Mission

The Bigger 6 Collective was formed in 2017 to challenge structural racism in the academic study of Romanticism. We are literary and cultural critics whose commitment to antiracist and anticolonial politics grounds our study of the global 18th and 19th centuries and their long (after)lives. We endeavor to effect structural changes in our discipline and institutions by promoting scholarly and creative work by historically marginalized people, those excluded from the Romantic canon, and those excluded from the field of Romanticism. In so doing, we unsettle Romanticism, build from it rather than within it, and establish lines of radical inquiry that lead, we hope, to politically urgent thought and insurgent actions.