Monika Schmitz-Emans, former member of the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory,  has co-edited, with Stephanie Heimgartner, Komparatistische Perspektiven auf Dantes ‘Divina Commedia’ (Comparative Perspectives on Dante’s Divine Comedy) and, with Petra Gehring and Kurt Röttgers, Ketten (Chains). The former edited volume was published by de Gruyter, and the latter by Die blaue Eule.

Sowon S Park, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has co-edited, with Ben Morgan and Ellen Spolsky, Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture, a special issue of Poetics Today.

Raphaël Baroni, member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has written Les rouages de l’intrigue : les outils de la narratologie postclassique pour l’analyse des textes littéraires (The Wheels of Intrigue: Tools of Postclassical Narratology for the Analysis of Literary Texts). The book was published by Éditions Slatkine and comes with a preface by Jean-Louis Dufays.

Recently, Baroni has also co-edited, with Samuel Estier, a collective volume on the “voices” of Michel Houellebecq:  Les “voix” de Michel Houellebecq (Université de Lausanne; Fabula).

Robert Stockhammer, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has written 1967: Pop, Grammatologie und Politik. Published by Wilhelm Fink, the book marks the fiftieth anniversary of major events in literature, philosophy, popular culture, and politics that so far have been undeservingly overshadowed by May ’68.

The DFG research training program “Globalization and Literature,” co-chaired by the Committee’s honorary president Robert Stockhammer at the University of Munich, has published a call for applications for six doctoral positions. The deadline is 31 October 2017.

Anders Pettersson, former member of the ICLA theory committee, has written The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning. Published by John Benjamins, Pettersson’s book demonstrates that text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena that do not add up to a unitary object.

The ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory is proud to welcome its new President and Secretary. Robert Young (NYU) has started his first three-year term as President, and Stefan Willer (HU Berlin and ZfL) as Secretary. The Committee welcomes both, and thanks their respective predecessors, Sowon Park (UCSB) and Walid Hamarneh (U of Richmond), for all their invaluable work.

The final program of this year’s workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, which will take place on 23–24 June 2017 at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, has been published on the host institution’s website. Titled “Critique/Criticism,” the workshop will include papers by Raphaël Baroni, Michel Chaouli, Anne Duprat, Divya Dwivedi, Eva Geulen, Jernej Habjan, Walid Hamarneh, Yvonne Howell, Sowon Park, Matthew Reynolds, Phillip Rothwell, Stefan Willer, Robert Young, and John Zilcosky as well as a keynote lecture by Terry Eagleton.

The program of this year’s workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, which will take place on 23–24 June at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, has been published on the host institution’s website. Titled “Critique/Criticism,” the workshop will include papers by Raphaël Baroni, Michel Chaouli, Anne Duprat, Divya Dwivedi, Eva Geulen, Jernej Habjan, Walid Hamarneh, Eva Horn, Yvonne Howell, Sowon Park, Matthew Reynolds, Phillip Rothwell, Stefan Willer, Robert Young, and John Zilcosky as well as a keynote lecture by Terry Eagleton.

Please find enclosed the provisional program of this year’s workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, which will take place on 23–24 June in Berlin. Titled “Critique/Criticism,” the workshop will be hosted by the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL).