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
University or institution:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Digital Humanities;
Literary historiography;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
New Criticism;
Reader-response criticism;
Media studies;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and law;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and media studies;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Elegy;
Sonett;
Epic poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Narrative;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
autobiography;
travel literature;
Tragedy;
Domestic drama;
Folk literature;
Digital literature;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
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
University or institution:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Fields of research:
French literature;
Italian literature;
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Literary theory;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Reader-response criticism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Writtenness;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and music/sound studies;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Epic poetry;
Novel;
Comic;
Non-fictional literature;
autobiography;
travel literature;
Essay;
Letter;
Diary;
Liturgical drama;
Folk literature;
Formula literature;
Digital literature;
The fictional;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century);
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
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
University or institution:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literary theory;
Narratology;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Ballad;
Prose;
Novel;
Folk literature;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century
Submitted by:
Olga Springer
The term ‘popular literature’ is characterized by its adjective coming from Latin ‘populāris’ indicating the ‘belonging to the common people,’ as opposed to more privileged social groups. From the viewpoint of cultural history, the three kinds of...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from the Benelux Countries,
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and 17 more
Created on:
22.12.2020
Submitted by:
Isabelle Stauffer
Die mit gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen verbundenen Erfahrungen von Unsicherheit werden nicht selten durch erhöhte Aggressivität kompensiert. Diese Beobachtung trifft nicht nur für die Gegenwart zu, sondern auch für das 16. Jahrhundert,...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature and theology/study of religions,
Intermediality
and 2 more
Created on:
02.11.2021
Submitted by:
Ankit Raj
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791-6553) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal on Myths, Archetypes and the Literary Arts . Ever since humans came into being, stories have been our...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
World Literature,
Literature and other forms of art
and 2 more
Created on:
28.01.2022
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Call for papers: Plotting Poetry 5 - Popular Voices 4-6 July 2022 – Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu Plotting Poetry is a conference series focussed on computational and statistical approaches for the study of poetic...
Fields of research
Digital Humanities,
Oral poetry / Orality,
Literature and cultural studies
and 4 more
Created on:
11.02.2022
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
