University Assistant (post doc) at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Autore: Marco Antonio Loi
The theme for the 2022 edition of the Calandra Institute’s annual conference will be Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries. The conference will take place in person at the Institute on April 28–30, 2022. To read more about the theme and for submission guidelines, click here.
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aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to thereby advance the field as well as its genuine European perspective on ‘America’ and its presences and effects around the world.
University of Warsaw is looking for a young academic (up to 7 years after PhD) with experience and interest in animal studies for a post-doc position in a grant financed by the National Science Center of Poland, to be carried out at the Department of North American Cultures and Languages, Institute of English Studies at … Read More “30/07/2021 – Job Opening: Post-Doc contract” »
Cathy Caruth’s groundbreaking works on trauma have shed light on its impact and the significance of narratives in bearing witness to trauma. As the title (In)Justice in Trauma and Trauma Literature suggests, this volume probes into the demarcation of trauma and victimhood and the associated issues of justice, injustice and (in)justice—given that a victim might concomitantly be a (forced) victimizer.
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Early Career Researchers’ Perspectives on
the Literatures and Cultures of Canada/Turtle Island
Call for Papers for a special issue of
Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies
(Issue 11, 2022)
Much has been written in academia about narrating one’s own life and the lives of others that scholars have subsumed amongst others under life writing which includes a multiplicity of different (sub-)genres such as autobiography, biography or diary (see, e.g., Smith and Watson 2010).
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This roundtable session addresses the 2022 NeMLA conference theme of “care” to explore its significance and resonance throughout the Black diaspora. As Christina Sharpe asks in In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016), “How can we think (and rethink and rethink) care laterally, in the register of the intramural, in a different relation than that of the violence of the state?” (20) This session aims to continue to rethink care in this context.
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