Call for Applications | M.A. Program “Culture, Ecology, Change” at Rostock University

Call for Applications MA Program “Culture, Ecology, Change” Institute for English and American Studies, Rostock University, Rostock/Germany Rostock University (Germany) offers a new two-year MA program “Culture, Ecology, Change.” The program, taught predominantly in English, specializes in environmental humanities, ecoliteracy, postcolonial and ecocritical studies. It addresses eligible students interested in sustainable lifestyles and cultural change. You will find further information…

Read More

CfP | The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art

International conference at the University of Strasbourg, March 21-22, 2024 Deadline: September 30, 2023 The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art A two-day international conference at the University of Strasbourg funded by the Institut Universitaire de France Dates: 21-22 March 2024 Venue: University of Strasbourg, France Confirmed keynote speaker: Dawn Raffel…

Read More

Opening | Postdoctoral Associate at Innsbruck University

100%, fixed term for six years, starts March 1, 2024 Deadline: August 22, 2023 The Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck has posted the following position: Postdoctoral Associate (40 hours/week), starting March 1st, 2024. The position is initially limited to six years. A qualification agreement may be offered. Upon successful fulfillment of the terms…

Read More

Opening | Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) at Rostock University

TV-L EG 13, 20 hours/week, limited term for three years, starts October 1, 2023 Deadline: July 31, 2023 Stellenausschreibung W 75/2023 W 75/2023 Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) | Universität Rostock | 1576 (uni-rostock.de) Die Universität Rostock bietet Ihnen eine vielfältige, abwechslungsreiche und anspruchsvolle Tätigkeit in einer traditionsbewussten, aber dennoch innovativen, modernen und familienfreundlichen Hochschule in einer…

Read More

Now live: Issue 68.2 of “Amerikastudien / American Studies”

Special issue titled: “Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Lyrics Encounters with Neoliberalism in the Twenty-First Century” This special issue is guest-edited by Hannah Schoch, Marcel Hartwig, and Stefan Benz and addresses “Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Lyrics Encounters with Neoliberalism in the Twenty-First Century.” Besides scholarly articles and book reviews, this collection, as a special feature, also includes a…

Read More

Opening | Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (w/m/d) am Pazifikbüro des DHI Washington in Berkeley

100% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts January 1, 2024 Deadline: July 30, 2023 Das Deutsche Historische Institut (DHI) Washington sucht voraussichtlich ab dem 1. Januar 2024 eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (w/m/d) am Pazifikbüro des DHI Washington in Berkeley. Das DHI Washington ist Teil der Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es forscht und arbeitet langfristig…

Read More

Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal

The 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, 2023  Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal 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. All texts must take works of art in…

Read More

CfP | “Network ‘Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft'”

Kick-off event at KWI Essen: November 24-25, 2023 Deadline: August 15, 2023 CFP: Network ‚Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft’ Submission of project outlines: 15 August 2023 Kick-off event at KWI Essen: 24-25 November 2023 Satirical poems and humorous prints, comedies and vaudevilles, stand-up, witty adverts and memes: to elicit responses from an audience,…

Read More

NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

International Conference at Goethe University Frankfurt, June 23-25, 2023 The last two decades have seen a plethora of new studies on the history of the Black Power movement. Taken together, these studies have revised one-dimensional interpretations of the movement, exploring its roots, the significance of local organizing, African American women’s contributions, the movement’s political impact,…

Read More

Workshop: “Global Voyages, Local Sites”

Workshop (in person and via Zoom) at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) | University of Bonn, June 20-21, 2023 Deadline for registration: June 7, 2023 “Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific” workshop brings together renowned scholars working in the fields of Slavery…

Read More

Opening: “Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d)” at Rostock University

TV-L E13, 50%, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2023 Deadline: July 15, 2023 Die Universität Rostock bietet Ihnen eine vielfältige, abwechslungsreiche und anspruchsvolle Tätigkeit in einer traditionsbewussten, aber dennoch innovativen, modernen und familienfreundlichen Hochschule in einer lebendigen Stadt am Meer. An der Philosophischen Fakultät, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik besetzen wir vorbehaltlich haushaltsrechtlicher Regelungen…

Read More

International Conference: “Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations”

Annual conference ofthe Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München Munich, July 6-8, 2023 “Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations” BAA Annual Conference 2023: Thursday, July 06 – Saturday, July 08, 2023 The notion of Environmental Citizenship resonates strongly across the disciplines as well as in political, educational, and activist practice. The urgency of current debates about climate change,…

Read More

CfP: “CEEGS 2023: Meaning and Making of Games – New Challenges at the Intersection of Game Studies and Game Design”

Transdisciplinary conference at Macromedia University Leipzig | October 19-21, 2023 Deadline: May 15, 2023 In the roughly 50-year history of video games (and thousands of years of analogue games) both artistic and scholarly explorations of ludic phenomena have generated productive outcomes. While the practical side of game design gave the medium its life and offered…

Read More

CfP: “Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

Forthcoming publication that will examine the representation and negotiation of “cultures of denunciation” in nineteenth-century American literature Deadline: June 1, 2023 The themes of ostracism, social exclusion, and defamation have become increasingly and globally relevant in contemporary society, with the rise of cancel culture and public condemnation of perceived misdemeanors. We have recently witnessed the…

Read More

CfP: “CAPTIVATING CRIMINALITY 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction”

10th Conference of the Captivating Criminality Network Bath Spa University in Bath, UK | August 31-September 2, 2023 Deadline: May 1, 2023 The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes…

Read More

CfP: “Postcolonial Narrations Forum 2023: Queering Postcolonial Worlds”

University of Bremen | October 6-7, 2023 Deadline: June 30, 2023 In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer orientations might be those that don’t line up,…

Read More

Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Culture, Specialising in Intercultural Encounters at Nijmegen University (NL)

80%, fixed term for 18 months Deadline: April 10, 2023 Today’s world requires critical thinkers. People who can define new directions for research and teaching that respond to the changes and challenges of our times. As an Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Culture, you will join a diverse group of dedicated scholars,…

Read More

CfP: Humanities Bulletin Journal

Vol. 6, No. 1 – May, 2023 Deadline: April 25, 2023 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 school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue…

Read More

CRISES WE LIVE BY – A METAPHORICAL APPROACH TO CRISIS

International Conference at Potsdam University | March 29-31, 2023 What is a crisis? From a financial, economic, political, psychological or even moral perspective, and many more, the word ‘crisis’ continues to leave traces on our public and private discourse, often accepted as an unavoidable and uncontested category to qualify the present. The three-day hybrid conference will attempt to…

Read More

CfP: “Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere”

Special issue of the journal AmLit – American Literatures Deadline: May 1, 2023 Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere A themed volume of AmLit—American Literatures, a journal produced by a consortium of eight European universities and based at the University of Graz, Austria. AmLit is an international…

Read More

CfP: “Poetic Voice and Materiality” in ASAP Journal

Deadline: 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 More