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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2023
    Language memoirs & linguistic autobiographies: the multilingual subject's self-narrative in comparative literature today (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Presentations may be held in either English, German or French. Please submit your paper proposal before the 30th of September (no exception) directly through the ACLA portal ( ...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Caribbean and The American South: Interrogating Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Relations (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Connected by the shared experience of the “plantation system” (in the words of Martinican author Édouard Glissant), the relationship between the Caribbean and the American South has been studied from a historical perspective [1], and the literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA Panel 2024—Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts Co-Organizers: Daniel Carranza and William Stewart, Harvard University March 14–17, Montreal, Canada For a term bandied about ubiquitously and often with little conceptual...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-Panel 2024: Temporalities of Memory, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Temporalities of Memory Organizer: Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College) A key challenge facing memory studies, despite its central role in interdisciplinary humanities work over the past 30 years, is how the field can survive in the face...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP: Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear ACLA member, The Bylaws of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) mandate that a State of the Discipline Report be prepared by the association every decade. The five previous reports (1965, 1975, 1993, 2006, and 2014) have...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Emotional Communities in the Early Period (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Emotion is a perennial feature of the human experience, and its representation has been explored in literature and art across millennia. Nonetheless, emotions do not exist only within the individual experience. For all our fascination with emotions,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is a ‘universal’ element to be found in Hermann Hesse’s works. Hesse is ‘global’ as a writer in the sense that his texts reach and affect individual readers transculturally in a way that they perceive to be of personal relevance. However, this...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This seminar seeks papers that reflect on how national authors attempt to introduce and present their countries through the lens of the literature to the world readers, on the one hand, and how the concept of world literature functions at the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach Michel Mallet (Moncton, NB), Timo Obergöker (Chester, UK) Questions related to the sentiment of belonging have been at the forefront of literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 2 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021