This is the topic of the conference paper that I will present at the 2024 edition of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, which will take place in Glasgow in July.

My biggest project and dream is to become a Doctor in literature and to do research professionally. If everything goes according to plan, I hope to start a PhD assistantship in the Fall of 2024. I don’t know what my PhD thesis will be about exactly yet, but I know that it will at least involve Romantic nature/loco-descriptive writings and environmental aesthetics in relation to the notion of mindfulness.

Not only am I a Romanticism nerd, but I am obsessed with contemporary internet-based aesthetics as they are explored on social media, especially the Cottagecore and the Dark Academia cultural crazes, which I believe are descendants of Romantic tropes. I’d love to write an article on this topic in the future, or to integrate this aspect in my PhD thesis.