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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.04.2022
    Transmediale und interdisziplinäre Analysen des Traums und Träumens in Kinder- und Jugendmedien
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    In dieser Ringvorlesung werden Expert*innen verschiedener literatur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen kritische Einsichten in kulturelle, historische, medienspezifische, ästhetische und theoretische Charakteristiken der Phänomene des Traums...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 21 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.05.2022
    Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Chapters Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women (tentatively by Bloomsbury) Abstract submission: 20 May 2022 In many literary genres as well as other modes of expression, such as...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.03.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2022
    Le labyrinthe littéraire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Mannheim
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international organisé par Sarah Burnautzki, Abdoulaye Imorou et Cornelia Ruhe, à l’université de Mannheim, du 15 au 16 mai 2023 Le Prix Goncourt 2021 pour La plus secrète mémoire des hommes ne fait que confirmer ce que savent...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 06.12.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.01.2022
    34. Jahrestagung der GJFK Körper und Körperlichkeit in Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: 34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF) vom 26. bis 28. Mai 2022 in Wien in Kooperation mit der STUBE - Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Die 34. Tagung der Gesellschaft...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2022
    Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing, University of Brighton
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    University of Brighton, UK, 21st-23rd July 2022 Deadline for Submission: 31st January 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN)...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 15.11.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Decolonizing Speculative Fiction in and from the Americas, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decolonial thought aims to reflect and think on new ways to communicate between cultures and think of other forms of life, other economies, other political theories in order to resist oppressive orderings of power relations. Speculative fiction sits...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  13. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.01.2020
    Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Figurationen von Unsicherheit, 15 Std./Woche, FernUniversität Hagen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In der Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften , Lehrgebiet für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und Medienästhetik, ist ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle für eine wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft mit 15...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  14. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
    University or institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; The fictional; Rhetoric; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. 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