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New Humboldt-Fellow: Patricia Stuelke

Patricia Stuelke, associate professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique (Duke UP 2021), is our new Humboldt-fellow in American Studies. While at FAU, she joins the Global Sentimentality Project and is at work on a new bo...

Guest Lecture, Prof Ackermann (Würzburg)

Prof. Dr. Zeno Ackermann (Englische Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Würzburg) will speak about "Voice and Articular in Popular Music" Date: 18 Jan 2023 Time: 9.00 am Place: KH 0.0202 For further information, please contact Gerd Bayer at gerd.bayer@fau.de

Exchange Program with Kalamazoo College: Apply Now for the Academic Year 2023/24!

Starting this winter term, the Department of English and American Studies can nominate one of our students for a year abroad at Kalamazoo College! If you are currently enrolled in the B.A. or teacher training program and you are interested in spending (up to) an academic year at an excellent US c...

James Bond Film Series, Season 1

This year marks 007's 60th silver screen anniversary, and on the occasion Nuremberg's Casablanca Filmkunsttheater is starting its James Bond film series with friendly assistance of the Department of English and American Studies...

Excellent Teaching

Dr. Katharina Gerund is one of five laureates to receive this year's FAU teaching award...

Information for First Semester BA and Lehramt Students

The degree programs' academic advisors will offer counseling meetings via Zoom exclusively for first semester students on October 18...

Welcome Event MA English Studies

MA English Studies welcome event for first semesters!

Joint End-of-Semester Resits

For all Erlangen Grundseminare and Aufbauseminare, resits will take place as joint tests...

Class Enrollment for the Winter Term

Registration for all classes offered by the Department of English and American Studies starts on Friday, September 9, at 7 pm. To find out more about how to choose classes, where to sign up for them, and known issues with the platform Campo, please see our page on class enrollment.

Two New Research Training Groups

In a great success for researchers at the Department of English and American Studies, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for two new research training groups: “Die Konstruktionsgrammatische Galaxis” and “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen.” The Con...