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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935
    Submitted by: Fatima Borrmann

    May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.10.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Eugenic Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eugenic Women is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project researches literature by German and British female authors who engaged in the widespread debate on...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Popular Astronomy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Popular Astronomy is a subproject of the larger research programme, Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe , funded by the KU Leuven Research Council. This project aims to arrive at a better understanding of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and natural science and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.09.2019
    Professeur-e ordinaire in Modern English Literature (18th-21st century), University of Fribourg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) invites applications for the position of Professeur-e ordinaire in Modern English Literature (18th-21st century) The successful candidate will possess a doctorate in...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 19.08.2019
  5. Women & the F-Word. Exploring women's resistance to feminism in the English-speaking world, 19th to 21st centuries
    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
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Aix-Marseille Université
    Projet HORIZON « Les voix féminines de l’anti-féminisme »
    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
  7. An Experiment in the Study of Translations: Prismatic Jane Eyre
    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
  8. Julia Jennifer Beine
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Digital Humanities; Reader-response criticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literary genre; Drama; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Reassembling Modernism: Anglo-French Networks, Periodicals, Literary Analysis
    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
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Vice, Scandal, and "News": 19th-Century Newspapers and their Literary Products
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My project emerges from within the context of the repeal of the taxes on knowledge (i.e. the removal of additional taxes for advertisements (1853), stamps (1855), and the weight of paper (1861)), honing in on the changing nature of the periodical...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Kent
    The Lady’s Magazine: Understanding the Emergence of a Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ‘The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1818): Understanding the Emergence of a Genre’ was a two-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant scheme. The project team was based at the University of Kent and was led by Professor Jennie...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 13.05.2019
  12. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: University of Kent
    Centre for Modern European Literature, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent
    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
  13. Caroline Sauter
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literature from Israel; Literary theory; Deconstruction; Literature and theology/study of religions; Poetics; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Irena Samide
    University or institution: Univerza v Ljubljani / Universität Ljubljana
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Didactics of Literature; Literary historiography; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and pedagogy; Lyric poetry; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  15. Rafael Bienia
    University or institution: Hochschule Aschaffenburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; Digital Humanities; Didactics of Literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Media studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and media studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; Children's and young adult literature; Digital literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century