Permanent 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 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…
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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
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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 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 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 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 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
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Read MoreJune 16-18, 2023 | Munich Deadline: September 30, 2022
Read MoreFixed-term for four years, TV-L 14 Deadline: July 29, 2022
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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 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 MoreMid-term conference of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Practicing Place’ November 10-11, 2022 | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Deadline: June 15, 2022
Read MoreRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Bereich North American Studies / Political Science Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS Deadline: May 31, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Münster, July 24-29, 2022 Deadline: May 22, 2022
Read MoreTopic: “Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis und demokratische Staatlichkeit” July 8, 2022 | Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing Deadline: May 20, 2022
Read MoreMarch 16-17, 2023 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Deadline: November 11, 2022
Read MoreFaculty of Humanities, History Department, Contemporary History Section at the University of Tübingen Deadline: May 27, 2022 English version below An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen ist im Seminar für Zeitgeschichte zum 01.10.2022 die Tenure Track-Professur für Nordamerikanische Geschichte (m/w/d) zu besetzen. Die Inhaberin oder der Inhaber der Tenure Track-Professur soll das Gebiet der…
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing | May 5-7, 2023 Deadline: August 1, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Vienna | February 15-17, 2023 Deadline: June 1, 2022
Read MoreFood is everywhere because everybody has to eat. At the same time, food is political: specific foods and ways of eating are connected to particular socio-economic structures and have become prime markers of social distinction. Because food nourishes our bodies, food is also directly associated with our bodies’ health, with our fitness and/or our fatness.…
Read MoreParis Lodron University of Salzburg | October 21-23, 2022 Deadline: May 31, 2022 Conference website: https://aaas.at/salzburg-2022/
Read MoreDoing│Teaching American Studies Series | Thursday, June 2, 2022, 7:30 PM, online Deadline (short abstract): May 9, 2022 “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible, and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, yet thrusting forth its images of hope, human fraternity and individual…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Literature Deadline (abstracts): May 1, 2022 Technologies of the Human: Assembling the Subject of Rights Rights discourses have become a primary “technology” of the human, across the globe. That is to say, we recognize others, as human beings, through an international language of rights and the institutions and infrastructures that disseminate it,…
Read MoreOctober 13-14, 2022 | University of Cologne Deadline: June 30, 2022
Read MoreAnnual Postcolonial Narrations Forum | October 20-22, 2022 | Bonn University Deadline: May 31, 2022
Read MoreStarts May 1, 2022 | 75% TV-L 13 | Fixed term until 2024 Deadline: April 20, 2022
Read MoreJuly 1-2, 2022 Deadline: April 8, 2022
Read MoreVirtual Conference, November 16-18, 2022 Extended Deadline: May 1, 2022
Read More50% E-13 TV-L | Starts June 1, 2022 Deadline: March 31, 2022
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Read MoreDeadline: March 15, 2022 Open to new ideas. Since 1365. The University of Vienna is a research university with high international visibility and a wide range of degree programmes. We are committed to basic research that is open to applications and to research-led teaching, as well as to the dialogue with economy and society. We strive…
Read MoreMay 6-7, 2022 | University of Innsbruck Deadline: March 28, 2022
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover | September 22-23, 2022 Deadline: April 15, 2022 Modernist print media tended to insist on being different from mass-oriented publications that surrounded them in the public sphere, even where they drew on them. Yet, as much recent scholarship has shown, avant-garde publications and…
Read MoreNovember 17-19, 2022 | Amerikahaus Munich, Germany Deadline: March 15, 2022 Call for PapersPlaying the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American StudiesNovember 17-19, 2022Amerikahaus Munich, Germany “Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies:…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies | Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Deadline: March 1, 2022 – Special Issue: Amerikastudien | American Studies – Call for Contributions: Original Lyric Poetry Capitalist Crisis Poetry:Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Editors: Stefan Benz (Universität Bonn), Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen), Hannah Schoch (Universität…
Read MoreVienna | October 19-21, 2022 Deadline: May 6, 2022
Read MoreOpening conference of the International Doctorate Program (IDK) Um(Welt)Denken. The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society; University of Augsburg & Rachel Carson Center, LMU June 24-26, 2022, University of Augsburg Deadline: March 1, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: March 24, 2022 W2 Universitätsprofessur für Anglistische oder Amerikanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Bewerbungsschluss 24.3.2022, Dienstbeginn: schnellstmöglich. Aufgabengebiet Vertretung der Fächer Anglistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft) oder Amerikanistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft) in Lehre und Forschung in ihrer ganzen Breite. Ein transatlantischer oder anglophoner Forschungsschwerpunkt ist erforderlich. Von den…
Read MoreDeadline: May 2, 2022 2 Assistantships (60%) in North American and General Literature As of August 1, 2022, the Department of English at the University of Basel is looking for two 60% assistants in North American and General Literature (with Prof. Philipp Schweighauser). You will work in a vibrant and research-active department. The conditions of…
Read Morepart-time (20.05 hours/week) | fixed two-year term | TV-L E13 Deadline: February 21, 2022
Read MorePhilipps Universität Marburg Deadline: March 11, 2022
Read MoreAMERIKAHAUS MUNICH, GERMANY | NOVEMBER 17-19, 2022 DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2022 “Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies: https://playingthefieldeu.wordpress.com/. The conference aims at examining the environments that video games affect and are impacted by. It…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of EJAS / European Journal of American Studies Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2022 Call for Papers— Special Issue EJAS / European Journal of American StudiesLaura E. Richards’ Children’s Poems Co-edited by Etti Gordon Ginzburg (Oranim College, Israel) andVerena Laschinger (University of Erfurt, Germany)Contact email: yeginz@gmail.com and verena.laschinger@uni-erfurt.de Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31, 2022Deadline for final…
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