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  1. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.03.2022
    Multimedia Medeas: Ethnic Difference and Adaptation (GSA 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this seminar, the mythological figure of Medea will be used to explore adaptation, form/medium, and representations of ethnic difference. Medea, known for helping Jason and his Argonauts capture the Golden Fleece and later for killing her...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.03.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.03.2022
    The Return of the Real: The Documentary Literature of the 1970s in Germany
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We invite applications to a GSA Seminar to be held at the 2022 German Studies Association annual conference: "The Return of the Real: The Documentary Literature of the 1970s in Germany." The 2022 German Studies Association (GSA) conference...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 11.03.2022
  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 events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2022
    Arendt and Literature (GSA Conference 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Life of the Mind , posthumously published by Mary McCarthy in 1977, Hannah Arendt uses one of Gertrude Stein's most famous lines to show how language operates between thought and sensual experience, as a communicative tool that is...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 14.01.2022
  6. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.11.2021
    Associate Professor, World Cultures and Literatures, University of Houston
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Associate Professor - World Cultures and Literatures - (FAC001916) H0092 Modern & Classical Languages Salary Commensurate with experience Description The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.11.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2022
    Visualizing German Orientalism, GSA Conference 2022, Houston
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Visualizing German Orientalism Since Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), scholars in the fields of literature, art history, film and media studies have adopted, adjusted, or criticized his initial discussion of a complex system of knowledge...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 25.10.2021