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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Speculative Fiction Novella (conference panel) (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the past decade, the novella has re-emerged as one of the dominant forms of contemporary speculative fiction, with both stand-alone debuts and long-running series taking part in the form. This session invites papers that examine the novella form...

    Fields of research Novella
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2023
    Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹, Bochum/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹ »Totgesagte leben länger«, konstatieren Sascha Kiefer und Torsten Mergen (2021) für die deutschsprachige Novelle, die häufig als Relikt einer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 05.02.2022
    Kleinprosa und Mikroformate, RWTH Aachen (online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mal als ‚prosetry‘, ‚twitterature‘ oder ‚texticules‘ bezeichnet: Kurze und kürzeste Prosatexte und Mikroformate beherrschen die aktuelle Literaturszene. Prägnant und bündig formuliert und nicht selten im kleinen Format publiziert, eignen sie sich...

    Fields of research Novella,  Short prose,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment) and 4 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2021
    American Golden Age Mystery and Detective Fiction, Mean Streets Journal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Submissions Third issue of Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Topic: AMERICAN “GOLDEN AGE” MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION 1920-1945 Proposals: July 15, 2021 Final essays:...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 30.04.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020
  7. Jana Volkmann
    University or institution: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French 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; East Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Narratology; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Aesthetics; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Ursula Kocher
    University or institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Italian literature; South Asian literature; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Novella; Rhetoric; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century

  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 12.07.2018
    Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters, Universität Oldenburg, Projekt „Fiction Meets Science“
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In der Fakultät III – Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften – ist im Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik zum 01.09.2018 bzw. zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, befristet für drei Jahre, die Stelle einer/eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin /...

    Fields of research Novella
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Dem Abenteuer entgegen. Transformationen des Abenteuers in Bildungsroman und Novelle (Goethe, Keller, Thomas Mann, Musil)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Das Teilprojekt zielt darauf, die Bedeutung des Erzähl- und Erlebnisschemas Abenteuer in der Moderne am Beispiel von deutschsprachigen Romanen zu erhellen, die in unterschiedlicher Weise an der Gattung des Entwicklungs- bzw. Bildungsromans...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Novel,  Novella
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  11. Mahamat Ali Alhadji
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; travel literature; Essay; Literature of the 20th century

  12. Ute Barbara Schilly
    University or institution: Technische Hochschule Köln (TH Köln)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Digital Humanities; Didactics of Literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Media studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; Writtenness; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and publishing/booktrade; Literature and visual studies; Literature and pedagogy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and media studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comic; autobiography; travel literature; Letter; Diary; Drama; Folk literature; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  13. Maria Deppermann
    University or institution: Universität Innsbruck
    Fields of research: Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Reader-response criticism; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and music/sound studies; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Essay; Drama; Tragedy; Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Sabine Mainberger
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Empirical Aesthetics; Writtenness; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and geography/cartography; Intermediality; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Epic poetry; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Essay; Tragedy; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  15. Sonja Klimek
    University or institution: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Digital Humanities; Literary theory; Feminist studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Elegy; Novella; Narrative; autobiography; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century