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Book Announcement: Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre

Title: Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre
Edited by: Mária Kurdi
Publisher: Sciendo
Volume in the series: HJEAS Books
ISBN: 978-83-67405-44-7

Many societies in the world today are challenged by the rapidly escalating phenomenon of an aging population with its unique problems and needs that call for being addressed both in daily life and in research. From the end of the last century onward, age studies has developed as a comparatively new discourse within the humanities which, necessarily, tends to explore crosscurrents between aging, ageism, feminism, gender, class, dis/ability, and so on. Arguably, aging does not always refer to the state of being fairly advanced in years but can appear as the experience of any age group, underscoring the culturally constructed and inculcated nature of experiencing one’s age and its shaping contexts. This collection of essays published in the HJEAS Books series began as a themed block of five essays on age and aging in literature and theatre included in the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (2020.2). Six new essays and a note about a recent and very timely theatre event in Ireland were then added. The authors are from Britain, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Writers whose novels or works for the stage are discussed in the collection include Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, John M. Coetzee, Brian Friel, Ronald Harwood, Martin McDonagh, Frank McGuinness, Conor McPherson, Arthur Miller, David Mitchell, Tom Murphy, and Tennessee Williams. The essays draw on up-to-date theoretically and critically focused reference literature and on observations of critical gerontology and international age studies. The analyses demonstrate the importance of aging for writers, readers, and theatre audiences alike.

Open-Access link: https://sciendo.com/book/9788367405423

More about the series: https://sciendo.com/series/HJEAS-B

Book Announcement: Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada

Title: Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada
Edited by: Balázs Venkovits
Publisher: Sciendo
Volume in the series: HJEAS Books
ISBN: 978-83-67405-46-1

The collection of essays in this volume of HJEAS Books explores the history of immigration to Canada from Central and Eastern Europe, spanning a period of approximately one hundred years and adding fresh perspectives and methodological approaches that enrich scholarly discourse in the field. The chapters written by authors from the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary highlight differences in the migration trajectories of people from various countries of the region, while also shedding light on the shared experience of immigrants of different time periods. The chapters provide valuable insights for migration studies, as well as the history of the Americas and Europe, and study the topic of immigration to Canada from a broad array of vantage points, among others, exploring the complex migration pathway from the places of emigration to Canada, the impact of race, ethnicity, and religion on migration, inter-American aspects of immigration to Canada, the contributions of immigrants to the evolving image(s) of Canada in Central and Eastern Europe, and the representations of immigration in literature, arts, and music. 

Open-Access link: https://sciendo.com/book/9788367405454

More about the series: https://sciendo.com/series/HJEAS-B

Conference Report: H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us (University of Siedlce, Poland), 21 September 2024

On 21 September 2024, the H. G. Wells Society held its international conference ‘H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us’. Organized by Dr Maxim Shadurski of the University of Siedlce (Poland), the event took place at Voluntary Action Islington in London and brought together delegates from eight countries: the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, India, and the Philippines. During the day, 17 papers were presented, including plenary talks by David Shackleton of the University of Cardiff (UK) and Gregory Claeys of Royal Holloway University of London (UK). Discussions focused on the relevance of Wells’s legacy in twenty-first-century contexts, analysing issues such as deep time and history, anthropocentrism, posthuman geology, the fate of Earth and its inhabitants, coevolution, degradation and symbiosis of humans and nonhumans, as well as the harmful impacts of extractivism on climate, life, and matter.

Lexis HS3: The Impact of Multilingualism on the Vocabulary and Stylistics of Medieval English

Issue has been edited by Richard DANCE, Sara PONS-SANZ and Louise SYLVESTER

Contents

Introduction

Richard Dance, Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Louise Sylvester, Introduction [Full text]

Papers

Kateryna Krykoniuk and Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Trends in the development of vocabulary for emotion and cognition in English: A millennial perspective [Full text]

Richard Ingham, Loanwords and polysemy: An investigation of specialized domain lexis in Middle English [Full text]

Louise Sylvester and Megan Tiddeman, Lexicalization, polysemy and loanwords in anger: A comparison with non-affective domains in Middle English [Full text]

Gloria Mambelli and Johanna Vogelsanger, The church and the manor: Assessing and comparing the effects of language contact on two Middle English lexical domains [Full text]

Olga Timofeeva and Christine Wallis, Social ties and negotiation of lexical norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices [Full text]

Max Fincher, Revising Layamon: The Otho scribe and his French additions [Full text]

Christine Wallis, Annina Seiler and Heather Pagan, Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536 [Full text]

EJES 2026

The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 30 (2026). 

EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the  borders and intersections between different  research fields in English studies, including, but not  limited to, literary analysis, linguistics, critical and  cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies.  This expansive focus allows the journal to  encompass the plurality of English studies in Europe, a reflection of its affiliation with the European  Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Topics of  special issues feature high-level scholarship as well  as a reflection on the argumentative strategies  behind ongoing work and emerging directions in the  study of Anglophone language and culture. 

Guest editing teams should consist of two or three scholars who work in different locations within Europe and who have some previous editorial experience. In some cases, EJES publishes  issues that have grown out of a conference or a conference panel. Such issues can be  considered if the resulting CFP also appeals to scholars who did not participate in the original  event. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process. 

Proposals for topics for volume 30 (2026) should be sent to the editors before 30 November  2024: 

  • Isabel Carrera Suárez (University of Oviedo): icarrera@uniovi.es 
  • Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Artistotle University of Thessaloniki): katkit@enl.auth.gr
  • Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University, Nijmegen): frederik.vandam@ru.nl 

Procedure 

  1. Aspiring guest editors submit a CFP of 300-500 words to the general editors. This document includes a list of leading questions (for examples, see the current CFPs on  the ESSE website), and brief biographies of the guest editors. 
  2. The general editors select new topics for the issues before the end of 2024. The chosen  CFPs are edited to cohere with EJES’s aims. 
  3. During the following calendar year, the resulting CFPs are distributed widely.  Abstracts for potential submissions are collected in the spring of 2025 and are  reviewed by the guest editors and general editors. 4. Selected authors are then invited to submit full-length essays of between 6,000 and  8,000 words by November 2025. These essays are peer-reviewed and appear in the  EJES issues scheduled for 2026.

Book Announcement: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

Title: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities.
Edited by: Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott.
Publisher: Routledge.
ISBN 9781032385914.

This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements.

Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson’s I Am Legend(1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures.

This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

About the editors:

Heather Alberro is a Senior Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development in the Department of History, Heritage and Global Cultures, Nottingham Trent University. She also serves as co-convenor for the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) environmental politics specialist group and as a member of the PSA’s Executive Committee.

Emrah Atasoy, an Associate Professor of English, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Nora Castle is currently a Lecturer at the University of Bonn. She received her PhD in 2023 from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK, where she also completed an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study.

Rhiannon Firth is a Lecturer in Sociology of Education at IoE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She co-leads the MA modules Sociology of Education and Gender, Sexuality and Education, and is Program Leader for the MA in Sociology of Education.

Conrad Scott, PhD, is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, and is an Individualized Study Tutor for the University of Athabasca’s Honours English course “The Ecological Imagination,” where he holds a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Endorsement statements

“Fully globalized, immediately connected, yet still radically unequal in resources and protections, humanity has now become aware of itself as a species in a new, more urgent way: when pathogens and environmental disruptions strike, how can past experiences and their representations provide perspective, balance, and hope? This book provides answers.” (James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA)

This book is a collection of diverse and passionately engaged explorations of the way we live now. It is imbued both with a sense of the traumas of (post)apocalypse and a hope that human and non-human species can find ways to survive into futures that are not simply continuations of a present scarred by pandemics, extinctions, and the eco-injustices of global capital. The essays here are international in scope, multiplex in their critical methodologies, and comprehensive in their coverage. They provide resources for thinking about how to move into futures in which, through this “breakdown,” we take our non-anthropocentric place as one of the many species co-existing in an ecosystem that encompasses all life on the planet.” (Veronica Hollinger, Editor, Science Fiction Studies, and Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada)

“As the introduction describes, this timely book emerged out of a dark and precarious contemporary moment, in the world and in the field of utopian studies. By bringing together this collection of cutting-edge studies by such a diverse mix of scholars addressing one of the most disruptive and destructive events of recent times, the editors have delivered an insightful and impactful counterpoint to official and normative invitations to despair and capitulate. This volume is itself an act of utopian annunciation in the face of official denunciation. Read it, hope, and act.” (Tom MoylanProfessor Emeritus in the School of English, Irish, and Communication, and member of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland)

More: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

The book and/or individual chapters can be downloaded via the following link: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Fall 2024 General Issue

An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of the United States. The Board also welcomes movie and book reviews for each issue. Standard Book Reviews should be no longer than 1500 words although depending on the book being reviewed. They may be shorter or longer. Book reviewers should discuss the length of the review with the editors before writing. 

