As part of the appointment process for the chair of English Studies: Literature and Culture, the candidates will hold their talks on April 22 and 23, 2021. These online lectures are open to FAU students and faculty. If you want to participate, please send an e-mail from your FAUmail address to phil-... Continue

Due to COVID-19 and the current lockdown, our departmental library remains closed. However, urgently needed books may be ordered via the library catalogue and can then be picked up from Teilbibliothek 04. Continue

FAU is hosting the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics” on 17-19 March 2021, organised by Prof. Dr. Judith Huber and the junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History”. Continue

FAU has partnered up with the city of Nuremberg, CodeCamp:N, and NÜRNBERGER Versicherung for project WissensTurbo. Stated goal of the project is to help pupils who are struggling with (online) learning in times of COVID-19 by pairing them up with teaching degree students for online tutoring. For ... Continue

If beginning your studies is already a challenging task by itself, it becomes even more difficult in times of COVD-19 and online learning. But there is no need to fall into despair just yet! There to help are Leonora Burbank and Laura Krabes... Continue

Our departmental library has reopened. Currently, no more than 20 persons may visit the library at a time. If you plan to study at or work from the library for a longer period of time, you must register at the counter and fill out a contact tracing form. Continue

Everyone is welcome to join us for a screening and discussion of these popular and critically acclaimed TV shows! The selected shows engage with the topic “law and order” in a broad sense: Continue

This virtual lecture series brings together scholars from around the globe in a series of talks. Project fellow Mark Kelley (Florida International University) will kick off the series on November 12th, 2020 with a talk titled „Alone, Together: Feeling Through 19th-Century Sailors in Eras of Global Isolation.“ Continue