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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Modernist Jany Eyre? (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Coming to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, for the first time, one may be struck by its apparently forward-looking elements, ones that do not seem to line up with expectations for early Victorian novels. In terms of the novel's...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2022
    Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable) (International Congress on Medieval Studies)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Call for Papers for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 11–May 13, 2023) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Myth and Fairy Tales: SWPACA 2023 (SWPACA Annual Conference 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Myth and Fairy Tales Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Submissions...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and media studies,  Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Arab and Muslim Womanhood Between History and Literature (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    At times depicted as loquacious and licentious, while most often portrayed as silent or inert harem slaves, the Arab and Muslim women received much attention from writers of different periods. Though considerable scholarly attention was given to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature
    Created on: 13.06.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2021
    Graphic Narratives and Trauma (MLA 2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This series of panels explores the representation of trauma in German-language graphic narratives. Recent decades have seen an increase in graphic narratives that deal with various traumatic experiences, including trauma related to warfare,...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Comic
    Created on: 15.02.2021
  9. 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

  10. Ferdinand von Münch
    University or institution: Colgate University
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Hermeneutics; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Literary genre; Elegy; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century

  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