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Soapbox Journal
For the upcoming issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative work that critically engages with the theme of interface. We...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies
and 10 more
Created on:
09.11.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
April 20-22, 2022, KU Leuven Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the value of mimetic representations, but they agreed that humans are mimetic animals—for good and ill. This ancient realization has long remained in the shadow of dominant...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
Poststructuralism,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies
and 6 more
Created on:
05.11.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Assistant Professor – Translation Studies and Translation Theory Job #JPF02064 French and Italian / College of Letters & Science - Humanities and Fine Arts / UC Santa Barbara Apply now: https://apptrkr.com/2563225/apply View this...
Fields of research
French literature,
Italian literature,
Postcolonial studies
and 5 more
Created on:
29.10.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...
Fields of research
North African literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
East Asian literature
and 11 more
Created on:
11.10.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
#breiterkanon wird von einer Gruppe von Wissenschaftler*innen, Autor*innen, Journalist*innen und Übersetzer*innen betrieben. Zusammen bündeln wir Kanondiskussionen, die zurzeit oft in den Sozialen Medien, etwa in bestimmten Twitter-Bubbles,...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Didactics of Literature,
Literary historiography
and 4 more
Created on:
08.10.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
DUE DATE: 11-30-2021 Submissions are sought for a special issue of Literature titled What Is the Role of Literature Now? Some of the questions covered by the special issue include: Must literature be redefined? With people now reading...
Fields of research
Didactics of Literature,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies
and 6 more
Created on:
29.10.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Visualizing German Orientalism Since Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), scholars in the fields of literature, art history, film and media studies have adopted, adjusted, or criticized his initial discussion of a complex system of knowledge...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literary theory,
Postcolonial studies
and 3 more
Created on:
25.10.2021
Submitted by:
Daniel Brandlechner
When, in 1985, Michel Espagne and Michael Werner coined the term cultural transfer (“transfert culturel” in French, “Kulturtransfer” in German), they had a non-nationalistic and a non-diffusionistic approach to cultural studies in mind. In the...
Fields of research
Reader-response criticism,
Postcolonial studies,
Ecocriticism
and 3 more
Created on:
01.10.2021
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
« Des œuvres barbares et délicates : autour d’une contre-esthétique de la laideur» revue Post-Scriptum , no 29 sous la direction de Léonore Brassard ( à paraître en novembre 2020 ) ...
Fields of research
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies,
Aesthetics
Created on:
08.11.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Comics Studies is both starting to establish itself as an independent discipline (for example, with new postgraduate courses), and witnessing an intensifying questioning of its methodological and theoretical bases (and the dominance of models drawn...
Fields of research
Feminist studies,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies
and 5 more
Created on:
09.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Société canadienne pour l’étude de la bands dessinée invites proposals for papers on any and all aspects of comics, broadly conceived (including cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels,...
Fields of research
Postcolonial studies,
Comic
Created on:
09.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
April 17–18, 2020 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote: Stéphanie Boulard Associate Professor of French, Georgia Institute of Technology The notion of Saisir l’intime / Grasping the Intimate stands...
Fields of research
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies,
Media studies
and 8 more
Created on:
06.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature Biennial Graduate Student Conference April 3-4, 2020 Keynote: Professor Lydia Liu, Columbia University How can language, often thought to be incorporeal, twist and tie...
Fields of research
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies,
Ecocriticism
and 3 more
Created on:
25.11.2019
University or institution:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
travel literature;
Translation;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Graduate Center at the City University of New York Comparative Literature Conference 24 April 2020 A F T E R L I V E S Long after an era, movement, or idea is declared over, its paradigms, resonances,...
Fields of research
Textual criticism, editing, codicology,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies
and 8 more
Created on:
25.10.2019
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
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:
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Fields of research:
French literature;
Postcolonial studies;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
autobiography;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU);
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Prose;
Novel;
travel literature;
Essay;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Deconstruction;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and cultural studies;
Intermediality;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics “The more we study art, the less we care for nature.” Oscar Wilde The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western...
Fields of research
Feminist studies,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Postcolonial studies
and 7 more
Created on:
11.11.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
POST (-) MODERNE / POST (-) COLONIAL: LE POST EN DEBAT Colloque International Université Péléforo Gon Coulibaly/ Korhogo (Côte d’ivoire) PRÉSENTATION Le Département de Lettres Modernes de l’Université Péléforo Gon...
Fields of research
Postcolonial studies,
Literature and cultural studies
Created on:
11.11.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Appel à communication pour ouvrage collectif « Monstruosité et Métamorphose dans la littérature africaine postcoloniale » Université de Yaoundé I / Université de Maroua Argumentaire L’univers des œuvres de l’Afrique...
Fields of research
North African literature,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Postcolonial studies
Created on:
27.01.2020
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