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and the Classificazione ANVUR delle riviste scientifiche (Italy). It also appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online (see the sidebar), in print, and through the EBSCO and Dergi Park databases.

The copyright of all material published will be vested in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey unless otherwise specifically agreed. This copyright covers exclusive rights of publication of printed or electronic media, including the World Wide Web. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not own copyright.

The deadline for the Fall 2024 issue is September 20, 2024.

Please see our submission guidelines for more information.
Please use the following link for general submissions: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jast

Correspondence should be directed to:

Nisa Harika Güzel Köşker
Editor-in-Chief
Ankara University, Turkey
nisahguzel@gmail.com

Tarık Tansu Yiğit
Editor
Başkent University, Turkey
tariktansuyigit@gmail.com

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies

CFP for Vol. 4 (2025)

Annual deadline: September 15

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies welcomes research articles and reviews related to all subjects in the field of English Language and Literature. The journal is an international, double-blind peer reviewed journal which offers open access to all. The scope of the journal covers theoretical, critical and thematic contexts regarding English Studies, including English literature, linguistics, translation, cultural studies and all other related subjects. Authors are to submit complete, original and full length articles (4000-8000 words) and reviews (1000-2000 words) which have not been published or under evaluation elsewhere. Please use the submission template uploaded on the journal website before sending the article for submission. All articles will be scanned for plagiarism via Ithenticate. If any instances of plagiarism are found during any of the stages of publication (reviewer evaluation, editorial reading and typesetting) the article will be rejected and the author will be notified immediately. Citation manipulated articles, or in other words, articles that are submitted to increase the citation number of a specific author will be rejected directly.

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies is currently indexed in MLA and ERIHPLUS and under evaluation for TR Dizin.

Please submit your manuscript using the link below. 

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3914/submission/step/manuscript/new

For further information: overtonesege@gmail.com

Editor

Dr. Begüm Tuğlu Atamer
tuglubegum@gmail.com
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Letters
Ege University
35100 Bornova / Izmir/ Turkey

For details about Procedure and Stylesheet, please check the original call inserted below.

2024 Book Awards Shortlist

ESSE Book Awards 2024

For books first published in 2022 and 2023 (date on imprint page of published book)
Category A is open for all books
Category B is for the first book only

ESSE Book Awards Ceremony

Monday, August 26, 2024, 14.00, Lausanne
ESSE-17 Conference opening 13.30

Shortlists

In alphabetical order

1. English language and linguistics

    Category A (Open)

    1. Di Martino, Emilia. Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media: Transmodal Performances of Working-Class Subcultures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    2. Lawson, Robert. Language and Mediated Masculinities: Contexts, Cultures, Constraints. Oxford University Press, 2023.
    3. Mattiello, Elisa. Transitional Morphology. Combining Forms in Modern English. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

    Category B (First book)

    1. Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. 
    2. Rasse, Carina. Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022.
    3. Sánchez Fajardo, José A. Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022.

    2. Literatures in the English language

      Category A (Open)

      1. Brasme, Isabelle. Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden. Routledge, 2023.
      2. Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792. Oxford University Press, 2022.
      3. Mukherjee, Ankhi. Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. Cambridge UP, 2022.
      4. Rowland, Antony. Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2022.
      5. Sell, Jonathan P. A. Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos. Routledge, 2022.

      Category B (First book)

      1. Armie, Madalina. The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity. Routledge, 2023.
      2. Callison, Jamie. Modernism and Religion: Between Orthodoxy and Mysticism. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
      3. Pan, Caterina. Popular Theatre in Early Modern England, Germany and Italy (1570—1640): A Study in Intercultural Theatricality with an Analysis of Engelische Comedien und Tragedien (1620). Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2023.
      4. Suoranta, Esko. The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Capitalism: Literary Affordance and Technonaturalist Speculative Fiction. University of Helsinki, 2023.
      5. Van Dijck, Cedric. Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

      3. Cultural and area studies in English

        Category A (Open)

        1. Parageau, Sandrine. The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Stanford UP, 2023.
        2. Rose, Arthur. Asbestos – The Last Modernist Object. Edinburgh UP, 2022.

