#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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3) "All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020" by Heidi Siegrist uses Southerness as a way to explore queerness of sexuality & place in texts by Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, Randall Kenan, Dorothy Allison & even George RR Martin
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3 new arrivals on the Southern States of the USA! 🇺🇸
1) "The Weird South" by Melanie Benson Taylor analyses the duality of the weirdness of the #Anthropocene & the South in Postplantation #AmericanLiterature - tracing human responsibility, both for apocalypse & for deliverance -
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
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Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more
#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies
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We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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Huh - what do I see in the corner of my eye - is it - an old volume...? No - a pretty recent one (2018): this #LiteraryStudies study by Patrick J. Murphy connects the dots between the #MedievalStudies of #MRJames & his classic "antiquarian" #ghoststories 👻
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📖 O livro "Reis, Aristocratas e Burgueses: o mundo das cartas privadas (Portugal, séculos XVII-XX)" inclui um capítulo de autoria de @pedrourbano dedicado à correspondência familiar durante a primeira metade do século XIX associado à morte e luto.
#Histodons #Epistolografia #LiteraryStudies #19thCentury #18thCentury #Século19 #Século18 #EstudosLiterários #ModernHistory #Grief #Luto #Epistolography #Letters #Cartas