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  1. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 15.01.2022
    5-Year Fellowships for Graduate Students, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German program at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for PhD students to begin in Fall 2022, with 5 years of generous funding to be offered to all admitted graduate students. The program at Johns Hopkins is among the most...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Reading Literature Today, Roundtable at NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description We welcome proposals for short presentations that address the entangled notions of literature and reading. Topics may include changing scholarly/pedagogical approaches to reading, reading in the context of multiple media, and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  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: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2021
    Racial Classification and Human Rights in the Transatlantic Order: Popular Literature and Journals in eighteenth-century Germany (ASECS 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Racial Classification and Human Rights in the Transatlantic Order: Popular Literature and Journals in eighteenth-century Germany [German Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (DGEJ)] Sigrid G. Köhler, Eberhard Karls Universität ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and media studies and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment To be held at the NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March 2022; Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2021 Andreas Gailus has characterized the German...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Sebald. Again. NeMLA 2022
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sebald. Again. “Certain things, as I am increasingly becoming aware, have a way of returning unexpectedly [unverhofft und unvermutet], often after a lengthy absence,” Sebald writes at the end of the first narration of The...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Novel,  Narrative and 1 more
    Created on: 18.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022 roundtable on German language teaching
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP event to be held at the Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Baltimore, Maryland, from March 10-13, 2022. Reading is a fundamental component of all levels of second language instruction and the goal of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021