        Category B (First book)

        1. Gómez-Muñoz, Pablo. Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns. Routledge, 2023.

        Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology. Issue 23 | 2024

        The Phonology-Lexicology interface / À l’interface de la phonologie et de la lexicologie

        Co-edited by Christophe COUPÉ, Quentin DABOUIS, Olivier GLAIN & Vincent HUGOU

        Introduction

        Christophe Coupé, Quentin Dabouis, Olivier Glain et Vincent Hugou

        Introduction: The Phonology-Lexicon Interface [Texte intégral]

        Papers / Articles

        Pierre Fournier

        The impact of source languages on the stressing of loanwords in English [Texte intégral]

        Semra Baturay-Meral

        Phonological templates and the lexicon [Texte intégral]

        Mael Farina

        Groaning and grunting: Investigating sound correspondences in the English lexicon [Texte intégral]

        Chris A. Smith

        Rah-rah! Investigating the variation in phonosemantic motivation in a set of iconic nouns expressing the concept <enthusiasm energy vitality>. A diachronic semantic approach [Texte intégral]

        Laetitia Sansonetti

        What a difference a digraph made: phonetic spelling and the assimilation of the word “armada” in Early Modern English [Texte intégral]

        Website

        https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6568

        Full-time postdoc for ERC-funded research on children and nonfiction 

        The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University announces the position of a full-time  postdoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project ‘Ways of Imagining in Children’s Lives with  Information Texts’ (WONDRE) led by Dr. Anezka Kuzmicova. 

        Job description: 

        • design and implement independent analyses of children’s nonfiction texts 
        • collaborate on integrating the above with empirical research (child and adult participants) and  other work led by colleagues, and on moving the project forward as a whole 
        • produce excellent publications, participate in dissemination and networking activities, and in  establishing a new childhood studies environment 
        • optionally: teach/supervise students (in English or Czech) 

        We require: 

        • completed doctoral studies (or nearing completion) in the field of humanities (e.g. literature),  social sciences (e.g. childhood, media studies) or education, on a topic related to children’s  culture, reading/learning research, multimodal text, or similar 
        • documented experience of systematic text analysis and ability to work independently in a  cross-disciplinary context 
        • experience of empirical research, with child participants or other populations, is welcome 

        We offer: 

        • workload of 1.0 (40 hours per week) for 36 months (extendible subject to funding) 
        • expected start on 1 November 2024 (or as soon as possible thereafter) 
        • assistance upon relocating to Prague 
        • wide range of employee benefits (higher value meal vouchers, contribution to a kindergarten,  contribution to an annual Prague public transport card, contribution to pension and/or life  insurance, contribution to Sodexo Multi Pass Card, etc. Benefits are governed by valid internal  regulations of the faculty.) 

        The written application must contain: 

        • academic CV 
        • a list of publications 
        • a copy of the highest education certificate (does not apply to those who have already been or  are currently employed at the faculty and their education was verified by the personnel  department in the past) 
        • a motivation letter including a brief idea for research design as per the project´s aims • two reference letters including referee´s full contact details 
        • two samples of academic writing 

        Candidates can send their applications by 29 April 2024 to the email address kariera@fsv.cuni.cz, marked as “Postdoc ERC WONDRE”. 

        For further information, please visit the initial project website and fact sheet. The PI can be contacted  at anezka.kuzmicova@fsv.cuni.cz. This advert can also be found on Euraxess.

        Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Communication Studies  and Journalism / Smetanovo nabrezi 6, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic,  info@fsv.cuni.cz, tel: +420 222 112 111 
        www.fsv.cuni.cz 

        By responding to this announcement, you consent to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, with its  registered office at Smetanovo nábřeží 6, Prague 1, Postal Code 110 01, processing your personal data for the  purpose of job placement. The processing of personal data is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the  European Parliament and the Council on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data  and the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and  Act No. 110 / 2019 Sb. on the processing of personal data.

        Postdoctoral Position at the Université de Lille (France)

        Closing date 22 April 2024

        Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position from 2 September 2024 to develop the research project WISE (Women Poets Inspired by the Sciences since the Romantic Era), funded by the University of Lille’s “Initiative d’Excellence”. You will find descriptions of the position and of the project at the bottom of this message. 

        Contact for further information,

        Sophie Musitelli, 
        Associate Professor in English Literature
        Université de Lille, France Honorary Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France
        sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr

        • Job Type: Postdoctoral Researcher
        • Contract type: Temporary
        • Academic Discipline: English Literature 
        • Employer: Université de Lille (https://international.univ-lille.fr/en/)
        • Location: Campus Pont de Bois, Villeneuve d’Acsq, France
        • Salary: Based on the salary scale of French universities: “brut salary” between 2360 € and 2834 € per month.
        • Hours: Full Time
        • Starting Date: 2 September 2024

        The successful candidate will be appointed full-time for twelve months, renewable once, and will be affiliated to the CÉCILLE research centre (https://cecille.univ-lille.fr/). 

        The closing date for applications is 22 April 2024. 

        Candidates selected for interviews who do not reside in France may request online interviews. We anticipate that interviews will take place between 10 and 18 June 2024.

        Please submit

        • (1) A CV
        • (2) A cover letter in connection with the WISE project (3 pages max.) 
        • (3) A copy of your PhD degree
        • (4) A short example of individual written work (article, chapter, &c)

        All documents must be sent in one PDF to the following addresses: 
        sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr and 
        bruno.legrand@univ-lille.fr

        Required Qualifications: A PhD in English Studies

        Required Skills

        • Doctoral qualification in anglophone literature; applications are particularly encouraged from those whose work involves poetry and/or British literature. 
        • Excellent written and spoken skills in English and in French.
        • The ability to conduct field research (archives, interviews &c). 
        • Experience in the digital processing of collected data, or willingness to train in this area. 

        Description of the Project:

        WISE explores the contact areas between poetic writing and scientific discourse through the perspectives of women, who were long deprived of a formal scientific education. It focuses on the intensely imaginative and creative engagement British women poets have had with the objects, methods and languages of the sciences, and with their philosophical and political implications. It ranges from late 18th-century poetesses to contemporary voices that perpetuate the questionings opened during the Romantic Era, an age of political, scientific and aesthetic revolutions when disciplinary boundaries were redrawn. The project takes Britain as its epicenter, but also aims to draw a series of comparisons with women poets from other anglophone countries, in order to examine the ways in which the aesthetic possibilities awakened by these revolutions rippled across the English-speaking world through complex filiations. It will develop along four lines: (1) the relationship to scientific authority and power, (2) the imagination of the gendered body in a creative and often subversive dialogue with the life sciences, (3) the material practices and technologies available to women, and (4) writing in the Anthropocene.

        The successful applicant will be expected to work in collaboration with the project coordinator on the following aspects of the project: 

        • (1) complement and stabilize the corpus of primary sources – in particular locate and digitalize some of the unpublished or unavailable material in the main corpus (poems) as well as additional primary sources (letters, journals, field notes…) – and conduct interviews with poetesses; 
        • NB. This will involve research trips for which the successful candidate will be allocated a research grant.  
        • (2) review secondary sources; 
        • (3) analyze the poems, the complementary material and the interviews. This will provide the basis for the creation of a database of digitized poems and additional resources (letters, field notes, diaries, etc.).
        • (4) contribute to the organization of scientific events in connection with the project.

        Senior lecturer position in Literatures in English – 19th / 20ty centuries

        Senior lecturer position in ‘Literatures in English – 19th/20th centuries. Literature and health humanities / literature and environmental humanities’ at Université Paris Cité/ English Department/ LARCA (Research Laboratory on Anglophone Cultures).

        Deadline for application: March 06th, 4pm (CET).

        Job description can be found at https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/FIDIS/0755976N/FOPC_0755976N_415.pdf

        Applications must be uploaded on the Galaxie platform: https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_postes_GALAXIE.htm.

        Applicants may contact Prof. Jean-Christian Vinel, co-head of LARCA research unit, for any question regarding the application procedure: jean.christian.vinel@gmail.com

        Book Announcement: Dogmas in Literature and Literary Missionary

        Title: Dogmas in Literature and Literary Missionary: Text, Reader and Critique
        Edited by: Önder Çakırtaş
        Publisher: Vernon Press
        Publication date: October 2023
        ISBN: 978-1-64889-695-8

        Literature does have an aspect that drags the readers, habitually burying them in its pages and blindly attaching them to itself. Blind devotion stems from the factors that are effective in determining the readers’ faith. Theories of literature, similarly, might bring about the generation of blind adherence and dogmatic approaches. This book explores the existence of dogma in literature and some cult texts and writers and how dogmas in literature are conveyed to various audiences as a mission by some literary readers, experts, and academics.

