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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.10.2023
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2024 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    _Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism_ is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 7 more
    Created on: 16.06.2023
  2. Nicoletta Pireddu
    University or institution: Georgetown University
    Fields of research: Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Narrative; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 07.11.2022
    Tenure-track Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies (Scripps College, Claremont, CA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the department of French and Francophone Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall...

    Fields of research French literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.03.2022
    Multimedia Medeas: Ethnic Difference and Adaptation (GSA 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this seminar, the mythological figure of Medea will be used to explore adaptation, form/medium, and representations of ethnic difference. Medea, known for helping Jason and his Argonauts capture the Golden Fleece and later for killing her...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.03.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2022
    Approches théoriques de l'adaptation cinématographique (revue Transcr(é)ation)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (english version below) Transcr(é)ation est une revue spécialisée consacrée à la transmédialité et aux dialogues texte – film, sans hiérarchisation de l’un sur l’autre. Nous accueillons des travaux théoriques ou analytiques ainsi que des...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Media studies,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness: Current Articulations and Future Perspectives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel aims to explore how writers and filmmakers have articulated questions of Blackness and Europeanness, migration and cultural belonging, colonial histories and decolonial futures. In recent decades, artists, scholars, and activists from...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 11 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  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