#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts

📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds you

Julia 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/

@unifreiburg @dfg_public

#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires

5 new arrivals on the #MiddleAges for the middle of the week!
This book by Ian Cornelius attempts a reconstruction of #alliteration in #MedievalLiterature such as Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight or Piers Plowman

#EnglishLiterature #metre #MedievalPoetry #LiteraryStudies

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

Or read Myka Tucker-Abramson's "Cartographies of Empire" for an in-depth analysis of the #roadnovel & its place in political economy, problematising the genre's #Americanness by discussing examples from 20+ countries

#AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies #genrestudies #LiteraryStudies #Roadtrip

In the GAPS #conference panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism", Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema / #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis

#PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies

"Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago" - Pippa Marland's 2023 book explores creative non-fiction on the theme of islands through the lens of the #Anthropocene & #Ecocriticism 🏝️

#IslandStudies #BlueHumanities #WorldEmojiDay #LiteraryStudies

Edinburgh University Press has included 25 literary studies journals in its #OpenAccess campaign running this January.

This includes free access to #CrimeFictionStudies, #GothicStudies, #JournalOfInklingsStudies, #Romanticism, #Victoriographies, and many others!

Browse them all here: https://www.euppublishing.com/literarystudies

#Journals #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Inklings #Romantics #Victorian #VictorianStudies #FreeAccess #LiteraryStudies