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
Submitted by:
Ivana Perica
When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example at the Warwick Research Collective,...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Literary theory,
Postcolonial studies
and 7 more
Created on:
30.10.2023
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
University or institution:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fields of research:
French literature;
Digital Humanities;
Postcolonial studies;
Literature and sociology;
Novel;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets
Fields of research:
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Novel;
The fictional;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Freie Universität Berlin
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Postcolonial studies;
Media studies;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Prose;
Novel;
Aesthetics;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Borders and Detective Fiction (Theme Issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)? Guest Editor: Manina Jones, University of Western Ontario For this theme issue of Clues, proposals are sought from a wide variety of critical, national, and cultural...
Fields of research
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies,
Literature and sociology
and 5 more
Created on:
02.08.2021
Submitted by:
Antje Schmidt
CfP: Poetische Taxonomien. Literarische (Un-)Ordnungen der Natur Panel auf dem 27. Germanistentag: Mehrdeutigkeiten 25.–28. September 2022 an der Universität Paderborn; Themenbereich 4: Gesellschaftliche Zugänge ...
Fields of research
Postcolonial studies,
Ecocriticism,
Literature and natural science
and 5 more
Created on:
08.06.2021
University or institution:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Reader-response criticism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and natural science;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Non-fictional literature;
autobiography;
Essay;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Soapbox Journal
For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...
Fields of research
Textual criticism, editing, codicology,
Digital Humanities,
Literary theory
and 49 more
Created on:
28.12.2020
University or institution:
Universität Passau
Fields of research:
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Near Eastern literature;
Didactics of Literature;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and visual studies;
Intermediality;
Novel;
Narrative;
Comic;
autobiography;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Universität Leipzig
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
French literature;
Italian literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
North African literature;
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Novel;
autobiography;
Drama;
Tragedy;
Comedy;
Tragicomedy;
The fictional;
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
University or institution:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU);
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Prose;
Novel;
travel literature;
Essay;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
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
University or institution:
Universität Paderborn
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literary genre;
Novel;
Drama;
Tragedy;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century
