Dear Colleagues I hope you are well and getting ready for our conference in Leeds in a couple of weeks’ time. I am writing with further updates on the Executive Committee election process. As I described in my previous message, the application process for EC membership opened in July 2026. The application documents underwent a … Continue reading 2026  ESCL/SELC Executive Committee election

Award Ceremony 11th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL) Leeds, Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 14:00, Cloth Hall, Room 1 (Session 3.1) Programme Moderator: Marijan Dović, Chair of the ESCL Excellence Award Selection Committee Welcome and opening remarks Welcome to participants and guests; introduction to the ESCL Excellence Award Overview of the 2026 … Continue reading ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026:

Appel à diffuser: Objet: [CONF] Colloque International Nabokov: Réceptions contemporaines et postérités créatives - 28-30 avril 2027 - Bordeaux Cher.e.s collègues, La Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, en collaboration avec l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne et l’International Vladimir Nabokov Society, organise son 10e Colloque International consacré à l’œuvre de Vladimir Nabokov, à l’occasion des cinquante ans de sa … Continue reading Nabokov International Conference: Contemporary Reception and Creative Legacy – Bordeaux, France – April 28-30, 2027

In response to the call published by ESCL, twenty-seven edited volumes were submitted for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026. After reviewing the submissions, the ESCL Excellence Award Selection Committee has shortlisted three volumes: o Alina Bako, Mihaela-Genţiana Stănișor, eds. Géographies insolites. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2025.o Anca Parvulescu, Alex Goldiș, Levente T. … Continue reading ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026 – Shortlist Announcement

Revisiting Antiquity in Modern European Literature and the Arts. Full programme 2ESCL Athens 2026 Programme 31_1Download

The National Library of Athens at Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundationhttps://www.snfcc.org/en/snfcc/national-library-of-greece/ESCLS one-day Symposium in collaboration with the MA Programme'Creative Writing, Theatre and Culture Industries', University of the PeloponneseCall for ParticipationAntiquity and modernity are mutually defined by their constructedantithesis. However, modern European literature and the arts --from theatre andcinema to fine arts, architecture, music to the performing … Continue reading Revisiting Antiquity in Modern European Literature and the Arts-Athens, Friday, 20 February 2026

"Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood" (Brill, 2019) edited by Marijan Dović (ZRC Zasu, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies) and by Jón Karl Helgason (University of Iceland) received the first edition of the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research in 2021.   Key topics: Cultural Sainthood, Periphery of Europe, National Poets, France Prešeren … Continue reading Interview with Marjan Dovich and Jon Karl Helgason: Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood (Brill 2019)

Steen Bille Jørgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) elaborates on how the project challenged the canon by extending the coverage of the academic approach to realism with a focus on the second volume: „Pathways through realism” (John Benjamins, 2022) edited by Svend Erik Larsen, Margaret R. Higonnet and Steen Bille Jørgensen. Both volumes of „Landscapes of Realism: … Continue reading Interview with S. B. Jørgensen on “Landscapes of Realism” (II)

Interview with Rosa Mucignat on "Landscapes of realism" (click to view it) We discuss the practice of collaborative research and the methodologies of the project with a focus on the first volume: Mapping realism (John Benjamins, 2021) edited by Rosa Mucignat, Dirk Göttsche, and Robert Weninger. Both volumes of Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives received … Continue reading Interview with Rosa Mucignat (King’s College London) on “Landscapes of realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives”