Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
An der Philologischen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ist am Englischen Seminar eine W1-Juniorprofessur mit Tenure Track für Englische Philologie (Literaturwissenschaft) in ganzer Breite unter Einschluss des Mittelalters (vorgezogene...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Freie Universität Berlin
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Reader-response criticism;
Feminist studies;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
autobiography;
Essay;
Diary;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Since it is still uncertain what the health situation will be like in the next months, the research group “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature” has decided to plan its...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature of the 20th century
and 1 more
Created on:
22.03.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Guillaume Le Blanc, Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot Dr. Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) In his ground-breaking work, L’invisibilité sociale ,...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature and other forms of art,
Literature and cultural studies
and 2 more
Created on:
14.02.2020
Submitted by:
Olga Springer
20th-century criticism and theory have acquainted us with the ability of fictional narratives to build or strengthen the identity ofnations and classes, often at the expense of other communities.Investigations of the ideological significance of...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from the Benelux Countries,
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and 26 more
Created on:
09.02.2020
University or institution:
Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" / University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century);
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main;
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Literary theory;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Aesthetics;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Wien
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Intermediality;
Lyric poetry;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
2020 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference 24th-25th April, as Newstead Abbey 2020 marks the bicentenary of a troubling year. George III had lost his life and the new king George IV was rapidly losing what little shreds remained of his...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Themes, motifs, thematology,
Literature of the 19th century
Created on:
13.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
If the old dictum that “a picture says more than a thousand words” should be true, why is it that visual adaptations of literature are usually frowned upon as trivializations or as intrusions into the sacred realm of high art? This dismissive...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland
Created on:
02.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
“Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality” is a 3-year project that aims to explore and describe the dynamics of Beckett’s media system. Technology shapes Beckett’s output in crucial ways on three levels: it plays a pivotal role...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature and media studies,
Literature of the 20th century
Created on:
14.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This is the research blog of the “Projet Horizon” of the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU). Ours is a thoroughly interdisciplinary team of historians, linguists, literature and...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies
and 4 more
Created on:
09.08.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Ce projet s’intéresse à la manière dont le mouvement féministe a pu être la cible d’attaques et d’oppositions de la part des femmes elles-mêmes. Des spécialistes de la « première vague » des féminismes anglo-américains se proposent d’explorer la...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies
and 2 more
Created on:
09.08.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Like many other books, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre does not exist only in English. It has been translated hundreds of times, by hundreds of translators, into more than fifty languages. Each time, things change: there is loss, no doubt, but also gain...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Translation,
Literature of the 19th century
Created on:
05.07.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature and media studies,
Lyric poetry
and 8 more
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This project examines Anglo-French literary networks at the beginning of the twentieth century. If scholars have traditionally focused on American, British, or French authors in isolation, the present study explores their interconnections. It...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
French literature,
Literature of the 19th century
and 1 more
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Many of the most significant European writers and literary movements of the modern period have traversed national, linguistic, and disciplinary borders. Founded on the shared research interests of staff in the School of European Culture and Languages...
Fields of research
Literature from the Benelux Countries,
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature from UK and Ireland
and 5 more
Created on:
21.02.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The phrase “Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait” usually ascribed to Charles Reade – an English novelist and dramatist active in the second half of the 19th century – was to become famous after William Wilkie Collins rearranged it as “Make...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Novel,
Literature of the 19th century
Created on:
17.08.2020
University or institution:
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
New Historicism;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Media studies;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Letter;
Theory of translation
University or institution:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Media studies;
Writtenness;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Novel;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Letter;
Diary;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
A collection of essays Deadline for submissions: before December 2021 Editors: Giuseppe Scattolini and Enrico Spadaro A call for papers from Tolkieniani Italiani John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was first and foremost a great...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Translation,
Theory of translation
and 1 more
Created on:
21.05.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
La Fondazione Carlo e Marise Bo per la Letteratura Europea Moderna e Contemporanea istituisce n. 3 Borse di studio del valore di € 1.250,00 ciascuna (consistenti ognuna in n. 10 pernottamenti presso il Collegio Internazionale di Urbino e in...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from the Benelux Countries,
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and 8 more
Created on:
19.03.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Commemorating the Sidney Ladies, 1621-2021 Call for papers for a one-day conference At the Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 25 September 2021 2021 marks the 400 th anniversary of two crucial events in the Sidney...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature of the 17th century,
Literature of the 18th century
and 3 more
Created on:
19.03.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
État de la recherche sur les récits de voyage entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine (XVIII e -XIX e siècles) Journée d’étude organisée par Matthias Soubise (ENS de Lyon) et Daniel Lopez (Université Clermont-Auvergne), avec le soutien de...
Fields of research
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from the Benelux Countries
and 12 more
Created on:
02.10.2020
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Guest Editor: Dr. Jelena Šesnić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Website of VTU Review : http://journals.uni-vt.bg/vtureview/eng/ This special issue is to address the question of the massive and long-ranging transformations overtaking...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Postcolonial studies
and 2 more
Created on:
12.10.2020
