We are pleased to announce that the application deadline for the ECARE First Book Subvention Prize and the Best Translation Prize has been extended. Applicants now have until 31st May 2025, 23:59 GMT to submit their application and supporting documents. We warmly encourage scholars and colleagues to nominate outstanding translations for the Best Translation Prize, and to actively encourage early career researchers to apply for […]

The Participation Grants Committee has reviewed 348 applications and decided to allocate the total budget of $4,000 to the following scholars: 1. Anupama Kuttikat (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad): $300 transportation grant2. Chunyan Xu (Sichuan University): $300 transportation grant3. Claude Patricia Tardif (Université Paris 8): $300 transportation grant 4. Debasmita Sarkar (SRM University Sikkim): […]

The Participation Grants Committee will announce the results of the selection process on April 4th, before 2:00 pm (KST). Thanks to a generous donation, the PG fund has increased to $4,000, allowing the ICLA to provide additional awards. We welcome further donations to support early-career scholars and those facing financial challenges in attending the Congress. […]

Proposals for New AILC-ICLA Research Committees. Deadline: 31 March 2025.  More information for this call can be found at:  https://www.ailc-icla.org/deadline-for-proposals-of-new-ailc-icla-research-committees-31-march-2025/ Applications to the new AILC-ICLA Member Association Matching Grants for the organisation of Early Career events. Deadline: 15 April 2025. More information can be found at:  https://www.ailc-icla.org/ailc-icla-matching-grants-for-the-organisation-of-early-career-events-by-member-associations/ Applications to the 2025 ICLA First Book Subvention Prize. Deadline: […]

The Association internationale de littérature comparée/International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA) is inviting applications for the position of Editor of Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research (ISSN 0849-0570), its annual peer-reviewed journal. An Open Access journal published by Peter Lang, RL/LR generally appears in December of each year. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To […]

The AILC-ICLA Executive Council has agreed to provide funds to its member Associations in good standing, in order to support the organisation of early career events (for example: graduate conferences, training events, and other research-oriented events aimed at and organised by, or with the collaboration of, early career researchers**). This support will take the form […]

Following the First Book Subvention Award of Isabel C. Gómez’s   Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America  (2023) at the 2022 edition of the Prize, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023/4 editions of the Prize: Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia’s  Figures of Radical Absence Blanks and Voids in Theory, Literature, and the Arts (2023). Dr. Irimia’s book proposes the concept of ‘radical absence’ to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and […]

The ICLA welcomes proposals for new Research Committees. Research Committees are groups of researchers that explore particular research questions around a theme, an issue or a subject area. Applications that address key research questions in comparative literature today and/or help fill gaps in the areas covered by existing committees, such as: race and ethnicity studies, […]

The ECARE Committee of the AILC-ICLA is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the 2025 edition of its Best Translation Prize which supports and recognises the work of early career researchers (ECRs).  This triannual prize awards an outstanding translation of scholarly work pertinent to the wide field of comparative literary studies between any two languages. […]

The ECARE Committee of the AILC-ICLA is pleased to announce the Call for Application to the 2025 edition of its First Book Subvention Prize that supports and recognises the work of early career researchers (ECRs). This annual award provides funding for a subvention for an early-career scholar’s first book to be published as a monograph, in any […]