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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.03.2022
    Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity (MLA conference 2023 Special Session, San Francisco)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP for Special Session at 2023 MLA Annual Convention, held from 5 to 8 January 2023 in San Francisco, CA. Session Title: Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity In this special session, we discuss new meanings and approaches to Poetics...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 4 more
    Created on: 21.02.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.02.2022
    Enchanting Literatures, University of Michigan Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Enchanting Literatures The 26th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) University of Michigan–Ann Arbor May 20-21, 2022 Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael Allan Submission Deadline:...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 28.01.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    État des lieux: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: “État des lieux”: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction NeMLA 2022 Baltimore, MD March 10-13 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Sept. 30th Session Description: Apart from some chapters and articles...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women and Spanish Kiosk Literature (1907-1939): Modernization and Mass Culture (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Among the thousands of novelas cortas published in Spain between 1907 and 1939, more than 300 were written by women. The present panel seeks to explore the ways in which women used early-20th-century Spanish kiosk literature as a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Literary historiography,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2021
    Gender and Colonialism: Cultures, Histories, and Theories
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chunjie Zhang and Elisabeth Krimmer (UC Davis) This edited volume explores the nexus between gender and colonialism in German, Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch colonial and neocolonial entanglements. While England, France, and Spain are...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography and 4 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Embodiment and Agency in Postcolonial Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel holds space for depictions of embodied practices/practices of agency in bodies of women of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and other subjectivities in postcolonial literature and literatures of the Global South. What is the relation...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 16.07.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2021
    Representation and reception of French and Francophone women writers in the media (19th-21st centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Representation and reception of French and Francophone women writers in the media (19th-21st centuries) University of Maryland, November 12, 2021, 9am to 5pm EST (via Zoom) Keynote Address: Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 9 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  12. Kitty Millet
    University or institution: San Francisco State University (SFSU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literature from Israel; Near Eastern literature; East Asian literature; South Asian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Didactics of Literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; Narrative