The series "IFAVL" is a platform for peer reviewed, scholarly research in comparative literature studies with a Eurocentric focus. Comparative studies with interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Featured in the series are works which explore a variety of topics and concepts, across a broad disciplinary spectrum, such as ethnic-minority literature, cosmopolitanisms, postcolonialism, multimedia, gender, cultural memory, aesthetics, politics, and more.
From 2005 onward, the series "Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft" will appear as a joint publication by Brill and Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin. The German editions will be published by Weidler Buchverlag, all other publications by Brill.
In this series, authors and editors are asked to follow the MHRA style guide.
Series Editors
Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria
Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria
Founded by Alberto Martino
Editorial Board
Paul Ferstl, Universität Wien, Austria
Rüdiger Görner, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stephanie M. Hilger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Achim Hölter, Universität Wien, Austria
John A. McCarthy†, Vanderbilt University Manfred Pfister, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Sven H. Rossel, Universität Wien, Austria
Chenxi Tang, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA
“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 of IFAVL (International Research in General and Comparative Literature) entitled 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 post-colonial and identity studies. Thus, it is ready for its future.
- Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria