The series ‘IFAVL’ (International Research in General and Comparative Literature) is a platform for peer reviewed scholarly research in Comparative Literature Studies with a focus on European literatures. Featured in the series are works that explore a variety of topics and concepts across a broad disciplinary range, such as cosmopolitanisms, postcolonialism, multimedia, gender, cultural memory, aesthetics, and literary politics.
From 2005 onward, the series ‘Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft’" will appear as a joint publication by Brill and, for editions in German, Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin.
In this series, authors and editors are asked to follow the MHRA style guide.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals for manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn and Pieter Boeschoten.
Series Editors
Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria
Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria
Founded by Alberto Martino
Editorial Board
Moira Fradinger, Yale University, CT, USA
Rüdiger Görner, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stephanie M. Hilger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Achim Hölter, Universität Wien, Austria
Manfred Pfister, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Sven H. Rossel, Universität Wien, Austria
“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future.
Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria