Workshop “Empirical Approaches to Comics”

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Programme Workshop Comics New

On 20 September 2014 the one-day international workshop “Empirical Approaches to Comics” took place at Literaturwerkstatt Berlin. This was the first of a series of regular workshops (and a final three-day conference) the research group is planning for the coming years. The speakers were: Neil Cohn (UC San Diego), Alexander Dunst and Rita Hartel (Paderborn), Jochen Laubrock (Potsdam), Karin Kukkonen (Turku), Tim Smith (Birkbeck), and John Walsh (Indiana).

The workshop closed with a round-table discussion chaired by Martin Fischer (Potsdam). You can find an in-depth report on the workshop, written by comics scholar and publisher Christian Bachmann for the German Society of Comics Studies here (in German): http://comicsforum.org/2014/10/31/the-bi-monthly-comfor-update-october-2014-by-laura-oehme/

A short summary of the report can also be found on comicsforum.org: http://comicsforum.org/2014/10/31/the-bi-monthly-comfor-update-october-2014-by-laura-oehme/

Job Announcement: Four-Year Phd Position

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The Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn is inviting applications for a four-year PhD position (starting 1 April 2015) in the research group “Digital and Cognitive Approaches to Graphic Literature”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and directed by Dr Alexander Dunst.

The successful applicant will pursue a PhD thesis that contributes to the development of an empirical narratology of multimedia texts and operationalizes core concepts of such a narratology for the digital analysis of graphic literature (comics and graphic novels). Applicants should hold a BA and MA in English or American Studies or the digital humanities and have prior experience in the annotation of literary or cultural texts (XML, TEI). Knowledge of German is not a requirement.

Please contact Alexander Dunst for informal enquiries and send applications (including a cover letter, CV, transcripts of first and second degrees, and a writing sample of 15-20 pages) in one pdf-file to dunst@mail.upb.de by 28 February.

For further information about the department, see: http://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institute-einrichtungen/institut-fuer-anglistik-und-amerikanistik/

The German job announcement can be found here: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/zv/4-4/stellenangebote/KZif2147.pdf

Salary: starting salary 1850 to 2650 Euros, depending on prior experience