ECOZON@. EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: CREATIVE WRITING AND ARTS EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES: The holder of the position will be responsible for the Creative Writing and Visual Arts section of the journal. N.B. This position is unpaid, as are the other positions on the Ecozon@ Editorial Board. They will…
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…
The 2014 webinar series will start off with a webinar hosted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg, Germany) on Literature and/as Cultural Ecology. This 5th EASLCE webinar takes place on February 27th at 4:00 pm (Central European Standard Time). In the webinar, Prof. Zapf will position the concept of “literature as cultural ecology”, which he has developed in some of his recent…
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK) The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula) Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a…
Call for Applications: 33 Scholarships for the Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) Sep 23-Sep 28, 2013, at the University of Würzburg 1. Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, Funded by VolkswagenStiftung In the Humanities and in Cultural Studies, animals have increasingly become the focus of interest in recent years. In its interdisciplinary…