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...
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...
Termin: Donnerstag, 27. März 2025, 10:00 Uhr Ort: Kochstraße 6a, Raum 00.15 & 00.14
Im Rahmen des Workshops „Umweltethik und Klimagerechtigkeit“ (25.-27. März 2025) wird Prof. Dr. Heike Paul eine Keynote mit dem Titel „The Romance of Extraction and Its Discontents in U.S. Culture“ halten. De...
Zur Amtseinführung des US-Präsidenten zeigt das Bildungszentrum Nürnberg in Kooperation mit dem Deutsch-Amerikanischen Institut Nürnberg einen Live-Stream der Antrittsrede. Prof. Dr. Heike Paul und Dr. Katharina Gerund kommentieren die Zeremonie und ordnen die Geschehnisse ein.
Wann: Do., 23.01.2025 (19:00 Uhr)
Wo: Filmhaus Nürnberg
Cathy Whitaker lebt mit ihrem Mann Frank und ihren Kindern Ende der 1950er Jahre in einer US-amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Mit Heim und Herd scheint das Leben perfekt zu sein. Doch hinter dem äußeren Schein läuft es weder privat noch berufl...
Date: Dec. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.Location: UB Ausstellungsraum (Schuhstraße 1a, Erlangen)
Kimberly Juanita Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College. In her research, ...
Post-Election Discussion with Elaine Roth
Date: Nov. 6, 2024, 10.15 a.m.
Location: A602 (Bismarckstraße 1, 91054 Erlangen)
Join us for a discussion about the U.S. election with Elaine Roth (Professor of Film Studies at Indiana University and Mercator Fellow).
Everyone is welcome!
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In collaboration with the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”, the Institute for English and American Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Vivian Liska will be visiting us at FAU. The director of Jewish Studies at the University...
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 ...