        Generally, dogma is a word related mostly to religion. In this frame, Mathew Arnold’s ‘Dogma in Religion and Literature’ is of great importance as far as religion is concerned. However, there are dogmas in every field, literature being no exception. Virginia Woolf, for instance, wrote stupendous works that turned out to be well-known, and in 1928, she delivered a lecture at Cambridge University, where women were once not allowed, that formed the basis for the celebrated ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929). Roland Barthes’ 1967 ‘La mort de l’auteur’ (‘The Death of the Author’) essay might be another text that some of its literary readers have developed a dogmatic commitment to.

        In addition to revealing how dogma finds its place in literature, this book also discusses how literary writers and readers often unwittingly embrace ‘literary missionary.’ Focusing on the dogmatic elements of literature and the dogmatized literary theory and criticism through cult works of various authors, the book offers a striking and interesting contribution to literary theory and criticism and literature readings.

        More: https://vernonpress.com/book/1777

        Postdoctoral Research Assistant

        Postdoctoral Research Assistant (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%)  
        Faculty of Humanities, English Department  
        Application deadline: 15.03.2024  

        The English Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany, invites applications for a  Postdoc Position (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, full time)  

        The position is expected to be filled as of 01.10.2024 for a fixed period of 4 years. The teaching load  is 4 hours per week.  

        The successful candidate is a literary scholar with a doctoral degree in English literature, preferably  with a specialization in Early Modern English literature (1500-1700). Fields of expertise should include  digital humanities methods, poetics/aesthetics, and/or religion and literature. The postdoc is expected  to have teaching experience in English literature, to participate in the research activities of the chair,  in particular in those research projects that are part of the Collaborative Research Centre “Different  Aesthetics” and the Research Unit “De/Sacralization of Texts”, and pursue a research project of their  own (second book or Habilitation). The successful candidate will also take on organizational and administrative tasks.  

        The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. We invite qualified women  to apply. The University of Tübingen welcomes applications from outside Germany. Applications from  equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference.  Applications, including a full curriculum vitae, list of publications, list of courses taught, concise de scription of the envisaged research project and the names and email addresses of at least two references, should be sent, preferably as one PDF document, by 15 March 2024, via e-mail, to: Prof. Dr.  Matthias Bauer, m.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de.

        Lexis 22 | 2023: Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization

        Marges et frontières dans la catégorisation linguistique

        Edited by Caroline MARTY and Romain DELHEM

        English | Français

        Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology published its 22nd issue, devoted to “Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization”, in 2023.

        Romain Delhem and Caroline Marty: Introduction: Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization [Full text]

        Papers / Articles

        Vincent Hugou and Mathilde Pinson: Comment ne pas être très intrigué par ce phénomène ? Réexamen de la porosité entre participe passé verbal et adjectival [Full text]

        Marie Turlais: Nominalisation of phrasal verbs in the –ing forms with a plural marker (goings-on, coming outs): a study of nominal characteristics [Full text]

        Martin Konvička: Category membership and category potential: The case of vague because [Full text]Angelina Aleksandrova: Catégorisation et vocabulaire spécialisé : enquête sur les dénominations de mouvements sportifs [Full text]

        Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Spring 2024 General Issue

        An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

        The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of the United States. 

        The Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and the Classificazione ANVUR delle riviste scientifiche (Italy). It also appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online, in print, and through the EBSCO and Dergi Park databases.

        The copyright of all material published will be vested in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey unless otherwise specifically agreed. This copyright covers exclusive rights of publication of printed or electronic media, including the World Wide Web. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not own copyright.

