#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #literarystudies, aggregated by home.social.
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📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds youJulia Flattich reflects on the early stages of doctoral research: how an initially well-defined proposal develops through reading, discussion and new questions. Her post explores the challenges of balancing curiosity, academic relevance and feasibility—and why uncertainty can be an important part of the research process.
🔗 Read more: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/finding-the-perfect-phd-topic-or-how-it-finds-you/
#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires
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This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature -
Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates
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... before the #conference ended with the announcement of the upcoming foundation of the new #DGAVL AG Digitale Komparatistik, put forward by @avldigital 👏
Bye-bye Gießen! The next DGAVL conference is planned for September 2026 in Mainz, see you again next year!!
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Day 2 of #DGAVL 2025 #conference had fascinating talks by Daniel Weidner on confessions in the #autofiction s of KO Knausgard, Annie Ernaux & Sheila Heti, and by Sara R Gallardo on #autobiographies by psychiatrized authors, from 19th c to today #MadMovement #MadStudies
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Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!
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What's that flapping noise? Might it be ... #vampires in our library?!
On 04/04/25 for #NachtDerBibliotheken blood-thirsty creatures of the night will haunt SUB Göttingen in Dorothea Schuller's #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies talk on #libraries in #VampireFiction: #Dracula #Nosferatu #BtVS & more
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#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X
#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature