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‼️Call for Proposals – AmLit Special Issue

We invite proposals from prospective guest editors for special issues of AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal focusing on contemporary American literary studies.

We welcome innovative thematic proposals engaging with current developments in American literatures across theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives.

📄 Detailed information, including submission guidelines and topics, can be found attached and under this link https://amerikanistik.uni-graz.at/de/unsere-forschung/transnationality-and-space/amlit/.

📅 Deadline: June 1, 2026
📧 Submission: [email protected]
🌐 www.amlit.eu

We look forward to your submissions.

🚨We warmly invite you to attend the lecture “India as a Place of Longing in American Culture” (Indien als Sehnsuchtsort in der amerikanischen Kultur) held by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan L. Brandt (University of Graz) as part of the Montagsakademie 2025/26 on 🗓️1 June 2026 at ⏱️7:00 pm.

The lecture explores the enduring fascination with India in Western cultural imagination and its significance for the development of American literature, philosophy, and cultural identity within a global context.

India has long occupied a central place in the Western imagination—not only as a geographical destination, but as a symbolic space of wealth, spirituality, and transformation. From Columbus to the American Transcendentalists and into the present, it has served as a powerful projection surface for cultural desires and visions of selfhood. The lecture explores how these imaginaries have shaped American literature, philosophy, and cultural identity, highlighting the global interconnectedness of cultural history.

Attendance is free of charge and no registration is required. The event will take place 📍at the AULA der Universität Graz, Hauptgebäude (1. Stock), Universitätsplatz 3, 8010 Graz, and will also be available via regional livestream locations as well as online at montagsakademie.uni-graz.at.

The lecture will be held in German.

Detailed information can be found in the attachment.

📣We are excited to announce that the April 2026 Issue of AmLit - American Literatures "Envisioning Q***r Racialized Self-Representations in the Americas” edited by Corina Wieser-Cox, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, Rita Maricocchi, and Dorit Neumann is out and can be read and downloaded here:

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📢 Call for Papers: 3rd International Academic Conference 📢

“Ukraine and the United States: Experience and Prospects for Cooperation”🇺🇦🇺🇸

🗓 April 18, 2026 | Online

Thematic Areas:
- Ukrainian–American relations: history & prospects
- U.S. foreign policy: global & regional dimensions
- Contemporary American society
- Ukrainian diaspora in the Americas

📝 Deadline for registration & submissions: April 10, 2026

📄 Papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Detailed info & submission guidelines in the attached files.

We kindly invite all interested scholars, students, and professionals to participate!

📢 Call for Papers – 13th IASA World Congress (Mérida, Mexico, Feb 17–19, 2027) 📢

The International American Studies Association invites submissions for its 13th World Congress, themed “Sense, Senses, Sensuality: Embodied Experiences in the Americas.”

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from across the humanities and social sciences.

📅 Abstract deadline: April 30, 2026
📍 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Full details and submission guidelines are available in the attached link to the CfP PDF🇲🇽🌊

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📣Online Symposium "Digitality and Power in American Studies" - December 19, 2025📣

Dear all,

We warmly invite you to join the online symposium “Digitality and Power in American Studies,” co-organized by the Department of American Studies, Section for American Literary and Cultural History with a Focus on Trans/Nationality and Space (University of Graz).

🗓️The event will take place via ZOOM on December 19, 2025, and participation is free of charge.

Please find the symposium program and additional details here: https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_gewi_sites/_amerikanistik/AB_Transnationality_and_Space/EAAS_Digital_Studies_Network_Forum_19_Dec_2025_PROGRAM.pdf.

If you would like to attend, we kindly ask you to register using the link provided: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebWENBK1N6TZURuq0rOgPKEc9pskJE9RkojF3UrPe50LTMxA/viewform

We look forward to connecting with you there!💫

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📣JOB ANNOUNCEMENT📣

🇺🇸The Department of American Studies🇺🇸 at the University of Graz seeks applications from B.A., M.A., and Lehramt students in Anglistik/Amerikanistik interested in working as a student assistant for four months (March 2026 to June 2026) as part of the “Amerikanistik 2” team (Prof. Brandt).

For full details, please refer to the following link:

https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_gewi_sites/_amerikanistik/AB_Transnationality_and_Space/Dokumente/STUMA_Announcement_Dec_2025_.pdf

We look forward to receiving your application by Monday, January 5, 2026, 8 p.m.📧

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Dear all,

We would like to warmly invite you to the Information Event for the American Film and Television Studies Certificate, which will take place this Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 13:30 to 15:00.

