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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women and Spanish Kiosk Literature (1907-1939): Modernization and Mass Culture (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Among the thousands of novelas cortas published in Spain between 1907 and 1939, more than 300 were written by women. The present panel seeks to explore the ways in which women used early-20th-century Spanish kiosk literature as a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Literary historiography,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.10.2021
    Department head, French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    REQ_0000015595 Head, Department of French and Francophone Studies The Pennsylvania State University, College of the Liberal Arts, invites applications and nominations for the position of Head of the Department of French and Francophone Studies. The...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.05.2021
    Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Haverford College
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Haverford College, German and German Studies (5.5.2021) The Department of German at Haverford College invites applications for a one-year full-time visiting assistant professor appointment for the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.04.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2021
    Graphic Narratives and Trauma (MLA 2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This series of panels explores the representation of trauma in German-language graphic narratives. Recent decades have seen an increase in graphic narratives that deal with various traumatic experiences, including trauma related to warfare,...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Comic
    Created on: 15.02.2021
  9. 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

  10. 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