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  1. Nicoletta Pireddu
    University or institution: Georgetown University
    Fields of research: Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Narrative; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Lyric Resilience: The Subject and its Questions (Seminar) (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract In his famous essay 'On Lyric Poetry and Society', Adorno argues that the lyric subject is conditioned by a “collective undercurrent” that makes it “more than a mere subject” and prevents poetic language from being fully...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Queer Poetry and Poetics [NeMLA 2023]
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you. & you means someone who knows that common flavors for ice cream sandwiches in Singapore include red bean, yam, & honeydew.” – Chen Chen, Summer This panel seeks papers that explore the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literary genre,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 13.06.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.03.2022
    New Perspectives on Rilke and Phenomenology (GSA 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    German Studies Association , Sept. 15-18, 2022, Houston, Texas Rilke’s standing in literary studies is unquestioned, and his work has been particularly influential in the phenomenological tradition. Yet beyond the appropriation of his...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 28.02.2022
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Premodern Desires: The Erotic from the Symposium to the Inferno, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ever since the publication of Foucault’s multi-volume work The History of Sexuality, scholarship, whether theoretically, historically, or literarily minded, has reckoned with the call to develop less anachronistic methodologies to analyze premodern...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: When Poets Write About Poets: Representation(s) of the Poet and Poetry in Poetic Works
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From the very first traces of written poetry, poets have been inspired by their peers: whether with elegies, odes or allusions to the poets they admired, they have always incorporated figures of poets and other poetic texts in their own poems....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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

  13. 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