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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.11.2023
    Digitality and the Public Sphere: Literature, Mediality, Practice, Erlangen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Digitality and the Public Sphere: Literature, Mediality, Practice” Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024 ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Post-Colonialism and the Struggle for Identity (NeMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on the struggles for identity that have arisen in the post-colonial era. It will examine how the legacy of colonialism has impacted identity formation and the construction of national and cultural identities in Africa, Europe,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  8. 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
  9. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 19.11.2023
    Assistant Professor in Decolonial Pedagogy (Emory Univ.)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of French and Italian at Emory University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Decolonial Pedagogy with expertise in African Studies (including Literature, Linguistics, and/or Media) at the level of Assistant Professor,...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    Die Welten des Peter Henisch: Wien – Mitteleuropa – Transatlantik, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Programm Mittwoch, 27.09., 18:00: Alte Schmiede Würdigung: Karl-Markus Gauß (Salzburg) Lesung: Peter Henisch liest aus seinem neuen Roman Nichts als Himmel Einleitung zur Lesung und Gespräch: Johanna Öttl (Alte Schmiede Wien) ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  11. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Assistant Professor of German Studies (Tenure-Track), Dartmouth College
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German Studies at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor , to begin on July 1, 2024. Preferred areas of expertise are Environmental Humanities, Black German Studies, or both....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  12. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures (Saarbrücken)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures" 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft e.V. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Ein Interesse an wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung mit dem ›Populären‹ ist wohl...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  14. 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
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2023
    Literary Self-Translation and its Metadiscourse Power Relations in Postcolonial Contexts
    Submitted by: Myriam-Naomi Walburg

    Initially relegated to the margins of translation studies, literary self-translation has now become a research topic in its own right, both in the fields of translation studies and comparative literature. While translation studies typically...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 15.09.2023