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:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Prose;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale;
travel literature;
Essay;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Fields of research:
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Prose
University or institution:
Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
Fields of research:
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Digital Humanities;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Postcolonial studies;
Media studies;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and media studies;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Aristoteleio Panepistēmio Thessalonikēs (APTH) / Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Postcolonial studies;
Ecocriticism;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Novel;
Formula literature;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 17th century
University or institution:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
autobiography;
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century
University or institution:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
travel literature;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Zukunftsphilologie fördert grundlegende Textforschung über den klassischen humanistischen Kanon hinaus. In einer Zeit fortgeschrittener Kommunikation, intellektueller Spezialisierung und beispielloser Mobilität von Wissen und Menschen kommt der...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Translation,
North African literature
and 5 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Sowohl im madagassischen Hochland als auch an der tansanischen Swahili-Küste sind verdichtete Formen sprachlichen Ausdrucks allgegenwärtig: Bei öffentlichen Veranstaltungen begeistern Redekünstler*Innen ihr Publikum, auf der Straße werden...
Fields of research
Reader-response criticism,
Oral poetry / Orality,
Literature and social and cultural anthropology
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Australian/Oceanian literature;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Ecocriticism;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Non-fictional literature;
autobiography;
travel literature;
The fictional;
Rhetoric
University or institution:
Universität Wien
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Portugese literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and media studies;
Lyric poetry;
Comic;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
Fields of research:
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies
University or institution:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Digital Humanities;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
Children's and young adult literature;
Rhetoric;
Translation;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Die Universität Bayreuth ist eine forschungsorientierte Universität mit international kompetitiven und interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Profilfeldern in Forschung und Lehre. An der Universität Bayreuth ist an der Sprach- und...
Fields of research
North African literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Literature and media studies
Created on:
18.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
There are strong arguments for considering the world’s speech practices as a continuum rather than as a series of discrete languages, the establishment of the latter very often being a political as much as a linguistic process. This talk will...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
World Literature,
Theory of translation
Created on:
29.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
EcoSen a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les liens entre productions littéraires en langue peule et environnement dans la région du Fleuve Sénégal (sud de la Mauritanie, nord du Sénégal), par la mise en œuvre d’une approche théorique inédite pour...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Ecocriticism,
Poetics
Created on:
17.05.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The purpose of my contribution to this project is to critique cosmopolitanism’s tendency to circumvent African spaces, aesthetics and phenomenologies. I aim to theorise the term Afropolitanism and to implement it in the analysis of contemporary...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Literary theory,
World Literature
and 1 more
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This project explores transnational dynamics in the literary production of African women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania, with an emphasis on feminism and cosmopolitanism. Drawing on anthropological theory and method, it is an ethnographic study...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
World Literature
and 1 more
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This project combines a focus on the dissemination and reception of contemporary Portuguese-language African literature across the Lusophone world with attention on the spread of this body of work into the English literary world through translation....
Fields of research
Portugese literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Reader-response criticism
and 3 more
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
PhD Erik Falk’s project “East African literature on the market 2000-2010” investigates the disjunctive relationship between literary markets for East African fiction in English. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, falls...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
World Literature,
Literature and publishing/booktrade
and 1 more
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The titles of literary journals in southern Africa tell an interesting story. We have, on the hand, all those irreducibly local and vernacular names: Voorslag (Durban 1926-1927), Izwi (Johannesburg 1971-1974), Charrua (Maputo 1984-1985), ...
Fields of research
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
World Literature
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how national identities are constructed in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, before and after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), in the complex tension between colonial power...
Fields of research
Portugese literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Literature and cultural studies
and 2 more
Created on:
07.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The establishment of this Committee was approved in 2018.
Fields of research
North African literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Literary historiography
Created on:
17.06.2019
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:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The department of Romance Studies at Cornell University is searching for an Assistant Professor (tenure line) in Francophone Studies. Preference will be given to a researcher working on Sub-Saharan Francophone literatures and/or cultures (including...
Fields of research
French literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Literature and cultural studies
and 4 more
Created on:
30.09.2019