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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the Genre (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the continuum of intersectional crime fiction writing in a U.S. context, illuminating the methods, exemplary texts, and narrative strategies that embrace inclusive tenets and movements, from Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ rights to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.09.2023
    Figurationen des Erbe(n)s in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organisiert von Patrick Hohlweck, Luisa Drews und Stefan Willer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". Der literaturwissenschaftliche Workshop untersucht Figurationen des Erbes und Erbens in der Literatur der...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  6. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 22.09.2023
    Tenure-Track Position, Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies (Harvard)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position Description The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth century, from the...

    Fields of research French literature,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  7. Esperanza Anido Calvo
    University or institution: Universität Vechta
    Fields of research: Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.08.2023
    RSA 2024 Staging History: Ancient Subjects in Early Modern Performance (Renaissance Society of America)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Staging History: Ancient Subjects in Early Modern Performance In his Poetics, Aristotle famously distinguishes poetry from history, claiming that “the distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Drama,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 07.08.2023
    Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Postdoc) (m/w/d), Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 30.09.2030, Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU, FU Berlin
    Submitted by: Anita Traninger

    Kennung: ECHO_Postdoc_2023 Aus den Mitteln des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preises 2023 wird an der Freien Universität Berlin ein Zentrum für die Erforschung der Rhetorik zwischen alten und neuen Medien aufgebaut. Mit einem methodischen Anker in...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Digital literature,  Rhetoric and 4 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Literary Property in America: Claims, Creativity, Copyright
    Submitted by: Fenja Heisig

    Across numerous disciplines, scholars continue to grapple with property as a central organizing feature of North American culture, past and present. Definitions of property thus range from ownership over tangible as well as intangible objects and...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature and law,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  11. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.08.2023
    Postes d'assistants de recherche (Collège universitaire Glendon de Toronto)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Le Collège universitaire Glendon de Toronto est à la recherche de deux assistants de recherche pour l’année 2023-2024 qui travailleront dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire de Recherche de l’Université York sur les rapports franco-autochtones dans...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2023
    II Congreso internacional CROS: Cruce de fronteras: Español y otras lenguas y literaturas en contacto / II International Congres CROS: Crossing the borders: Spanish and other languages and literatures in contact (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Este II congreso internacional es una iniciativa del Grupo de Investigación CROS del Departamento de Lingüística y Estudios Literarios (lengua española) de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Bélgica) y del Departamento de Español de la Universidad...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.07.2023
    Représentations littéraires du perdant dans la littérature occidentale du Moyen Âge au XXIe siècle
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international organisé par le Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS, UR 4280) de l'Université Clermont Auvergne, les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 2023, à la MSH de Clermont-Ferrand. Les gens qui réussissent leur...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 9 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.07.2023
    Stage and Plate. Eating and Starving in European Drama and Theatres, 16th-19th century (European Drama and Performance Studies)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Through the diversity of its approaches and the richness of its conclusions, the recent field of food studies has demonstrated the validity of such a panoptic approach, which places food – as an anthropological datum, as a social construct, as an...

    Fields of research Drama,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 03.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.07.2023
    Poésie, anthropologie/ethnologie, poètes, anthropologues-poètes/poètes-anthropologues : croisements, emprunts, ré/appropriations dans les Amériques et le pourtour du Pacifique (1960-)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poésie, anthropologie/ethnologie, poètes, anthropologues-poètes/poètes-anthropologues : croisements, emprunts, ré/appropriations dans les Amériques et le pourtour du Pacifique (1960-) Organisatrices : Peggy Pacini et Anne-Marie...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Australian/Oceanian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 26.06.2023