Deadline: August 1, 2019 Special Issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts Guest Editors: Nevine El Nossery (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Shereen Abouelnnaga (Cairo University) The current socio-political situation in Egypt Read More …
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Annoucement: Conference on “Precarity and Insecurity in Africa,” Yaounde, July 2019
TMI – THE MUNTU INSTITUTE AFRICAN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PRECARITY AND INSECURITY IN AFRICA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FABIEN EBOUSSI BOULAGA #1 16-20, July 2019 Yaounde, Cameroon Please click here for more information.
CFP: 4th Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference – DEADLINE EXTENDED
16 – 18 August 2019, Woldia University, Ethiopia Theme: East Africa’s Elsewheres Historically, Africa has a rich tradition of inter-regional trade and cultural exchange. East Africa is no exception. However, while the Southern and Western Africa have considerable scholarly attention, Read More …
JOB: Director, African & African American Studies, University of Rochester
Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African American Studies, University of Rochester, NY, USA The University of Rochester’s School of Arts & Sciences invites faculty applications for the new Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African Read More …
JALA: North African Literatures Beyond the Francophone Maghreb
Deadline: February 1, 2019 Call for Papers The North Africa Caucus of the African Literature Association is seeking papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association devoted to North Africa. North African Literatures Beyond the Read More …
JALA: Text, Paratext, and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Deadline: April 30, 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS For Special Issue: JALA – Journal of the African Literature Association https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rala20/current Editors for the Special Issue: Tom Odhiambo (University of Nairobi): tom.odhiambo@uonbi.ac.ke or odhiambotom@gmail.com Godwin Siundu (University of Nairobi): Godwins57@gmail.com or godwin.siundu@uonbi.ac.ke Inge Read More …
JOB: Open-Rank Position in Gender and Sexuality, African Cultural Studies, UW-Madison
The Department of African Cultural Studies (ACS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for an open-rank position in gender and sexuality, with a preference for research in southern Africa and/or in Francophone west/central Africa. The ideal candidate will have Read More …
PhD Program: Trading Texts – publication beyond print in Anglophone Africa
Oxford University is offering a fully-funded PhD program on the subject of publication beyond print in Anglophone Africa. According to the program’s statement: Trading Texts is a comparative doctoral project that will explore two or three ‘beyond print’ publishing environments in Read More …
CFP: Ecotones 5 – The Caribbean: Vulnerability and Resilience
Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities 2015-2020 Ecotones 5 – The Caribbean: Vulnerability and Resilience at Manhanttanville College June 21-22, 2019 in partnership with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) and MIGRINTER (CNRS-Université de Poitiers) Click here for a PDF of this Read More …
JOB: World/Global Lit., San Jose State University
San José State University San José, California ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION AVAILABILITY Subject to Budgetary Approval Specialization: World or Global Literature Job Opening ID (JOID): 24724 Rank: Assistant Professor Qualifications: Demonstrated potential for teaching excellence in World or Global Literature and Read More …