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.

We offer various courses in English and American studies for beginning and advanced students:
BA English and American Studies
MA English Studies
MA North American Studies
MA The Americas / Las Américas

We also offer courses in teacher training for various school types:
Lehramt Gymnasium
Lehramt Unterrichtsfach (Grund-, Mittel-, Realschule)

Note: Beginning students in the B.A. degree program and the teacher training courses for English must take an aptitude test (Eignungsfeststellungsverfahren) before they can enrol in these degree programs. This is to ensure that language proficiency in English is at a level which will allow them to study successfully.

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Departmental Library
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Chair of Culture and Literature (Prof. Paul)
Chair of Literature (Prof. Kley)

Chair of Literature and Culture (Prof. Feldmann)
Chair of Literature (Prof. Freiburg)

Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Herbst)
Chair of Language and Cognition (Prof. Dąbrowska)
Assistant Professor of English Linguistics (Prof. Huber)

Chair of Foreign Language Education (Prof. Piske; associated)

Department of English for Students of English and American Studies

Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.

Over the course of this summer term, graduate seminars at Passau University, LMU Munich, and FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg have explored questions of structural racism in the context of the welfare state, higher education, and popular culture. The conference that will take place virtually on July 23/24, 20...