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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.10.2021
    Nineteenth Century Strata: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference March 24-27, 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah Held in a region of rich fossil beds, towering crags, plunging canyons, and snow-capped mountains, the 2022 INCS Annual...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2023
    Call for Contributors: Handbook of Drugs and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking scholars of literature and drugs to contribute to a handbook on the topic. The book will provide "a comprehensive, must-have survey of a core sub-discipline,” and will be a resource for students and scholars who are seeking to work in...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World, Vol. 13.2
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    UC Berkeley: TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 2 Archival Engagement In the spirit of the ongoing workshop series Archival Engagement“Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News ” which features contemporary writers who...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Poststructuralism and 5 more
    Created on: 23.07.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Embodiment and Agency in Postcolonial Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel holds space for depictions of embodied practices/practices of agency in bodies of women of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and other subjectivities in postcolonial literature and literatures of the Global South. What is the relation...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 16.07.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLa 2022: Julien Gracq. un écrivain géographe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Julien Gracq : un écrivain géographe/ Julien Gracq : a geographer writer NEMLA MARS 2022, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Maryland, USA Ce panel se veut donc une discussion sur l’écriture de Julien Gracq à travers une œuvre...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022, Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP – Panel: 53rd annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2022) Guerres au masculin, exterminations au féminin: entre expériences, trauma et révoltes March 10-13, Baltimore, MD En...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 28.06.2021
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 02.06.2021
    Postdoctoral Fellow in German, Northwestern University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral position, beginning September 1, 2021. A Ph.D. in German Studies or a related field, native or near-native proficiency in German, and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 21.05.2021
  10. Kitty Millet
    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

  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