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🚨 job alert! 🚨

2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair

deadline: 30 September 2026

details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair

#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

🚨 job alert! 🚨

2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair

deadline: 30 September 2026

details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair

#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

🚨 job alert! 🚨

2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair

deadline: 30 September 2026

details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair

#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

🚨 job alert! 🚨

2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair

deadline: 30 September 2026

details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair

#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

🚨 job alert! 🚨

2 #postdoctoralresearchers / #PostDocPosition s (65% TV-L 13) at Uni Potsdam - with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair

deadline: 30 September 2026

details: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/irtg-cultures-of-repair

#literarystudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #queerstudies

I'm very much looking forward to sharing this research and to the discussions that will follow. 🌿📜🎶

#UrbanCreativity #StreetArt #StreetPoetry #Haiku #LiteraryStudies #FanStudies #UrbanStudies #CulturalHeritage #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #Research #Utrecht #JacobVanEyck #PublicHumanities

Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Maio, a conferência internacional "Literatura & Sociedade" vai examinar as potencialidades do encontro entre as ciências sociais e a literatura, através de uma obra literária e do seu papel na leitura dos processos sociais.

As suas actividades vão-se distribuir entre a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a Casa da Achada e o Museu do Neo-Realismo (VFX).

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literatura-sociedade/

#Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History

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

#mothersday #Ecofeminism

"How I Became a Tree" by Indian author Sumana Roy is a #nonfiction meditation about #trees & plants & our relation with them, from a perspective of how culture & the arts, science & spiritual leaders engage with nature & a re-enchanted world.

#CulturalStudies #History #LiteraryStudies #Ecocriticism

3 new books on trees!🌳
The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset

#History #Memoir

New #openaccess book!

'Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories' explores the #memory work and #mnemonic practices of families dispersed by political upheaval. It bridges historical and contemporary perspectives, combining #history, #sociology, #socialpsychology, #literarystudies, #culturalstudies, and cultural #anthropology. The book, edited by Johanna Leinonen et al., is available in PDF, accessible EPUB and print on demand at: https://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-35

Green with envy 🌵, because our collection now houses this new 2025 "Cambridge Handbook of Literature & Plants"? No reason! Order the book, ed. by Bonnie Lander Johnson today from our library and explore the essays on #LiteraryStudies & #Ecocriticism & #EnvironmentalHumanities & #CulturalStudies

Oh frabjous day, @finfar is here! Follow them for all things related to the academic study of speculative fiction. #SFStudies #AcademicChatter #LiteraryStudies #Finfar

Oh frabjous day, @finfar is here! Follow them for all things related to the academic study of speculative fiction. #SFStudies #AcademicChatter #LiteraryStudies #Finfar

Oh frabjous day, @finfar is here! Follow them for all things related to the academic study of speculative fiction. #SFStudies #AcademicChatter #LiteraryStudies #Finfar

Oh frabjous day, @finfar is here! Follow them for all things related to the academic study of speculative fiction. #SFStudies #AcademicChatter #LiteraryStudies #Finfar

Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne

Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe

#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature

4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press

#LiteraryStudies #VictorianScience #academicsky

Waiyee Loh's "Empire of Culture" examines late 20th & early 21st c #NeoVictorian texts & practices (from #ASByatt to #GothicLolita fashion & more) from GB, US, Japan & Singapore in relation to British #Colonialism & heritage industry & #Postcolonialism

#LiteraryStudies #PopCulture #CulturalStudies

New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by Harriet Soper, who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems

#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #Beowulf #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges

📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:

https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/

#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros

"Troubling Late #Modernism" by Doug Battersby analyses how #postwarnovel|s by #Nabokov, #SamuelBeckett, #ToniMorrison, #JohnBanville, #Coetzee & #EimearMcBride exploit & extend #modernist forms of narration, esp. at the opposition of #ethics & emotion

#ModernistLiterature #LiteraryStudies

#RSEng intersecting with #psychology, #socialSciences, #dataScience, #digitalHumanities, #linguistics, #geography, #soundStudies, #computerVision, #literaryStudies, #smartwatches, hobbyist #photography and whatnot else this morning at #deRSE25 in a single talk.

📰 Começamos o ano com uma recomendação de leitura, via @Publico, cujo crítico considera "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, "um trabalho de investigação provavelmente definitivo sobre a viagem de Eça ao Egipto para assistir à faustosa inauguração do Canal de Suez". 💪

https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/02/culturaipsilon/critica/investigacao-notavel-viagem-eca-queiroz-egipto-1869-2110755

#Histodons #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Egipto #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #NovoLivro #Século19 #19thCentury #LiteraryStudies

What better time is there to enjoy a good literary #Adaptation than autumn?! 🍂
Here's 2 newcomers in our collection, on #AdaptationStudies: one on #AgathaChristie #FilmAdaptations & one on #PennyDreadful!

#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature