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  1. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.09.2019
    Professur (W2) für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Universität Bielefeld
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Universität Bielefeld steht für Interdisziplinarität und eine hohe Forschungs- und Lehrqualität. Die Hochschule beschäftigt insgesamt ca. 3.500 Mitarbeiter*innen in Wissenschaft, Technik und Verwaltung, davon 280 Professor*innen. Eine...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Children's and young adult literature,  Literature of the 18th century and 3 more
    Created on: 12.08.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Dissipating the Original. Narrative Dissemination and Transmediality in Neil Gaiman’s Short Works of Fiction and Nonfiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and media studies,  Lyric poetry and 8 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    World-making: Genres, Crafts and Languages
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By adopting and adapting the term "world-making" (Valdés, Kadir, Hayot, Cheah, Neumann), sub-group 3 investigates how the world acquires density and meaning through literary practice. Rather than different scales of reading, the focus here is on...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Swedish Images of Italy: Travel Literature in the Age of Liberty (1719–72)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Swedish travel literature from Italy during the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden, 1719–72) engages in several of the main cultural and political debates of the time. Swedish travellers show both a reorientation in the understanding of classical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  travel literature,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Tropical Engagements: Vernaculars in French Early Modern Travel Writing (Africa and the Caribbean 1645-1728)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Tropical Engagements" examines how vernacular languages are incorporated into and impact upon early modern French travel writing from Africa and the Caribbean, by means of lexical inclusions of foreign words and of reported dialogues. The purpose is...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Queen Mary College, University of London,  Centre for Childhood Cultures (CCC),  V&A Museum of Childhood
    Children's Literature, Children's Lives (research cluster)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Children's Literature Children's Lives is part of the Centre for Childhood Cultures (CCC). This is a partnership between the V&A Museum of Childhood and Queen Mary University of London which fosters research on childhood culture, from literature,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    Hybride Zeiten. Temporale Dynamiken 1400-1600
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt erforscht, in welchem Masse im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert Zeitindikatoren in textuellen wie visuellen Formen zunehmen, inwiefern Zeitsemantiken eine immer grössere Rolle spielen, wie Zeit in ihren multiplen Schattierungen und...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Narratology,  Lyric poetry and 5 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  9. Björn Weyand
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary theory; New Historicism; Media studies; Literature and cultural studies; Prose; travel literature; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Stephanie Heimgartner
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Digital Humanities; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and publishing/booktrade; Literature and geography/cartography; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Children's and young adult literature; Rhetoric; Translation; Literature of the 20th century

  11. 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

  12. Mira Shah
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Australian/Oceanian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Literary genre; Prose; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; travel literature; The fictional; Rhetoric

  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 08.02.2018
    Präsentation des Projekts "Reiseliteratur im Kontext. Die sozio-politische Dimension des Reiseberichts in Europa 1760-1850"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reiseberichte stellen ein grundlegendes Medium im Prozess der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in Europa vom späten 18. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts dar. Besonders die Ausbildung kollektiver nationaler Identitäten sowie das...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  travel literature,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Graduiertenkolleg 1733 "Funktionen des Literarischen in Prozessen der Globalisierung", Universität München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Literatur bietet ein noch wenig konsultiertes Archiv für die Reflexion von Globalisierungsprozessen, und die Philologien besitzen deshalb noch kaum ausgelotete Kompetenzen für deren Analyse. Das Graduiertenkolleg leistet einen Beitrag dazu, diese...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Forschungskolleg Neues Reisen – Neue Medien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In der Gegenwart sind das Reisen und seine Darstellung auf neue und vielfache Weise medialisiert. Das Forschungskolleg „Neues Reisen – Neue Medien“ will deshalb in interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung Reisepraktiken und -erfahrungen des 21. Jahr­hun­derts...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018