter, information about NASSR conferences, the annual Members' Directory, and a subscription to the quarterly, interdisciplinary journal, European Romantic Review. Members with e-mail accounts also have access to a computer network for Romanticists through which they can exchange information with their colleagues. Memberships are effective from 1 January to 31 December.  To get a membership form, click here, or contact NASSR through one of the addresses below.

For further information, please address enquiries to:
    NASSR
    Dept. of English
    University College
    University of Western Ontario
    London, Ontario
    N6A 3K7
    nassr@uwo.ca

This page was last updated on 1 July 2005  by Julia M. Wright.