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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2024
    DIMAG 2, 2025 – Tourismus und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    DIMAG versteht sich als kultur- und dabei primär literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Fachzeitschrift, die besonders internationalen Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen ein Forum für erste Publikationen bieten möchte. Publiziert werden innovative...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.02.2024
  2. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 26.09.2023
    Assistant Professor - Rhetoric of Global Imaginaries of Race or Environmental Rhetoric - Department of Rhetoric
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Job #JPF03993 Rhetoric / College of Letters & Science - Arts & Humanities / UC Berkeley POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: The posted UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.06.2023
    Ports, îles, villes : entre exils et migrations transcontinentales et océaniques (La Rochelle & en ligne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ports, îles, villes : entre exils et migrations transcontinentales et océaniques Approches comparatistes - XVe-XXIe Le colloque se déroulera à La Rochelle Université les jeudi 26 et vendredi 27 octobre, sur site et en ligne. ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Australian/Oceanian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 16.06.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.05.2023
    DRV-Sommerschule „Mobilität im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns“ (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 5. bis 7. Oktober 2023)
    Submitted by: Melanie Schneider

    Transportmittel und Mobilitätspraktiken sehen sich geschichtlich unweigerlich mit der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und dem Grad der individuellen Entfaltung ihrer Subjekte verknüpft. Einerseits gelten Mobilitätsformen als Indikator für...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 7 more
    Created on: 10.03.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Inhuman Voices: Writing and the Non-Human (ACLA Seminar, Chicago, 2023)
    Submitted by: Katharina Simon

    Time and again, literature has reflected on its non-human origins in scenes of writing and invocation. In “Autobiography as De-facement,” de Man conceptualizes prosopopeia as the mechanism in which the effect of a living, human voice is created...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 06.10.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Flower Power. Florales zwischen Schönheit, Ordnung und Dominanz
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Blumen sind weit weniger unschuldig, als Brautsträuße und Muttertagskitsch vermuten lassen. Für Alice Walker symbolisiert der aufwändige Blumenschmuck, mit dem ihre Mutter selbst schäbigste Wohnungen veredeln konnte, nicht nur Trost und Hoffnung...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 7 more
    Created on: 03.10.2022
  9. Tanja Kapp
    University or institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; Literary theory; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Comic; autobiography; travel literature; Digital literature; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Imagining inclusive communities in European culture / Imaginer des communautés inclusives dans la culture européenne / Immaginare comunità inclusive nella cultura europea
    Submitted by: Olga Springer

    20th-century criticism and theory have acquainted us with the ability of fictional narratives to build or strengthen the identity ofnations and classes, often at the expense of other communities.Investigations of the ideological significance of...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 26 more
    Created on: 09.02.2020
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.02.2020
    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft (Bad Homburg, 25.–27.2.2020)
    Submitted by: Mira Shah

    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft 25.-27.2.2020 Eine Tagung des DFG-Projekts „Entangled Island Times. Zu einer Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Inselbiogeographie“ (Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 13 more
    Created on: 22.01.2020
  12. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 22.02.2019
    Würzburg Winter School Konfigurationen der Mobilität: Transition – Transformation – Transgression (24.–28.02.2020, JMU Würzburg)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Ausschreibung 30 Stipendien für fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende, Doktorand*innen und Postdocs Würzburg Winter School Konfigurationen der Mobilität: Transition – Transformation – Transgression 24.–28.02.2020 ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.11.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Belebte Häuser. Literarische ›Biotekturen‹ des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Als gebauter Übergang zwischen Ich und Welt hat das Haus von jeher den Blick von Denkern und Literaten auf sich gezogen. Seine Mauern schirmen die Bewohner von einem potentiell feindlichen Außen ab (Heidegger) und bilden einen Raum der »beschützten...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  14. Mira Shah
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Australian/Oceanian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Literary genre; Prose; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; travel literature; The fictional; Rhetoric

  15. Sandra Fluhrer
    University or institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literary theory; Ecocriticism; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Poetics; Drama; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century