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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: 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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

  6. 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
  7. Fabian Lampart
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Deconstruction; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2021
    CfP: Licensorship for Fiction - Modalities of aesthetic, epistemic and ethical authorisation processes (English Version below)
    Submitted by: Nursan Celik

    Call for Papers: Lizensur fiktionaler Literatur Modalitäten epistemischer, ethischer und ästhetischer Autorisierungsprozesse (SFB 1385 Recht und Literatur, Universität Münster) 30.06. - 02.07.2021 Keynote: Prof. Dr....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Hermeneutics and 9 more
    Created on: 04.01.2021
  9. Anja Tippner
    University or institution: Universität Hamburg
    Fields of research: Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); World Literature; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; The fictional; Theory of translation

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Biofiction as World Literature (15.04.2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Biofiction (literature that takes a real biography as its point of departure) is powered by what Colm Tóibín has recently called “the anchored imagination”, which grants the fictional narrative a certain ambiguous (almost duplicitous) credibility. As...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 21.01.2020
  11. Hend Asaad
    University or institution: Ain Shams Universität
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Near Eastern literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Literature and media studies; Novel; Narrative; Short prose; Folk literature; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 20th century

  12. Daniel Weidner
    University or institution: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Prose; Essay; Diary; Domestic drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  13. Sieghild Bogumil-Notz
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Spanish literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Ute Barbara Schilly
    University or institution: Technische Hochschule Köln (TH Köln)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Digital Humanities; Didactics of Literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Media studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; Writtenness; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and publishing/booktrade; Literature and visual studies; Literature and pedagogy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and media studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comic; autobiography; travel literature; Letter; Diary; Drama; Folk literature; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  15. Annina Klappert
    University or institution: Universität Erfurt
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Spanish literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Intermediality; Poetics; Comic; Digital literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century