Date: Oct. 10, 2024 (9 a.m.-6 p.m.)
Location: 00.15 PSG, Kochstraße 6a, 91054 Erlangen
When The Myths That Made America came out ten years ago, it had a wide-ranging impact as a new and timely introduction to the field of American Studies. With its systematic analyses of core foundational myths ...
Date: Oct. 9, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location: Wassersaal (Orangerie), Wasserturmstraße 3, Erlangen
Join us for a conversation with Richard Slotkin and Heike Paul on the the myths that have shaped American identity, their use in contemporary politics, and the current cultural and political divides in the...
Date: July 17, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location: Amerikahaus München (Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 Munich)
In this talk, Jessica J. Lee considers the role of contemporary nature writing in tackling the complexity of bearing witness to and understanding the Anthropocene. How can hybrid literary forms—fusing pro...
Date: 25.04.2024
Time: 12.30-14.00
Location: Ausstellungsraum, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg (Schuhstraße 1a, 91054 Erlangen)
"Indigeneity, ‘Americanity’, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Romance with Settler Colonial Capitalism" Donald E. Pease is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in ...
Unfortunately, the lecture has to be canceled due to illness.
Termin: 14. Mai 2024, 19:00 Uhr
Ort: Orangerie (Schlossgarten 1, Erlangen)
In this illustrated talk, Lynn Downey will explain what a dude ranch is, and talk about its 140-year history in the United States. Dude ranching is an impor...
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 college, please see here for...
Conference: Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging
September 20-22, 2023
Alte Universitätsbibliothek, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg
The conference is open to the public. Please register with an email to project-sentimental@fau.de.
Please find the workshop program here.
Die Arbeitsgruppe „Semantiken des Verzichts: Perspektiven auf die Wohlstandsgesellschaft und ihre Kosten“ hat unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Heike Paul ihre Arbeit an der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) aufgenommen. Ziel ist es, den Verzichtsbegriff interdisziplinär zu erschließen und mit der Öffentlichkeit darüber in Dialog zu treten.
Sechs Jahre nach dem Oscar-Erfolg von Moonlight – und dem Start der Filmreihe „Black Lives in America“ im Casablanca Filmkunsttheater in Nürnberg – scheint Black Cinema im Mainstream etabliert. Dabei übernehmen vermehrt Frauen die Hauptrollen, sowohl vor als auch hinter der Kamera. Die ausgewählten ...
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...