More information can be found here:
https://amerikanistik.uni-graz.at/de/unsere-forschung/transnationality-and-space/zertifikat/

We look forward to seeing you there📽️🍿!

Zertifikat "American Film and Television Studies" - Amerikanistik 2 - Institut für Amerikanistik Das Zertifikat verbindet film- und kulturwissenschaftliche Theorie mit wirtschaftsbezogener Praxis. Hierbei liegt der Fokus auf Unterhaltungsmedien der USA.

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

Rabindranath Tagore’s words continue to inspire our Lecture Series, including yesterday’s powerful session with Dr. Jessica Hipolito.

On November 27, 2025, in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh), the Department of American Studies, Section for American Literary and Cultural History with a Focus on Trans/Nationality and Space (University of Graz), hosted the second lecture of the lecture series "Transnational Dialogues: Bridging Continents Towards a Global Vision."

Dr. Hipolito delivered an insightful talk titled “Restitution and Repatriation in the Decolonial Moment: From ‘Nosso Sagrado’ to Valongo Wharf.”

A huge thank-you to Professor Stefan Brandt and Dr. Saptarshi Mallick for organizing, moderating, and chairing the event, and to the Indian Austrian Society in Graz and the Austro-Indian Society in Vienna for their wonderful support!

📣We are excited to announce that the October 2025 Issue of AmLit - American Literatures "Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere” edited by Brian Railsback is out and can be read and downloaded here:

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere | AmLit - American Literatures “It is worse, much worse, than you think,” David Wallace-Wells famously opened his bestselling 2019 book, The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming, a holistic examination of climate change and the dire consequences of the Anthropocene: drought, fire, flooding, species extinction, famine, dise...

📌Call for Proposals – Diamond Open Access Journal
📍Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025

AmLit – American Literatures

We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures. AmLit serves as a platform for both established and emerging scholars, fostering discussions on how literary texts from North, Central, and South America engage with and narrativize cultural shifts such as digitization, migration, globalization, trans- and interculturality, as well as visuality and intermediality.

We welcome proposals for special issues featuring five high-quality essays, alongside potential book reviews. Contributions should engage with fictional, non-fictional, and graphic texts within the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies. The journal’s methodological orientation spans a broad spectrum of literary theories, including but not limited to:

✔️African American & Ethnic Studies
✔️Gender, Feminist & Q***r Theory
✔️Marxist Theory
✔️New Historicism
✔️Postcolonial Studies
✔️Sociolinguistics
✔️Structuralism and Poststructuralism
✔️Visuality & Intermediality

❕Proposal Guidelines:

We invite potential guest editors to submit a detailed proposal (400-500 words) outlining the thematic scope and scholarly significance of the special issue. Please also specify:

❔The current stage of the volume’s development: Indicate whether contributions have already been secured (e.g., from a previous conference, workshop, or research network) or if a Call for Papers will be issued to solicit new essays.
❔Submission format:
If proposing a fully developed special issue, please include a general abstract (400-500 words) and individual abstracts (250 words each) for all planned contributions, all in one document.
If submitting a new project, please provide an abstract of the issue along with a draft Call for Papers.

📝 Potential Topics

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

✔️New Materialism & Material Studies
✔️Affect Studies
✔️Digital Studies
✔️Adaptation Studies & Generic Transformations
✔️Q***r & Disability Studies – ‘Failure’
✔️Class & Poverty Studies
✔️(Post-)Nation, Home, and/or Migration
✔️Transnational & Transcultural Studies
✔️Graphic Narratives
✔️Critical Regionalism
✔️(Post-)Race Studies
✔️The New Right & Christianity Revisited

❕Submission Details

Please send your proposal along with:

✔️A CV and short bio of the guest editor(s)
✔️A list of potential contributors (if applicable)

Submissions should be sent to 📧[email protected] by ❗️Monday, September 15, 2025.

For more information, visit www.amlit.eu.

We look forward to your submissions!

The Editorial Team of AmLit – American Literatures

AmLit - American Literatures AmLit – American Literatures (AmLit; ISSN 2789-889X), located at the Research Area 'American Studies II' at the University of Graz, is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal for literary criticism in the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies.