Deadline: January 13, 2023
Read MoreFixed term for three years, TV-L 13, 65%, starts October 1, 2023 Deadline: March 1, 2023
Read MoreFull time, W2, no term limit | starts April 1, 2023 Deadline: January 6, 2023
Read MoreStudienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | Full-time, TV-L E13, fixed term for two years Deadline: January 15, 2023 For more details on this position, please visit: Referent:in in Bonn für die Internationalen Graduiertenprogramme McCloy und ERP (m/w/d) (umantis.com)
Read MoreOsnabrueck University, Germany | May 12-13, 2023 Deadline: January 30, 2023
Read MoreSpecial issue of the journal AmLit – American Literatures Deadline: June 1, 2023
Read MoreSpecial issue of Journal AmLit – American Literatures Deadline: January 30, 2023
Read MoreDeadline: January 17, 2023 Cluster Call for Papers: Poetic Voice and Materiality The editors Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Julius Greve seek essays for an ASAP/J cluster on “Poetic Voice and Materiality”. We understand this topic to capaciously include new approaches to questions of poetic voice in contemporary American poetry. Experimental responses to questions of voice in poetry are…
Read More50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years Deadline: January 13, 2023
Read More50% TV-L E13 | starts April 1, 2023, fixed term until 2026 Deadline: January 19, 2023
Read MoreDeadline (abstracts): February 15, 2023
Read More100% TV-L E13, no term limit Deadline: January 5, 2023
Read MoreConference of SLSAeu European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and ELINAS Research Center for Literature and Natural Science Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg | May 18-21, 2023 Deadline: February 20, 2023 The SLSAeu Conference 2023 is centered on modes of exchange between discourses and practices of knowledge production, re-presentation and simulation which lead to epistemic transformations in science, literature…
Read More2023 Conference of the HCA Graduiertenkolleg ‘Authority and Trust’ Heidelberg, Germany | May 11-13, 2023 Deadline: February 5, 2023
Read MorePermanent position (60%) TV-L E13, starts April 1, 2023 Deadline: January 2, 2023
Read MoreCfA: Post-doctoral Fellowships at Goethe University Frankfurt’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Three one-year fellowships of 2,400€/month Deadline: January 31, 2023
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts April 1, 2023 Deadline: December 6, 2022 Kennziffer AN/306/22 Einsatzort Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät – Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Aufgabengebiet Wissenschaftliche Dienstleistungen in Forschung und Lehre im Bereich der Amerikanistik und Gender Studies Aufgaben zur eigenen wissenschaftlichen Qualifizierung mit Schwerpunkt in…
Read More100%, TV-L E13, permanent position Deadline: December 9, 2022
Read Morepart-time, 65 % TV-L E 13, fixed term for three years Deadline: January 11, 2023 For more details, please visit: Doctoral Position in American Studies (2022/283) | Universität Konstanz | 1172 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreFull time, fixed term for two years Deadline: January 15, 2023 Die Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus gGmbH sucht für die Bayerische Amerika-Akademie im Amerikahaus eine Referentin / einen Referenten (m/w/d) in Vollzeit Zu Ihren Aufgaben gehört: Organisation und Durchführung aller Programme der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie (BAA) als Netzwerkorganisation der Amerikaforscher*innen in Bayern, wie Konferenzen, Sommerschulen, Workshops, Einzelveranstaltungen…
Read MoreFriday, December 2, 2022 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST Poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky is joining us for our fifth installment in this series. His latest books are Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018; Lake Michigan, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Performance of…
Read MoreInternational Conference at LMU Munich, May 11–13, 2023 Deadline: December 31, 2022
Read MoreThree-year structured PhD programs | start October 1, 2023 Deadline: February 1, 2023 Giessen University’s International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) offers a three-year, structured PhD-programme in the study of culture, tailored to the needs of PhD students with optimal conditions and a custom-made preparation for the time thereafter. We encourage cooperation across status…
Read More100% TV-L A13 | fixed term for three years | starts April 1, 2023 Deadline: January 4, 2023 Der Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Heike Paul) am Department Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Romanistik besetzt ab dem 1. April 2023 eine Vollzeitstelle als Akademische*r Rat/Rätin auf Zeit (m/w/d), Besoldungsgruppe A13, befristet auf 3 Jahre…
Read MoreDAAD-funded 4-Year Doctoral Scholarship for International Doctoral Students in North American History/History of the Americas/Transatlantic History Deadline: December 15, 2022 The Graduate School Language & Literature at Ludwig-Maxmilians-University Munich (Germany) offers a doctoral fellowship for excellent international students wishing to pursue a doctoral degree in North American History/History of the Americas/Transatlantic History. The fellowship is sponsored…
Read MoreA Conference co-hosted by The Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., Freie Universität and Bard College Berlin May 25-27, 2023 | John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Deadline: December 15, 2022
Read MoreFunding period of one year Deadline: January 31, 2023 The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for 3 doctoral grants with a funding period of one year (1,350 EUR per month, 2023-2024) as well as up to 7 additional doctoral memberships for candidates who have already obtained third-party funding (starting date: October…
Read MoreInternational Conference at TU Chemnitz, June 15-17, 2023 Deadline: February 15, 2023
Read Moreinviting book proposals for monographs and edited volumes Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to let you know that Camden House is relaunching its book series “European Studies in North American Literature and Culture” and invites proposals for monographs and edited volumes from authors at any academic career stage. If you are looking for a quality publisher…
Read MoreInternational conference on Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations June 28 – July 1, 2023 | Paris, France Deadline: November 30, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: November 14, 2022 For a new journal dedicated to the study of American Literatures – AmLit – we are looking for guest editors interested in organizing one of the journal’s maiden issues. AmLit is designed as a new academic venue for experienced as well as young and upcoming scholars to publish collections of cutting-edge articles on recent developments in American literature. We…
Read MoreA Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
Read MoreAmerikahaus Munich | November 17-19, 2022 “Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” serves as a platform for scholarly exchange on the growing significance of the medium of video games in American (and global) culture. Contributions will examine the environments that video games affect and are impacted by through the lens of…
Read More65 %TVL-E13, fixed term for three years | start January 1, 2023 Deadline: November 15, 2022 Visit: Universität Leipzig: 2 research assistants (m/f/d) (uni-leipzig.de)
Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany | March 20-24, 2023 Deadline: November 15, 2022
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz, May 18-20, 2023 Deadline: January 31, 2023
Read MoreUniversity of Debrecen, Hungary | March 31 – April 1, 2023 Deadline: November 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational and interdisciplinary conference at TU Dresden | November 9-12, 2022 This conference is dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogues between the environmental humanities and the boundary-defying work of the late philosopher of science Michel Serres. Committed to the incessant circulations between nature and culture, the global and the local, the natural sciences and the humanities, Michel…
Read MoreInternational Conference of the Research Network Gender – Power Relations – State at Philipps-Universität Marburg and Herder-Institute Marburg | November 23-25, 2022
Read MoreCHF 30,000 each Deadline: December 4, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: December 1, 2022
Read More“Anglophone Literatures in a global environment” Deadline: November 1, 2022
Read MoreFull-time, E 13 TV-L | Fixed term from January 1, 2023-December 31, 2025 Deadline: October 24, 2022 For more information, please visit: Postdoctoral Position in North American Environmental History (2022/240) | Universität Konstanz | 1122 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreDeadline: October 1, 2022 Dear GAAS members, It is with great pleasure that we bring a grant/funding opportunity to your attention. On the occasion of the 75-year anniversary of American Studies at Schloss Leopoldskron (Salzburg, Austria). EAAS will partially fund a post-doc/early career scholar to attend the Salzburg Global Seminar on “Democracy on the Front…
Read More8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) | Saarland University, 27–30 September 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreWorkshop and Book Publication Project at Bielefeld University | June 30-July 1, 2023 Deadline: December 15, 2022
Read MoreTV-L 13, 50%, Post-Doc, fixed-term for three years Deadline: September 30, 2022 Am Institut für Literaturwissenschaft, Abteilung Amerikanische Literatur & Kultur der Universität Stuttgart ist eine Stelle mit der Bezeichnung Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d)(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, 50%, Post-Doc) befristet für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen. Aufgaben: eigenständige Forschung mit dem Ziel der wissenschaftlichen Weiterqualifikation in den Bereichen Transnational American Studies, Digital…
Read MoreInternational Conference at TU Dresden | June 22-24, 2023 Extended Deadline: December 5, 2022
Read MoreStarts March 1, 2023 Deadline: October 3, 2022 The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) at Heidelberg University, Germany, is accepting applications for a junior professorship position to be appointed with a tentative starting date of March 1, 2023. This junior professorship is a temporary qualification position limited to six years. It is based at…
Read MoreThe Heidelberg Center for American Studies Graduate Blog is welcoming contributions on all topics related to American Studies. The HCA Graduate Blog is a platform that emphasizes the interdisciplinary work of junior researchers in American Studies. Therefore, we invite contributions from fields such as (but not limited to) Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Geography,…
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover September 29-30, 2022
Read MoreFull-time, E 13 TV-L, starts January 1, 2023 Deadline: October 7, 2022 See the full job posting here: Postdoctoral Position in American Studies (2022/226) | Universität Konstanz | 1101 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreThird annual conference of the Bamberg Graduate School of Literature, Culture, and Media | June 16–17, 2023 Deadline: October 31, 2022
Read MoreOpening: Professorship (W2) “Teaching English in Primary School” at the University of Koblenz-Landau
Department for English and American Studies, section Fremdsprachliche Bildung in der Grundschule (FBG) – Englisch Deadline: September 16, 2022
Read MoreSecond international conference of the ERC-funded project “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” University of Tübingen, September 15-17, 2022 The second international conference of the ERC-funded project PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory, titled ‘Populism and Conspiracy Theories in the Americas’, will take place on 15-17 September 2022, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. Keynote speakers…
Read MoreTV-L E13, 100% | starts October 1, 2022, fixed term for three years Deadline: August 28, 2022
Read More31st Annual CDE Conference | Erfurt, Germany, June 8-11, 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational Conference at the University of Freiburg | March 10-11, 2023 on Zoom Extended Deadline: December 20, 2022
Read MoreOffener Brief gegen Kürzungen bei DAAD und AvH |Open Letter Against the DAAD and AvH Cuts [please scroll down for an English version][please scroll to the bottom of the page to sign] 12.7.2022 Mit Bestürzung haben wir, Wissenschaftler*innen, Forscher*innen und Hochschulangehörige aus dem In- und Ausland, die Ankündigung von Kürzungen in den durch das Auswärtige…
Read MoreSpecial issue of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS) Deadline: January 12, 2023 The JAAAS is calling for contributions to the special issue “Childfree by Choice: Pro-Natalism in American Literature, Film, and Television” guest-edited by Cornelia Klecker. Website: https://jaaas.eu/index.php/jaaas/announcement/view/11 On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court officially overturned the landmark…
Read MoreTwo workshops at Goethe University Frankfurt (Main) in November (3-4) and December (8-9) 2022 Deadline: August 30, 2022 The interdisciplinary research initiative on “Power and Abuse” at Goethe University brings together researchers from a range of social sciences and humanities, such as education, history, theology, philosophy, and law. It bundles research on phenomena of power…
Read More69th Annual Meeting of the DGfA/GAAS June 1-3, 2023 | Rostock University Deadline: October 1, 2022 America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee Still suffering from the shattering economic effects of the global financial crisis triggered by US banks’ large-scale gambling in the real estate sector, America voted a real estate speculator to become its 45th…
Read MoreMay 4-6, 2023 | University of Mannheim Deadline: September 18, 2022
Read MoreGraduate-level, peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 16, 2022 Call for Papers: aspeers, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journalDeadline: October 16, 2022 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its sixteenth issue by October 16, 2022. As in previous years, aspeers calls for…
Read More32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) November 10-12, 2022 | University of Regensburg Deadline: September 18, 2022
Read MoreTwo-year position (50%) TV-L EG 13, starts November 1, 2022 Deadline: September 1, 2022 Europa-Universität Flensburg is seeking to fill the following vacancy in the Department of English and American Studies (https://jobs.uni-flensburg.de/jobposting/0e31766184eab0f106133765692e6e8a9c2fac1a0) Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in”) in American Studies, salary grade TV-L 13 (50%). This is a two-year position, starting on November 1, 2022. Prerequisites include a good…
Read Morepart-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L, fixed term until 2025 Deadline: August 20, 2022 More information: Doctoral Position in American Studies (2022/170) | Universität Konstanz | 1028 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreSpecial issue of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift 2023 Deadline: July 29, 2022
Read MoreWe are excited to share with you that issue 67.2 of Amerikastudien / American Studies is now online at https://amst.winter-verlag.de. This special issue on “Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas” has been guest-edited by Dustin Breitenwischer, Jasmin Wrobel, and Robert F. Rheid-Pharr and collects articles on a variety of themes from Black visual culture across the Americas,…
Read MoreDeadline: October 1, 2022 Call for Papers and Proposals: Amerikastudien / American Studies Amerikastudien / American Studies: A Quarterly is one of Europe’s leading journals in the field of American studies. With a community of over 10,000 readers in at least 68 nations across all continents, we take pride in providing open access online to high-end, interdisciplinary…
Read MoreFebruary 3-4, 2023 | TU Dortmund University | University of Duisburg-Essen | Ruhr-University Bochum Deadline (abstracts): October 1, 2022
Read More2x 65%, fixed-term for four years | starts September 1, 2022 Deadline: July 15, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: August 15, 2022
Read MoreJuly 24-29, 2022 | WWU Münster
Read MoreJune 16-18, 2023 | Munich Deadline: September 30, 2022
Read MoreJuly 2, 2022 | University of Freiburg The ubiquity of digital connectivity and the subsequent diminishing of human connection have become truths of our time. This conference starts with the assumption that digital overload takes a toll on people’s ability to connect meaningfully with themselves or with others. As many studies have shown hyperconnectivity can lead…
Read MoreFixed-term for four years, TV-L 14 Deadline: July 29, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: July 10, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: July 25, 2022
Read MoreLehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie | Ruhr Universität Bochum Deadline: July 1, 2022 Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie sucht ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt einen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (m,w,d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 26,2878 Wochenstunden (TVL E13) Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies vertritt die amerikanistische…
Read MoreDeadline: August 30, 2022 Percival Everett is among the most significant and prolific living contemporary American writers. The author of over twenty novels, four short-story collections, five volumes of poetry, and a children’s book, Everett is famed for his versatility and range while retaining a distinctly recognizable style. His prose oeuvre includes masterful satires as…
Read MoreJuly 6-8, 2022 | Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University Conference website: New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History — BCDSS (uni-bonn.de)
Read MoreSehr geehrte Frau Stark-Watzinger, wir kommen zurück auf die Erklärung von 32 geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Verbänden an das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung vom 29. Juni 2021, in der wir den #ichbinhanna-Protest am WissZeitVG unterstützen. Auf diese Erklärung sowie eine Erinnerung vom Februar 2022 reagierte das BMBF mit Verweis auf die laufende Evaluation des Gesetzes.…
Read MoreDepartment of Cultural & Literary Studies and Didactics & Methodology for Teaching English at secondary school | A 13, 100% | Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 26, 2022
Read MoreGrants of up to 2,000 EUR to scholars working within the field of American Studies who find themselves in a situation of precarity Deadlines: June 30, 2022 | September 1, 2022 | November 15, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: June 30, 2022 The European Association for American Studies invites applications for an EAAS Postgraduate Travel Grant. Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university, and are members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS may apply. Two kinds of grants…
Read MoreCoordinator for the research training group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Different iated Contemporary Cultures” Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: July 6, 2022
Read MoreResearch training group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Start October 1, 2022 Deadline: July 6, 2022
Read More100% E 13 TV-L, starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 25, 2022 Am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Fachbereich Neuere Philologien, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ist in der Abteilung Amerikanistik zum 01.10.2022 die Stelle (100%) für eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (Postdoc) (E13 TV-G-U) befristet für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen. Die…
Read MoreDept. of American Literature and Culture, Stuttgart University / English Institute, University of Education Ludwigsburg | March 30-31, 2023 Deadline: September 30, 2022
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Conference in New Delhi, India | November 22-24, 2022 Deadline: July 31, 2022 This international conference focuses on addressing the impact of CoVID-19 on the marginalized by studying a variety of aspects pertaining to inclusion and marginalization, particularly through the lens of the pandemic, both in historical and contemporary contexts. For more information and registration, visit:…
Read MoreFakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft | Universität Bielefeld TV-L E13, 65%, fixed term | Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 8, 2022
Read MoreJuly 1, 2022, 5-8 p.m. on Zoom
Read MoreBegegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt | June 23-24, 2022
Read MoreThe American Studies Program at HU Berlin is happy to announce that Jean-Ulrick Désert’s beautiful memorial marker for W.E.B. Du Bois’s study years at the university of Berlin has been installed earlier this year. A big thank you to all GAAS members who donated! We will celebrate the memorial with an official unveiling in July:…
Read MoreChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | June 3, 2022, 2-7 p.m. In July 2021, readers of the Financial Times may have been surprised to read an op-ed calling for central planning to meet the challenges of global warming. While the article’s proposals were hardly as radical as recent calls for a renewed “war communism,” it was remarkable…
Read MoreMid-term conference of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Practicing Place’ November 10-11, 2022 | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Deadline: June 15, 2022
Read MoreJuly 7-9, 2022 | Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München | Hybrid Event This year’s annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy investigates how the American Revolution functioned as a usable past, inspiring social movements, informing both state- and nation-building processes, and justifying political change in other world regions throughout the ages. The American Revolution is,…
Read MoreRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Bereich North American Studies / Political Science Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS Deadline: May 31, 2022
Read More