It’s hard to believe – but our inaugural network conference took place a full five years ago in Freiburg! Since then, this blog has been in existence, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who has contributed over the years. We are still convinced that it’s a good place to make […]
JGU Mainz is seeking to fill a tenured professorship (salary scale W2) for international literature and reading cultures as soon as possible. Please find the full English-language job advert here.
Im DFG-finanzierten Projekt „Scalable Reading von ‚Gesammelten Werken‘ des 18. Jahrhunderts, exemplarisch durchgeführt an Friedrich-von-Hagedorn-Werkausgaben“, sind zwei Promotionsstellen (TV-L E 13, 65%) ab sofort für drei Jahre zu besetzen. Das Projekt untersucht in einer Kombination aus literaturwissenschaftlichen, buchgeschichtlichen und Digital-Humanities-Zugängen den Buchtypus der Gesammelten Werke, der Autorschaftsvorstellungen ebenso wie Kanonisierungsprozesse entscheidend mitgeprägt hat. Dabei soll […]
We are happy to share the CfP for an international summer school of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Associationin partnership with the project textklang (University of Stuttgart). More details can be found here.
This new book which is relevant to our readers and followers was published in August 2022. The author is Ingo Berensmeyer from LMU Munich. The book “focuses on literature as a changing combination of material and immaterial features” (according to its blurb) and is fully open access here.
The 2024 volume of Shakespeare Jahrbuch will be a special issue on ‘Shakespeare’s Libraries’. The editorial board invites contributions on related themes, concepts and debates, from a variety of perspectives, in particular on the material afterlife of Shakespeare’s work in editions, collections and libraries through the ages. Contributions with a contemporary or historical perspective are equally welcome. More […]
The large-scale research project at the University of Duisburg-Essen on literary prizes in the German-language area, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2017 to 2021, has drawn to a close. In addition to an edited volume reviewed here two years ago, the research group has now published another major output, an expansive monograph […]
In this volume, Helmut Hilz, the director of the library of the “Deutsches Museum” in Munich, offers an overview of the history of the book: starting with the question of what a book actually is, the first written documents in the Near East and antiquity, the development of manuscripts and book printing over the centuries, […]
We are delighted to share this opportunity with our readers and network members; please share widely! ‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ (REBPAF) is a European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that will support 13 PhD researchers undertaking projects on late medieval and early modern books. These PhD researchers will be spread across the following institutions: University of […]
On 20 January 2023, the Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA) will hold a Franco-German workshop entitled “Interdisziplinäres Seminar der Nachwuchsforschenden des CIERA – Interdisciplinary Seminar of Young Researchers“. It is directed at master’s students and doctoral candidates doing Franco-German research in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of the workshop […]
In their monograph, Martus and Spoerhase discuss what distinguishes the practice(s) of the humanities from other scholarly fields. They examine rules, theories and spaces of practice and explain what research, teaching and administration actually mean in everyday academic life. In this way, they offer a new perspective on the humanities and the labor involved in […]
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