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Romantic Creativity Roundtable

Six speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism and creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. This roundtable features a lineup of six speakers who will each give a brief talk on subjects related to their teaching and research, with an organizing theme of “creativity”. “Creativity” is an incredibly broad topic, but it is something that factors into our lives in a daily capacity, as well as shaping our engagement with art and culture and our efforts to write, think, and learn more deeply about the world(s) we find ourselves in. We invite members of BARS to enjoy a lively discussion of themes related to writing and creativity, featuring academics and artists from all around the world. Adam Walker (PhD, Harvard University) is an independent scholar and public-humanities educator with a specialty in English Romantic poetry. Dr. Walker’s talk will deal with spiritual poetics, formalism, creativity, and poetic craft. Peter Cheyne is professor in the Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University, life member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and visiting fellow in philosophy, University of Durham. He is the author of Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2020), editor of Matter and Life in Coleridge Schelling and Other Dynamical Idealists (Springer, 2025), Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023), and Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford UP, 2017), and co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (Oxford UP, 2020). He is currently working on transcendence in Anglophone literature and philosophy, 1925–2025. Dr. Cheyne’s talk will discuss transcendence, poetry, literary authors, and the ineffable, seeking to trace a genealogy of transcendence from British Romanticism to Victorianism, modernism, and finally to contemporary writing. Kate Singer explores questions of gender, sexuality, race, in their material and figurative transmissions through affect, media, and nonhuman ecologies during the Romantic period. Her monograph, Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation (SUNY 2019) contends that Romantic-era writers traced a posthuman affect, in response to the gendered cult of sensibility, whose genesis occurs through a series of figurative responses and movements that loop together nonbinary human and nonhuman movements of mind, body, and nature. Adrian May is Community Fellow and former Deputy Director of Creative Writing at Essex University, UK. He is the author of four creative writing textbooks, the latest of which is Myths and Heroes In Creative Writing (Routledge). He will talk about inspiration. Stacey Joy Roussow is an artist-designer and songwriter, who makes music under the name Evelyn Wintyr, explores the intriguing ways we experience time. Her interdisciplinary work explores the texture and feeling of time, taking particular inspiration from William Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Prelude’. Currently a doctoral researcher at Northumbria School of Design, she delves into how we might translate the experience of time into more tangible forms. Andrew McInnes is Reader in Romanticisms and Co-Director of EHU Nineteen, the nineteenth-century research centre at Edge Hill University. He is widely published on Romanticism and its legacies. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Brontë sisters’ first collaborative publication, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. He will address themes such as the ridiculous, misreading poetry, and the Romantic canon. Chaired by Adam Neikirk