Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Am Fachbereich Sprache, Literatur, Kultur ist ab dem 1. Oktober 2018 die W3-Professur für Neuere englische und amerikanische Literatur unter Beachtung des § 61 Abs. 7 HHG zu besetzen; es gelten die Einstellungsvoraus-setzungen nach § 62...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Project REVEAL has been a year-long project designed with the three-fold purpose of increasing access to the Ransom Center's manuscript and archival resources, enhancing the online user experience for the Center's researchers, and creating workflows...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Universität Erfurt
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
New Criticism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Postcolonial studies;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and music/sound studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Non-fictional literature;
autobiography;
travel literature;
Essay;
Letter;
Diary;
Drama;
Digital literature;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literary theory;
Media studies;
Writtenness;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Comic;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Sandra Fluhrer
The two-day summer school will address the perpetuity of the figure of the witch in popular culture, literature, and critical theory, through workshops, seminars and lectures. The witch is an entirely familiar, utterly unknowable archetype,...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Feminist studies
and 3 more
Created on:
07.03.2019
University or institution:
Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
North African literature;
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Feminist studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and philosophy;
autobiography;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Narratology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Evangelische Akademie Thüringen
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;
Literary theory;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Reader-response criticism;
Ecocriticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Intermediality;
Prose;
Novel;
Narrative;
travel literature;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Ecocriticism;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and natural science;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
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
University or institution:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
travel literature;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Innsbruck
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Literary theory;
Structuralism;
World Literature;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Prose;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Drama;
The fictional;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Wien
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Digital Humanities;
Literary theory;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Media studies;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Theory of translation;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität zu Köln
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Digital Humanities;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Reader-response criticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and media studies;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Comic;
Tragedy;
Formula literature;
Digital literature;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
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
University or institution:
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Structuralism;
Reader-response criticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Literature and media studies;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Comic;
Formula literature;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
A non-profit organization devoted to the study and the appreciation of the writings of Philip Roth.
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature of the 20th century,
Literature of the 21st century
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The International David Foster Wallace Society was founded to promote and sustain the long-term scholarly and independent study of David Foster Wallace’s writing. The Society showcases a variety of projects—at conferences, on panels, in [their] print...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature of the 20th century,
Literature of the 21st century
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Since it is still uncertain what the health situation will be like in the next months, the research group “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature” has decided to plan its...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature of the 20th century
and 1 more
Created on:
22.03.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
“Collection Cultures”: Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 4-7, 2021. The MMLA’s permanent section on American Literature After 1870 invites papers which, building on the conference theme, examine the...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature and cultural studies,
Literature of the 19th century
and 2 more
Created on:
08.03.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Appel à contribution pour un volume collectif Raconter les politiques conflictuelles en Afrique. Regards croisés L’Afrique a traversé des périodes troubles, des guerres et des révolutions générées par le rêve...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,
Narratology
and 1 more
Created on:
03.02.2020
University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main;
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Literary theory;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Aesthetics;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Wien
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Intermediality;
Lyric poetry;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Organized by Dustin Breitenwischer (RA 1) and Jasmin Wrobel (RA 4) The international conference "Imagining the Black Diaspora" brings together authors, comic artists, a comic translator, and scholars from the fields of American...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),
Literature and cultural studies
and 2 more
Created on:
13.12.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This is the research blog of the “Projet Horizon” of the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU). Ours is a thoroughly interdisciplinary team of historians, linguists, literature and...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies
and 4 more
Created on:
09.08.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Ce projet s’intéresse à la manière dont le mouvement féministe a pu être la cible d’attaques et d’oppositions de la part des femmes elles-mêmes. Des spécialistes de la « première vague » des féminismes anglo-américains se proposent d’explorer la...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies
and 2 more
Created on:
09.08.2019
