The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationally renowned researchers. The idea is to go beyond the usual types of classes and to be able to get up close and personal with the researcher both on the topic(s) of their research but also their experience in academia in their field and their country. We are excited to launch this project this semester and look forward to many more Researchers in Residence in the future. Kicking us off as our first guest is Kristin Mahoney.

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations has just been published by Routledge. In her study, Nadine Böhm-Schnitker establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies...

Das Kollegiat des Institutes Anglistik und Amerikanistik trauert um Prof. Dr. Arno Löffler, der – für uns völlig überraschend – am 17. Oktober 2023 im Alter von 83 Jahren verstarb.

Guest Lecture: Brad Prager (Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Missouri) Brad Prager will give a guest lecture on the topic The Shoah on Screen, focusing on feature films and their role in the collective memory of the Holocaust. The I...

Guest Lecture: Andrea Schlosser (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, English and American Studies) Andrea Schlosser will give a guest lecture on the topic Transgenerational Memory in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, discussing the specifics of the graphic novel as a genre for representation of second-generation memory ...