Positions for up to three years in DFG-funded research group “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of Contradictory”, applicants must have secured external funding for their research project Deadline: May 1, 2025
Read MoreTU 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…
Read MoreInternational 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…
Read MoreW3 Professorship, starts April 1, 2026 Deadline: May 1, 2025
Read MoreWe are inviting submissions to Rock Music Studies (Taylor & Francis), a journal publishing articles, book and audio reviews, and opinion pieces on rock music and its numerous subgenres. Please have a look at our article collection to get an idea of the journal’s scope: Article collection: Rock Music Studies is inviting submissions Thomas M.…
Read MoreInternational 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…
Read More100% (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…
Read MoreSpecial 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…
Read MoreInternational conference at Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / Université Paris-Saclay, France, October 22-24, 2025 Deadline: May 15, 2025
Read MoreAnnual conference of the GeQuInDi network 2025 at the University of Bayreuth, December 10-12, 2025 Deadline: May 31, 2025
Read More100% (30h/week) B1, fixed term for four years, starts September 2025 Deadline: April 14, 2025 For the full job posting, please go to: Apply Now | University Graz
Read MoreEvent 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…
Read More50% TV-L E13, no fixed term, starts as soon as possible Deadline: April 15, 2025
Read MoreGrant of CHF 30,000, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: April 16, 2025
Read More23rd Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy at Amerikahaus Munich, July 10-12, 2025 Extended Deadline: April 30, 2025
Read MoreInternational conference at Tübingen University, February 26-27, 2026 Deadline: April 30, 2025
Read MoreRoundtable 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) and endorsed by the DGfA April 29, 2025, 6 p.m. CET on Zoom 29. April 2025, 18 Uhr deutscher Zeit, via Zoom “Liberalism and Illiberalism in American…
Read More2025 Western Literature Association Conference at Okana Resort and Indoor Waterpark, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | September 21-24, 2025 Deadline: April 30, 2025
Read MoreCall 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.…
Read MoreContributions or guest editors for Volume 5 (2026) Deadline: May 5, 2025
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts August 1, 2025 Deadline: April 27, 2025
Read MoreSpecial issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, provisional publication date: 2026 Deadline: March 15, 2025
Read MoreVernissage and exhibition at the Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf April 25 – June 2, 2025
Read MoreGross income of € 2,387.55/month, full-time, limited to two years, start October 1, 2025 Deadline: March 14, 2025
Read More60% TV-L E13, no fixed term, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: April 10, 2025
Read MoreInterdisciplinary conference at Bamberg University, September 30 – October 2, 2025 Deadline: April 15, 2025
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for two years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: March 30, 2025
Read MoreScholarship of €1,300 per month plus additional funds for up to four years, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: April 15, 2025
Read MoreSpecial issue of the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) Deadline: March 24, 2025
Read More100% 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,…
Read MoreUpcoming 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…
Read More100% TV-L E13 or A13, no fixed term, starts April 1, 2025 Deadline: February 21, 2025
Read MoreCfP | “5th Crosscurrent Conference – Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World”
University of Madeira (Portugal), December 4-6, 2025 Deadline: March 31, 2025
Read MoreInternational conference at Innsbruck University, November 14-15, 2025 Deadline: May 16, 2025
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, start October 1, 2025 Deadline: May 1, 2025
Read MoreInternational 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…
Read MoreOnline via Zoom, February 5, 2025, 10-12 a.m. Invitation: First Meeting of the “EAAS Postgraduate and ECR Network” (Feb. 5, 2025) We are delighted to invite you to the first official meeting of the newly founded “EAAS Postgraduate and ECR Network”! About the Network: Building on existing postgraduate and ECR structures within the national organizations…
Read MoreInternational conference at Vienna University, September 24-26, 2025 Deadline: March 15, 2025
Read More14th 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.…
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: February 4, 2025
Read MoreWorkshop at TU Dortmund, April 10-11, 2025 Deadline: March 1, 2025 (papers), March 15 (registration)
Read MoreInternational 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…
Read More8 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…
Read MoreFellowships 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…
Read More65% TV-L E13, initially limited to two years, start October 1, 2025 Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, start April 1, 2025 Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts March 1, 2025 Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read More2 one-year doctoral grants of €1,450/month, 2 DAAD scholarships (up to four years) of €1,300/month Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read MoreEvents | BAA Summer Academy 2025: “North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present”
Organized by the Bavarian American Academy and the German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA, July 16-23, 2025 Deadline: February 15, 2025
Read MoreAnnual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies Jena University, May 22-24, 2025 Extended Deadline: March 16, 2025
Read MoreConference for PhD students at Klagenfurt University, May 14-16, 2025 Deadline: February 15, 2025
Read MoreConference at Mainz University, May 22–24, 2025 Deadline: January 31, 2025
Read MoreSpecial edition: “Back on Track: A Writing Retreat for PhD Candidates” Duisburg-Essen University, January 24, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Read MoreResearch 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…
Read MoreInternational conference at Sorbonne Université, Paris, October 17-18, 2025 Deadline: February 10, 2025
Read More52nd Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) at Vienna University, October 3-5, 2025 Deadline: April 30, 2025
Read MoreOne-month (30 days) residency with a stipend of $5,000 Deadline: February 1, 2025
Read MoreDeadline: 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 MoreCall for Contributions to an Edited Volume Deadline (abstracts): December 31, 2024
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
Read More60%, fixed term for three years (extension possible), start February 1, 2025 Deadline: December 6, 2024
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…
Read MoreW2 Tenure Track W3/W3 Deadline: November 4, 2024
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…
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