#BAAS2026:
Enjoying day 1 of the @officialbaas.bsky.social conference at Uni of Glasgow. There are beautiful buildings, many great talks, and numerous Tunnocks (obvs) #baas2026
April 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Welcome to #BAAS2026 at @glasgow.ac.uk over the next four days. Registration and coffee this morning, while our exec committee meet ahead of conference starting with the first panels after lunch.

If you're attending conference this year please use the #BAAS2026 to share your posts with us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸
April 9, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Also lovely to see the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand at #baas2026 conference. Thanks to @emilysharp.bsky.social for promoting mine/Loïc Bourdeau’s book on millennial novels, as well as @keeblearin.bsky.social’s (and many others’) great research
April 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
#BAAS2026 is almost here! Attendees, which panels are you most looking forward to? And, if you're presenting, what will be discussing at the conference?
March 30, 2026 at 10:52 AM
We'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Brian Ward, who at the AGM this afternoon was awarded a BAAS Honorary Fellowship in celebration of his work over many years in the American Studies community and as a former chair of the association (2016-19) 👏 #BAAS2026
April 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
one of the joys of #BAAS2026 is getting very excited about scholarship again, post-PhD. another is that Glasgow is beautiful
April 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
How great are our #BAAS2026 conference surrounds at @glasgow.ac.uk? And we've sure been getting our steps in up and down the hill to various panels and keynotes. A wonderful second day of conference!
April 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM
En route to @officialbaas.bsky.social conference 2026 @glasgow.ac.uk! Looking forward to presenting my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research on how the US repatriation of 19thC literary #manuscripts to Britain intersects with 20thC political histories #BAAS2026
April 8, 2026 at 10:26 AM
We've just wrapped up our final day of #BAAS2026. Thanks to our hosts at @glasgow.ac.uk for hosting us and to all the great speakers, and attendees for sharing their work. It's been a great three days of #AMStudies in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

We hope to see you all again for our Digital BAAS conference in 2027.
April 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Attending #BAAS2026 this year?

@mlhouston.bsky.social will be there and wants to hear about your ideas for articles and monographs! Get in touch - more info below...
At the @officialbaas.bsky.social Conference in Glasgow, you can sign up to a one-on-one chat with top academic editors to discuss your ideas for articles and monographs!

We've got editors from @edinburghup.bsky.social, @manchesterup.bsky.social and the Journal of American Studies!
March 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
‘This has always been an outward-facing city’. Amazing welcome from reps of #Glasgow City Council, to the beautiful Glasgow City Chambers, for the first evening reception of #BAAS2026! @officialbaas.bsky.social conference committee: wow - and thank you, for this and a great first day of papers!
April 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Fascinating first session at #BAAS2026 on 'Federal Funding for 20th Century American Literature'. Came away with several recommendations for books I now need to read.
April 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
It's #BAAS2026 week! We can't wait to see you this Friday in Glasgow
April 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Nearly time for #BAAS2026 in Glasgow🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Especially looking forward to chairing the BAAS-funded Transatlantic Literary Women Network early career roundtable on Friday with a brilliant line-up of speakers ⭐️(session 4E). Hope to see you there!
@officialbaas.bsky.social
April 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Explores an archive of more than 140 global road novels from over 20 countries, challenging dominant conceptions of the road novel as primarily concerned with American experiences and subjectivities

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April 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth.

Browse our MNGUP #BAAS2026 exhibit here:
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April 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Can tell it's been a successful #BAAS2026 conference when, at the end of the final day, the pen gives up the ghost with note taking.
April 11, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Hello to everyone attending the #BAAS2026 conference TODAY 👋 Look out for @mlhouston.bsky.social on the MUP stand!

Browse our #AmericanStudies Reading List, and find out how to get 30% off book orders, even if you’re not attending the conference,
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03...
April 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
In our mid-morning workshop on Publishing in Journals, Katie and Will our editors of JAS (Journal of American Studies, Cambridge University Press) peer reviewed articles are talking on the steps to submit to JAS, how the reviewer and amends process works, timescales and responses. #BAAS2026
April 10, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Explores African American urban history, covering a landscape transformed since the end of the Great Migration and demonstrates how cities remain dynamic into the 21st century.

Browse our MNGUP #BAAS2026 exhibit here:
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April 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
All the best to our friends at @officialbaas.bsky.social up in Glasgow!

Looks like #BAAS2026 is starting off as another brilliant conference 🥳
Welcome to #BAAS2026 at @glasgow.ac.uk over the next four days. Registration and coffee this morning, while our exec committee meet ahead of conference starting with the first panels after lunch.

If you're attending conference this year please use the #BAAS2026 to share your posts with us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸
April 9, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A great second day at #BAAS2026. I had the opportunity to chair a brilliant session on 'Belonging: Citizenship, Identity and Space' feat. colleagues from Uni Nottingham and from US and France. Great work being shared, lots of oral history and lived experience. Right in my wheelhouse!
April 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
very much enjoyed my first @officialbaas.bsky.social conference at university of glasgow, presenting on contemporary rewilding narratives about wolves in the US and UK 🐺
grateful to the fantastic speakers and settings – even picked up an on-theme novella for the train ride home #BAAS2026
April 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
An exploration of the British occupation of Philadelphia that highlights the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the War for Independence.

Browse our MNGUP #BAAS2026 exhibit here:
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April 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Drawing on British and West African precedents, and then radically reshaping them, Barbados planters invented a new world of labor.

Browse our MNGUP #BAAS2026 exhibit here ⬇️
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April 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM