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…
Read More100% TV-L E13 or A13, no fixed term, starts April 1, 2025 Deadline: December 20, 2024
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Read More100%; 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…
Read MorePrize 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…
Read MoreThree-year, structured PhD-program, start October 1, 2025 Deadline: February 1, 2025
Read MoreSixth 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…
Read MoreThree-year structured PhD program offering extensive personal support and guidance Deadline: February 1, 2025
Read MoreInternational conference at Naples University (Italy), June 12-13, 2025 Deadline: January 15, 2025
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Read More75% TV-L E 13, fixed term for three years, start June 1, 2025 Deadline: November 29, 2024
Read More50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: November 28, 2024 For the full job posting (German only), please visit: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) Cultural Studies | Universität Rostock | 2325
Read MoreInaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium at Göttingen University, May 16-17, 2025 Deadline: December 13, 2024
Read MoreEnglish 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…
Read More50% 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…
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for four years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: November 15, 2024 For the full job posting, click here: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, SFB 1472, Literaturwissenschaften / Kulturwissenschaften Stellendetails | Universität Siegen (uni-siegen.de)
Read MoreDiversity Roundtable Symposium, February 7-8, 2025 Deadline: December 15, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Deadline: November 20, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 9-10, 2025 Deadline: December 8, 2024 Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org) International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), and Stefanie Coché (Gießen University) Call for Papers This conference aims to bring scholars of…
Read MoreDeadline: October 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: October 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 2 – November, 2024 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts. This journal is not allied with any specific…
Read MoreLecture series at Staatsbibliothek Berlin Current Affairs Koalitionen und Konflikte in den USA – SBB aktuell 31.10.2024 — 19 UhrWessen Amerika? Whiteness in Politik und Kultur der USAAlexandra Hartmann (Universität Paderborn)Theodor Fontane Saal 13.11.2024 — 19 Uhr„Trump Country“? Appalachia, Kohle und eine Geschichte der AusbeutungEvangelia Kindinger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Theodor Fontane Saal 28.11.2024 — 19 UhrDer politische Kampf…
Read More2025 ISCH conference on cultural history in Rovaniemi, Finland, June 16–19, 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024 Call for Panels 2025 ISCH conference: ‘Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History’ 16–19 June 2025, Rovaniemi, Finland Cultural history has mainly studied humans: their actions, experiences, and ways of thinking. Yet the past is not shaped by only human actions…
Read MoreSpecial forum of JTAS, the journal of transnational american studies Deadline: November 1, 2024
Read MoreSymposium at Literaturhaus Dortmund, October 25, 2024
Read MoreDebate at Erfurt University, October 23, 2024, 6 p.m.
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for two years, starts either late 2024 or early 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024 For the full job posting, please visit: Postdoctoral Position in History of Knowledge / History of Science | Universität Konstanz | 1813 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreCall for contributions to a panel for the 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association in Ankara, Türkiye | May 14-16, 2025 Deadline: November 4, 2024
Read MoreThe IASA invites emerging scholars and established academics worldwide to help shape the future of American Studies by joining one of their Continental Chapters Deadline: November 1, 2024
Read MoreSpring school of Jena University and Stiftung Kunst und Kultur at Bad Heilbrunn, March 25-28, 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024
Read MoreWorkshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, September 10-12, 2025 Deadline: January 19, 2025 Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany | Conveners: Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College, Maine), Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington), Charlotte Lerg (Amerika-Institut, LMU München), Till van Rahden (Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université…
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Read MoreOctober 25, 2024, 2-4 p.m. via Zoom
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) at Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, May 9-11, 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024
Read MoreRoundtable discussion hosted by Austria’s Young Americanists (AYA) on October 17, 2024, 9.30 a.m. (hybrid)
Read MoreRoundtable discussion as part of the panel series “The Bigger Picture,” which is co-convened by the German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) October 15, 2024 at 6 p.m. via Zoom To register for this event, please go to: Webinar-Registrierung – Zoom
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for two years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: October 10, 2024 Post-Doc (f/m/d, No. 554-24)payment according to grade 13 TV-L The Institute of Anglophone Studies at the UDE is one of the largest institutes in the Faculty of Humanities with 10 professorships, with an academic staff more than 50…
Read MoreSpecial edition of the forum for inter-american research (fiar) Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read MoreConference of the research project Off the Road at Konstanz University, October 10-12, 2024
Read MoreTwo one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000, start April 1, 2025 Deadline: November 17, 2024
