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PhD candidate in Irish Studies, Uni Mannheim, working on Precarious Spaces. Likes (crime) fiction, tea, and hand lotion. (she/her)

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New journal issue now live!!

Review of Irish Studies in Europe 8.2, The Animal in Ireland - Real and Imagined, edited by Ina Bergmann, Maria Eisenmann, Maureen O'Connor and Kirsten Sandrock, is now available at risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... !

28.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.

#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature

Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

Pls share

15.09.2025 09:18 — 👍 11    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Universität Basel: Four-Year Postdoc Position on Contemporary US/Anglophone Science Fictions at the University of Basel 80% Funded by the Claudine und Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation, the four-year project “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures: Contemporary Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, and Science Fictions” is directed...

Four year postdoc in sf studies: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

11.05.2025 18:20 — 👍 20    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 JOB KLAXON 📢 Come work with me: I am advertising a PhD position in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (50%, for 3 years initially, starting date: September 2025) - please share widely! www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...

02.05.2025 09:09 — 👍 13    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2
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I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested!

Something mythic this way comes ...

quareeire.wordpress.com

27.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 24    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 3
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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) Cultural Studies

job for potential phd candidates just gone live. cultural studies at uni rostock. small team with me and madeline becker. initial contract 3 years, 50% tvl-13. please spread the word, thanks jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...

30.10.2024 16:36 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Some friends at the University of Freiburg are organising a wonderful conference for PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers on Popular Culture and Democracy - see their CfP below :)

16.06.2024 09:23 — 👍 15    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish fiction 2008-2023: Flourishing scene emerges from period of upheaval Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating

“As we move towards the middle of this ever more troubling decade, it appears that we have been witness to one of the most significant 10 to 15 years in modern Irish literary history, a period of artistic flourishing that shows no sign of abating.”

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

27.12.2023 09:50 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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