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  1. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.10.2022
    Assistant Professor of Letters (Middletown, CT)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The College of Letters at Wesleyan University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Letters, beginning July 1, 2023. We seek a scholar-teacher with expertise in premodern Islamic intellectual traditions and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Near Eastern literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 6 more
    Created on: 01.08.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Care, Knowledge, and Subjectivity: Foucault’s Epimeleia (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks to explore the contemporary uses of the Greek “care” or epimeleia particularly in ways enabled by Michel Foucault’s analysis of the notion connecting to (self)knowledge, subjectivity, and mode of life. Towards the last...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Inspired by and Invigorating Myth and Literature: Contemporary Literature and the Classics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad , Madeline Miller’s Circe , Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships , Luigi Malerba’s Ithaca Forever , Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, and Colm Toibin’s House of Names are just a small sample of...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Digital literature,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 2 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  4. Ferdinand von Münch
    University or institution: Colgate University
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Hermeneutics; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Literary genre; Elegy; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century

  5. 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