        Please see our submission guidelines for more information: https://www.asat-jast.org/index.php/jast/submission-guidelines

        Spring 2024 deadline: March 1, 2024

        All general submissions and correspondence should be directed to:

        Editor-in-Chief:
        Selen Aktari Sevgi
        Başkent University, Turkey
        saktari@baskent.edu.tr

        Editor:
        Tarık Tansu Yiğit
        Başkent University, Turkey
        tariktansuyigit@gmail.com

        MA Thesis / PhD Dissertation on Collaborative Translation Award

        Excellence in Collaborative T&I research

        • Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2024
        • Winner announcement: Spring 2024

        To promote excellence in Collaborative T&I research, the “International Center for Research on Collaborative  Translation” (from now on the “Center”) rewards MA theses and PhD dissertations in English, French and  Italian that make a significant professional/practical or academic contribution to the field of Collaborative  Translation.  

        The call is open to any student from any country.  

        The winner will receive an honorarium of € 300 and a “Merit Diploma”. The Awards Ceremony to announce  the winner will be celebrated in spring 2024 (the date of the Ceremony will be communicated).  

        Evaluation 

        The “Center” Steering Committee will appoint the Award Evaluation Committee, which will consist of 2  Commissioners in addition to the Center Director. The final decision is made by the Evaluation Committee.  All the decisions of the Evaluating Committee are final. The evaluation is based on the writing and research  skills, alongside the overall quality of the topic, demonstrated in the thesis/dissertation.  Thesis will be evaluated according to the following criteria:  

        • degree of innovation in the proposed methodology or technology. 
        • potential for application in real-world situations. 
        • potential impact on theory and practice. 
        • potential impact on a global scale.  

        The deadline for the submission is January 30, 2024. The MA Thesis /PhD Dissertation must be sent to  collaborativetranslation@iulm.it in a single PDF file (maximum file size 50 MB).  

        Eligibility  

        Any dissertation/thesis in the area of collaborative translation/interpretation and related fields will be eligible  for entry. All eligible theses/dissertations should have been assessed and classified by the university of origin  up to 15 months before the date of submission of the abstract to the jury and never have been a candidate to  this same award. The theses/dissertations, at the time of application, must be accompanied either by a statement  from the supervisor of the applicant, jury or other body of the university of origin, indicating the date of  completion and/or assessment. If you should have any questions, please send an email to  collaborativetranslation@iulm.it. 

        Candidates shall authorize the treatment of the personal information provided according to the GDPR (Ue  2016/679) and the Italian law on privacy (D. Lgs. 101/2018).  

        Winners shall authorize the “International Center for Research on Collaborative Translation” to communicate  the award winning through communication media (web, newsletter, audio-visual, press) and to communicate  by email with the candidate for interviews.

        Faculty Position: Intensive English Program Instructor

        Faculty Position: Intensive English Program Instructor

        LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania

        Position Summary: LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania invites applications for a full-time teaching position in the Prerequisite Intensive Module in English (PRIME), the university’s Intensive English Program. The position involves teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses in PRIME, including Introduction to University Writing; Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion; and Academic Reading and Vocabulary.

        The purpose of PRIME is to help students improve their academic English language skills and to prepare them for B.A.-level studies at LCC International University. Incoming PRIME students are Intermediate or Upper Intermediate level (B1 or B2). Class sizes range from 15-19 students.

        Responsibilities:

        • Teaching EAP courses in PRIME.
        • Serving as an advisor to selected students.

        Responsibilities may include:

        • Teaching general English classes to adults and young learners in the community.
        • Teaching First-Year Seminar.
        • Teaching Written Composition or Academic Writing (Freshman writing requirements).

        Qualifications:

        • Master’s degree in TESOL or a related field, such as English education, linguistics, English, reading, or literacy.
        • Preferably 3- 5 years of experience teaching, especially experience teaching English for Academic Purposes.
        • Demonstrated commitment to education that is student-centered and shaped by a Christian worldview.
        • Demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of a culturally diverse student body.

        The University: LCC International University is a fully-accredited liberal arts university located in the port city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Instruction is in English, and the campus is residential. Our 650 students from divergent faith backgrounds come from over 60 countries for an education modeled on the North American liberal arts college with a Christian worldview.

        Application and Appointment: To apply, complete the LCC application. The application will require submission of your CV.  Questions about the position or the department should be directed to Gretchen Ketner, PRIME Program Director, at gketner@lcc.lt.

