Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next issue of 452oF: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, which will focus on “Environmental Humanities: Ecocriticism and Cultural Decolonialization“. The journal has published nineteen issues so far and been included in several indexes. If you are still not familiar with 452oF, we kindly…
Dear friends and colleagues, This is to announce the new weblink to the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) http://www.ailc-icla.org/ in English, or http://www.ailc-icla.org/fr/ in French. You will also be able to download for free the latest edition of Literary Research/Rechérche Littéraire which is now published online. You can directly become members to the ICLA without being a member of…
This year’s winner of the Esther Cheung Award is Sophie-Claudine Desroches, Université de Montreal, for her paper “‘This is Your Fourth Shore’: The Return of the Colonial Past in Antonio Tabucchi’s Piazza d’Italia” presented at Congress 2018 in Regina, SK. The judges had this to say about this year’s winning paper: Drawing upon Rothberg’s theory of multidirectional memory,…
Proposals are invited from early career scholars in Comparative Literature for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. The winner of the competition will receive a contract to publish the volume with Peter Lang. Proposals for the Comparative Literature competition should be submitted to Laurel Plapp (L.PLAPP@peterlang.com) by 31 July 2018 and…