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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Modernist Jany Eyre? (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Coming to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, for the first time, one may be struck by its apparently forward-looking elements, ones that do not seem to line up with expectations for early Victorian novels. In terms of the novel's...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Representations and Visions of the Future in Modernist Literature (Niagara Falls, NY)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Several examples of literature produced from the late Victorian age narrate great concerns about the future and the destiny of humanity, concerns that would be significantly exacerbated in the twentieth century by the Great War, soon followed by...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 29.07.2022
  3. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 15.01.2022
    Ph.D. Fellowships in German Studies at Rutgers University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Applications: Ph.D. Fellowships in German Studies Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University is currently inviting applications...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 22.11.2021
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 28.11.2021
    Full-time tenure-track or tenured appointment in German literature and culture, Amherst College (USA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track or tenured appointment in German literature and culture that will begin on July 1, 2022. Today, nearly one-quarter of Amherst's students are Pell Grant...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2021
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.10.2021
    Department head, French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    REQ_0000015595 Head, Department of French and Francophone Studies The Pennsylvania State University, College of the Liberal Arts, invites applications and nominations for the position of Head of the Department of French and Francophone Studies. The...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2021
    Representation and reception of French and Francophone women writers in the media (19th-21st centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Representation and reception of French and Francophone women writers in the media (19th-21st centuries) University of Maryland, November 12, 2021, 9am to 5pm EST (via Zoom) Keynote Address: Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 9 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment To be held at the NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March 2022; Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2021 Andreas Gailus has characterized the German...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2021
    Irenic Utopias: Peaceful Women and Powerful Non-Places
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP (Feb 15) : Irenic Utopias: Non-Violent Women and Powerful Non-Places Early/Pre-20th Century Panel Women in German (WiG) Conference, October 2021, Portland, Oregon ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 12.02.2021
  11. Beate Allert
    University or institution: Purdue University
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; Writtenness; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Ballad; Elegy; Sonett; Other lyrical forms; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comic; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century