        We Offer:

        • Diverse international environment
        • Friendly and supportive team
        • Professional development opportunities through Erasmus +
        • Research funding
        • On-campus housing or housing stipend
        • One roundtrip airfare 
        • State healthcare and accident insurance 
        • 40 work days of vacation / year
        • Lithuanian language courses

        Faculty Position: Academic Composition Instructor

        Faculty Position: Academic Composition Instructor

        LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania

        Position Summary: LCC International University invites applications for the position of a full-time composition instructor to begin in the Spring semester 2024 (January 4) or Fall semester 2024 (August 12). The position includes teaching university freshman composition courses, and may also include research and advising thesis students.

        Responsibilities:

        • Teach first year academic writing courses
        • Advise thesis students 
        • Develop / expand a research agenda 

        Qualifications:

        • MA or PhD in TESOL, English, rhetoric, applied linguistics, or related field
        • 2-3 years of teaching experience.
        • Experience teaching writing to non-native English speakers in an academic setting; ability and willingness to adapt to a highly diverse international context
        • Modest research agenda preferred.
        • Commitment to liberal arts education within a diverse international context.
        • Demonstrated commitment to student-centered teaching and learning from a Christian worldview.

        The University: LCC International University is a fully-accredited liberal arts university located in the port city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Instruction is in English, and the campus is residential. Our 650 students from divergent faith backgrounds come from over 60 countries for an education modeled on the North American liberal arts college with a Christian worldview.

        The Department: The English Department offers the following degree program: BA in English Language and Literature. The department also houses the PRIME program – an intensive English program for pre-university students, Because of the international nature of the student body, there is especially ample opportunity for research in the areas of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, writing instruction, and langauge acquisition.

        Application and Appointment: To apply, complete the LCC application. The application will require submission of your CV.  Questions about the position or the department should be directed to the department chair, Dr. Robin Gingerich, at rgingerich@lcc.lt.

        In addition to a CV and cover letter, qualified applicants will be asked to submit an application form, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, and contact information of three professional references. 

        We Offer:

        • Diverse international environment
        • Friendly and supportive team
        • Professional development opportunities through Erasmus +
        • Research funding
        • On-campus housing or housing stipend
        • One roundtrip airfare 
        • State healthcare and accident insurance 
        • 40 work days of vacation / year
        • Lithuanian language courses

        Early Modern Printed Books: Making, Marketing, Memory, Marking – Call for Expressions of Interest

        This Spring School brings together postgraduate students, postdocs, and expert speakers from Tübingen and internationally to learn and to share ideas about the production, consumption, and study of early modern printed books c.1450–c.1800.

        This Spring School is intended to address that need. Instruction and discussion in a classroom setting will be followed by a daily work-in-progress forum and, on Day 2, a presentation of the early print holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Altbestand. Academic sessions will be balanced with more informal networking during coffee and lunch breaks, and also dinner on Day 3.

        Confirmed speakers are Prof. Emer. Julia Boffey (QMUL), Prof. A. S. G. Edwards (University of Kent), Dr Devani Singh (University of Geneva), Dr Lydia Zeldenrust (University of Glasgow), and Prof. Alex da Costa (University of Cambridge). All sessions will be conducted in English.

        Participation is open to all members of the University of Tübingen and external postgraduate students and junior researchers. The event is free, but spaces are limited. For external participants, travel expenses up to €200 and accommodation (5 nights) up to €95/night can be reimbursed by the university. To apply, please submit an expression of interest (max. 250 words), and an abstract of your research for the work-in-progress forum (max. 250 words) to laurie.atkinson@uni-tuebingen.de no later than 1 December 2023. Inquiries welcome.

        More details in the Call below.

        Literary Druid Journal

        Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

        Literary Druid is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal. It is published twice a year and covers all areas of English such as the History of the English Language and Culture, ELT, Linguistics, Criticism, Literature, Creative writing in the English Language, Literature and Psychology, Women in English Literature, Eco-criticism, Comparative Literature, World Literatures in English Translation and all relevant areas related to the core area. In India, English Studies are on a brighter plane and the need for knowledge in the English language and literature for non-native academicians, research scholars and students is needed to enrich the scholarly quality and to create such a platform Literary Druid gives the opportunity to the deserving aspirants to share their critical and creative outlook through the journal.

        See instructions @ http://literarydruid.com/instructions.html

        Our journal is indexed in MLA, MIAR, ASI, ROAD, MIR@BEL, Publons, ERIHPLUS, and ICI.

        Website

        http://literarydruid.com/instructions.html 

        Contact details

        literarydruid@gmail.com