Nassr
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NASSR is an acronym for North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
. These scholars hold conferences, host a listserv, and publish a quarterly scholarly journal: The European Romantic Review
(ERR). The organization began at the University of Western Ontario
in 1991. The society is not limited to North America
n members: Current members come from Asia
, Africa
, Europe
, and Australia
. While most of the chat on the listserv involves British literature
, the website claims that NASSR scholars "work in a wide range of disciplines, including History, Art History
, Women's Studies
, Philosophy
, Music, Political Economy
, and Literature; members' interests encompass American, Canadian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Russian, Scottish, and Spanish Romanticisms."
Selected papers from NASSR's annual conference appear each year in a special issue of the academic journal European Romantic Review
.
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
. These scholars hold conferences, host a listserv, and publish a quarterly scholarly journal: The European Romantic Review
European Romantic Review
European Romantic Review or ERR is a scholarly peer-review journal founded in 1990 and devoted to the interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century culture.The journal was co-founded by the poet and literary critic Kelly Grovier...
(ERR). The organization began at the University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
in 1991. The society is not limited to North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n members: Current members come from Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. While most of the chat on the listserv involves British literature
British literature
British Literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. By far the largest part of British literature is written in the English language, but there are bodies of written works in Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Jèrriais,...
, the website claims that NASSR scholars "work in a wide range of disciplines, including History, Art History
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
, Women's Studies
Women's studies
Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...
, Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, Music, Political Economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
, and Literature; members' interests encompass American, Canadian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Russian, Scottish, and Spanish Romanticisms."
Selected papers from NASSR's annual conference appear each year in a special issue of the academic journal European Romantic Review
European Romantic Review
European Romantic Review or ERR is a scholarly peer-review journal founded in 1990 and devoted to the interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century culture.The journal was co-founded by the poet and literary critic Kelly Grovier...
.
Executive committee
- Angela Esterhammer (Western Ontario/Zurich)
- Joel Faflak (Western Ontario)
- Peter Melville (Winnipeg)
- Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario)
- Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie)
- Frederick Burwick (UCLA, ex officio)
- Jeffrey N. Cox (Colorado-Boulder, ex officio)
- Dino Felluga (Purdue, ex officio)