European Society of Comparative Literature ESCL

ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026 Shortlist Announcement! escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/esc…

📬 SEND BOOK REVIEW PROPOSALS FOR NEXUS 2026.2 We invite you to send references you'd like included in the book review section of Nexus' next issue. Also, if you want to be a book reviewer, please contact us at nexus@aedean.org 📆 Deadline to send the titles and info: 26th May

🎉Another SIS Networking Scheme event coming up! 🎦"From 'Pink Pages' to the Silver Screen" - Dr Nike Del Quercio (Bologna) 📅 Thu 28 May, 4:30pm | In person at Warwick + online via Teams Details and Teams link: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapv…

Francesca Manfredi's The Silent Period traces a woman's retreat into a porous world of wordlessness, where a new language is born with childlike wonder. Sonakshi Srivastava's review unpacks the politics and philosophy of silence: tinyurl.com/366j764w

"'The Castle' by Kafka remains for me today the most beautiful secret in literature." Literature laureate László Krasznahorkai explains how his introduction to the work of Franz Kafka as a child sparked his interest in literature. He says, "Without Kafka, I would never be a writer." Watch our full interview: bit.ly/3O3FeBN

Exciting Bacon conference at @utn_nuremberg

Two Teaching Fellow posts in Creative Writing at Warwick Writing Programme Poetry + another genre Fiction + another genre A chance to join a programme known for contemporary and experimental writing, with a lively international community. Please share warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/ap…

Beckett scholars – see you in Antwerp! – be welcome to stop by at Brill’s booth. We are proud to present our collaboration with The Digital Beckett Manuscript Project in the book series The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Works brill.com/MSBW @BeckettSociety #Beckett2026

The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prizes 2026 Deadline: 3 August 2026 litencyc.com/book-prizes/bo…

Scholarship opportunities

This book shows that Arab women writers innovate & utilise Gothic forms to “live with the ghosts” of foremothers. Examining contemporary Arab women’s writing from the 1970s to the present through the lens of feminist theory, it details aesthetic patterns. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Here’s a book arguing that the Babylonians engaged in systematic philosophical speculation long before the Ancient Greeks.

How does modernist elegy create spaces for collective grief, dissent, and remembrance? Featuring essays that engage poetry, memory, affect, and the politics of loss, explore our cluster on "Modernist Elegy and Grief's Counterpublics" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moderni…

Manuscript of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Post-doc alert: wording not very clear but I gather this project is particularly interested in early modernists with an interest in pedagogy. EM scholars with school-teaching experience would be in a strong position. NB deadline soon. @RELICSresearch jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/sen…

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05/1…

Paris au temps de Marcel #Proust, petit voyage dans les années 1920. @Paris #litterature

📅2 exciting SIS Networking Scheme talks coming up! Postdoctoral researchers Frey Kalus and Marco Ruggieri will present their work at UCL, 20 May 4-7 pm. Join remotely: ucl.zoom.us/j/96618627103 More details about the seminar: italianstudies.org.uk/2026/05/13/sis…

We are hiring an Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Modern Languages/Comparative Literature (Education Focused), a fixed-term position for one year to cover a period of staff leave. Applications must be submitted by 8 June 2026. More here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

"The defamiliarization we feel while picking our way, lost, through a new verb system or word order, can be brought back home with us." Geoffrey D. Morrison's ode to multilingualism celebrates the joy and potency of learning a new language as a writer: lithub.com/on-the-particu…

The deadline for the CFP for the annual Society for European Philosophy conference is this Friday 15th May. Please share the CFP widely, and do consider submitting something!