Additional Fellowships | “Spring 2026 Obermann International Fellowships”

$2,000 stipend, health care coverage, office space, and other benefits for international scholars interested in pursuing research at the University of Iowa Deadline: October 24, 2025 The UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies is accepting applications for Spring 2026 Obermann International Fellowships. This program offers dedicated space, time, and funding for interdisciplinary scholars to collaborate on innovative research…

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CfP | Metropolitan Museum Journal

Call for submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection Deadline: September 15, 2025 The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.   The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. Works of art from The Met collection should be central to the discussion. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship—art historical,…

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Openings | “Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)” at Düsseldorf University

100% TV-L E 13, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: July 3, 2025 To view the entire job posting, please click here: Stellenanzeige: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (100 %, EG 13 TV-L) | Karriereportal | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Abteilung American Studies, der Philosophischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf…

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Workshop | “Archive and Genre”

Bochum University, July 11, 2025 | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Archive and Genre July 11, 2025, 10:00-18:00 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Englisches Seminar, GB 6/137 Conveners: Laura Bieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg) This workshop posits and explores a dialectic of archive and genre. Both archives and genres function as social institutions. They have ritualized…

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DGfA Town Hall Meeting on “Academic Relations and Exchange between the United States and Germany”

DGfA Town Hall Meeting Announcement We are pleased to invite you to the next DGfA Town Hall Meeting: Topic:Academic Relations and Exchange between the United States and Germany Date & Time:Friday, June 6th, 20252:00 PM CEST Link:https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/christian.lammert Speakers: Join us for an engaging discussion on the current landscape, challenges, and opportunities in academic relations and…

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CfP | “Purity: A Conference”

International conference at Siegen University, June 27-28, 2025 Deadline: June 5, 2025 Purity: A Conference June 27-28 2025  University of Siegen, Germany Organizer: Cat Ashton, Department of English This interdisciplinary conference, to be hosted at the University of Siegen, Germany, will interrogate notions of purity from a broad range of perspectives. It takes inspiration from…

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Openings | “Postdoc Position on Contemporary US/Anglophone Science Fictions” at the University of Basel

80%, fixed term for four years, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: June 20, 2025 Four-Year Postdoc Position on Contemporary US/Anglophone Science Fictions at the University of Basel (80%) Starting Date: 1.10.2025 Funded by the Claudine und Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation, the four-year project “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures: Contemporary Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, and Science Fictions” is…

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CfP | “Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America”

Edited collection following the 2024 C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists conference in Pasadena Deadline: August 15, 2025 This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of…

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CfP | “International Pynchon Week 2026”

TU Dortmund, June 15-19, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025 Call for PapersInternational Pynchon Week 2026June 15-19, 2026TU Dortmund University, Germanywww.internationalpynchonweek.org “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow) Indeed there is, and this is also the place where the international community of Pynchon scholars meets next: the Ruhrgebiet, the heart…

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CfP | “Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour”

International conference at the University of Bucharest, Romania, March 19-21, 2026 Deadline: September 10, 2025 Call for PapersPlaying the Field VI: Video Games and LabourUniversity of Bucharest, Romania19-21 March 2026(in-person)www.playingthefield.eu The proposed sixth instalment of the international Playing the Field conference series focuses on the multifaceted relationship between video games and labour. Such a topic…

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CfP | “Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s)”

International conference at University Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 3-4, 2025 Deadline: May 15, 2025 Call for Papers International Conference: Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s) July 3-4, 2025 Keynote: Alys E. Weinbaum (University of Washington) Venue: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Organizers: Dr. Ina Batzke (Augsburg) and Dr. Isabel Kalous (Erlangen) This international conference invites…

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Openings | “2 Project Assistants – Doctoral Candidates (m/f/d)” at Graz University

100% (30h/week) B1 (€ 52,007.20/year), fixed term for three years, start October 2025 Deadline: April 23, 2025 See the full job posting here: Apply Now | University Graz Your Responsibilities Pursuing a doctoral degree (“Cotutelle”) within the joint-degree framework consisting of universities participating in the European PhDnet “Literary and Cultural Studies” Your Profile The following…

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CfP | “Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025”

Special issue: “Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame” Deadline: September 20, 2025 CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal…

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Events | “Open Access as a Business Model: Practical Insights and Disciplinary Comparisons”

Event organized by the Working Group Digital Humanities of the Max Weber Foundation in cooperation with Text+ May 23, 2025, 2.00-3.30 p.m. (CET) on Zoom Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming event, *“Open Access as a Business Model: Practical Insights and Disciplinary Comparisons,”* organized by the Working Group Digital Humanities…

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CfP | “AmLit – American Literatures – Diamond Open Access Journal”

Call for proposals within the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies Deadline: April 14, 2025 Dear German Association for American Studies, We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures.…

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Openings | “Postdoc/Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)” at Bochum University

100% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: March 21, 2025 Das Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Fakultät für Philologie sucht ab dem 01.10.2025 eine*n Postdoc/Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 39,83 Wochenstunden  (TV-L E13) Der Lehrstuhl befasst sich mit der Erforschung performativer Künste und Wissenspraktiken in komparatistischer Perspektive,…

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CfP | “AlterNative Intelligences: Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences”

Upcoming issue of ECHO: Interdisciplinary journal Extendend Deadline: March 10, 2025 Call for papers AlterNative Intelligences Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences  This process is collectively individual, creating islands of radical resurgence. Simpson 2017, p. 194 “I am interested in freedom, not survival” (Simpson 2017: 45). With these words, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist and…

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CfP | “Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century”

International Symposium at Lyons University (France), April 1–3, 2026 Deadline: June 15, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c. International symposium April 1-3, 2026ENS de Lyon, France Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud). Keynote…

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Events | “Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations”

14th Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Humboldt University Berlin, March 20-22, 2025 On March 20-22, 2025, the Fourteenth Biannual Conference of CAAR, the Collegium for African American Research, titled “Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations,” will be hosted by the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.…

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CfP | “‘Monarch of All I Survey:’ Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”

International conference at Lyon University (France), November 20-21, 2025 Deadline: April 15, 2025 We invite submissions for an international conference exploring the literary posterity of the phrase “I am monarch of all I survey” from William Cowper’s 1782 poem. Cowper’s lines have echoed through centuries of literature and criticism, embodying themes of imperial control, sight, and…

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Openings | “W 3 Professorship (m/f/d) American Studies / Literary Studies” at Kassel University

8 SWS, international and interdisciplinary teaching and research history required, starts October 1, 2026 Deadline: February 28, 2025 The University of Kassel is a modern and growing University with round about 22.000 students. The university’s wide range of expertise covers subjects in the natural, applied, cultural and social sciences. At the Faculty of Humanities (Institute…

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Additional Fellowships | Research Stay at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa

Fellowships of €2,000 plus health insurance for international researchers Deadline: February 15, 2025 The fellowships offer $2,000 and health insurance, as well as an office and access to the campus libraries, etc. They are very flexible in terms of dates and activities: from two weeks to a semester, with no obligations or disciplinary restrictions. International…

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Invitation for Engagement

Research Group:Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s) Organizers:Ina Batzke (University of Augsburg)Isabel Kalous (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) With the formation of this research group, we aim to bring together scholars interested in examining how reproductive justice has been portrayed in literature and cultural texts pre- and post-Roe v. Wade. Drawing on Loretta…

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Additional Fellowships | PhD Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

Deadline: January 15, 2025 (fall term 2025) PhD Program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) | The PhD program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) is inviting applications. The program offers top ten funding: six years of an annual stipend of $39,000.00, a research travel fund after the first year of $1,500.00, as well an…

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Openings | “PostDoc: American Visual History ‘Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century'” at Amerika-Institut Munich

100%; TVL-13, fixed term for three years, starts May 1, 2025 at the latest Deadline: January 10, 2025 3-Year PostDoc: American Visual History “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” (Amerika-Institut, Munich) The DFG-funded project “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” is seeking a PostDoc researcher (100%; TVL-13, for 36 months) with a background in Art…

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Prizes | 2023-2024 Book Prize of the Research Society of American Periodicals

Prize money of $1,000 and one-year membership to the Research Society of American Periodicals Deadline: December 20, 2024 Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu) The Research Society of American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2023-2024 Book Prize. The prize is awarded to the best scholarly monograph on the subject of periodicals of the Americas published…

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CfP | “The Gendered Anthropocene”

Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium at Karlstadt University (Sweden), April 10-11, 2025 Deadline: November 29, 2024 The Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium, to be held at Karlstad University, Sweden (April 10-11, 2025), will explore the theme of “The Gendered Anthropocene.” This symposium will engage in a critical interrogation of feminist and gender theory within the…

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Nachruf auf / Obituary for Prof Dr. Berndt Ostendorf

English version below Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Berndt Ostendorf (1940-2024) Am 18. Oktober 2024 ist Berndt Ostendorf nach langer Krankheit im Alter von 84 Jahren gestorben. Er war von 1981 bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2004 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Nordamerikanische Kulturgeschichte am Amerika-Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Die Nachricht seines Todes ist sehr schmerzlich, vor allem…

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Openings | “Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)” at Göttingen University

50% TV-L E13, fixed term until 2031, starts April 1, 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024 Am Seminar für Englische Philologie, Abteilung Nordamerikastudien, der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ist zum 01.04.2025 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) mit 50 % der regelmäßigen wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit (zzt. 19,9 Stunden/Woche) befristet bis zum 31.03.2031 zu besetzen (Zuordnung zu Prof. Gross). Die Entgeltzahlung erfolgt nach Entgeltgruppe…

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