Welcome to  BrANCA​

BrANCA is a UK-based network of researchers, teachers, writers, and cultural critics engaged in progressive, interdisciplinary scholarship concerning American writing in the long nineteenth century. Our mission is to foster a community of scholars interested in drawing on the vast potential of nineteenth-century American texts to intervene in a variety of discourses and pressing issues. Now in its eighth year, and following four successful symposia, BrANCA has organised panels at international conferences as well as an ongoing series of reading groups hosted by universities around the UK. 

For more information, please see our About Us page.

Our fifth biennial symposium, 'Opening Up', was held at King's College London and online on 13-14 May 2022. Information of that event can be found here.