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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2020
    Ökologische Vorstellungswelten der Gegenwart: Literatur und Umwelt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ökologische Vorstellungswelten der Gegenwart: Literatur und Umwelt Internationales Kolloquium Universität Gent – 7.-9. Dezember 2020 Die Umweltproblematik nimmt seit den 1980er Jahren einen immer größeren Raum in der zeitgenössischen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 16.03.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2020
    Ein Telefonat mit den Toten. Totengespräche und Medien im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / A Phone Call with the Dead: Dialogues with/of the Dead and Media in the 20th and 21st Century (Ghent University, 9-11 September 2020)
    Submitted by: Elena Fabietti

    Call for Papers Ein Telefonat mit den Toten Totengespräche und Medien im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (Universität Gent, 9-11 September 2020) Seit jeher ist die Kommunikation mit und zwischen den Toten durch...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 14.11.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    The Voices of Literature: Radio, Periodicals, and Cultural Conflict (1922-1939)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project is situated at the intersection of periodical studies and literary radio studies. With the introduction of sound studies into literary studies, radio has become an important focal point in modernist studies. Modernist authors made use of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Hybrid literature, hybrid agency: the status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I investigate the status of literary artifacts in Edward Said’s theory and reading practice and his correlating conceptualization of agency. Previous scholars have identified an irreconcilable tension in Said’s oeuvre between concepts...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of Literary Studies in its current constellation came into being on 1 January 2011. Our members conduct research into a wide range of literatures in modern and old languages. Shared research focus areas and methodological fields of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. Sophie Wennerscheid
    University or institution: Ghent University (UGent)
    Fields of research: Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; autobiography; travel literature; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century