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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

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

In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

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

New book alert 🔔🔔🔔
Gavin Hopps applies theories such as #AffectTheory #EcoTheology #NewMaterialism & #ReEnchantment in his post-secular re-reading of the literature of the #Romantics

#Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Catalogue link: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1928707394

Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

#VictorianStudies

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

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

#LiteraryStudies

100 years ago today, #JosephConrad died. The Polish-British author of classics such as #HeartofDarkness has his own shelf in our reading room at SUB Göttingen - but you can order many other texts by & on #Conrad via the online catalogue!

#EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

All fresh, shiny & new: 3 new additions to our collection for scholars of #Ireland, #IrishCulture & #IrishLiterature!

#LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #IrishWriters

Find out more about these brand-new books in this thread, and place a hold on them now via our online catalogue! 🧵

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

★★★★★
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by Denton Fox

#bookstodon #sirgawain #gawain #greenknight #middleenglish #poetry #medieval #literaturestudies #literarystudies #literarycriticism #criticism #england #medievalengland