Call for papers: ESCL-SELC session at ICLA, Seoul, July 29-Aug 1, 2025

East meets West: Travellers and Scholars writing about India, Japan and Korea Organised by Zsuzsanna Varga (U of Glasgow, UK), Angeliki Spiropoulou (U of Peloponnese, Greece) , Richard Hibbitt (U of Leeds, UK)  Emilia di Rocco (Sapienza, Rome, Italy), Bernard Franco (Sorbonne, Paris, France) This panel investigates border crossings manifest in the works of European travellers and scholars … Continue reading Call for papers: ESCL-SELC session at ICLA, Seoul, July 29-Aug 1, 2025

ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2024 goes to Landscapes of Realism

In response to the call published by ESCL in 2023, fourteen edited volumes were submitted to compete for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2024. After reviewing the volumes, the ESCL Excellence Award Selection Committee shortlisted three volumes: Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021), edited by Esther Gimeno … Continue reading ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2024 goes to Landscapes of Realism

Applications to the Executive Committee of the ESCL/Candidatures au Conseil d’Administration de la SELC

The Executive Committee is up for renewal. The elections will take place at the next General Assembly which will be held on Thursday 5 September 2024, during the ESCL Congress in Paris, France (2-6 September 2024). Those unable to attend the conference will need to delegate their votes to an attendee. Le Conseil d’Administration doit … Continue reading Applications to the Executive Committee of the ESCL/Candidatures au Conseil d’Administration de la SELC

 Colloque international d’études romanes (CIER) Université de Sofia

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que cette année le Colloque international d’études romanes (CIER) sera dédié à la célébration du centenaire du Département d’études romanes à l’Université de Sofia « Saint Clément d’Ohrid ».   Le colloque « Cent ans d’études romanes en Bulgarie : legs et (dis)continuité » sera organisé autour de quatre ateliers dont le … Continue reading  Colloque international d’études romanes (CIER) Université de Sofia

ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB, 2023-2028)

As part of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB, 2023-2028), I am hiring an international and multilingual team of one postdoctoral researcher and three doctoral students at KU Leuven (Belgium), starting 1 September 2023: 1) Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fields of Social Sciences and Literary Studies (36 months)with … Continue reading ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB, 2023-2028)

Junior Visiting Researcher  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective”

The Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU, Austria) invites applications for a Junior Visiting Researcher to conduct research within the framework of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective”. The position includes fully funded enrollment in the PhD program of the Department of Gender Studies. Application deadline: 1 March 2023, Detailed job announcement at EURAXSESS