Read MoreOne-year residential opportunity ($53,000) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and National Museum ofthe American Indian (NMAI) that seeks to foster new scholarship on Native art of the United States Deadline: October 15, 2024
Read MoreResidencies are available at the graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels to scholars from any discipline who are researching topics relating to U.S. art, craft, and visual culture Deadline: October 15, 2024
Read MoreUniversity of Notre Dame, June 5-8, 2025 Deadline: October 31, 2024
Read More33rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English Konstanz, Germany | June 19-22, 2025 Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of The European Journal of American Studies Deadline: December 31, 2024 The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary (EJAS Special Issue) Taking into consideration recent developments toward a Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies, this special issue of The European Journal of American Studies aims to rethink and recontextualize the American project not…
Read MoreResearch Training Group “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics“ 65% TV-L E-13, fixed term for three years, start April 1, 2025 Deadline: October 15, 2024
Read MorePeer-reviewed online journal that publishes excellent work by graduate students in Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on the field of North American Studies Deadline: October 1, 2024
Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany, March 24-28, 2025 Deadline: November 1, 2024 The twenty-second HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 24-28, 2025. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to…
Read MoreInternational conference at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), September 26-28, 2024
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term until September 2029, start October 1, 2024 Deadline: September 10, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Deadline: December 1, 2024
Read MoreTenured contract, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: October 2, 2024
Read MoreStarts as soon as possible Deadline: September 30, 2024 In der Fakultät III – Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften ist im Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine W2-Professur (m/w/d) fürEnglische Fachdidaktik mit dem Schwerpunkt Sprachvermittlung zu besetzen. Zu den Aufgaben der Stelleninhaberin/des Stelleninhabers gehören die Entwicklung und Durchführung von Forschungsprojekten im Bereich Fremdsprachenvermittlung sowie die Versorgung aller Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge…
Read MoreFellowships of 3-10 months for Early and Senior Career Researchers at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Deadline: September 13, 2024
Read MoreInternational summer school at Mainz University, April 2-10, 2025 Deadline: October 1, 2024
Read MoreDeadline: September 15, 2024 Call for Papers for Book Publication “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas” Stefan Brandt (University of Graz) and Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz) Travel is an intimate part of human existence, involving cultural exchange through observation and interaction. It requires us to recognize that, beyond our…
Read MoreInternational conference at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, May 21-23, 2025 Deadline: October 31, 2024
Read MoreA Special Issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power Deadline: August 15, 2024
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts November 1, 2024 or as soon as possible Deadline: August 25, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS) Deadline (proposals): December 1, 2024
Read MoreMiddelburg, The Netherlands, November 27-29, 2024 Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for 2.5 years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read MoreStudent conference at the Obama Institute at Mainz University, January 16-17, 2025 Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Passau University, March 20-21, 2025 Deadline: November 4, 2024 Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025) This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes,…
Read MoreCall for Workshop Proposals for our 71st Annual Meeting Siegen University, June 12-14, 2025 Deadline: September 30, 2024 View the full CfP here: Annual Meeting – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (dgfa.de)
Read More18th issue of aspeers, the graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 Call for Papers: aspeers, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its eighteenth issue by October 20, 2024. As…
Read More13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network at Hildesheim University, September 15-17, 2025 Deadline: October 15, 2024 Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike Mlakar, Florian Zappe, Tomasz Stompor, Alexander Greiffenstern Location: University of Hildesheim,…
Read MoreInternational Conference at Hamburg University, March 28-29, 2025 Deadline: October 7, 2024
Read MoreBiennial Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Humboldt University Berlin, March 20-22, 2025 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Bielefeld University, May 29-31, 2025 Deadline: December 15, 2024
Read More34th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) University Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 21-23, 2024 Deadline: August 17, 2024
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for four years, starts January 1, 2025 Position at the DFG Heisenberg Professorship for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities of Prof. Dr. Simone M. Müller Deadline: August 14, 2024
Read MoreHybrid Panel Discussion Organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. July 11, 2024 | 12 p.n. ET | 6 p.m. CET For more information and registration, please visit: Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org)
Read MoreEin Gelehrter und ein Herr: Zum Tode von Knud Krakau (25. 06. 1934 – 16. 06. 2024) Am 16. Juni 2024 verstarb Knud Krakau, emeritierter Professor für Amerikanische Geschichte am John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universität Berlin, wenige Tage vor seinem 90. Geburtstag in Berlin. Die Nachricht von seinem Tode ist schmerzlich, doch…
Read MoreSpecial issue of gender forum (gefo), Summer/Fall (2025) Deadline (abstracts): July 21, 2024 For more, please visit: Call for Papers: Flora – Fauna – Gender (guest editors: Burak Sezer and Johanna Pelikan) | gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies (uni-koeln.de)
Read MoreW2 professorship with a research focus on Environmental Humanities/Ecocriticism and Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies, starts April 1, 2026 Deadline: August 31, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Freiburg University, October 24-26, 2024 Deadline: July 31, 2024
Read MoreA new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies Editors: Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich and Simeon Simeonov Website: The New American Antiquarian The New American Antiquarian is a new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies. The mission of TheNew American Antiquarian (NAA), in brief, is to publish scholarship concerned…
Read MoreInternational symposium co-hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, the American Literature Association, and the European Network for Short Fiction Research Mainz University, July 10–12, 2024 For more information, please visit: The Persistence of the Short Story: Traditions and Futures | Obama Institute…
Read MoreGuest lecture by Gero Guttzeit, LMU Munich Siegen University, July 8, 2024, 4 p.m. (c.t.) The English Department of the University of Siegen cordially invites everyone to the following guest lecture: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/news/1035965.html
Read MoreConference at Leipzig University, May 22-23, 2025 Deadline: July 28, 2024
Read More65% E13 TV-L, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Read MoreThe Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection Deadline: September 15, 2024 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, technical, and scientific—whereas Research Notes are narrower in scope, focusing on a specific…
Read More100% E13 TV-L, fixed term for four years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Read More100% E 13 TV-H, fixed term for three years, starts September 1, 2024 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Read MoreInterdisciplinary workshop at Passau University, June 28-29, 2024, supported by Stiftung Deutsch Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW) HYBRID, please register via Zoom for online attendance at https://uni-passau.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5YvduqgpjIoG9eFdpXPgxclDSyf4bi6UwTP More information and full program available here: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/ukrainian-refugee-migration/home
Read MorePostdoctoral Fellowships (24 months) and Senior Fellowships (6 months), start May 1, 2025 Deadline: July 19, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies edited by Ellen Barth and Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster) Deadline (abstracts): June 30, 2024
Read MoreOnline workshop organized by Würzburg University and Leipzig University | November 15, 2024 Deadline: July 12, 2024
Read MoreDeadline: July 15, 2024 The next application period for the MA Program in InterAmerican Studies/Estudios InterAmericanos at Bielefeld University begins on June 1st and runs until July 15th. We would like to encourage all BA graduates who are interested in our program to take a look at the Flyer attached.
Read More100%, fixed term until May 2025, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 17, 2024 Please find the full job posting here (German only): Gastprofessur Stellendetails | Universität Wien (univie.ac.at)
Read MoreClass of Culture and History, Graduate School Language & Literature Munich, LMU Munich Deadline: June 15, 2024
Read More100%, fixed term for four years, starts August 1, 2024 Deadline: June 14, 2024 The Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has posted the following position: University Assistant (post-doc) starting August 1, 2024. It is a four-year contract with 40 hours per week. Please go to the career portal of the…
Read MoreSpecial issue of CLCWeb Deadline: June 15, 2024 Cineture: Cultural Negotiation between Iran and the USthrough Intermediality and Transmediality Amid the current global pandemic, literature and film continue to serve as influential socio-cultural mediums connecting nations and their cultures. This special issue aims to foster cultural exchange between Iran and the United States, highlighting their…
Read MoreConversation on Prof. Tara A. Bynum’s monograph Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (2023) Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 6–7 p.m. CEST via Webex
Read More58th Annual Western Literature Association Conference in Tucson (AZ), October 2-5, 2024 Deadline: June 5, 2024
Read MorePostdoctoral Associate (40 hours/week), initially limited to six years, starts February 1, 2025 Deadline: June 18, 2024 The Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has posted the following position: Postdoctoral Associate (40 hours/week), starting February 1st, 2025. The position is initially limited to six years. A qualification agreement may be offered.…
Read MoreThe editorial team is looking for three new members who are doctoral students or early career scholars Deadline: July 5, 2024
Read More1st international conference on Contradiction Studies at Bremen University, February 11-14, 2025 Deadline: June 1, 2024
Read MoreA reading and conversation with Chaun Ballard June 19, 2024, 6 p.m. CEST on Zoom Zoom link and registration: https://uni-ms.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscOyhpz8iHtdeU-9Zaim9TNV5KUifWNyB#/registration )
Read MoreSpecial issue of Public Humanities (Cambridge University Press) Deadline: August 1, 2024 Call for Papers Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt) The ongoing crisis of the humanities (Reitter and Wellmon 2021) has produced what Rachel Arteaga calls “an…
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