Welcome to English and American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg!
We offer various degree programs, from Bachelor to Master and teaching degree programs. Find out about the department, the academic fields we cover, and get to know our staff.
The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Jack Halberstam as this semester's Researcher in Residence.
The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationall...
Date: July 3, 2025, 18:00 Location: KH 1.011 (Senatssaal Kollegienhaus), Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
Reproductive Dystopia is drawn from a book project of the same name that treats a bestselling genre of Anglophone literary fiction – the dystopian novel – and considers its cultural and...
Laura Zick hat den „Luise Prell-Preis“ für ihre Zulassungsarbeit zum ersten Staatsexamen erhalten. Die von Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer betreute Arbeit trägt den Titel: „Representation of Trauma in Anuk Arudpragasam’s Novels The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016) and A Passage North (2021)“.Wir gratulieren h...
Date: June 25, 2025 Location: Room C301, Bismarckstr. 1
(as part of the „Textanalyseseminar“, Group 3, taught by Gerold Sedlmayr)
On 7 November 1928, Virginia Woolf remarked about her latest novel Orlando: “I want fun. I want fantasy. I want (& this was serious) to give things their caric...
Date: June 20-21, 2025 Location: Erlangen (Wassersaal, Orangerie and Kochstr. 6a, Room 00.15)
An international workshop on "The Question of Literary Value", organized by Alexander Dunst (FAU) and Pieter Vermeulen (Leuven), is held in Erlangen this June. The workshop opens on June 20, 2025, at 6 ...