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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  2. Sandro Eich
    University or institution: University of St Andrews
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; New Criticism; Media studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Drama; Formula literature; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  6. Category: Collaborative Research Centres
    Institutions: Universität Siegen
    SFB 1472: Transformationen des Populären
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Populäre ist in unserem Alltag allgegenwärtig. Für die meisten Menschen scheint klar, was darunter zu verstehen ist. Fasst man das Populäre positiv, dann ist es das Beliebte, das Reizvolle. Vielleicht etwas Volkstümliches, das im Gegensatz zum...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 4 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  8. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    Virtueller Master-Info-Tag: "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" (Heidelberg) am 14.09.23 um 14 Uhr
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Liebe Studierende, an diesem virtuellen Info-Tag möchten wir Ihnen unseren komparatistischen Master-Studiengang "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" vorstellen: Was macht diesen Studiengang so einzigartig? Inwiefern erlaubt dieser...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 19 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    Call for Papers: “Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations” (Hamburg, June 20-22, 2024)
    Submitted by: Benedikt Stamm

    Die dritte internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung des ERC-Projekts „Poetry in the Digital Age“ wird zum Thema „Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: Neuere mediale Konstellationen“ vom 20. bis 22. Juni 2024 im Warburg-Haus in Hamburg...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 06.09.2023
  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2023
    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts (Séminaire, Toulouse)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts L’objectif de ce séminaire filé du laboratoire LLA-Créatis de l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès est de développer une réflexion ouverte sur les questionnements « politiques », au...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Culture de la mémoire et poétique de l'oubli dans la littérature contemporaine et extrême-contemporaine : entre héritage et transmission (en ligne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Culture de la mémoire et poétique de l'oubli dans la littérature contemporaine et extrême-contemporaine : entre héritage et transmission Colloque (en ligne), 30-31 octobre 2023. L’objectif de ce colloque est d’interroger les liens entre...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 01.09.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Politics and narratives of the body (Padova, Italy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body aims to open an interdisciplinary dialogue, considering the multiple ways of thinking, representing, embodying and writing corporeality, particularly in contemporary contexts. The...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 6 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  15. Björn Weyand
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Postcolonial studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Prose; travel literature; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century