Month: May 2025

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 internationally renowned researchers. T...

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 1. Staatsexamenerhalten. Die von Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer betreute Arbeit trägt den Titel:„Representation of Trauma in Anuk Arudpragasam’s NovelsThe Story of a Brief Marriage (2016) and A Passage North (2021)“Wir gratulieren herzlich!...

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 ...

Date: June 25, 2025, 18:15-19:45 Location: Bismarckstr. 1, C 301 The former World War II Allied Supreme Commander and first NATO Commander, Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) brought extensive military and decision-making experience to the Oval Office in 1953. Ike sought to reduce U.S. defense spending and...

Datum: Donnerstag, 5. Juni, 18 Uhr (s.t.), Raum: Kaminzimmer (St Paul V, 00.003, Dutzendteichstraße 24, Nürnberg) Der Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft lädt gemeinsam mit dem Queer Staff Network zu einer Lesung mit anschließender Diskussion ein.  "Shalom zusam...