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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: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.08.2022
    Max Kade Visiting Professor of German at Michigan State University (Spring 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German Program at Michigan State University invites applications for the position of Max Kade Visiting Professor of German, Spring 2023 Candidates must have a Ph.D. with specialization in any area of German Studies, with preference given...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature
    Created on: 27.05.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.01.2021
    Environmental Literature, Climate Crises, and Pandemics (Journal LITERATURE)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS “Environmental Literature, Climate Crises, and Pandemics.” The new journal LITERATURE has finally been launched. Literature is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal on literature and cultural studies...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2021
    Cross-Talk - Conversations on Race and Language
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Cross-talk: Conversations on Race & Language Brown University Modern Languages Conference ‘22 February 24-26, 2022; In-person Presenters with Hybrid Format for Audience Brown University’s second biennial Modern Languages...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 7 more
    Created on: 19.11.2021
  5. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 01.11.2021
    Assistant Professor in French Studies (University of Austin, USA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of French and Italian at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to hire an Assistant Professor of French Studies. The position is open to any period, though preference will be given to candidates with a strong background and research...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2021
    Culture and Crisis: Dallas Goethe Center Symposium, University of Dallas in Irving
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    April 15-16, 2022 University of Dallas in Irving, TX (USA) The Dallas Goethe Center is soliciting papers for its Goethe symposium in April 2022. The symposium will consist of interdisciplinary panels focused on the topic of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  9. 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
  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