Abbey Theatre is Ireland's national theatre, founded in Dublin in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory out of the Irish Literary Theatre they had established in 1897 to bring Irish plays and performers to a national stage. It grew directly out of the Irish Literary Revival, staged early work by Yeats, Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge, and continues to operate as a producing theatre in Dublin today.
Source https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/about/history/ and https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/contact/get-in-touch/, visited 2026-09-20
The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), founded in 1964 at a conference at the University of Leeds, promotes and coordinates Commonwealth and postcolonial literature studies, organizes seminars and workshops, arranges lectures by writers and scholars, and holds a triennial international conference, most recently in Nairobi in 2025 with the next in India in 2028.
Source https://aclals.com/, visited 2026-09-20; membership is offered through the organization's own country branches rather than a general open sign-up
The Beat Studies Association (BSA) promotes scholarship of the writers and other artists affiliated with the Beat Generation movement, publishing the Journal of Beat Studies through Pace University Press, co-publishing a Beat Studies book series with Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press, and sponsoring conference panels at the Modern Language Association, the American Literature Association and its own meetings.
Source https://beatstudies.org/ and https://beatstudies.org/join-bsa/ and https://beatstudies.org/contact/, visited 2026-09-20
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), based in Asheville, North Carolina, preserves and continues the legacy of the educational and artistic innovations of Black Mountain College, the experimental school whose faculty and students included the Black Mountain poets, through exhibitions, publications and public programs, open to the public Tuesday through Saturday.
Source https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/ and https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/about/, visited 2026-09-20
The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), founded in 2000, is a multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the Victorian period, with about 1,000 members in the UK and beyond drawn from academia and the general public, active across art history, cultural studies, history, literary studies, performance studies and the history of science.
Source https://bavs.ac.uk/welcome/, visited 2026-09-20
The Modernist Studies Association (MSA) is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, developing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly exchange, holding annual conferences and publishing the journal Modernism/modernity through Johns Hopkins University Press.
Source https://www.moderniststudies.org/, visited 2026-09-20
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) is an academic organization founded in 1991 at the University of Western Ontario, serving as a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of theoretical approaches to Romantic works of all genres and disciplines, and sponsoring regular conferences on the international and interdisciplinary study of Romanticism.
Source https://www.nassr.org/ and https://www.nassr.org/membership_faq, visited 2026-09-20
The Pre-Raphaelite Society, founded in 1988, is the international society for the study of the lives and art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle, publishing the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society three times a year, hosting the Pre-Raphaelite Podcast and a program of meetings and lectures, and running a Postgraduate Network and a Professionals Network for curators, academics and conservators.
Source https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/ and https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/about-us, visited 2026-09-20; no postal address or contact email shown on the society's own pages, only a contact form at /contact-us
The Charleston Trust is a British charity founded in 1980 to preserve Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse that was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and a regular gathering place for the Bloomsbury Group. The trust maintains the house, garden and art collection as a public museum and runs a year round programme of exhibitions and events exploring the Bloomsbury circle's art, writing and ideas.
Source https://www.charleston.org.uk/ and https://www.charleston.org.uk/charity-information/, visited 2026-09-20
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church is a nonprofit literary organization founded in 1966 at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery in New York City. It grew out of readings and workshops that included second generation New York School poets such as Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley, and it continues to run weekly readings, workshops and publications for contemporary poets from the same building today.
Source https://www.poetryproject.org/about/ and https://www.poetryproject.org/about/contact, visited 2026-09-20
The Thoreau Society is the oldest and largest organization devoted to a single American author, founded in 1941 and based in Concord, Massachusetts, the town where Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote. Its mission is to stimulate interest in Thoreau's life, works and philosophy, to encourage research on his writings, and to advocate for the preservation of Thoreau Country, work that keeps the transcendentalist tradition Thoreau helped shape in active discussion today.
Source https://thoreausociety.org/ and https://thoreausociety.org/contact/, visited 2026-09-20