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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: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Writing Histories of Japanese Literature for Western Readers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters In the past decade or so, the profile of Japanese literature has shifted along with the role of literature at a global level and as a result of new approaches to...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2023
    Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum: Queering Postcolonial Worlds
    Submitted by: Corina Wieser-Cox

    In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 05.04.2023
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.12.2022
    8. Deutsch-Asiatischer Studientag Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften (16.12.2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    8. Deutsch-Asiatischer Studientag Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften Eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (Freie Universität Berlin) und der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  East Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 12.12.2022
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.01.2023
    Tenure track appointment in african world literatures with a speciality in francophone sub-saharian literatures (Simon Fraser Univ.)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tenure track appointment in african world literatures with a speciality in francophone sub-saharian literatures The Department of World Languages and Literatures and the Department of French The Department of World Languages and...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature
    Created on: 05.12.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Deutsch-Asiatische Begegnungen in Krisenzeiten (XV. IVG-Kongress 2025, Graz)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XV. IVG-Kongress 2025 : „Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten – Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen der internationalen Germanistik“ (20. bis 27.7.2025, Graz) Titel der Sektion: Deutsch-Asiatische Begegnungen in Krisenzeiten ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature and 3 more
    Created on: 11.11.2022
  9. 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
  10. Denys Chyk
    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

  11. Dissirama Waguena
    University or institution: Universität des Saarlandes (UdS)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Digital Humanities; Literary theory; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.11.2021
    Associate Professor, World Cultures and Literatures, University of Houston
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Associate Professor - World Cultures and Literatures - (FAC001916) H0092 Modern & Classical Languages Salary Commensurate with experience Description The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.11.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Je est un author: (Re-)Appearances of the Authorial Subject in Literature and Theory (ACLA 2022, Taipei)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, a fictional professor of Postcolonial Studies who identifies as a PoC causes a scandal when it turns out she is actually white. A recent American case eerily resembles the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 11 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021