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  1. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.06.2024
    Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller Aneignung«
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Am LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG (ZfL) in Berlin ist zum 1. Oktober 2024 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) , Entgeltgruppe 13 TVöD (Bund), 65 %, im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2024
    Die Modernen. Skandinavisch-deutsche Literaturbeziehungen, 1870–1930
    Submitted by: Alexa Hennemann

    Die aktuell zu beobachtende Konjunktur skandinavischer Literatur ist kein Novum. Vor etwa 100 Jahren, im Übergang zum 19. Jahrhundert, richteten Autor/-innen, Leser/-innen, Wissenschaftler/-innen und Verleger/-innen aus der Schweiz, der...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 29.02.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2022
    Günter Grass. Interkulturelle Dialoge und Auseinandersetzungen, Gdańsk
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Interdisziplinäre Tagung Günter Grass. Interkulturelle Dialoge und Auseinandersetzungen / INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND ENCOUNTERS / dialogi i konfrontacje interkulturowe Gdańsk 6.−8. Oktober...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary historiography and 5 more
    Created on: 18.02.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2021
    Le détour du comparant
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Le détour du comparant Université de Rouen 15-17 juin 2022 Après le Parcours du comparant (2014), puis Le Retour du comparant (2016) le troisième colloque international proposé par l’Université de Rouen et...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 18.06.2021
  6. Reinhard M. Möller
    University or institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); travel literature; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Sascha Seiler
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Spanish literature; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. 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

  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Song Lyrics as a Challenge to Transnational Literary History – the Case of ”Vårvindar Friska”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project posits one piece of song lyrics as a productive challenge to literary history after the transnational turn: “Vårvindar friska” (Fresh Spring Breezes), by Julia Nyberg. Whereas most research on world literature and transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Made in Italy. A diachronic study of literary circulation and translation in the semiperihery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Focusing on the translation flow from Italy to Sweden, the primary aim of this project is to examine the changes that the symbolic capital of Italian literature has undergone in the Swedish context during the last century and its manifestations in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Italian literature,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    From Periphery to Center: Swedish Literature on the French Book Market
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my project is to describe the transmission of literature (fiction) from a small language area (the ”vernacular” or the ”periphery”, in this case: Sweden) to a larger one (the ”cosmopolitan” or the ”centre”, in this case: France). This...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  French literature,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Cosmopolitanizing from Within: Migrant Writers in Sweden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This subproject explores the social world of the young generation of migrant writers and their work, fiction and journalism, ranging from established writers such as Jonas Hassen Khemiri to debutantes such as Pooneh Rohi. By uncovering often cruel...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Literatures in Early 20th Century Sweden, Finland and Estonia
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Katarina Leppänen's project "Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Literatures in Early 20th Century Sweden, Finland and Estonia" engages in a region that has been largely invisible, and thus undertheorised, in contemporary research on transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019