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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2023
    Language memoirs & linguistic autobiographies: the multilingual subject's self-narrative in comparative literature today (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Presentations may be held in either English, German or French. Please submit your paper proposal before the 30th of September (no exception) directly through the ACLA portal ( ...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Caribbean and The American South: Interrogating Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Relations (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Connected by the shared experience of the “plantation system” (in the words of Martinican author Édouard Glissant), the relationship between the Caribbean and the American South has been studied from a historical perspective [1], and the literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-Panel 2024: Temporalities of Memory, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Temporalities of Memory Organizer: Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College) A key challenge facing memory studies, despite its central role in interdisciplinary humanities work over the past 30 years, is how the field can survive in the face...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Short Fiction in Comparative and World Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amândio Reis In Death of a Discipline , Gayatri Spivak addresses the problematic identification between “literature” and the novel form in conventional approaches within comparative literature (2005: 123), voicing a concern with...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Writing with the Mind: The Virtual Essence of Global Magical Realism (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This comparative literature panel will be founded on Eva Aldea’s Deleuzian treatment of magical realism, according to which “the Deleuzian ontological model of actual and virtual as two sides of One Being is invaluable to negotiating the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Poets and the Conversation of Translation (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    At a time when an increasing number of poetry translations are coming forth out of Asia, it may be time to assess how these poetries and their translations are widening and deepening our sense of poetry’s possibilities. One thinks of innovative...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University* American Comparative Literature Association Seminar (June 15-18 2022; Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2021 ) In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Hermeneutics,  Poststructuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2020
    Repurposing Enlightenment (ACLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Repurposing Enlightenment Virtual ACLA seminar for this coming spring (April 08-11 2021). Olivia Sabee (Swarthmore College) and Hanna Roman (Dickinson College) The seminar is entitled “Repurposing Enlightenment,” and we...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 26.10.2020