University or institution:
Universität Rostock
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literary theory;
Interdisciplinarity;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
autobiography;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
Submitted by:
Marina Ortrud Hertrampf
In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland)
and 27 more
Created on:
06.12.2022
Submitted by:
Olga Springer
Die Herausgeberinnen Beate Baumann (Universität Catania), Michaela Bürger-Koftis (Universität Genua), Ramona Pellegrino (Universität Genua) und Sandra Vlasta (Universität Bologna) laden zur Einsendung von Beiträgen für das mehrsprachige Webportal...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland)
and 9 more
Created on:
18.10.2022
University or institution:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Fields of research:
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literary theory;
Reader-response criticism;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Literature and media studies;
Comic
Submitted by:
Carina Breidenbach
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wir laden Sie herzlich zur Jahrestagung "Real Adventure? Abenteuererzählungen zwischen Fiktion und Tatsachenbericht" der DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers" ( lmu.de/philologie-des-abenteuers )...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and 3 more
Created on:
12.06.2021
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Online-Workshop über Cisco Webex Eine Veranstaltung des Projekts Writing Berlin im Exzellenzcluster EXC 2020 »Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« (Freie Universität Berlin). Die Literaturszene im Berlin...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland)
and 6 more
Created on:
21.05.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Als Name für eine Kategorie narrativer Sinnbildung wird der Begriff ‚Peripetie’ erstmals in Aristoteles’ Poetik verwendet. Er bezeichnet dort den Wendepunkt in einer Geschichte, das Ereignis also, in dem deutlich wird, dass das, was in der Welt der...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literary historiography
and 3 more
Created on:
10.05.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Das Doktoratsprogramm Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Basel schreibt zwei einjährige Anschubstipendium über CHF 30 000.– aus (Laufzeit: 01.04.2022–31.03.2023, in zwei Tranchen, mit Evaluation). Der Antritt des Stipendiums erfolgt zum 1. April...
Fields of research
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
French literature
and 4 more
Created on:
17.09.2021
Submitted by:
Kathrin Wittler
Internationale Tagung am Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, 6. bis 8. Oktober 2021 Organisiert von Eva Axer (ZfL Berlin), Annika Hildebrandt (Universität Siegen) und Kathrin Wittler (Freie Universität Berlin) ...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature from UK and Ireland
and 8 more
Created on:
24.09.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Dear Colleagues, In my capacity as the Acting Director of Graduate Studies for the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia, I would like to draw your attention to Scholarship opportunities...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine)
and 1 more
Created on:
05.11.2021
Submitted by:
Rebecca Seewald
Ringvorlesung im Rahmen der Transdisciplinary Research Area „Individuals and Societies“, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Wintersemester 2021/22 Organisation: Sabine Mainberger / Christian Moser (Institut für Germanistik,...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
French literature,
Literature and sociology
and 3 more
Created on:
13.10.2021
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
Submitted by:
Mira Shah
Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft 25.-27.2.2020 Eine Tagung des DFG-Projekts „Entangled Island Times. Zu einer Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Inselbiogeographie“ (Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler,...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and 13 more
Created on:
22.01.2020
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Graduate School Practices of Literature (GSPoL) of the University of Münster, Germany, invites international students in literary studies to apply for one of two PhD scholarships starting October 1, 2020. The three-year scholarships are part...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from the Benelux Countries
and 12 more
Created on:
20.09.2019
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
Submitted by:
Fatima Borrmann
May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature from UK and Ireland
and 9 more
Created on:
17.10.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature of the 19th century,
Literature of the 20th century
and 1 more
Created on:
07.06.2019
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature is a research group based at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL) of Lund University. It was founded in 2013 with the aim to foster close collaboration among scholars across the 17 language...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literary theory
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation lies Lidman’s concepts ”con-science”...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature and philosophy
Created on:
03.06.2019
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
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
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
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
